Rising traffic density, along with autonomy and diversity of vehicles in the air, will fundamentally change the safety environment of the future air transportation system. The change in risk is two-fold: increasing chances of mid-air collisions with non-cooperative objects and increasing chances of crashes over highly populated areas. The changing nature of the vehicles populating the airspace means that civilian aircraft design must now explicitly include considerations of survivability in the event of collision with other vehicles, as well as prevention of damage to people, animals and property on the ground, to a much greater extent than today. This paper offers a preliminary perspective on how MDAO could contribute toward these goals. One of the conclusions is that, in contrast to traditional vehicle design, to accommodate the complexity of the future airspace safely and efficiently, vehicle design requirements, modeling, and design optimization must be closely connected to the properties of the airspace, including those of other vehicles in the air. Thus, the total measure of a vehicle's survivability should include the traditional survivability in malfunction scenarios, combined with new considerations of survivability in collisions and survivability of the public on the ground.
Technology Considerations for Inclusion of Survivability in MDAO
2017
9 pages
Report
No indication
English
Transportation Safety , Air Transportation , Aircraft , Test Facilities & Equipment , Air transportation , Airspace , Collision avoidance , Civil aviation , Collisions , Damage , Design optimization , Safety , Malfunctions , Crashes , Aircraft design , Traffic , Populations , Autonomous navigation , Machine learning
TECHNOLOGY CONSIDERATIONS FOR INCLUSION OF SURVIVABILITY IN MDAO (AIAA 2017-3147)
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