Di Vito, V.; Torrano, G. RPAS Automatic ADS-B Based Separation Assurance and Collision Avoidance System Real-Time Simulation Results. Drones2020, 4, 73.
Di Vito, V.; Torrano, G. RPAS Automatic ADS-B Based Separation Assurance and Collision Avoidance System Real-Time Simulation Results. Drones 2020, 4, 73.
Di Vito, V.; Torrano, G. RPAS Automatic ADS-B Based Separation Assurance and Collision Avoidance System Real-Time Simulation Results. Drones2020, 4, 73.
Di Vito, V.; Torrano, G. RPAS Automatic ADS-B Based Separation Assurance and Collision Avoidance System Real-Time Simulation Results. Drones 2020, 4, 73.
Abstract
Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) are increasingly becoming relevant actors flying through the airspace and will assume much more importance in the future perspective. In order to allow their safe integration with manned conventional traffic in non-segregated airspaces, in accordance with the overall Air Traffic Management (ATM) paradigm, specific enabling technologies are needed. As well known, among the enabling technologies identified as crucial for RPAS integration into the overall ATM system, the Detect and Avoid (DAA) technology is fundamental. In the meantime, to support extended surveillance, the universal introduction on-board of aircraft of cooperative Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) is increasingly implemented, having the potential to allow coverage of the whole airspace also in remote areas not usually covered by conventional radar surveillance. In this paper, the experimental results are presented and discussed that have been obtained through the real-time validation, with hardware and human in the loop (RTS-HIL) simulations, of an automatic ADS-B based Separation Assurance and Collision Avoidance System aimed to support RPAS automatic operations as well as remote pilot decision making. In the paper, after an introductory outline of the Concept of Operations (ConOps) of the system and of its architectural organization, while also providing basic information about the main system functionalities, the description is reported of the tests that have been carried out and the obtained results are described and discussed, in order to emphasize the performances and limitations of the proposed system. In particular, not only the quantitative performances obtained are reported and commented but also the feedbacks received by the pilots in order to improve the system are described, for instance in terms of preferred typology of conflict resolution manoeuver elaborated by the system.
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