Unmanned Aircraft Systems Airspace Integration: A Game Theoretical Framework for Concept Evaluations

A 3D Game Theoretical Framework for the Evaluation of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Airspace Integration Concepts

Predicting the outcomes of integrating Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) into the National Airspace System (NAS) is a complex problem which is required to be addressed by simulation studies before allowing the routine access of UAS into the NAS. This paper focuses on providing a 3-dimensional (3D) simulation framework using a game theoretical methodology to evaluate integration concepts using scena...

Handling Qualities Evaluations of Unmanned Aircraft Systems

On unmanned aircraft systems issues, challenges and operational restrictions preventing integration into the National Airspace System

Commercial interest for unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) has seen a steady increase over the last decade. Nevertheless, UAS operations have remained almost exclusively military. This is mainly due to the lack of a regulatory framework that allows only limited public and civil UAS operations with usually crippling restrictions. Although efforts from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and ...

A Standards-Based Integration Platform for Reconfigurable Unmanned Aircraft Systems

This paper addresses the system design and integration challenges involved in meeting the requirements for coordinated deployment of multiple re-configurable Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). It will present and discuss an open standards based software architectural approach that demonstrably addresses – and simplifies these new and evolving issues. UAS developers are continuously challenged to ...

A Reference Software Architecture to Support Unmanned Aircraft Integration in the National Airspace System

This paper outlines an architecture that provides data and software services to enable a set of Unmanned Aircraft (UA) platforms to operate in a wide range of air domains which may include terminal, en route, oceanic and tactical. The architecture allows a collection of command, control, situational awareness, conflict detection and avoidance, and data management elements to be composed in orde...