Improving the Resilience of UAV in Non-segregated Airspace Using Multiagent Paradigm

Abstract

During the last years, Europe and USA have made efforts to integrate Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in a non-segregated controlled airspace, aiming at their civilian use. So far, there has been no consensus on the criteria to be adopted by the community to, at least, keep the minimum safety levels as those already attained by international aviation. In this scenario, commercial aircrafts -with an increasing amount of passengers -and UAVs could be sharing the same airspace. There are a lot of concerns about the current navigation, control and surveillance system capacity as well as about the ability of analyzing and monitoring the resilience of the operating environment of the organizations and Authority Control to handle some dangerous situations caused by possible collisions between these aircraft. Based on this scenario, a research about UAV in Controlled Air Space is presented. The proposal is modeling UAV based on the Multiagent paradigm. Several scenarios and results are presented and discussed herein.

Air Traffic Controllers' Perspectives on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Integration into Non-Segregated Airspace

“…UAVs are extensively utilized in various domains such as health, agriculture, package delivery, disaster management, and surveillance (Bhatt, Pourmand, & Sikka, 2018;Euchi, 2021;Otto et al, 2018;Pathak, Mohod, & Sawant, 2020;Politi et al, 2021;Shah et al, 2020;Sujit, Saripalli, & Sousa, 2014;Thiels et al, 2015). Their rapid rise challenges integrating them harmoniously into traditional aircraft-dominated airspace (Correa et al, 2012;Pop et al, 2017;Shaaban Ali et al, 2022).…”

Qualitative Failure Analysis for a Small Quadrotor Unmanned Aircraft System

“…In the NAS, the ability to "sense and avoid" other air traffic is an important standard to achieve. 2,3 Developing common regulations and operational protocols required for safe operations of these systems can be difficult because of the large variety of UAS types, sizes, and flight profiles. 4,5,6 The paradigm shift from protecting onboard occupants to those on the ground and in other aircraft also introduces regulatory challenges.…”