Well-clear recommendation for small unmanned aircraft systems based on unmitigated collision risk

A Weinert, S Campbell, A Vela, D Schuldt… - Journal of air …, 2018 - arc.aiaa.org
Unmanned aircraft systems must demonstrate a capability to sense and avoid air traffic as
part of a layered conflict management system to enable safe operations in the National …

Adaptive stress testing: Finding likely failure events with reinforcement learning

R Lee, OJ Mengshoel, A Saksena, RW Gardner… - Journal of Artificial …, 2020 - jair.org
Finding the most likely path to a set of failure states is important to the analysis of safety-
critical systems that operate over a sequence of time steps, such as aircraft collision …

ACAS sXu: Robust decentralized detect and avoid for small unmanned aircraft systems

LE Alvarez, I Jessen, MP Owen… - 2019 IEEE/AIAA 38th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Demand for small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) continues to increase in diversity and
volume, however applications are currently limited by regulatory requirements for visual …

Characteristics of a well clear definition and alerting criteria for encounters between uas and manned aircraft in class e airspace

M Johnson, C Santiago, E Mueller - Air Traffic Management (ATM) …, 2015 - ntrs.nasa.gov
Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) will be required to equip with a detect-and-avoid (DAA)
system in order to satisfy the federal aviation regulations to remain well clear of other aircraft …

Aircraft collision avoidance using Monte Carlo real-time belief space search

TB Wolf, MJ Kochenderfer - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2011 - Springer
The aircraft collision avoidance problem can be formulated using a decision-theoretic
planning framework where the optimal behavior requires balancing the competing …

[PDF][PDF] Uncorrelated encounter model of the national airspace system version 2.0

AJ Weinert, EP Harkleroad, JD Griffith… - … , MA, Project Report …, 2013 - researchgate.net
Airspace encounter models, which provide realistic close encounter situations
representative of the airspace, are a critical component in the safety assessment of sense …

[PDF][PDF] Model-based optimization of airborne collision avoidance logic

MJ Kochenderfer… - … , Project Report ATC …, 2010 - archive.ll.mit.edu
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) is a
widely-deployed safety system for reducing the risk of mid-air collision between aircraft …

What Matters in the Effectiveness of Airborne Collision Avoidance Systems? Monte Carlo Simulation of Uncertainties for TCAS II and ACAS Xa

S Stroeve - Aerospace, 2023 - mdpi.com
TCAS II is a rule-based airborne collision avoidance system (ACAS) that is used in current
commercial air transport operations, and ACAS Xa is a new optimization-based system …

Costs of IQ loss from leaded aviation gasoline emissions

PJ Wolfe, A Giang, A Ashok, NE Selin… - … science & technology, 2016 - ACS Publications
In the United States, general aviation piston-driven aircraft are now the largest source of
lead emitted to the atmosphere. Elevated lead concentrations impair children's IQ and can …

Collision avoidance for general aviation

TB Billingsley, MJ Kochenderfer… - IEEE Aerospace and …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This presented the development and simulation of optimized collision avoidance logic to
operate on-board general aviation aircraft. Framing the collision avoidance problem as a …