27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS 2010-10.3.1

DEFINITION OF AIRWORTHINESS CATEGORIES FOR UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS (UAS)

R. A. Clothier, J. L. Palmer*, R. A. Walker, N. L. Fulton**
ARCAA, Australia; *DSTO, Australia; **CSIRO, Australia

Keywords: uas, uav, airworthiness, civil regulations, certification

A risk management-based approach for the definition of airworthiness certification categories for UAS is presented. Quantified measures of risk and data-clustering techniques are used to specify a framework which considers both the UAS and its intended operation, ensuring traceability between regulations and the objective for an equivalent level of safety.

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