Traffic management for drones flying in the city

Busyairah Syd Ali

International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, 2019, vol. 26, issue C

Abstract: Air Traffic Management (ATM) is designed based on the notion of a pilot navigating an aircraft from within the aircraft. Increasing demand for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) usage and its safe integration into segregated/non-segregated airspace, on the other hand, have raised a question on the adoption of the current ATM for the UAS Traffic Management (UTM). The Procedures for Air Navigation Services-Air Traffic Management (PAN-ATM) and Procedures for Air Navigation Services - aircraft operations (PAN-OPS) rules are both developed for manned flight operations. Therefore, this work (i) defines the UTM system and describes its envisioned functionalities; (ii) performs an exploratory research to identify the distinctions between a manned and an unmanned flight operation and consequently the possible challenges to implement UTM with regard to the ATM; (iii) discusses potential Communication, Navigation and Surveillance (CNS) technologies to support the UTM system; and (iv) proposes an architectural framework for UTM based on the findings. It is important to highlight that this work is developed based on the assumption that the UAS will operate in the class G airspace (500 ft and below) in urban areas where the UAS are exposed to various obstacles such as static objects: high-rise buildings, trees, lamp posts, over-ground rail tracks and dynamic objects: cranes.

Keywords: UAS; UAV; UTM; ATM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcip.2019.100310

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