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McAree, O, Aitken, J and Veres, S (2018) Quantifying situation awareness for small unmanned aircraft Towards routine Beyond Visual Line Of Sight operations. The Aeronautical Journal, 122 (1251). pp. 733-746. ISSN 0001-9240
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Abstract
A novel statistical model is presented to quantify situation awareness in the operation of small civilian Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Today, the vast majority of small UAS operation takes place under Visual Line Of Sight (VLOS) of a human operator, who is wholly responsible for the safety of the flight. As operation begins to move to Beyond Visual Line Of Sight (BVLOS), it is likely that this responsibility will become shared between operator and the increasingly autonomous UAS itself. Before we seek to quantify the safety of such a system, it is beneficial to analyse the safety of existing VLOS operations to provide a target level of safety. Prior to considering any on-board decision making, it is essential to ensure that the artificial situation awareness system of a UAS in BVLOS is at least as good as awareness of a human operator. The paper provides a probabilistic theory and model for the high level abstractions of situation awareness to guide future assessment of BVLOS operations.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 09 Engineering, 15 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science T Technology > TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics |
| Divisions: | Natural Sciences & Psychology (closed 31 Aug 19) |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Nov 2017 10:33 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 10:57 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/7608 |
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