Ranges of Injury Risk Associated with Impact from Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Campolettano, Eamon T.; Bland, Megan L.; Gellner, Ryan A.; Sproule, David W.; Rowson, Bethany; Tyson, Abigail M.; Duma, Stefan M.; Rowson, Steven

doi:10.1007/s10439-017-1921-6

Cited by 37 publications

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“…10 Specifically, flight over people is still explicitly prohibited. 10 , 11 We urge the FAA to educate civilians about the dangers inherent in drone flight.…”

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Aerial drone misadventure: A novel case of trauma resulting in ocular globe rupture

Moskowitz

Siegel-Richman

Hertner

et al. 2018

American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports

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PurposeThe purpose of this case report is to present the novel findings of a drone causing such a traumatic ocular injury and provide recommendations for how it might be prevented.ObservationsWe report on a recent case where a child presented to our Emergency Department after incurring a blow to the face by the propeller of a remote controlled drone. The patient suffered significant trauma including rupture of the right globe.ConclusionsAs drone sales continue to rise, it is important that physicians be prepared to treat the potential injuries that may result from using these devices. Furthermore, in an attempt to reduce the number of visits associated with remote controlled drones, physicians should be prepared to provide advice as to how patients can reduce the risks of injury.ImportanceWe hope that the framework and recommendations below will help physicians decrease adverse outcomes related to this unusual injury pattern.

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“…10 Specifically, flight over people is still explicitly prohibited. 10 , 11 We urge the FAA to educate civilians about the dangers inherent in drone flight.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Aerial drone misadventure: A novel case of trauma resulting in ocular globe rupture

Moskowitz

Siegel-Richman

Hertner

et al. 2018

American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports

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“…The research group employed both numerical analysis and experimental techniques to determine impact severity on the human body due to UAS collision at various impact conditions. In addition, a biomedical research team at Virginia Polytechnic institute and State University (Virginia Tech) 16 investigated injury risk to human due to UAS collision by using live flight test and drop impact test on a human dummy. Regarding UAS collision impact on aircraft, an analysis model of UAS ingestion into high-bypass engines was developed by Crash Lab at Virginia Tech 17,18 ; the results showed that UAS can pose a serious threat to commercial aircraft jet engines.…”

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“…Identification of collision consequence of UAS collision is done based on literature 15,16,19,36,37 on UAS collision analysis and the important findings are presented in this section. This literature addresses the collision effect on a general aviation aircraft, commercial aircraft, and human, inflicted by different UAS types with various weights, using both crash modeling and experimentation.…”

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Characterizing UAS Collision Consequences in Future UTM

Rattanagraikanakorn

Sharpanskykh

Schuurman

et al. 2018

2018 Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference

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UAS will be integrated into the airspace in the near future, but the risk of UAS collision is not well understood which hampers the development of adequate regulations and standards. As risk has two constituents: frequency and consequence, collision risk analysis of UAS operations in future UTM asks for a quantitative assessment of various types of frequency and consequence. However, prior to studying such quantitative assessment, it is a prerequisite to identify the various types of collisions and consequences. Doing the latter is the objective of this paper. This paper follows a step-wise approach in identifying the various types of collision consequence under a given UTM ConOps, focusing on the very-low-level UAS operations. The first steps address the analysis of the UTM ConOps, rules, and infrastructure considered, and the identification of types of objects and UASs that will operate in the very-low-level UTM system. The follow-up steps are to characterize impact materials by applying zone of impact analysis, followed by analyzing the types of collision consequence. The result is a systematic identification and characterization of types of collision consequences as well as applicable impact materials and conditions that will form the basis for safety risk analysis in follow-on research.

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“…the Hybrid III crash dummy, is widely used as a representative substitution of a real human body. Campolettano [1] performed a series of live flight test and impact drop test using three different UAS weight classes on an instrumented Hybrid III. The Alliance of System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE) research group also conducted a series of controlled impact drop test using DJI Phantom III UAS on the Hybrid III crash dummy at various UAS impact attitudes and speeds [2][3][4].…”

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Modelling head injury due to unmanned aircraft systems collision: Crash dummy vs human body

Rattanagraikanakorn

Schuurman

Gransden

et al. 2020

International Journal of Crashworthiness

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Recent developments in the concept of UAS operations in urban areas have led to risk concerns of UAS collision with human. To better understand this risk, head and neck injuries due to UAS collisions have been investigated by different research teams using crash dummies. Because of the limitations in biofidelity of a crash dummy, head injury level for a crash dummy impact may differ from the human body impact. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to investigate differences in head and neck injuries subject to UAS collision between an often-used Hybrid III crash dummy and a human body. To perform such investigation, multibody system (MBS) impact models have been used to simulate UAS impacts on validated models of the Hybrid III crash dummy and the human body at various impact conditions. The findings show that the Hybrid III predicts similar head and neck injury compared to the human body when UAS collides horizontally from front and rear. However, the Hybrid III over-predicts head injury due to horizontal side impact. Moreover, under vertical drop and 45 degree elevated impact of UAS, the Hybrid III under-predicts head injury, and over-predicts neck injury.

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Ranges of Injury Risk Associated with Impact from Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Cited by 37 publications

References 14 publications

Aerial drone misadventure: A novel case of trauma resulting in ocular globe rupture

Aerial drone misadventure: A novel case of trauma resulting in ocular globe rupture

Characterizing UAS Collision Consequences in Future UTM

Modelling head injury due to unmanned aircraft systems collision: Crash dummy vs human body

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