Two ICARUS presentations at ICAS congress
Luis Delgado Muñoz and Juan Manuel Lema will give a presentation each next September 21st 2010.
Title: An assesment for UAS traffic awareness operations
Authors: Enric Pastor, Xavier Prats, Luis Delgado
International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS) congress.
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Authors: Enric Pastor, Xavier Prats, Luis Delgado
International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS) congress.
www.icas2010.com
ABSTRACT:
Technology evolution in the field of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) will affect the Air Traffic Management (ATM) performance regarding to new military and civil applications. UAS, as new airspace users, will represent new challenges and opportunities to design the ATM system of the future. The goal of this future ATM network is to keep intact (or improve) the network in terms
of security, safety, capacity and efficiency level.
On the other hand, most UAS are, at present, designed for military purposes and very few civil applications have been developed mainly because the lack of a regulation basis concerning their certification, airworthiness and operations. Therefore, UAS operations have always been solutions highly dependent on the mission to be accomplished and on the scenario of flight. The generalized development of UAS applications is still limited by the absence of systems that support the development of the actual operations. Moreover, the systematic development of UAS missions leads to many other operational risks that need to be addressed. All this elements may delay, increase the risk and cost in the implementation of a new UAS application.
Selecting the right autopilot to be integrated in a given UAS to develop a certain mission is a complex task because none of them are mutually compatible. Moving from one autopilot to another may imply redesign form scratch all the remaining avionics in the UAS.
This paper presents the Virtual Autopilot System (VAS), an intermediate subsystem added to the UAS platform to abstract the autopilot from the mission and payload controller in a UAS.
The VAS is a system that on one side interacts with the selected autopilot and therefore needs to be adapted to its peculiarities. On the other side, interacts with all the architecture offering standardized information of the autopilot, and consuming mission and payload orders.
Technology evolution in the field of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) will affect the Air Traffic Management (ATM) performance regarding to new military and civil applications. UAS, as new airspace users, will represent new challenges and opportunities to design the ATM system of the future. The goal of this future ATM network is to keep intact (or improve) the network in terms
of security, safety, capacity and efficiency level.
On the other hand, most UAS are, at present, designed for military purposes and very few civil applications have been developed mainly because the lack of a regulation basis concerning their certification, airworthiness and operations. Therefore, UAS operations have always been solutions highly dependent on the mission to be accomplished and on the scenario of flight. The generalized development of UAS applications is still limited by the absence of systems that support the development of the actual operations. Moreover, the systematic development of UAS missions leads to many other operational risks that need to be addressed. All this elements may delay, increase the risk and cost in the implementation of a new UAS application.
Title: Virtual Autopilot System for helicopter UAS missions
Authors: Juan Manuel Lema, Pablo Royo, Enric Pastor, Juan Lopez, Anders la Cour-Harbo, Morten Bisgaard, Eduard Santamaria, Luis Delgado, Cristina Barrado
International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS) congress.
www.icas2010.com
ABSTRACT:Authors: Juan Manuel Lema, Pablo Royo, Enric Pastor, Juan Lopez, Anders la Cour-Harbo, Morten Bisgaard, Eduard Santamaria, Luis Delgado, Cristina Barrado
International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS) congress.
www.icas2010.com
Selecting the right autopilot to be integrated in a given UAS to develop a certain mission is a complex task because none of them are mutually compatible. Moving from one autopilot to another may imply redesign form scratch all the remaining avionics in the UAS.
This paper presents the Virtual Autopilot System (VAS), an intermediate subsystem added to the UAS platform to abstract the autopilot from the mission and payload controller in a UAS.
The VAS is a system that on one side interacts with the selected autopilot and therefore needs to be adapted to its peculiarities. On the other side, interacts with all the architecture offering standardized information of the autopilot, and consuming mission and payload orders.
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