Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) typically fly blind with operators in distant locations. Most UAVs are too small to carry a traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) payload or transponder. Collision avoidance is currently done by flight planning, use of ground or air based human observers and segregated air spaces. US lawmakers propose commercial unmanned aerial systems access to national airspace (NAS) by 30th September 2013. UAVs must not degrade the existing safety of the NAS, but the metrics that determine this have to be fully determined yet. It is still possible to state functional requirements and determine some performance minimums. For both manned and unmanned aircraft to fly safely in the same airspace UAVs will need to detect other aircraft and follow the same rules as human pilots. Key specifications of the international committee F38 on UAS systems standard F2411-04 (1) proposed requirements which include a field of regard of 220 degrees (horizontal) x 30 degrees (vertical), minimum detection range of 3 statute miles under visual flight rules and a required miss distance of 500 feet. Without this capability, widespread utilization of UAVs will not be possible.
Passive, Long-Range Detection of Aircraft: Towards a Field Deployable Sense and Avoid System
2009
11 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Aircraft , Avionics , Computer Software , Optical Detection , Common Carrier & Satellite , Transponders , Unmanned , Aircraft detection , Collision avoidance , Air traffic , Detection , Traffic , Humans , Specifications , Air , Pilots , Flight , Planning , Long range(Distance) , Air space , Remote areas , Visual flight rules , Manned , Miss distance , Robotics , Symposia , Reprints , Requirements , Functions , Observers , Uav(Unmanned aerial vehicles) , Tcas(Traffic collision avoidance systems) , Sense and avoid systems , Nas(National airspace) , Morphological filtering , Shape descriptors , Svm(Support vector machines) , Svm classification
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