International Scientific Journals
of Scientific Technical Union of Mechanical Engineering "Industry 4.0"

While many modern industries are tending to use UFV (unmanned flying vehicles) in a near future, there are also many problems of yet unknown procedures to make possible the usage of such UFV. In a current age of aviation development there is an approach of FRA (free routing area) utilization to support growing congestion of many flying vehicles in air space. From our prospective, those manufacturing implementing “Industry 4.0” ideas are expected to use UFV to support supply chains. Hence, both problems and solution approaches to support many aircraft in airspace and to control airspace congestion within safe boundaries can be used also in a local scale of UFV supported manufacturing. This research paper is focused on problems and ability to build routes within FRA and analysis of possible use of known approaches to solve similar problems of modern automated manufacturing.

Airspace is now one of the most frequently mentioned environments when discussing technologies of autonomous or unmanned vehicles or machines. There is a number of technologies developed to support unmanned flying vehicles (UFV) and so called air drones. The actual influence of such kind of machines on transport industry is crucial. It is also obvious, that many modern military operations involve UFV with built-in AI or remote control. Nevertheless, one of important problems for any flying vehicle (aircraft or drone either) is to plan the most suitable route satisfying all necessary primary and collateral requirements: reach destination, consume minimum fuel or energy, follow the safest areas, avoid adverse circumstances etc. Among the tasks to build the effective route for the flight we find an important problem to cut a relevant area in airspace to perform route search. This research is dedicated to discuss and ground the basics of a reliable approach to solve this problem.