Efficient Voxel-Based Updating of Changing Low-Altitude Conditions for Prismatic Airspace Topologies
The safe and scalable integration of drones into complex urban low-altitude airspace relies heavily on precise and real-time environmental modeling. However, the extreme volatility of low-altitude environments, often disrupted by dynamic obstacles and Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs), poses a severe challenge to existing digital airspace platforms. To address this bottleneck, this paper proposes a rapid airspace environment updating scheme tailored for varying airspace topologies, specifically focusing on prismatic volumes, with a novel EB (Edge-Begin/Edge-End) topology update algorithm as its core contribution. By evaluating local boundary topologies and deploying a deterministic computational scanline, the EB algorithm transforms complex 3D restricted zones into continuous, gap-free voxel sets for high efficiency. Experiments demonstrate that, compared with baselines, our method reduces processing time by over 99% (11.67 s vs. >35,000 s at province level) and peak memory by over 95% (39.73 MB vs. 838.97 MB), while guaranteeing a 0% missed-voxel rate. It also exhibits excellent scalability from district to province.
Authors
- Qinglei Kong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5515-3683)
- Hang Zhao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-7252-3827)
- Bo Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7495-8885)
- Yamin Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7640-4197)
- Kaiyu Nie
- Bin Hu
- Rong Xu
Institutions
- Civil Aviation Administration of China (CN)
- Harbin Institute of Technology (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Aerospace
- Published
- 2026-11-10
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace13111050
- Primary Topic
- Air Traffic Management and Optimization
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00