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Groot, D.J. (author), Ribeiro, M.J. (author), Ellerbroek, Joost (author), Hoekstra, J.M. (author)The number of unmanned aircraft operating in the airspace is expected to grow exponentially during the next decades. This will likely lead to traffic densities that are higher than those currently observed in civil and general aviation, and might require both a different airspace structure compared to conventional aviation, as well as different...conference paper 2023
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Groot, D.J. (author), Ribeiro, M.J. (author), Ellerbroek, Joost (author), Hoekstra, J.M. (author)Current estimates show that the presence of unmanned aviation is likely to grow exponentially over the course of the next decades. Even with the more conservative estimates, these expected high traffic densities require a re-evaluation of the airspace structure to ensure safe and efficient operations. One structure that scored high on both the...conference paper 2022
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Badea, C. (author), Groot, D.J. (author), Morfin Veytia, A. (author), Ribeiro, M.J. (author), Dalmau, Ramon (author), Ellerbroek, Joost (author), Hoekstra, J.M. (author)Air traffic demand has increased at an unprecedented rate in the last decade (albeit interrupted by the COVID pandemic), but capacity has not increased at the same rate. Higher levels of automation and the implementation of decision-support tools for air traffic controllers could help increase capacity and catch up with demand. The air traffic...conference paper 2022
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Morfin Veytia, A. (author), Badea, C. (author), Ellerbroek, Joost (author), Hoekstra, J.M. (author), Patrinopoulou, N. (author), Daramouskas, I. (author), Lappas, V. (author), Kostopoulos, Vassilis (author), de Vries, Vincent (author)The Metropolis II project aimed to study the impact of centralised separation management for urban aerial mobility. Three concepts were developed in this study: a fully centralised, strategically separated concept, a hybrid concept featuring cen- tralised strategic separation and distributed tactical separation, and a fully distributed tactical...conference paper 2022
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Giliam, M.A. (author), Ellerbroek, Joost (author), Badea, C. (author), Morfin Veytia, A. (author), Hoekstra, J.M. (author)In order to enable the safe and efficient integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles into very low level airspace, current day research focuses on the development of new traffic services and procedures. One of these is the geovectoring protocol, which aims to reduce traffic complexity by setting limits on the allowed ground speed, course, and...conference paper 2022
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Morfin Veytia, A. (author), Ellerbroek, Joost (author), Hoekstra, J.M. (author)The rate of urbanization is expected to continue increasing. This has led to an interest in using drones and air taxis for urban transportation in place of the current methods, which often lead to road congestion. In most places urban air operations will happen above buildings. However, in many cities with large skyscrapers it may not be...conference paper 2022
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Groot, D.J. (author), Ellerbroek, Joost (author), Hoekstra, J.M. (author)Over the next decades, it is expected that the number of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in the airspace will grow rapidly. Both the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) and the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organisation) have already stated that aircraft operating autonomously or beyond their operators’ line of sight are...conference paper 2022
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Badea, C. (author), Ellerbroek, Joost (author), Hoekstra, J.M. (author)The interest for using small aircraft for missions in urban airspace is growing for applications like parcel deliveries. Research shows that conventional airspace structure and conflict detection and resolution techniques are not suitable for main- taining a high level of safety in constrained urban environments, especially when aircraft are...conference paper 2022
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Groot, D.J. (author), Ellerbroek, Joost (author), Hoekstra, J.M. (author)Deep Reinforcement Learning has seen more usage in the field of Air Traffic Control over the last couple of years. As the number of aircraft in a given sector of airspace is not constant, there is a need for methods to be invariant to the number of agents in the system. Often this is done by making a selection of the aircraft that will be...conference paper 2022
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Patrinopoulou, N. (author), Daramouskas, I. (author), Lappas, V. (author), Morfin Veytia, A. (author), Badea, C. (author), Ellerbroek, Joost (author), Hoekstra, J.M. (author), De Vries, V. (author), Van Ham, J. (author)Metropolis II aims to provide insights in what is needed to enable high-density urban air operations. It does this by investigating the foundation for U-space U3/U4 services. The final goal is to provide a unified approach for strategic deconfliction, tactical deconfliction, and dynamic capacity management. Highly-dense operations in...conference paper 2022
