Print Email Facebook Twitter Exploring Opportunities for an Evolutionary Integration of Level 3 UAV Situation Awareness Support into ATC/C2 systems Title Exploring Opportunities for an Evolutionary Integration of Level 3 UAV Situation Awareness Support into ATC/C2 systems Author Verboon, T. Contributor Theunissen, E. (mentor) Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Department Telecommunications Programme Electronic Navigation Systems Date 2012-04-26 Abstract To explore the question whether a promising concept that supports a UAV operator in separating the UAV from other traffic, also has potential benefits for Air Traffic Control, an identification and analysis of possibilities to add the conflict probing function to an existing Air Traffic Control system, the Multi-Aegis Site Emulator, was performed. The surveillance sensor type was a decisive aspect in this conversion, due to stringent requirements on position and velocity accuracy for effective conflict probing. Based on the results it was concluded that, within certain constraints, the envisioned implementation was technically feasible. For the implementation, a system-independent platform is designed with connectivity and data presentation designed independently from MASE. The proposed system architecture comprises a separate, stand-alone computer which captures the ATC display and uses a video overlay to add the conflict probes. To compute the location of the conflict areas, a real-time feed of track information is required, which was available in Eurocontrol´s ASTERIX standard at the Royal Netherlands Air Force Air Operations Control Station Nieuw Milligen. Integration and testing with a recorded and a live air picture on the MASE were successfully performed, which led to Technology Readiness Level 6. Subject unmanned aerial vehicleuav airspace integrationairspace integrationconflict probingair traffic control To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:23c58ad0-0d8d-466c-be93-a17d95163e03 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2012 Verboon, T. Files PDF mscThesis_TVerboon.pdf 4.18 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:23c58ad0-0d8d-466c-be93-a17d95163e03/datastream/OBJ/view