CBL - Campus del Baix Llobregat

Projecte llegit

Títol: Rules of the Air for Remain Well Clear and Collision Avoidance for Drones

Estudiants que han llegit aquest projecte:

Director/a: PASTOR LLORENS, ENRIC

Departament: DAC

Títol: Rules of the Air for Remain Well Clear and Collision Avoidance for Drones

Data inici oferta: 11-02-2021     Data finalització oferta: 11-10-2021


Estudis d'assignació del projecte:
    DG ENG AERO/SIS TEL
    DG ENG AERO/TELEMÀT
    DG ENG SISTE/TELEMÀT
Tipus: Individual
 
Lloc de realització: EETAC
 
Paraules clau:
Remain Well Clear, Collision avoidance, drones, EPP, internet, ADS-C
 
Descripció del contingut i pla d'activitats:
The integration of drones in non-segregated airspace requires
the implementation of two key functions: the remain well clear
and the collision avoidance functions. Remain well clear
intended to keep vehicles separated a safe distance from each
other, while collision avoidance is intended as a last ditch
system providing directions to avoid imminent collisions.

Integrating this functions into drones is complicated, as
their capacity to carry additional avionics is limited.

This project intends to address the problem from a different
perspective; that is, moving the responsibility of
implementing those functions to the cloud. With existing
technology, drones can be connected to internet through 4G/5G
technology, thus being able to create a continuous flow of
positioning information. Services on the cloud can determine
if any breach on the RWC or CA functions may happen, thus
providing the necessary traffic advisory to avoid the
conflict.

The project will implement a prototype of both functions based
on the already existing 4G capabilities and the exploitation f
miniaturized ADS-B devices.
 
Overview (resum en anglès):
Currently, with the proliferation of the usage of drones, conflict situations
between two drones or with a drone and a general aviation aircraft are
becoming more probable and frequent. This project will study these encounters
and propose a solution to these arisen conflicts. The main objective of this
solution will be to find an optimal situation where both aircraft follow their intent
as closely as possible by remaining in accordance to the regulations dictated
by European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).

The first of the objectives that this project wants to achieve is to understand in
detail the existing problem of conflict detection which has appeared due to the
huge increase in drone air operations. When this problem has been introduced,
the next objective will be to perform an in-depth reasearch of which regulations
and mechanisms of collision detection are currently in place. This will be of
great importance to this project as the final development of collision detection
algorithms must fully comply with all the rules and regulations that AESA, EASA
and ICAO publish. Once a proposal for collision detection algorithms is
generated, it will be tested using a drone encounter generator program
developed by the ICARUS research group.es testejarà utilitzant un programa
de generació d¿encontres entre drones desenvolupat per l¿equip d¿investigació
ICARUS. These tests will determine the level of success of these algorithms
and functions and will help to understand what changes should be made before
reaching a fully successful algorithm for all generated encounters.

Having generated the required algorithms, the final objectives this project aims
to achieve are to detail the implications and requirements needed in order to
apply these algorithms in real-life collision detection scenatios. It¿s in this
section where one will find an in-depth explaniation on the contents, use and
implications of the proposed Intent messages, which will be based on current
aviation surveillence systems. The end goal of these messages will be to know
the futur intentions of the aircraft who sends them and, in this way, foresee
possible future conflicts with other know aircrafts by the system. By doing so,
a ¿cloud¿ of information which will contain the intentions and trajectories of the
drones and general aviation aircrafts in the area will be created in order to
detect and resolve any possible conflicts between them in real time.

© CBLTIC Campus del Baix Llobregat - UPC