Airspace Resilience Modeling Library

The Airspace Resilience Modeling Library (airspacelib) is a library that can be used to simulate drones and other aircraft interacting with their environment at a high level. The goal of the airspacelib package is to enable the rapid simulation of drones in the airspace. It also provides a demonstration of how one can develop a domain-specific library using fmdtools constructs, such as aircraft in a shared airspace.

The airspacelib package extends the fmdtools modeling and simulation library with drone-specific classes to represent drone behaviors (e.g., 3D trajectory, navigation, etc).

It also provides a number of worked examples of drone modelling in a range of use-cases, including drone in-flight contingency management and wildfire response.

You can view a short overview of each in the Wildfire Response Demo Presentation, Contingency Management Demo Presentation, and Water Rescue Demo Presentation

Further description and use of the model is given in the provided notebooks:

Demo: Wildfire Response Simulation and Optimization
wildfire_response/demo_wildfire.html
Paperaiaa: Determining Optimal Asset Locations
wildfire_response/paper_aiaa_optimal_location.html
Demo: Contingency Management Drone Model
contingency_management/demo_contingency.html
Demo: Drone Proximity to Threat Evaluation
contingency_management/demo_proxthreat.html
Demo: Water Rescue
water_rescue/demo_overview.html

References:

Hulse, D. E., Mbaye, S., & Davies, M. D. (2025). Determining Optimal Asset Location for Rapid and Efficient Wildfire Suppression: A Simulation-Based Approach. In AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum (p. 0451).

Package Structure

The airspacelib package has the following structure:

  • airspacelib.base: base classes that can be adapted to new case studies

  • airspacelib.contingency_management: case study modelling a drone that must perform in-flight contingency management to respond to battery depletion and airspace intrusion scenarios.

  • airspacelib.wildfire_response: case study modeling a set of drones in a wildfire response situation.

  • airspacelib.water_rescue: case study of modeling water rescue supported by drones.