Description

Further commercial deployment of small UAS requires addressing the operation safety and thus ensure safe flight execution together with the minimization of the risk to other air traffic and people and properties on the ground. Furthermore, the deployment needs automation of operation to decrease the operators´ workload and thus allow the operator to control multiple aircraft simultaneously and decrease operating costs. The project aims to (i) develop a general policy for risk-aware trajectory planning considering the off-nominal situations, (ii) to reduce the risk induced by off-nominal situations by automating decision making in such situations, (iii) automate landing site detection by proper mission planning, and (iv) to develop a controller capable of reliable autonomous landing.