NASA Technical Documents, Papers and Presentations (listed by calendar year, then alphabetically by first author)
2021 Technical Papers and Reports
MAAP UPP2 Final Report Attachment A: Security Considerations for Operationalization of UTM Architecture
January 12, 2021
2020
Documents of Special Interest
Released March, 2020:
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) Concept of Operations, V2.0
Federal Aviation Administration, Washington, DC. March 2, 2020.
Released February, 2020:
Upper E Traffic Management (ETM) Tabletop 2 Summary
Upper E Traffic Management (ETM) Tabletop 2-Future Operational Environment
Prepared by the Federal Aviation Administration as part of a meeting hosted by NASA Ames Research Center, December 12, 2019.
2020 Technical Papers and Reports
UAS Traffic Management Conflict Management Model
FAA-NASA UTM Research Transition Team: Sense and Avoid Working Group, NASA-Co-Lead: Marcus Johnson, FAA Co-Lead: Jarrett Larrow
Supporting Disaster Relief Operations through UTM: Operational Concept and Flight Tests of Unmanned and Manned Vehicles at a Disaster Drill
Andreeva-Mori, Adriana, Daisuke Kubo, Keiji Kobayashi, Yoshinori Okuno, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan; Jeffrey R. Homola, Marcus Johnson, Parimal Kopardekar, NASA Ames Research Center. AIAA SciTech Forum, January, 2020, Orlando, FL.
Autonomous Flight for Multi-copters flying in UTM-TCL4+ Sharing Common Airspace
Chakrabarty, Anjan, SGT Inc., Corey Ippolito, NASA Ames Research Center. AIAA SciTech Forum, January, 2020, Orlando, FL.
Small Unmanned Aircraft System Communications and Navigation Performance: Results and Analysis from NASA’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management Technical Capability Level 4 Demonstration
Jung, Jaewoo, NASA Ames Research Center, Nicholas Craven, Millennium Engineering and Integration Company. NASA/TM-2020-5007032, August, 2020.
Small Unmanned Aircraft System Off-Nominal Operations Reporting System
Jung, Jaewoo, Joseph L. Rios, NASA Ames Research Center, Charles R. Drew, Wyle Labs, Hemil C. Modi, Science and Technology Corp., Kimberly K. Jobe, San Jose State University. NASA/TM-2019-220302, February, 2020.
Automated Management of Small Unmanned Aircraft System Communications and Navigation Contingency
Jung, Jaewoo, NASA Ames Research Center. Sreeja Nag, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute. AIAA SciTech Forum, January, 2020, Orlando, FL.
Operational Considerations of Small UAS in Urban Canyons
Logan, Michael J., NASA Langley Research Center; Eric Bird, Luis Hernandez, Michael Menard, Lone Star UAS Center of Excellence and Innovation, Corpus Christi, TX. AIAA SciTech Forum, January, 2020, Orlando, FL.
Toward Developing MTEs for Multirotor sUAS in Controlled Wind Conditions
Lampton, Amanda K., David H. Klyde, Tanner Prince, Thomas Swaney, Systems Technology, Inc., Hawthorne, CA; Christine M. Belcastro, NASA Langley Research Center. AIAA SciTech Forum, January, 2020, Orlando, FL.
TCL4 UTM (UAS Traffic Management) Nevada 2019 Flight Tests, Airspace Operations Laboratory (AOL) Report
Martin, Lynne, NASA Ames Research Center, Cynthia Wolter, Kimberly Jobe, Mariah Manzano, Stefan Blandin, San Jose State University Foundation, Michele Cencetti, Universities Space Research Association, Lauren Claudatos, Joey Mercer, Jeffrey Homola, NASA Ames Research Center. NASA/TM-2020-5003361, March, 2020.
TCL4 UTM (UAS Traffic Management) Texas 2019 Flight Tests, Airspace Operations Laboratory (AOL) Report
Martin, Lynne, NASA Ames Research Center, Cynthia Wolter, Kimberly Jobe, Madison Goodyear, Mariah Manzano, San Jose State University Foundation, Michele Cencetti, Universities Space Research Association, Joey Mercer, Jeffrey Homola, NASA Ames Research Center. NASA/TM-2020-220516, March, 2020.
Lidar-derived Navigational Geofences for Low Altitude Flight Operations
Moore, Andrew J., Matthew Schubert, Terry Fang, Joshua Smith, Nicholas Rymer, NASA Langley Research Center. AIAA Aviation Forum 2020, Virtual Event.
Strategic Deconfliction Performance: Results and Analysis from the NASA UTM Technical Capability Level 4 Demonstration
Rios, Joseph, Jeffrey Homola, NASA Ames Research Center, Nicholas Craven, Millennium Engineering and Integration Company, Punam Verma, Universities Space Research Association, Vijay Baskaran, SGT, Inc. NASA/TM-2020-5006337, August, 2020.
