NASA's Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management research aims to develop policies, procedures, requirements, and other artifacts to inform the implementation of a future system that enables small drones to access the low altitude airspace. In this endeavor, NASA conducted a geographically diverse flight test in conjunction with the FAA's six unmanned aircraft systems Test Sites. A control center at NASA Ames Research Center autonomously managed the airspace for all participants in eight states as they flew operations (both real and simulated). The system allowed for common situational awareness across all stakeholders, kept traffic procedurally separated, offered messages to inform the participants of activity relevant to their operations. Over the 3- hour test, 102 flight operations connected to the central research platform with 17 different vehicle types and 8 distinct software client implementations while seamlessly interacting with simulated traffic.


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    Title :

    NASA UAS Traffic Management National Campaign Operations across Six UAS Test Sites


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Digital Avionics Systems Conference ; 2016 ; Sacramento, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    2016-09-25


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English