28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 23 - 28 September 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Paper ICAS 2012-9.2.2

COMPUTATIONAL ASPECTS OF PROBABILISTIC ASSESSMENT OF UAS ROBUST AUTONOMY

T. Perez, B. Williams*, P. de Lamberterie
Univ. of Newcastle, Australia; *Boeing Research & Technology - Australia, Australia

Keywords: robust autonomy, uas design & certification

A method for evaluation of robust autonomy of UAS has been previously proposed. This method relies on the use of stochastic simulations. In this paper, we investigate the necessary number of simulation scenarios to obtain an adequate estimate of robust autonomy.

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