Certifying Emergency Landing for Safe Urban UAV

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.14928v1
• Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 11:47:46 GMT
• Title: Certifying Emergency Landing for Safe Urban UAV
• Authors: Joris Guerin, Kevin Delmas and J\'er\'emie Guiochet
• Abstract summary: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to be used for many applications in urban environments. One of the main safety issues is the possibility for a failure to cause the loss of navigation capabilities. Current standards, such as the SORA published in 2019, do not consider applicable mitigation techniques to handle this kind of hazardous situations.
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• Abstract: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to be used for many applications in urban environments. However, allowing UAVs to fly above densely populated areas raises concerns regarding safety. One of the main safety issues is the possibility for a failure to cause the loss of navigation capabilities, which can result in the UAV falling/landing in hazardous areas such as busy roads, where it can cause fatal accidents. Current standards, such as the SORA published in 2019, do not consider applicable mitigation techniques to handle this kind of hazardous situations. Consequently, certifying UAV urban operations implies to demonstrate very high levels of integrity, which results in prohibitive development costs. To address this issue, this paper explores the concept of Emergency Landing (EL). A safety analysis is conducted on an urban UAV case study, and requirements are proposed to enable the integration of EL as an acceptable mitigation mean in the SORA. Based on these requirements, an EL implementation was developed, together with a runtime monitoring architecture to enhance confidence in the system. Preliminary qualitative results are presented and the monitor seem to be able to detect errors of the EL system effectively.

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