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Comment On Faa Rule Revision - Transport Category Aircraft, Paul F. Eschenfelder, Valter Battistoni Nov 2015

Comment On Faa Rule Revision - Transport Category Aircraft, Paul F. Eschenfelder, Valter Battistoni

Paul F. Eschenfelder

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Investigation Of An Autonomous Landing Sensor For Unmanned Aerial Systems, A Ram (Bella) Kim Jan 2014

Investigation Of An Autonomous Landing Sensor For Unmanned Aerial Systems, A Ram (Bella) Kim

A Ram (Bella) Kim

This research focused on characterizing the precision, reliability, sensitivity, and uncertainty of an autonomous landing sensor. Currently, the most dangerous flight phase for autonomous aircraft is the landing and takeoff segments, accounting for almost 70% of crashes. This research analyzes the effects of the color and roughness of the landing surface, fog, ice, and varying aircraft angles on the performance of an automated landing sensor. An investigation of suitable sensors was performed and the Dimetix FLS-C30 laser altimeter was selected for testing. The standard deviation and uncertainty of each condition was found and compared. It was determined that surface color, …

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A Human Proximity Operations System Test Case Validation Approach, Justin Huber, Jeremy Straub Mar 2013

A Human Proximity Operations System Test Case Validation Approach, Justin Huber, Jeremy Straub

Jeremy Straub

A Human Proximity Operations System (HPOS) poses numerous risks in a real world environment. These risks range from mundane tasks such as avoiding walls and fixed obstacles to the critical need to keep people and processes safe in the context of the HPOS’s situation-specific decision making. Validating the performance of an HPOS, which must operate in a real-world environment, is an ill posed problem due to the complexity that is introduced by erratic (non-computer) actors. In order to prove the HPOS’s usefulness, test cases must be generated to simulate possible actions of these actors, so the HPOS can be shown …

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