Categorization and classification of civil unmanned aircraft systems

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aircraft ◽  
Unmanned Aircraft Systems ◽  
Aircraft Systems

scholarly journals Embedded Computation Architectures for Autonomy in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 1115
Author(s):  
Luis Mejias ◽  
Jean-Philippe Diguet ◽  
Catherine Dezan ◽  
Duncan Campbell ◽  
Jonathan Kok ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Embedded System ◽  
Unmanned Aircraft ◽  
Unmanned Aircraft Systems ◽  
Embedded Computing ◽  
Dynamically Reconfigurable ◽  
Aircraft Systems ◽  
Computational Performance ◽  
Software Implementations ◽  
The Embedded System

This paper addresses the challenge of embedded computing resources required by future autonomous Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Based on an analysis of the required onboard functions that will lead to higher levels of autonomy, we look at most common UAS tasks to first propose a classification of UAS tasks considering categories such as flight, navigation, safety, mission and executing entities such as human, offline machine, embedded system. We then analyse how a given combination of tasks can lead to higher levels of autonomy by defining an autonomy level. We link UAS applications, the tasks required by those applications, the autonomy level and the implications on computing resources to achieve that autonomy level. We provide insights on how to define a given autonomy level for a given application based on a number of tasks. Our study relies on the state-of-the-art hardware and software implementations of the most common tasks currently used by UAS, also expected tasks according to the nature of their future missions. We conclude that current computing architectures are unlikely to meet the autonomy requirements of future UAS. Our proposed approach is based on dynamically reconfigurable hardware that offers benefits in computational performance and energy usage. We believe that UAS designers must now consider the embedded system as a masterpiece of the system.

FLIGHT SAFETY OF UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS IN NON-SEGREGATED AIRSPACE

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 801-815 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boris Sergeevich Alyoshin ◽  
Valeriy Leonidovich Sukhanov ◽  
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Shibaev
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aircraft ◽  
Unmanned Aircraft Systems ◽  
Flight Safety ◽  
Aircraft Systems

Assuring Learning-Enabled Components in Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krishna Muvva ◽  
Justin M. Bradley ◽  
Marilyn Wolf ◽  
Taylor Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aircraft ◽  
Unmanned Aircraft Systems ◽  
Aircraft Systems
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