The chapter will present several considerations and hypotheses about R.A.M.S. characteristics and logistic support options for operational fleets of UAS.

    First, a short review will outline how logistic support is relevant for UAS in comparison with other complex systems. It focuses on how logistic support must be designed and how such a design must be driven up jointly with the system design. The relevance of the scenario in defining logistic support will be discussed.

    Next is a consideration of how reliability, safety and maintainability are relevant aspects for all advanced systems, and in particular for UAS, explaining how these characteristics can be achieved by design. The maintenance program will always be defined in the design phase and, consequently the logistic support will also be defined. Several tools useful for these purposes will be presented and shortly described.

    Some synthetic considerations will be presented regarding transportability, a characteristic strictly connected to safety, reliability, maintainability and logistic operations, also of particular relevance for UAS.

    Other peculiarities of UASs, mainly deriving from the flight segment and ground segment coexistence, will be presented.

    Having in mind the targets, requirements, and constraints at the origin of a fleet of UAS, in addition to the technical features of the UAS, the fleet sizing and the related system support (elements and strategies) definition is a very complex problem. A useful tool to face this is stochastic simulation, in particular Monte Carlo methodology. A possible feature of a UAS fleet simulation model will be exposed and discussed.


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    Title :

    UAV Logistic Support Definition


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ; Chapter : 79 ; 2565-2600


    Publication date :

    2014-08-09


    Size :

    36 pages




    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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