Architecture and Information Requirements to Assess and Predict Flight Safety Risks During Highly Autonomous Urban Flight Operations [PDF]
As aviation adopts new and increasingly complex operational paradigms, vehicle types, and technologies to broaden airspace capability and efficiency, maintaining a safe system will require recognition and timely mitigation of new safety issues as they ...
Ancel, Ersin +15 more
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UAS Concept of Operations and Vehicle Technologies Demonstration [PDF]
In 2017 and 2018, under National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) sponsorship, the New York Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Test Site and Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research (NUAIR) Alliance conducted a year-long research project that ...
Hague, Mike +3 more
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Independent Configurable Architecture for Reliable Operation of Unmanned Systems with Distributed Onboard Services [PDF]
This paper presents the development of ICAROUS-2 (Independent Configurable Architecture for Reliable Operation of Unmanned Systems with Distributed Onboard Services), the second generation of a software architecture that integrates several algorithms as ...
Balachandran, Swee +4 more
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Urban Air Mobility System Testbed Using CAVE Virtual Reality Environment [PDF]
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) refers to a system of air passenger and small cargo transportation within an urban area. The UAM framework also includes other urban Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) services that will be supported by a mix of onboard, ground ...
Battiste, Vernol +5 more
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Towards Autonomous Aviation Operations: What Can We Learn from Other Areas of Automation? [PDF]
Rapid advances in automation has disrupted and transformed several industries in the past 25 years. Automation has evolved from regulation and control of simple systems like controlling the temperature in a room to the autonomous control of complex ...
Kopardekar, Parimal Hemchandra +1 more
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DronesCooperative longitudinal–lateral trajectory optimization is essential for unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) platoons to improve safety, capacity, and efficiency.
Shunchao Wang, Zhigang Wu, Yonghui Su
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UAS Service Supplier Specification [PDF]
Within the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) system, the UAS Service Supplier (USS) is a key component. The USS serves several functions.
Homola, Jeffrey R. +5 more
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Detect-and-Avoid: Flight Test 6 Scripted Encounters Data Analysis [PDF]
The Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) in the National Airspace System (NAS) project conducted Flight Test 6 (FT6) in 2019. The ultimate goal of this flight test was to produce data to inform RTCA SC-228's Phase II Minimum Operational Performance Standards ...
Wang, Wei-Ching, Wu, M. Gilbert
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Sky’s-Eye Perspective: A Multidimensional Review of UAV Applications in Highway Systems
Applied SciencesUnmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, have emerged as promising solutions to overcome the shortcomings of traditional highway-monitoring approaches.
Hengyu Liu, Rongguo Ma
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Performance analysis of CCSDS path service [PDF]
A communications service, called Path Service, is currently being developed by the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) to provide a mechanism for the efficient transmission of telemetry data from space to ground for complex space ...
Johnson, Marjory J.
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