NASA UAS traffic management national campaign: Operations across Six UAS Test Sites

Rios, Joseph; Mulfinger, Daniel; Homola, Jeffrey; Venkatesan, Priya

doi:10.1109/dasc.2016.7778080

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“…In the United States, NASA, the FAA, industry, and academia have been actively working toward the development and demonstration of a UAS Traffic Management (UTM) system for sUAS operations in low-altitude airspace [2]. Evaluations for sparsely-populated and moderately-populated areas have been conducted in the United States in recent years [21,22], and testing for higher-density urban areas (UTM Technology Capability Level 4) is scheduled for the near future [2]. The extent to which the UTM architecture, paradigm, and principles could be applied to UAM is a crucial area of future research.…”

Section: B Current Operationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Air Mobility Airspace Integration Concepts and Considerations

Thipphavong

Apaza

Barmore

et al. 2018

2018 Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference

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Urban Air Mobility-defined as safe and efficient air traffic operations in a metropolitan area for manned aircraft and unmanned aircraft systems-is being researched and developed by industry, academia, and government. Significant resources have been invested toward cultivating an ecosystem for Urban Air Mobility that includes manufacturers of electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, builders of takeoff and landing areas, and researchers of the airspace integration concepts, technologies, and procedures needed to conduct Urban Air Mobility operations safely and efficiently alongside other airspace users. This paper provides high-level descriptions of both emergent and early expanded operational concepts for Urban Air Mobility that NASA is developing. The scope of this work is defined in terms of missions, aircraft, airspace, and hazards. Past and current Urban Air Mobility operations are also reviewed, and the considerations for the data exchange architecture and communication, navigation, and surveillance requirements are also discussed. This paper will serve as a starting point to develop a framework for NASA's Urban Air Mobility airspace integration research and development efforts with partners and stakeholders that could include fast-time simulations, human-in-the-loop simulations, and flight demonstrations.A https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20180005218 2020-07-07T23:11:55+00:00Z of ODM that is focused on air traffic operations in metropolitan areas with aircraft capable of seating a small number of passengers or equivalent volume of goods flying trips of about 100 nautical miles (nmi) or less.The technologies and procedures required for ODM were investigated in a NASA study [14] that covered the range of the airspace integration problem, including mission planning, separation from hazards (e.g., terrain, obstacles, other aircraft), contingency management, demand-capacity balancing, traffic flow management, as well as sequencing, scheduling, and spacing. A similar spectrum of topics will be covered in this complementary paper on UAM airspace integration. This paper also describes at a high level NASA's initial airspace integration concepts for both emergent and early expanded UAM operations. It also serves as a framework for NASA's UAM airspace integration research and development efforts with partners and stakeholders.The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. Section II reviews past and current UAM operations. Section III presents an overview of UAM, including the goals, principles, barriers, and benefits. This section also discusses the competing considerations that need to be taken into account and balanced for UAM operations, as well as the requirements for communication, navigation, and surveillance. Section IV defines the scope of the concepts with regard to missions, aircraft, airspace, and hazards. Section V describes at a high level NASA's initial airspace integration concepts for both emergent and early expanded UAM operations. Section VI discusses NASA's plan to develop and refi...

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Section: B Current Operationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Air Mobility Airspace Integration Concepts and Considerations

Thipphavong

Apaza

Barmore

et al. 2018

2018 Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference

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“…To date, tests have been performed across TCLs 1 through 3 with many industry partners testing a diverse set of technologies spanning implementations ranging from USSs, vehicles, control software, surveillance, communication approaches, etc. Each of the testing events incorporated elements of the given TCL such that TCL 1, for example, involved visual line-of-sight operations in a low density environment [8]. TCL 2 testing involved more complex operations and interactions with beyond visual line-of-sight missions, higher densities of traffic, and priority operations and associated airspace procedures [9,10].…”

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UTM and D-NET: NASA and JAXA’s Collaborative Research on Integrating Small UAS with Disaster Response Efforts

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Johnson

Kopardekar

et al. 2018

2018 Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference

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Natural disasters, such as flooding, wildfire, hurricane, tornadoes, earthquakes and tsunamis, pose challenges in preserving human life and minimizing the damages to a region. During catastrophic events, timely response of disaster relief personnel, an efficient deployment of resources in the recovery effort, and coordinated information sharing amongst different relief agencies can make a substantial difference in responding to those impacted by the disaster. Many relief activities currently utilize both ground personnel and manned airborne assets during different phases of the disaster response. Typically, multiple organizations support relief activities and this often creates logistics coordination challenges between agencies which can result in wasted time or resources. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has been developing an "Integrated aircraft operation system for disaster relief (D-NET)", which assists collection and sharing of disaster information through the integrated operation of aircraft such as helicopters, aircraft, and satellites, for efficient and safe rescue operations by disaster relief aircraft. Due to the advancement in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) technologies, public safety organizations have started incorporating small UAS (sUAS) as an asset in their disasters response activities. To address the airspace integration challenges of the influx of sUAS in the United States the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), under the UAS Traffic Management (UTM) project, has been engaged in research to enable large-scale commercial applications of sUAS operating in low altitude airspace. This paper presents the integration of D-NET, which incorporate sUAS in the planning, information sharing, and operation support of disasters response activities, and UTM, which provides airspace management to enable large scale high density operations. The integration of the DNET and UTM systems enables coordination, data sharing, and airspace management to improve the timeliness of the disaster response, enable relief organization to reduce cost and overhead by using UAS assets and still maintain airspace safety during the relief activities.

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“…A recent example of LVC applications in UTM research was a large-scale demonstration referred to as the National Campaign [7]. In this demonstration, six FAA test sites across the United States conducted multiple, simultaneous operations.…”

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UAS traffic management (UTM) simulation capabilities and laboratory environment

Homola

Prevôt

Mercer

et al. 2016

2016 IEEE/AIAA 35th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC)

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NASA has engaged in collaborative research with the FAA and many other stakeholders in government, industry, and academia to explore the concepts and requirements necessary to enable the safe and scalable application of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in low-altitude airspace. In this effort, the UAS Traffic Management (UTM) project has developed a multi-faceted simulation component that supports near-term live flight testing in addition to further term concept exploration. This paper provides an overview of the simulation capabilities currently available as part of the UTM project and the laboratory environment in which they are applied.

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NASA UAS traffic management national campaign: Operations across Six UAS Test Sites

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Urban Air Mobility Airspace Integration Concepts and Considerations

Urban Air Mobility Airspace Integration Concepts and Considerations

UTM and D-NET: NASA and JAXA’s Collaborative Research on Integrating Small UAS with Disaster Response Efforts

UAS traffic management (UTM) simulation capabilities and laboratory environment

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