breaking the paradox of safety and scalability: uas integration in the nas

BREAKING THE PARADOX OF SAFETY AND SCALABILITY: UAS INTEGRATION IN THE NAS

THE PARADOX SAFETY AND SCALABILITY Equally important for system

design…and NOT necessarily in opposition!

The system must accommodate rising demand

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Safety and scalability are equally important for design of any unmanned traffic system Airspace isn’t as big as you think it is -- surrounding UAVs and manned aircraft with unnecessarily large “hockey pucks” mean we run out of space But these “hockey pucks” usually represent the worst-case scenario --- the real risk-based boundary is dependent on lots of things, like relative airspeed, relative heading, equipage We can allow that picture to get more realistic… if we are willing to take advantage of available technologies

TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY AS A SOLUTION

Integrating new technologies into the NAS

We need to rely on systems that allow us to optimize safety AND

scalability

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New technologies mean we can satisfy both requirements simultaneously. We believe we can ‘have our cake and eat it too’ if we introduce a series of technologies GPS, rapid and secure data transmission, increased computation capability, big data analytics to provide an overview to any human operators as necessary

TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY AS A SOLUTION


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The technology we use is LATAS LATAS, initial offering incorporates a lot of bases.

SCALE WE NEED BETTER DATA

• How do these new technologies change the risk profile on nationwide scale?

• Highly localized experiments to date not sufficiently answering the questions we have

• The paradox: we can’t operate at a nationwide scale without data to make the safety case, but we can’t get the data we need unless we operate at nationwide scale


TECHNOLOGY BREAKING THE PARADOX

Current small scale operations to understand risk:

• Pathfinder

• UAS test sites

• ASSURE

• Extensive research and simulation

Operating on a National Level

• Directly address primary, commercial use cases as defined by market research: precision ag, critical infrastructure surveillance

• Assessing how technologies can operate on national scale

BUILD ON RESULTS TO DEFINE RISK PROFILE ON NATIONAL SCALE

Drive creation of concept of operations for subsection of Class G

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The FAA is trying to break the paradox through the creation of existing small-scale understanding of risk (provided by, for example, Pathfinder) that can drive the creation of a concept of operations in the near term for a subsection of Class G airspace that: Will allow for safe data gathering on national level operation Directly addresses the primary use cases of precision ag and critical infrastructure surveillance There has been data collection efforts in particular sponsored by the FAA BUT the logical next step is to build on those results and expand to the national scale because when we think of these technologies… it’s how they can operate on national scale to define the risk profile.

PROPOSAL UAS SERVICE VOLUME

Define UAS Service Volume (USV):

• Class G

• Low population density

• Land designated for agriculture or critical infrastructure use

What does this look like?

• Consider an area covering Louisiana and part of Texas


Realizing the vision while mitigating unknown risk



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Add airspace classes B, C, D…



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…railways…



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….pipelines….



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….population density…



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..and finally those areas where land use is listed as agricultural.



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Can also ask what the USV would look like near urban areas like the DCA to JFK corridor



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…or in rural, primarily agricultural areas like Iowa. Of course, full analysis will need to occur nationwide to adequately define the USV, but there is some initial strong evidence that pathways are possible across the country.

SUMMARY By identifying and testing new technology solutions on a nation-wide scale in the USV,

we can compete on a global, economic stage

Download the full whitepaper at http://www.precisionhawk.com/UAS-Integration-Whitepaper.pdf


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…or in rural, primarily agricultural areas like Iowa. Of course, full analysis will need to occur nationwide to adequately define the USV, but there is some initial strong evidence that pathways are possible across the country.

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