NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY PROJECT 'OUTCAST' ON UAS SENSE AND AVOID

摘要

To address the challenge of sense and avoid for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), the Netherlands' Ministry of Defense tasked the National Aerospace Laboratory NLR with the National Technology Project 'OUTCAST '. The project objectives were to define the sense and avoid requirements and evaluate in flight tests a concept solution feasible for 2010.NLR's Cessna Citation II laboratory aircraft was selected as the (manned) platform in which a demonstrator system was installed and certified. More than 30 test flights in Visual Meteorological Condition (VMC) were performed in which various air traffic situations were examined. Flight test data was recorded, and crew comments were captured. In post-flight analysis, the sense and avoid requirements and the feasibility of the concept solution were evaluated, and recommendations were made on how to adapt and improve them.