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It will be interesting to see the implementation of three dimensional drone traffic. Who is working on the drone path guidelines, and traffic control policies?

malandrew 7y ago
Uber and NASA are working on this.
karthikb 7y ago
Airbus has a strong team working on this. https://www.airbusutm.com/ https://www.airbusutm.com/ You can read more here: https://www.airbusutm.com/uam-resources-airbus-blueprint https://www.airbusutm.com/uam-resources-airbus-blueprint
pininja 7y ago
Here’s the airspace management talk we gave at the last Uber Elevate Summit, which gets into some 3D topics. https://youtu.be/ojkK5zI2VO8 https://youtu.be/ojkK5zI2VO8
zhoujianfu 7y ago
I feel like automated flight could always avoid incident by detecting all objects (at the same elevation) within $x feet, and if the object is north of you, move up $y feet, and if it’s south, move down $y feet, unless another object is above/below you, in which case veer $z degrees clockwise and continue travel until you can change elevation?
- pininja 7y ago
  For aircraft to aircraft there’s a automatic advisory which coordinates this between aircraft. https://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Airborne_Collision_Avoidance_System_(ACAS) https://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Airborne_Collision_Avoid... I’ve heard some Airbus have it tied into their auto pilot too. When all else fails, the rule is “turn right”.
  - zhoujianfu 7y ago
    Cool, yeah, seems pretty straight-forward? I think we may never have fully self-driving cars because fully self-flying cars is so much easier, and better! It just needs to get quieter.
mcqueenjordan 7y ago
NASA and the FAA are collaborating with the industry leaders on this. It's under the umbrella of UTM (Unmanned Traffic Management). Here's Wing's blog on it: https://medium.com/wing-aviation/wing-demonstrates-decentralized-drone-traffic-management-as-part-of-faa-pilot-program-e4610204ff61 https://medium.com/wing-aviation/wing-demonstrates-decentral...

malandrew 7y ago

Uber and NASA are working on this.

karthikb 7y ago

Airbus has a strong team working on this. https://www.airbusutm.com/ https://www.airbusutm.com/ You can read more here: https://www.airbusutm.com/uam-resources-airbus-blueprint https://www.airbusutm.com/uam-resources-airbus-blueprint

pininja 7y ago

Here’s the airspace management talk we gave at the last Uber Elevate Summit, which gets into some 3D topics. https://youtu.be/ojkK5zI2VO8 https://youtu.be/ojkK5zI2VO8

zhoujianfu 7y ago

I feel like automated flight could always avoid incident by detecting all objects (at the same elevation) within $x feet, and if the object is north of you, move up $y feet, and if it’s south, move down $y feet, unless another object is above/below you, in which case veer $z degrees clockwise and continue travel until you can change elevation?

pininja 7y ago
For aircraft to aircraft there’s a automatic advisory which coordinates this between aircraft. https://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Airborne_Collision_Avoidance_System_(ACAS) https://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Airborne_Collision_Avoid... I’ve heard some Airbus have it tied into their auto pilot too. When all else fails, the rule is “turn right”.
- zhoujianfu 7y ago
  Cool, yeah, seems pretty straight-forward? I think we may never have fully self-driving cars because fully self-flying cars is so much easier, and better! It just needs to get quieter.

mcqueenjordan 7y ago

NASA and the FAA are collaborating with the industry leaders on this. It's under the umbrella of UTM (Unmanned Traffic Management). Here's Wing's blog on it: https://medium.com/wing-aviation/wing-demonstrates-decentralized-drone-traffic-management-as-part-of-faa-pilot-program-e4610204ff61 https://medium.com/wing-aviation/wing-demonstrates-decentral...