Heavy Lift Multirotor Unmanned Aircraft System for Beyond-Visual-Line-of-Sight Operations in the National Airspace System

摘要

This paper focuses on the use of a senior capstone engineering course at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to develop and field a Heavy Lift Multirotor (HLM) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) for use in Beyond-Visual-Line-Of-Sight (BVLOS) missions for the Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration (ACUASI). UAF actively leverages the capabilities and needs of its engineering program with its UAS operations at ACUASI to accomplish arctic research and public service missions for the state of Alaska. For this specific project, students provided a valuable product which will be used by ACUASI to conduct operations supporting the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) joint efforts to safely integrate UAS into our National Airspace System (NAS).