See and Avoid Sensor System Design Part 2 - System Reliability & Cost/Benefits

Abstract

Under the USAF-sponsored Autonomous Flight Control Sensing Technologies (AFCST) program, Northrop Grumman investigated "see and avoid" (S&A) sensing requirements and preferred system designs along with other military scenarios such as autonomous formation flight and visual landing for future advanced unmanned air vehicles (UAVs). In the first part of the two-paper series, an S&A sensor coverage assessment method and the associated field-of-view (FOV) and time-to-go (TTG) modeling tools developed are described. In this second part, the use of the coverage models and modeling results to assess the overall system reliability of a number of sensor system configurations and their cost/benefit trades are discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA417893

Entities

People

  • Bruce Clough
  • Eric Portilla
  • Thomas J. Molnar
  • Won-zon Chen

Organizations

  • Northrop Grumman

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Aircrafts
  • Altitude
  • Collision Avoidance Systems
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Flight
  • High Altitude
  • Low Altitude
  • Military Research
  • Reliability
  • Traffic Collision Avoidance System
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Inertial Navigation Systems.
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy