28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 23 - 28 September 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Paper ICAS 2012-10.7.1


CONCEPT OF INTEGRATION FOR UAS OPERATIONS IN THE NAS

M. Consiglio, J. Chamberlain, C. Munoz, K. Hoffler*
NASA Langley Research Center, USA; *Adaptive Aerospace Group, USA

Keywords: uas, sense-and-avoid, atc, tcas

This paper describes the application of airborne and ground-based Separation Assurance (SA) technologies to Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Operations. An airborne component will enable the aircraft to exercise autonomous separation maneuvers. A ground based component will provide the ground-control pilot with conflict alerts and resolution advisories.


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