Flight Demonstration of Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) at Technical Capability Level 4
Rios, Joseph, Arwa Aweiss, Jaewoo Jung, Jeffrey Homola, Marcus Johnson, Ronald Johnson, NASA Ames Research Center. AIAA Aviation Forum 2020, Virtual Event.
UAS Service Network Performance: Results and Analysis from Flight Testing Multiple USS Providers in NASA’s TCL4 Demonstration
Rios, Joseph L., Irene Smith, Daniel Mulfinger, Brandon Cook, NASA Ames Research Center; Priya Venkatesan, Vijay Baskaran, Madhavrao Lakshiminarasimha, Abraham Ishihara, Daniel Liddell, Qiang Li, SGT, Inc.; Punma Verma, Universities Space Research Association; David Smith, Sherry Jurcak, Logyx LLC; Hemil Modi, Science and Technology Corp. NASA/TM-2020-220462, January, 2020.
Demonstration of Two Extended Visual Line of Sight Methods for Urban UAV Operations
Rymer, Nicholas, Andrew J. Moore, Steven Youong, Louis Glaab, Kyle Smalling, Maria Consiglio, NASA Langley Research Center. AIAA Aviation Forum 2020, Virtual Event.
**NEW** October, 2020
Human-system Interaction Issues and Proposed Solutions to Promote Successful Maturation of the UTM System
Wolter, Cynthia, San Jose State University Foundation at NASA Ames Research Center, Lynn Martin, NASA Ames Research Center, Kimberly Jobe, San Jose State University Foundation at NASA Ames Research Center. IEEE-DASC, October 11-16, 2020, Virtual Event.
Small UAV Flight Planning in Urban Environments
Xue, Min, NASA Ames Research Center; Wei, Melissa, Cornell University. AIAA Aviation Forum 2020, Virtual Event.
2019
In-Time Non-Participant Casualty Risk Assessment to Support Onboard Decision Making for Autonomous Unmanned Aircraft
Ancel, Ersin, Francisco M. Capristan, John V. Foster, NASA Langley Research Center, Ryan C. Condotta, Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc. AIAA Aviation 2019 Forum, June 17-21, 2019, Dallas, TX.
Flight Demonstration of Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) at Technical Capability Level 3
Aweiss, Arwa, Jeffrey Homola, Joseph Rios, Jaewoo Jung, Marcus Johnson, Joey Mercer, NASA Ames Research Center, Hemil Modi, Science and Technology Corp., Edgar Torres, Metis Flight Research Associates, LLC. IEEE-DASC, September 8-12, 2019, San Diego, CA.
Onboard Decision-Making for Nominal and Contingency sUAS Flight
Baculi, Joshua, Corey A. Ippolito, NASA Ames Research Center. AIAA SciTech Forum, January 7–11, 2019, San Diego, CA.
Real-Time Path Planning for Multi-copters flying in UTM-TCL4
Chakrabarty, Anjan, Vahram Stepanyan, Kalmanje Krishnakumar, Corey A. Ippolito, NASA Ames Research Center. AIAA SciTech Forum, January 7–11, 2019, San Diego, CA.
Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) Communication for Collision Avoidance for Multi-copters flying in UTM-TCL4
Chakrabarty, Anjan, Corey A. Ippolito, Joshua Baculi, Kalmanje Krishnakumar, Sebastian Hening, NASA Ames Research Center. AIAA SciTech Forum, January 7–11, 2019, San Diego, CA.
Sense and Avoid Characterization of the Independent Configurable Architecture for Reliable Operations of Unmanned Systems
Consiglio, Maria, NASA Langley Research Center, Brendan Duffy, Swee Balachandran, National Institute of Aerospace, Louis Glaab, César Muñoz, NASA Langley Research Center. ATM2019, June 17-21, 2019, Vienna, Austria.
Optical Geolocation for small Unmanned Aerial Systems
Dolph, Chester V., Robert G. McSwain, William M. Humphreys, Jr., David P. Lockard, Mehdi R. Khorrami, NASA Langley Research Center. AIAA SciTech Forum, January 7–11, 2019, San Diego, CA.
UAS Traffic Management (UTM) Technical Capability Level 3 (TCL3) Flight Demonstration: Concept Tests and Results
Homola, Jeffrey, Lynne Martin, NASA Ames Research Center, Michele Cencetti, Universities Space Research Association at NASA Ames Research Center, Arwa Aweiss, NASA Ames Research Center.
An Autonomy Architecture for High-Density Operations of Small UAS in Low-Altitude Urban Environments
Ippolito, Corey A., Kalmanje Krishnakumar, NASA Ames Research Center, Vahram Stepanyan, UC Santa Cruz, Alfredo Bencomo, Anjan Chakrabarty, Josh Baculi, Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc. AIAA SciTech Forum, January 7–11, 2019, San Diego, CA.
