Control system for controlling unmanned aircraft systems

A control system for controlling an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) that operates in an aerial environment with other unmanned aircraft systems tracked by a base station or air traffic control devices, the control system comprising:

• an operating system embedded into a UAS hardware layer residing on or coupled to the UAS to provide a plurality of control layers for controlling the operation of the UAS, the operating system or the base station or air traffic control devices configured for establishing a virtual packet defining a physical space established around the UAS as the UAS travels within the aerial environment, the virtual packet having zone packet parameters establishing a proximity boundary based on one or more characteristics of at least one of the UAS or obstructions determined within the physical space of the virtual packet, the proximity boundary of the virtual packet encapsulating a volume greater than a physical volume of the UAS, the operating system controlling the movement of the UAS within the proximity boundary of the virtual packet;
• wherein a representation of the virtual packet or a physical location of the UAS is transmitted to flail the base station or air traffic control devices corresponding to a present location of the UAS, the base station or air traffic control devices configured to route the UAS in conjunction with the other unmanned aircraft systems based on a virtual roadway map data structure having a plurality of traffic corridors for routing the unmanned aircraft systems, each of the UAS and the other unmanned aircraft systems tracked as simple two dimensional or three dimensional polygonal objects defined by the virtual packet travelling within the virtual roadway map data structure and the plurality of traffic corridors, such that control tasks are divided between (i) the base station or the air traffic devices controlling positioning of the virtual packet corresponding to the UAS along a path in the virtual roadway map data structure through routing instructions and (ii) the operating system controlling the movement of the UAS within the proximity boundary of the virtual packet;
• wherein the base station or the air traffic control devices apply time-division multiplexing computational algorithms to subdivide positions along the virtual roadway map data structure within the plurality of traffic corridors for routing the virtual packet and other virtual packets corresponding to other unmanned aircraft systems.