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Li WEIGANG, Juliano Adorno MAIA, Emilia STENZEL, Lucas Ramson SIEFERT. Eixao-UAM: LLM-assisted iterative design of a low-altitude urban airmobility corridor inBrasilia[J]. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering,in press.https://doi.org/10.1631/FITEE.2500541
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Abstract: The development of urban air mobility (UAM) systems requires scalable, regulation-aware planning of low-altitude airspace and supporting infrastructure. This study proposes an end-to-end framework for the design, simulation, and iterative optimization of a structured UAM corridor over Brasilia's central road axis (Eixao-UAM), aligned with the Brazilian unmanned aircraft traffic management (BR-UTM) ecosystem. In addition, this study proposes a multilayered aerial configuration stratified by unmanned aerial vehicle class, supported by a modular ground infrastructure composed of vertihubs, vertiports, and vertistops. A takeoff-scheduling simulator is developed to evaluate platform allocation strategies under realistic traffic and weather conditions. Initial experiments compare a round-robin (RR) baseline with a genetic algorithm (GA), and results reveal that RR outperforms GA v1 in terms of the average waiting time. To address this gap, a large language model (LLM) assisted optimization loop is implemented using GPT-4o Mini and Gemini 2.5 Pro. The LLMs act as reasoning partners, supporting the root-cause diagnoses, fitness function redesign, and rapid prototyping of five GA variants. Among these, GA v5 achieves a 59.62% reduction in maximum waiting time and an approximately 10% reduction in average waiting time over GA v1, thereby approaching the robustness of RR. In contrast, GA v2-v4 and GA v6 perform less consistently, showing an importance of fitness function design. These results underscore the role of an iterative, LLM-guided development in enhancing classical optimization, demonstrating that generative artificial intelligence (AI) can contribute to simulation acceleration and the cocreation of operational logic. The proposed method provides a replicable blueprint for integrating LLMs into early-stage UAM planning, offering both theoretical insights and architectural guidance for future low-altitude airspace systems.
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