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Unmanned Aircraft Systems and the Nordic Challenges
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In this paper, the authors introduce the Nordic as well as generic challenges for UAV operations and discuss the needs for further research on the challenges affecting safe UAS operations, including weather-related phenomena challenges overlap in both technological and operational categories but can be mitigated differently.Abstract:
The European Union (EU) regulations regarding the unmanned aircraft system (UAS) that came into force in 2021 emphasise technological and operational safety. Those regulations have been developed on the common rules in the field of civil aviation and establishing a European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). The implementation of the regulations and compliant UAS operator activities are still the ground of the future. Therefore, it is essential to systematically gather information about all the factors affecting UAS operations in a safe and meaningful manner. This book chapter introduces the Nordic as well as generic challenges for UAS operations. The challenges can be divided into two main categories: technological and operational. Based on the extensive literature review and authors’ practical experience, both types of challenges are grouped by relevance topics. For example, the weather-related phenomena challenges overlap in both technological and operational categories but still can be mitigated differently. Technological challenges are usually mitigated by UAS design and human-computer interactions, while operational challenges may be mitigated with legislation and organisational activities and personal UAS operator qualities. Finally, the needs for further research on the challenges affecting safe UAS operations are discussed.read more
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Flight Test Evaluation of an Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) Concept for Multiple Beyond-Visual-Line-of-Sight (BVLOS) Operations
Marcus Johnson,Jaewoo Jung,Joseph Rios,Joey Mercer,Jeffrey Homola,Thomas Prevot,Daniel Mulfinger,Parimal Kopardekar +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated a traffic management concept designed to enable simultaneous operations of multiple small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in the national airspace system (NAS) and described a five-day flight test activity that examined the feasibility of operating multiple UAS beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) of their respective operators in the same airspace.
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Icing detection and identification for unmanned aerial vehicles: Multiple model adaptive estimation
TL;DR: A multiple model adaptive estimation framework to detect icing affecting unmanned aerial vehicles using the following sensors: pitot tube (airspeed sensor), GPS and IMU is proposed.
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Study of effects of high-altitude environments on multicopter and fixed-wing UAVs' energy consumption and flight time
TL;DR: The effects of low air density (characteristic at high-altitude environments) on small-sized Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are studied and guidelines abstracted from these flight experiences will be given to help in the future design of UAVs with high altitude applications.
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Brief Communication: Mapping river ice using drones and structure from motion
TL;DR: In this paper, a georeferenced surface model can be built and data on ice thickness, spatial distribution, and volume can be extracted without accessing the ice, and with considerably fewer measurement efforts compared to traditional surveying methods.
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Quantifying risk of ground impact fatalities of power line inspection BVLOS flight with small unmanned aircraft
TL;DR: This work presents a method for quantifying the probability of fatalities resulting from an uncontrolled descent of an unmanned aircraft conducting a BVLOS flight, based on a standard stochastic model and employs a parameterized high fidelity ground impact distribution model.