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Títol: Contingency management strategies for drone operations

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Director/a: PASTOR LLORENS, ENRIC

Departament: DAC

Títol: Contingency management strategies for drone operations

Data inici oferta: 06-02-2024     Data finalització oferta: 06-10-2024


Estudis d'assignació del projecte:
    GR ENG SIS TELECOMUN
    GR ENG SIST AEROESP
    GR ENG TELEMÀTICA
Tipus: Individual
 
Lloc de realització: EETAC
 
Paraules clau:
UAS, dron, U-space, planes de contingencia
 
Descripció del contingut i pla d'activitats:
Drone operations in U-space need the definition of contingency strategies to increase the safety of intensive operations. The proposed TFG will investigate how to combine contingency return routes that maintain the safety of the operation, and the definition of prioritization schemes which should help the drone pilots to properly select the contingency operation.
 
Overview (resum en anglès):
This study focuses on the development of contingency management strategies for drone operations. The main objectives are to propose new contingency plans that can be coordinated and integrated with each other and to develop a decision support tool for the pilot in emergency situations.
To achieve this, an applied research methodology has been employed, conducting an analysis of previous studies related to the investigated topic and identifying the fundamental concepts necessary for the development of the study. Additionally, this study proposes new notions such as route structuring, centered on waypoint flexibility, and the characterization of a new concept, the area of uncertainty. These allow the pilot to plan, combine, and execute the proposed contingency plans, thereby improving resilience, capacity, and response flexibility to different contingencies.
A decision support tool for the pilot has also been designed, with the objective of reducing workload, improving situational awareness, and decreasing decision-making time. This tool analyzes the viability of the different available contingency plans, disabling those that do not meet the imposed conditions, and ranking the remining ones by preference. Additionally, this tool incorporates a solution in case of loss of link with the UAS.
Finally, to validate the effectiveness of the proposals, a simulation of two contingency scenarios of a UAS mission operating in a possible U-Space scenario with multiple drone operations has been incorporated. This simulation demonstrates the implementation and usefulness, in a possible real case, of the different contingency plans proposed in this research. Additionally, both scenarios implement the pilot support method which discards the non-viable contingency plans and ranks the remaining ones by preference of the pilot.

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