Solutions Associated with Increasingly Autonomous Flight and the Role of Standards to Ensure Safety

Description

Included in this workshop will be a discussion on the integration of technologies needed for the success of expanded operations through autonomy and those areas that are still challenging to industry and regulators alike.

This workshop will describe the role of standards, solutions and key challenges associated with system certification and operational approval that will enable increasingly autonomous flight routinely in civil airspace. Challenges will be described and discussed as it relates to many of the different use cases envisioned for increasingly autonomous flight, as well as potential solutions. Increasingly autonomous flights are where automation has increasing authority for flight control including decision-making that has previously been the purview of human pilots. The potential contributions of standards and the standards development community in addressing these challenges will be discussed. Increasingly autonomous flights (i.e., flights without human pilots being directly engaged with flight control) is envisioned in a variety of operational use cases including drone-based cargo delivery, urban air mobility (pax and cargo), regional air mobility, and high-altitude platform systems.

Workshop Topics:

System Safety
Automated Certification & On-going Compliance through Open Source Test Suite
Describing the Autonomoy Safety Case
Making a Safety Case for Autonomy
Airspace Integration – Increasingly autonomous flights will need to co-exist with incumbent airspace users
Multi-aircraft control (aka m:N)
Cybersecurity

Learning Objectives:

• Gain an understanding of the different facets of autonomy to be addressed as part of an overall safety determination.
• Become familiar with the basic strategies and tools to help them make that determination e.g., some human factors, test techniques, as part of a safety case structure, regulator expectations.
• Learn how will standards will support safety in increasingly autonomous systems.

Agenda Topics:

• System Safety
• Testing
• Standards/Compliance
• Airspace Integration
• Human Factors
• Security
• Autonomous Flight Operations
• Safety Continuum

Job Role:
Consultant,Educator/Instructor,Engineering/Technical,Government/Policy/Regulatory,Remote Pilot/Operator,Research & Development

Pass Type Required:
VIP Pass,Full Conference Pass,Media/Press Pass

Tags:
AI/Machine Learning,Air,Government,Infrastructure,Remote ID,UAM/AAM,Airspace Integration,Autonomy,Automated Vehicles,Expanded UAS Operations,R & D