Satisficing Game Approach to Conflict Resolution for Cooperative Aircraft Sharing Airspace

Conflict resolution is one of the central tasks during the control of air traffic. In this article, we examined the problem of conflict resolution for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) integration into national airspace system and presented an approach based on satisficing game theory to conflict resolution for cooperative UAVs and manned aircraft sharing airspace. This approach ensured the priority of manned aircraft to alleviate the impact of UAVs on air traffic control and reduced the resistance of UAVs integrating into the controlled airspace. At the same time, the approach took account of the heterogeneity of aircraft, which is more realistic considering the UAVs and manned aircraft sharing the same airspace. The preliminary result of the simulation proved that our method was qualified to tackle many tough scenarios.