UAS Traffic Management (UTM) Technical Capability Level 3 (TCL3) Flight Demonstration: Concept Tests and Results

Homola, Jeffrey; Martin, Lynne; Cencetti, Michele; Aweiss, Arwa

doi:10.1109/dasc43569.2019.9081617

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“…Standard conformance monitoring protocols were also in place that first alerted the operator to Nonconforming or Rogue UTM states when vehicles were intentionally diverted to exit the Operation Volume and subsequently approach and enter the identified airspace as part of the testing protocol. Results are discussed in [28].…”

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Flight Demonstration of Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) at Technical Capability Level 3

Aweiss

Homola

Rios

et al. 2019

2019 IEEE/AIAA 38th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC)

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The goal of the Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) effort at NASA is to enable access to low-altitude airspace for small UAS. This goal is being achieved partly through partnerships that NASA has developed with the FAA, other government agencies, the UAS stakeholder community, and the designated FAA UAS Test Sites. This paper reports the technical and operational capabilities demonstrated during the UTM flight demonstration, March 6 through May 30, 2018. The demonstration featured geographically diverse operations, involving FAA UAS Test

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Section: B Concept Use Cases (Con)mentioning

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Flight Demonstration of Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) at Technical Capability Level 3

Aweiss

Homola

Rios

et al. 2019

2019 IEEE/AIAA 38th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC)

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“…The UTM framework proposed and demonstrated through various trials intends to support and enhance UAS operations in both VLOS and BVLOS modalities [9,10]. The UTM project is structured into four distinct phases or Technical Capability Levels (TCL).…”

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A Performance-Based Airspace Model for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management

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Recent evolutions of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) concept are driving the introduction of new airspace structures and classifications, which must be suitable for low-altitude airspace and provide the required level of safety and flexibility, particularly in dense urban and suburban areas. Therefore, airspace classifications and structures need to evolve based on appropriate performance metrics, while new models and tools are needed to address UTM operational requirements, with an increasing focus on the coexistence of manned and unmanned Urban Air Mobility (UAM) vehicles and associated Communication, Navigation and Surveillance (CNS) infrastructure. This paper presents a novel airspace model for UTM adopting Performance-Based Operation (PBO) criteria, and specifically addressing urban airspace requirements. In particular, a novel airspace discretisation methodology is introduced, which allows dynamic management of airspace resources based on navigation and surveillance performance. Additionally, an airspace sectorisation methodology is developed balancing the trade-off between communication overhead and computational complexity of trajectory planning and re-planning. Two simulation case studies are conducted: over the skyline and below the skyline in Melbourne central business district, utilising Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B). The results confirm that the proposed airspace sectorisation methodology promotes operational safety and efficiency and enhances the UTM operators’ situational awareness under dense traffic conditions introducing a new effective 3D airspace visualisation scheme, which is suitable both for mission planning and pre-tactical UTM operations. Additionally, the proposed performance-based methodology can accommodate the diversity of infrastructure and vehicle performance requirements currently envisaged in the UTM context. This facilitates the adoption of this methodology for low-level airspace integration of UAS (which may differ significantly in terms of their avionics CNS capabilities) and set foundations for future work on tactical online UTM operations.

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A review of rule-based collision avoidance technology for autonomous UAV

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Wang,

Zhang

et al. 2023

Sci. China Technol. Sci.

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UAS Traffic Management (UTM) Technical Capability Level 3 (TCL3) Flight Demonstration: Concept Tests and Results

Cited by 7 publications

References 3 publications

Flight Demonstration of Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) at Technical Capability Level 3

Flight Demonstration of Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) at Technical Capability Level 3

A Performance-Based Airspace Model for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management

A review of rule-based collision avoidance technology for autonomous UAV

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