Implementation of collision avoidance system using TCAS II to UAVs

Author

Lee, Hyeon-Cheol

Author_Institution

Korea Aerosp. Res. Inst., Daejeon

Volume

21

Issue

7

fYear

2006

fDate

7/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

8

Lastpage

13

Abstract

There will come the day that UAVs can fly into the airspace of manned aircraft in the near future because of the increasing number of operational UAVs, together with technologies development. Since pilots of UAVs are on the ground, the equipment for sensing and avoiding obstacles in front is indispensable. In this paper, the TCAS II, a collision avoidance device for manned aircraft, is implemented to UAVs and investigated for the interfaces of a flight control computer. It turns out that the onboard directional antenna of TCAS II does not provide precise direction information, and the TCAS II is not assumed to be installed alone, but used as supplement with other device which tells precise direction

Keywords

aircraft computers; aircraft control; aircraft instrumentation; collision avoidance; remotely operated vehicles; TCAS II; UAV; collision avoidance; directional antenna; flight control computer; manned aircraft; Aerospace control; Aircraft manufacture; Collision avoidance; Computer interfaces; Directional antennas; Ground support; Military aircraft; Satellites; Sensor systems; Unmanned aerial vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8985

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MAES.2006.1684262

Filename

1684262