Reliability assessment of mid-air collision avoidance systems for unmanned aircraft systems

AIAA Infotech at Aerospace 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wang, Ziming ^a   Schultz, Richard R ^a   Martel, Florent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TRAFFICS; AIRSPACE SURVEILLANCE; AUTOMATIC DEPENDENT SURVEILLANCE - BROADCASTS; CROP SPRAYERS; DATA GATHERING; DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE; FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; FLIGHT DATA; FLIGHT HOUR; HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP SIMULATION; HOT AIR BALLOONS; LEVEL OF SAFETIES; MANNED AIRCRAFT; MID-AIR COLLISIONS; MODELING METHOD; NATIONAL AIRSPACE SYSTEM; POST PROCESSING; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; REALISTIC SIMULATION; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS; SIMULATION RESULT; SOFTWARE IN THE LOOPS; TARGET ACQUISITION; UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA; UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM;

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL; AIR TRANSPORTATION; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS; AIRCRAFT CONTROL; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; FLIGHT PATHS; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; MONITORING; RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SECURITY OF DATA; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TRANSCEIVERS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AIRCRAFT DETECTION;

EID: 78650004196     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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