Alert Timing Assessment for Unmanned Aircraft System Terminal Area Operations

Abstract

Verbatim from NASA NTRS. Not paraphrased, not summarized.

A Detect and Avoid (DAA) system is an essential enabler for integrating Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into the U.S. National Airspace System. A DAA system uses a suite of sensors, trackers and alerting and guidance algorithms to assist a remote pilot in maintaining separation from airborne traffic. The initial minimum performance standards focused on en route operations; in order to facilitate operations in and around the airport environment, this paper presents the derivation of the early alert threshold for UAS terminal operations.

Authors

• Devin P Jack Adaptive Aerospace Group, Inc.
• Sagar Kc Langley Research Center

Keywords

• Unmanned Aircraft Systems
• Terminal Area
• Detect and Avoid