{"title":"A heuristic algorithm for aircraft conflict resolution based on closed-form analytical solutions of relaxed pairwise problems","authors":"Fernando H.C. Dias , Hassan L. Hijazi , David Rey","doi":"10.1016/j.orl.2025.107368","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Given a set of aircraft, the objective of the aircraft conflict resolution problem is to determine least-deviating conflict-free trajectories. Efficient algorithms for conflict resolution problems are fundamental for automation in air traffic control. We develop a fast heuristic based on the closed-form analytical solutions of convex, bound-relaxed, two-aircraft problems. We leverage this knowledge to constructs feasible and efficient solutions to multi-aircraft problems. Computational benchmarking reveals that the proposed approach is able to find near-optimal solutions in competitive time.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54682,"journal":{"name":"Operations Research Letters","volume":"63 ","pages":"Article 107368"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Operations Research Letters","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167637725001294","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Given a set of aircraft, the objective of the aircraft conflict resolution problem is to determine least-deviating conflict-free trajectories. Efficient algorithms for conflict resolution problems are fundamental for automation in air traffic control. We develop a fast heuristic based on the closed-form analytical solutions of convex, bound-relaxed, two-aircraft problems. We leverage this knowledge to constructs feasible and efficient solutions to multi-aircraft problems. Computational benchmarking reveals that the proposed approach is able to find near-optimal solutions in competitive time.
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