Ground risk vs. Efficiency in Urban Drone Operations
Paper ID
ATM-2021-001
Conference
USA/Europe ATM R&D Seminar
Year
2021
Theme
UAM/AAM
Project Name
Horizon 2020 project AiRMOUR, SESAR 2020 VLD Open 2 project CORUS-XUAM
Keywords:
Flight Efficiency, Ground Risk, Urban Airspace
Authors
Leonid Sedov, Valentin Polishchuk and Vishwanath Bulusu
DOI
–
Project Number
101017682
Project Number
101006601
Abstract
This paper explores tradeoffs between ground impact and efficiency of drone flights in urban scenarios. We give an algorithm which produces a set of routes with different lengths and varying number of people affected by the drone. We also present an interactive online visualization tool allowing the user to modify flightpaths in order to explore routing options. Our path finder and the GUI are implemented for a metropolitan area of Norrköping municipality in Sweden. The methods studied in this paper may give UTM service provider the tools to negotiate flightplans which will be acceptable by both the regulator and the drone operator.