23rd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 8-13 September, 2002, Toronto, Canada
Paper ICAS 2002-7.5.1

AUTOMATIC AIRCRAFT COLLISION AVOIDANCE SYSTEM FOR AIR COMBAT MANEUVERING

B. G. Sundqvist, A. Persson, J. Pellebergs, K. Fersan
Saab AB, Sweden

Keywords: auto-acas, claim space method

Auto-ACAS is a joint US-Swedish program aiming at developing and flight testing an Automatic Aircraft Collision Avoidance System. This paper will present the Auto-ACAS system including a more detailed description of the algorithm. The overall Auto-ACAS objectives are: ??Detect potential collisions. ??Activate and execute an avoidance maneuver at the latest possible instant. ??Nuisance free operation. ??Failure safe operation.

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