ATC Dec 17, 2025 · 5 min read
Aircraft Traffic Control: Managing Order in a Crowded Sky
How Air Traffic Control keeps order in a crowded sky: separation, sequencing, and flow management viewed as a predictive, safety-critical control system.
Air Traffic Control, Autonomy & the Physics of the Sky
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Air Traffic Control is one of the most complex control systems ever built, balancing safety, efficiency, uncertainty, and human decision-making at a global scale. These notes explore modern and emerging approaches to airspace management, from classical ATC principles to physics-inspired models, reinforcement learning, multi-modal AI, and autonomous conflict resolution.
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Coming soon Expected Summer 2026
Aircraft Dynamics and Simulation From Scratch
Building an aircraft dynamics simulator from first principles — equations of motion, aerodynamic forces, stability, and performance, implemented step by step.
Coming soon Expected Fall 2026
Fluid Dynamics Meets Air Traffic Control: A Novel Approach to Conflict Resolution
A novel take on conflict resolution that borrows from fluid dynamics — treating air traffic as a flow field to reason about separation assurance and deconfliction.