Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Delegation of Separation in NextGen Airspace

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis was to determine the feasibility of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) performing delegated separation in the national airspace system (NAS). Delegated separation is the transfer of responsibility for maintaining separation between aircraft or vehicles from air navigation service providers to the relevant pilot or flight operator. The effects of delegated separation and traffic display information level were collected through performance, workload, and situation awareness measures. vi

A Scalable Low-Cost-UAV Traffic Network (uNet)

“…Another approach is to use human-guided conflict resolution similar to current air traffic management (ATM) for commercial manned flights over controlled airspace. 3), 4), 5), 6) The human effort required for such conflict resolution can be lessened by using emerging concepts such as sense and avoid. 7) Nevertheless, the human workload for conflict detection and avoidance tends to increase with number of aircraft, which limits the ability to scale such human-centered methods for a large number of UAVs.…”