Automated Real-Time Volcanic Plume Interception for UAVs

Schellenberg, Ben; Richardson, Thomas S.; Richards, Arthur; Watson, Matthew J.

doi:10.2514/6.2021-0811

Cited by 2 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 19 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The latest advances in drone autonomy include exploration of highly uncertain and challenging environments, such as GPS-denied exploration of caves (Tranzatto et al 2022), and flight beyond visual line of sight (Schellenberg et al 2021). However, in sectors such as infrastructure maintenance (Freeman et al 2021) and agriculture (Mogili and Deepak 2018), drones will frequently operate in spaces with good prior maps, GPS availability, and the possibility of maintaining visual line-of-sight to a pilot.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Semi-autonomous drone control with safety analysis

Goudarzi

Richards

2023

Drone Syst. Appl.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper describes the partial automation of drones (also referred to as uncrewed air vehicles, UAVs or aerial robots) in a populated area within the visual line-of-sight of its pilot. Mission responsiveness is improved by reducing the number of human crew members and avoiding the need for area clearance, while carefully managing the workload of those remaining to ensure no compromise on safety. The work employs a system-centric approach with regards to integrating human and automation tasks based on their capabilities and use of standard procedures whilst prioritizing the predictability and simplicity of the overall system. Safety claims about the proposed system are posed and rigorously analyzed through a structured safety case. The proposed system is applied to a bridge inspection case study with simulation results and scenario analysis.

show abstract