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 and Contingency Management 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

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, including:

  • airspacelib.wildfire_response: case study modelling a set of drones in a wildfire response situation. The documentation for this module includes: