“So really it’s a study of what needs to be done.”
, Professor Campbell, the ARCAA director, had, in cooperation with Queensland University of Technology-led Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation, launched a long term study of what needs to be done to allow UAVs to fly anywhere and everywhere.
The project aims to conclude at the same time as CASA'S target dates (during 2015). It will aim to provide valid scientific insight into the UAV shared airspace and all the problems associated with it. The main focus is civilian flying and so many factors need to be taken in the account.
“It struck us that there hadn’t been much of a conversation around air-traffic management in controlled space, so we started thinking about what are the questions that really have to be answered in terms of procedures and technologies and all these sort of things. What did it look like on an air-traffic controller’s screen, for instance?”
Professor Campbell said that the aim of this project is not really to provide the answers to the questions. rather it is to identify the questions themselves.
One of the issues that will be investigated during the research is the type of equipment that the UAVs will have to carry in order for them to be detectable and, is possible, able to avoid being hit or hitting something by themselves.
There is another project by ARCAA which focuses precisely on the ability of UAVs to fly in civilian airspace and so they develop devices which enable the drones to safely land and avoid other aircraft. They claim that they are making "good advances" with the see-and-avoid and detect-and-avoid technologies, Professor Campbell added that they already have these systems prepared for alpha testing.
Source: http://www.suasnews.com/2013/10/25628/making-room-for-uav-air-space/
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