Application of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in sailing training and other marine environments

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are an up-and-coming cost-effective solution in aerial monitoring, analysis and documentation. To this end, multi-rotor UAVs, such as the Aerialtronics Altura V2, offer accurate, automated, suspended flight, with minimal user engagement. The project investigated into whether such devices can be used effectively for...

Impact of RPAS operations on the ATM Network: Minimum performance and operational requirements for the en-route phase

The popularity of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) is growing at an increasing rate as an alternative to manned aviation for different purposes and applications. So far, most of their operations have been of military character, but the demand for civil and commercial applications is growing exponentially. RPAS have been allowed to...

Impact of "Lost C2 Link" on Key ATM Performance Indicators in a Mixed RPAS - Manned Aircraft Operational Environment

Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) are becoming more and more popular with an increasing number of companies using them in the fields of precision agriculture, emergency delivery of medical aid and preventive maintenance. Trials are being made to extend their use to public safety, monitoring traffic, providing internet and even air taxi...

Geovectoring: Reducing Traffic Complexity to Increase the Capacity of UAV airspace

Both U-space in Europe, as well as UTM in the USA, develop concepts and tools for UAV airspace. Enabling highdensity operations is one of the goals of these studies. Past and recent studies have analysed which factors affect the capacity of a UAV airspace. An improved understanding of this can lead to control methods for capacity management. Two...

Impact of Integrated RPAS Operations in TMA

The fastgrowing Unmanned Aircraft scene accounts for an increasing number of new users who should have access to the airspace as any other full-fledged airspace user. Simultaneously, in order to maintain the currently achieved levels of performance in ATM, Unmanned Vehicles ought to be compliant with existingaviation regulations as well as with...

A governance model for managing Robotics Process Automation (RPA)

Companies today are continually looking for new ways to digitize and automate their processes in order to maximize productivity and efficiency. Existing academic research has shown the efficiency and benefits of process automation using Robotics Process Automation (RPA). Through preliminary research, we observed that most of the companies have...

What Do You See in Your Bot? Lessons from KAS Bank

The introduction of robotic process automation (RPA) has created an opportunity for humans to interact with bots. While the promise of RPA has been widely discussed, there are reports suggesting that firms struggle to benefit from RPA. Clearly, interactions between bots and humans do not always yield expected efficiencies and service...

The role of managerial communication in the adoption of IT automation: RPA in the recruitment industry

This master's thesis addresses a common problem of the adoption of IT automation; the nonoptimal use of the technology due to ineffective managerial communication. It searches for a solution by using the Design Science Research methodology to create a design artifact in the form of a managerial communication framework. This framework provides...