The most difficult phase of small Unmanned Aerial System (sUAS) deployment is autonomous operations below the notional 50 ft in urban landscapes. Understanding the feasibility of safely flying sUAS autonomously below 50 ft is a game changer for many civilian applications. This paper outlines three areas of research currently underway which address key challenges for flight in the urban landscape. These are: (1) Off-line and On-board wind estimation and accommodation; (2) Real-time trajectory planning via characterization of obstacles using a LIDAR; (3) On-board information fusion for real-time decision-making and safe trajectory generation.
Safe Autonomous Flight Environment (SAFE50) for the Notional Last 50 ft of Operation of 55 lb Class of UAS
2017
7 pages
Report
No indication
English
Transportation Safety , Air Transportation , Computers, Control & Information Theory , Computer Software , Autonomy , Cities , Computational fluid dynamics , Computerized simulation , Flight safety , Flight simulation , Optical radar , Safety factors , Target recognition , Unmanned aircraft systems , Data bases , Decision making , Mission planning , Real time operation , Trajectory planning , Urban planning , Wind (meteorology)
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