An Interface-Based Cybersecurity Subsystem Analysis on a Small Unmanned Aerial System
Ippolito, Corey A., Kalmanje Krishnakumar, NASA Ames Research Center. AIAA SciTech Forum, January 7–11, 2019, San Diego, CA.
Dynamic Ground Risk Mitigating Flight Control for Autonomous Small UAS in Urban Environments
Ippolito, Corey A., NASA Ames Research Center. AIAA SciTech Forum, January 7–11, 2019, San Diego, CA.
SAFE50 Reference Design Study for Large-Scale High-Density Low-Altitude UAS Operations in Urban Areas
Ippolito, Corey A., Kalmanje Krishnakumar, NASA Ames Research Center, Vahram Stepanyan, UC Santa Cruz, Anjan Chakrabarty, Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc. AIAA SciTech Forum, January 7–11, 2019, San Diego, CA.
Remote ID for Rapid Assessment of Flight and Vehicle Information
Ishihara, Abraham K., Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc., Joseph L. Rios, NASA Ames Research Center, Priya Venkatesan, Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc. AIAA SciTech Forum, January 7–11, 2019, San Diego, CA.
Effectiveness of Redundant Communications Systems in Maintaining Operational Control of Small Unmanned Aircraft
Jung, Jaewoo, NASA Ames Research Center, Sreeja Nag, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute at NASA Ames Research Center; Hemil C. Modi, Science and Technology Corp. at NASA Ames Research Center.
TCL-3 UTM (UAS Traffic Management) Flight Tests, Airspace Operations Laboratory (AOL) Report
Martin, Lynne, NASA Ames Research Center; Cynthia Wolter, Kimberly Jobe, San Jose State University Foundation; Jeffrey Homola, NASA Ames Research Center; Michele Cencetti, Universities Space Research Association; Quang Dao, Joey Mercer, NASA Ames Research Center. NASA/TM-2019-220347, December, 2019.
Space Traffic Management with a NASA UAS Traffic Management (UTM) Inspired Architecture
Murakami, David, Sreeja Nag, Miles Lifson, Parimal Kopardekar, NASA Ames Research Center. AIAA SciTech Forum, January 7–11, 2019, San Diego, CA.
Use of UAS Reports (UREPs) during TCL3 Field Testing
Rios, Joseph L., Lynn Martin, Joey Mercer, NASA Ames Research Center. NASA/TM-2019-220336, July, 2019.
UAS Service Supplier Specification
Rios, Joseph L., Irene Smith, NASA Ames Research Center, Priya Venkatesen, SGT Inc., Jeffrey R. Homola, Marcus A. Johnson, Jaewoo Jung, NASA Ames Research Center. NASA/TM-2019-220376, October, 2019.
UAS Service Supplier Framework for Authentication and Authorization
Rios, Joseph L., Irene Smith, NASA Ames Research Center, Priya Venkatesen, SGT Inc. NASA/TM-2019-220364, September, 2019.
UAS Service Supplier Checkout: How UTM Confirmed Readiness of Flight Tests with UAS Service Suppliers
Smith, Irene Skupniewicz, Joseph Rios, Daniel Mulfinger, NASA Ames Research Center, Vijay Baskaran, SGT, Inc., Punam Verma, Universities Space Research Association. NASA/TM-2019-220456, December, 2019.
Coordinated Turn Trajectory Generation and Tracking Control for Multi-rotors Operating in Urban Environment
Stepanyan, Vahram, Universities Space Research Association, Kalmanje Krishnakumar, Corey Ippolito, NASA Ames Research Center. AIAA SciTech Forum, January 7–11, 2019, San Diego, CA.
Input Constrained M-MRAC for Multirotors Operating in an Urban Environment
Stepanyan, Vahram, Universities Space Research Association, Kalmanje Krishnakumar, NASA Ames Research Center. AIAA SciTech Forum, January 7–11, 2019, San Diego, CA.
Scenario Complexity for Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic
Xue, Min, NASA Ames Research Center, Minh Do, SGT. AIAA Aviation 2019 Forum, June 17-21, 2019, Dallas, TX.
Sensitivity Analysis of Key Factors in High Density Aerial System Operations
Xue, Min, NASA Ames Research Center. AIAA SciTech Forum, January 7–11, 2019, San Diego, CA.
2018 Documents of Special Interest
RELEASED December 2018:
UTM UAS Service Supplier Development – Sprint 2 Toward Technical Capability Level 4
NASA/TM-2018-220050, NASA Ames Research Center, December 2018.
RELEASED November 2018:
UTM UAS Service Supplier Development – Sprint 1 Toward Technical Capability Level 4
NASA/TM-2018-220024, NASA Ames Research Center, November 2018.
