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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.