'FILE AND FLY': PROCEDURES AND TECHNIQUES FOR INTEGRATION OF UAVS IN CONTROLLED AIRSPACE

摘要

The mission spectrum of future UAVs will require their integration into civil airspace. Up to now neither technologies nor procedures to enable UAV operations in civil controlled airspace have been established. In this paper standard and emergency procedures for UAV guidance are presented based on the idea that in civil controlled airspace a UAV should behave like a manned aircraft from ATC's point of view. Special emphasis is given on the emergency case of datalink loss. Further on, a generic system architecture for a UAV system is presented which enables the validation of the proposed procedures. Results of the ongoing national German WASLA-HALE project are presented which includes ATC simulation trials as well as flight trials with DLR's research aircraft acting as an UAV.