Enabling Technologies for the Navigation and Communication of UAS Operating in the Context of BVLOS

Journal article (2024)

Authors

Elena Politi Harokopio University of Athens
Patrick Purucker University of Applied Sciences Amberg-Weiden
Alfred Höß University of Applied Sciences Amberg-Weiden
Morten Larsen AnyWi Technologies
R. Reis Embraer Research and Technology Europe
R.T. Rajan Signal Processing Systems - EEMCS
D Penna CISTER—Research Centre in Real-Time Embedded Computing Systems
Jan de Boer Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre NLR
Panagiotis Rodosthenous Information Technology for Market Leadership
Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos Harokopio University of Athens
Iraklis Varlamis Harokopio University of Athens
Research Group
Signal Processing Systems (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2024 Elena Politi, Patrick Purucker, Morten Larsen, Ricardo J. Dos Reis, R.T. Rajan, Sergio Duarte Penna, Jan-Floris Boer, Panagiotis Rodosthenous, George Dimitrakopoulos, Iraklis Varlamis, Alfred Höß
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13020340
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Published Date

2024

Language

English

Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Microelectronics

Research Group

Signal Processing Systems

Abstract

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) have rapidly gained attraction in recent years as a promising solution to revolutionize numerous applications and meet the growing demand for efficient and timely delivery services due to their highly automated operation framework. Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations, in particular, offer new means of delivering added-value services via a wide range of applications. This "plateau of productivity" holds enormous promise, but it is challenging to equip the drone with affordable technologies which support the BVLOS use case. To close this gap, this work showcases the convergence of the automotive and aviation industries to advance BVLOS aviation for UAS in a practical setting by studying a combination of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) technologies and systems. A novel risk-based approach of investigating the key technological components, architectures, algorithms, and protocols is proposed that facilitate highly reliable and autonomous BVLOS operations, aiming to enhance the alignment between market and operational needs and to better identify integration requirements between the different capabilities to be developed.