An Evasive Manoeuvre, Automatically Controlled to Avoid the One of a Group of Many Obstacles Moving in a Vicinity of Flying Airplane

Detection of a collision threat and an appropriate decision on passing by an obstacle are necessary for solving the problem of collision avoidance in case of aircraft motion within the airspace. In the article a method for detecting a threat of collision with the obstacle is presented for the case of many moving objects appearing within the neighbourhood of the aircraft. The analysis of an algorithm for making a preliminary decision on avoiding a collision with more than one moving obstacle was carried out. The shape of a class of evasive trajectories was proposed, and its reliability was proved. Numerical simulations of flight were completed for the considered type of aircraft in aforementioned conditions. The scope of these simulations covered all phases of obstacle avoiding manoeuvre, including a return to a straight-line part of flight trajectory pre-planned before the start.