A Recommendation for a Systems Engineering Process and System Architecture for UAS

Jahn, Uwe; Stampa, Merlin; Sutorma, Andreas; Willich, Felix; Thiem, Jörg; Röhrig, Christof; Wolff, Carsten

doi:10.1109/cando-epe51100.2020.9337752

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“…For even more complex scenarios, involving 3D or even mixed indoor/outdoor mapping, there has been-to the best of our knowledge-no work that presented a viable, fully integrated system. However, we would like to mention that there are comprehensive research projects that have been or are currently pushing the boundaries of robot-based emergency mapping in terms of scale and complexity, such as INACHUS (focusing on the localization of entrapped victims) [40], TRADR (persistent environment and action models as well as human-robot teaming) [44], Eins3D (instantaneous 3D mapping) [45], A-DRZ 11 (integration and usability) [46], or our own, Software4Robots (software development processes) [38,47]. We assigned a maximum of ARL 3 to publications stemming from said research projects, but ARL 4 might be reached soon.…”

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“…In the past years, tremendous progress has been made in the field of flight controllers (a review was presented in [77]), which abstract from the low-level control of individual rotors to simple commands such as takeoff or go to waypoint, with some of them using standardized protocols such as MAVLink [78]. To enable the reliable operation of more complex, autonomous behavior, future systems will have to be built using sophisticated design and validation processes, software architectures, and designated toolchains [47].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Maturity Levels of Public Safety Applications using Unmanned Aerial Systems: a Review

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Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) are becoming increasingly popular in the public safety sector. While some applications have so far only been envisioned, others are regularly performed in real-life scenarios. Many more fall in between and are actively investigated by research and commercial communities alike. This study reviews the maturity levels, or “market-readiness”, of public safety applications for UAS. As individual assessments of all applications suggested in the literature are infeasible due to their sheer number, we propose a novel set of application categories: Remote Sensing, Mapping, Monitoring, Human-drone Interaction, Flying Ad-hoc Networks, Transportation, and Counter UAV Systems. Each category’s maturity is assessed through a literature review of contained applications, using the metric of Application Readiness Levels (ARLs). Relevant aspects such as the environmental complexity and available mission time of addressed scenarios are taken into account. Following the analysis, we infer that improvements in autonomy and software reliability are the most promising research areas for increasing the usefulness and acceptance of UAS in the public safety domain.

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