Safe2Ditch Autonomous Crash Management System
Glaub, Louis J., Patricia C. Glaab, Langley Research Center, Parker C. Lusk, Brigham Young University, Bryan J. Petty, Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc., Randall W. Beard, Brigham Young University, Chester V. Dolph, Robert G. McSwain, Langley Research Center. NASA/TM-2018-220110, NASA Langley Research Center, November 2018.
RELEASED September 2018:
NASA UTM Strategic Deconfliction Final Report
NASA Ames Research Center, July 31, 2018.
RELEASED June 2018:
NASA UTM Executive Summary: TCL 3 Media Day June 2018
NASA Ames Research Center, June 6, 2018.
RELEASED May 2018:
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) Concept of Operations, V1.0
Federal Aviation Administration, Washington, DC. May 18, 2018.
2018
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) National Campaign II
Aweiss, Arwa S., NASA, Brandon D. Owens, Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc., Joseph L. Rios, Jeffrey Homola, NASA, Christoph P. Mohlenbrink, San Jose State University. AIAA SciTech Forum. January 8-12, 2018, Kissimmee, FL.
A Geofence Constraint Violation Prevention Mechanism for Small UAS
Balachandran, Swee, National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA., Anthony Narkawicz, César Muñoz, Maria Consiglio, NASA Langley Research Center. ICAS 2018. September 9-14, 2018, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Distributed Consensus to Enable Merging and Spacing of UAS in an Urban Environment
Balachandran, Swee, National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA., Anthony Narkawicz, César Muñoz, Maria Consiglio, NASA Langley Research Center. IEEE 2018 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), June 12-15, 2018, Dallas, TX.
A Throughput-Based Capacity Metric for Low-Altitude Airspace
Bulusu, Vishwanath, Raja Sengupta, University of California, Berkeley; Eric R. Mueller, Min Xue, NASA Ames Research Center. AIAA AVIATION Forum. June 25-29, 2018, Atlanta, GA.
UAS Hazard Mitigation through Assured Compliance with Conformance Criteria
Dill, Evan T., Kelly J. Hayhurst, Steven D. Young, Anthony J. Narkawicz, NASA Langley Research Center, AIAA SciTech Forum, January 8-12, 2018, Kissimmee, FL.
Phased Array Antenna for the Mitigation of UAS Interference
Downey, James M., Bryan L. Schoenholz, Marie T. Piasecki, and Robert J. Kerczewski, NASA Glenn Research Center. ICNS 2018, April 10-12, 2018, Herndon, VA.
Small Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Flight Testing of Enabling Vehicle Technologies for the UAS Traffic Management Project
Glaab, Louis J., Chester V. Dolph, Steven D. Young, Neil C. Coffey, Robert G. McSwain, Michael J. Logan, NASA Langley Research Center, Donald E. Harper, Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc. Hampton, VA. NASA Technical Memorandum, April, 2018.
UTM and D-NET: NASA and JAXA’s Collaborative Research on Integrating Small UAS with Disaster Response Efforts
Homola, Jeffrey, Marcus Johnson, Parimal Kopardekar, NASA Ames Research Center; Adriana Andreeva-Mori, Daisuke Kubo, Jeiji Kobayashi, Yoshinori Okuno, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Mitaka, Tokyo, 181-0015, Japan. AIAA Aviation 2018, June 25-29, 2018, Atlanta, GA.
A Modeling, Simulation and Control Framework for Small Unmanned Multicopter Platforms in Urban Environments
Ippolito, Corey A., Kalmanje Krishnakumar, NASA Ames Research Center; Sebastian Hening, Shankar Sankararaman, Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc. AIAA SciTech Forum, January 8-12, 2018, Kissimmee, FL.
Initial Approach to Collect Small Unmanned Aircraft System Off-nominal Operational Situations Data
Jung, Jaewoo, NASA Ames Research Center; Charles R. Drew, Wyle Labs, Moffett Field CA; Sreeja Nag, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Moffett Field, CA; Edgar O. Torres, Science Application International Corp., Moffett Field, CA; Abraham K. Ishihara, Minh Do, Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc., Moffett Field, CA; Hemil C. Modi, Science and Technology Corp., Moffett Field, CA. AIAA Aviation 2018, June 25-29, 2018, Atlanta, GA.
Small Unmanned Aircraft Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Initial Assessment
Jung, Jaewoo, Corey Ippolito, Christopher Rogers, NASA Ames Research Center; Robert Kerczewski, Anal Downey, NASA Glenn Research Center; Konstantin Matheou, Zin Technologies, Inc. ICNS 2018, April 10-12, 2018, Herndon, VA.
Assessing C2 Communications for UAS Traffic Management
Kerczewski, