Unmanned Aircraft System traffic management: Concept of operation and system architecture
Within the past few years, civilian demand for small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS), commonly referred to as drones, has skyrocketed. The passage of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Modernization and Reform Act in 2012 acknowledged this fact ...
Tao Jiang +3 more
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Research on reliability modeling of unmanned aircraft system avionics systems based on 5G
With the development of technology, an unmanned aircraft system will play a significant role in Internet of things based on 5G. Avionics system is an important part of the unmanned aircraft system, and the reliability of the avionics system directly ...
Qiang Zhou, Yongan Wei, Longjiang Zhu
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In-Flight Tests of Intruder Detection Vision System
In the near future, the integration of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles into the common airspace will proceed. The changes taking place mean that the safety of light aircraft, ultralight aircraft and unmanned air vehicles (UAV) will become an ...
Paweł Rzucidło +5 more
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Integration and Flight Test of a 7 kW Turboelectric Vertical Take-Off and Landing Unmanned Aircraft
This paper evaluates the performance and practical challenges associated with fabricating and flight testing an unmanned aircraft powered by a turboelectric system based on a 7 kW turbine engine.
Joshua Johnsen +4 more
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Identification, Categorisation and Gaps of Safety Indicators for U-Space
Many civilian applications of commercial unmanned aircraft are being planned to operate in the years ahead. Several countries have developed their own framework to design the operation of unmanned aircraft and the different services that demand safe ...
Javier Alberto Pérez-Castán +4 more
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Manned Versus Unmanned Aircraft Accidents, Including Causation and Rates
Many consider aircraft reliability a primary deterrent to the further integration of unmanned aircraft into civil airspace. Discussions of unmanned aircraft reliability often include comparisons of accident rates of medium and large unmanned aircraft ...
Justin A Jaussi, Herbert O Hoffmann
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ENSURING THE SAFETY OF A HETEROGENEOUS GROUP OF UNMANNED AIRCRAFT
Background. The object of the study is to ensure the safety of the flight of unmanned aircraft as part of a heterogeneous group in the emergency zone, designed for the localization and elimination of emergency situations.
V.V. Sherstnev
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Use of airborne vehicles as research platforms [PDF]
This is the accepted version of the following chapter: Gratton, G. 2012. Use of Airborne Vehicles as Research Platforms. Encyclopedia of Aerospace Engineering, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002 ...
Andrés-Hernández +6 more
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Positional Accuracy Assessment of Lidar Point Cloud from NAIP/3DEP Pilot Project
The Leica Geosystems CountryMapper hybrid system has the potential to collect data that satisfy the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Geospatial Program (NGP) and 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) and the U.S.
Minsu Kim +8 more
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On the trade-off between electrical power consumption and flight performance in fixed-wing UAV autopilots [PDF]
This paper sets out a study of the autopilot design for fixed wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) taking into account the aircraft stability, as well as the power consumption as a function of the selected control strategy.
Bertran Albertí, Eduardo +1 more
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