Conflict Probability Estimation Using a Risk-Based Dynamic Anisotropic Operational Safety Bound for UAS Traffic Management
2020 (English)In: AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2020, article id 2020-0738Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
The safety and efficiency of rotary-wing UAV traffic management require an operational safety bound and fast conflict prediction. A novel method to determine probabilistic risk-based operational safety bound for rotary-wing UAV traffic management is proposed. The key idea is to include probabilistic uncertainty quantification of the safety bound. The unique design for the operational safety bound results in a dynamic and anisotropic shape of the bound which considers the vectorized velocity of the UAV and wind. Operational safety bound is used to identify a virtual geographic boundary to protect aircraft and to ensure airspace safety. The proposed operational safety bound is calculated as a function of vehicle performance characteristics, state of vehicle, wind, and other probabilistic parameters that affect the real position of vehicle, such as the position error from the Global Positioning System (GPS). This paper presents an efficient method to estimate the probability that a conflict will occur between a UAV pair in confined airspace using the proposed risk-based dynamic anisotropic operational safety bounds. Conflict probability is critical to evaluate airspace capacity and to determine the optimal time to initiate conflict resolution maneuver. Several conclusions and suggestions of further research directions are given.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2020. article id 2020-0738
National Category
Other Civil Engineering
Research subject
Operation and Maintenance
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-81096DOI: 10.2514/6.2020-0738Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85091937401OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-81096DiVA, id: diva2:1475183
Conference
AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum, 6-10 January, 2020, Orlando, Florida, USA
Note
ISBN för värdpublikation: 978-1-62410-595-1
2020-10-122020-10-122020-10-12Bibliographically approved