UAV Trajectory Design Using Total Field Collision Avoidance

A system of N navigating vehicles, each associated with a start position and a goal position, may involve a large number of potential conflicts that grows exponentially with N and calls for a distributed rather than centralized control approach. This paper investigates the feasibility of a total field sensing approach for collision avoidance as an alternative to previously published techniques which assume perfect information sharing between vehicles.

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