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Doole, M.M. (author), Ellerbroek, Joost (author), Hoekstra, J.M. (author)Drone-based delivery is likely to reduce energy and greenhouse gas emissions associated with the transport of small express packages, fast-food meals and medicines, especially when deployed in large-scale in urban areas. However, it is an enormous challenge to facilitate such high traffic densities in constrained urban environments. A recent...conference paper 2021
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Badea, C. (author), Morfin Veytia, A. (author), Ribeiro, M.J. (author), Doole, M.M. (author), Ellerbroek, Joost (author), Hoekstra, J.M. (author)Road traffic delay and urban overcrowding are increasing rapidly all over the world. As a result, several companies have proposed the use of small unmanned aerial vehicles (sUAVs) as an alternative to road-based transportation. These small autonomous drones are expected to operate within a thin airspace band (Very Low Level) in high traffic...conference paper 2021
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Caranti, L. (author), Ribeiro, M.J. (author), Ellerbroek, Joost (author), Hoekstra, J.M. (author)The capacity of the current system of air traffic is rapidly reaching a limit with the increasing demand for air transportation. Expected future traffic densities not only make automated conflict detection and resolution a necessity, but also force a re-evaluation of coordination elements to decrease conflict rate and severity. It has been...conference paper 2021
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van Baelen, D. (author), van Paassen, M.M. (author), Ellerbroek, Joost (author), Abbink, D.A. (author), Mulder, Max (author)Modern aircraft use a variety of fly-by-wire control devices and combine these with a flight envelope protection system to limit pilot control inputs when approaching the aircraft limits. The current research project aims to increase pilot awareness of such a protection system through the use of force feedback on the control device, i.e.,...conference paper 2021
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Cain, Sebastian (author), Torens, Christoph (author), Juchmann, Patrick (author), Volkert, Andreas (author), Tomasello, Filippo (author), Natale, Matteo (author), Vreeken, Joost (author), Ribeiro, M.J. (author), Ellerbroek, Joost (author)Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) have been in civil use for several years. A new risk-based approach to approval was developed by the Joint Authorities for Rulemaking of Unmanned Systems (JARUS) which relies on the so-called Specific Operations Risk Assessment (SORA) for the specific category. Operational authorization is based on the assessment...conference paper 2021
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Ribeiro, M.J. (author), Ellerbroek, Joost (author), Hoekstra, J.M. (author)The use of drones for applications such as package delivery, in an urban setting, would result in traffic densities that are orders of magnitude higher than any observed in manned aviation. Current geometric resolution models have proven to be very efficient at relatively moderate densities. However, at higher densities, performance is hindered...conference paper 2020
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Ribeiro, M.J. (author), Ellerbroek, Joost (author), Hoekstra, J.M. (author)The use of drones for applications such as package delivery, in an urban setting, would result in traffic densities that are orders of magnitude higher than any observed in manned aviation. Current geometric resolution models have proven to be very efficient. However, at the extreme densities envisioned for such drone applications, performance...conference paper 2020
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Ribeiro, M.J. (author), Ellerbroek, Joost (author), Hoekstra, J.M. (author)The use of drones for applications such as package delivery, in an urban setting, would result in traffic densities that are orders of magnitude higher than any observed in manned aviation. Such densities not only make automated conflict detection and resolution a necessity, but it will also force a reevaluation of aspects such as centralised vs...conference paper 2020
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van Baelen, D. (author), Ellerbroek, Joost (author), van Paassen, M.M. (author), Abbink, D.A. (author), Mulder, Max (author)Modern aircraft use a variety of fly-by-wire control devices and combine these with a flight envelope protection system to limit pilot control inputs when approaching the aircraft limits. The current research project aims to increase pilot awareness of such a protection system through the use of force feedback on the control device, i.e.,...conference paper 2020
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van Rooijen, S. J. (author), Ellerbroek, Joost (author), Borst, C. (author), van Kampen, E. (author)Lack of trust has been identified as an obstacle in the introduction of workload-alleviating automation in air traffic control. The work presented in this paper describes a concept to generate individual-sensitive resolution advisories for air traffic conflicts, with the aim of increasing acceptance by adapting advisories to different...conference paper 2019