Bulusu, Vishwanath (UC, Berkeley), Sengupta, Raja (Univ. of California at Berkeley), Polishchuk, Valentin (Linkoping University), Sedov, Leonid (Linkoping University)

Cooperative and Non-Cooperative UAS Traffic Volumes

Scheduled for presentation during the "Airspace Management and Control" (FrC1), Friday, June 16, 2017, 16:20−16:40, Salon E

2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, June 13-16, 2017, Miami Marriott Biscayne Bay, Miami, FL,

This information is tentative and subject to change. Compiled on April 26, 2024

Abstract

We describe an analytical process to determine how much UAS traffic is feasible. The process is a simulator and data processing tools. The two are applied to the US San Francisco Bay Area and Norrk"oping, Sweden. The amount of UAS traffic is measured in flights per day and simulated up to 200,000 flights. A UAS traffic volume is feasible if specified metrics meet operational requirements with high probability and are stable, in the sense of being below thresholds observed for monotone properties in random geometric graphs. We focus on conflict cluster size and argue for it as a fundamental safety metric worthy of extraordinary consideration.