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Authors:
Philipp Stelzer
Raphael Schermann
Felix Warmer
Hannes Winkler
Georg Macher
Christian Steger
Keywords: UAS; automated vehicles; safety; fail-operational; fail-safe
Abstract:
Drones and Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS’) in general are slowly taking over more and more areas of our everyday lives. They are already being used for cinematic productions, photography, structural inspections and will take over even more areas in the future like package delivery, surveillance tasks, or rescue missions. This inevitably leads to more and more UAS’ occupying the airspace and therefore pose a danger to manned aviation, buildings, infrastructure, uninvolved persons, and other UAS’. In times of exponential growth of the Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) industry, the safety and security measures for UAS’ becomes more and more significant. Until now, UAS safety has largely been the responsibility of the pilot, who had to take action if the UAS experienced any kind of failure. As the UAS industry continues to drift towards autonomy, the responsibility no longer lies with the pilot but instead, the UAS must have some sort of fall-back performance or fail-safe routine implemented. In our publication, we deal with such routines to establish fail-safe respectively fail-operational behaviour in case of sensor failure in an autonomously flying UAS beyond the visual line of sight of the UAS operator.
Pages: 43 to 50
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2022
Publication date: October 16, 2022
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-3514
ISBN: 978-1-68558-006-3
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Dates: from October 16, 2022 to October 20, 2022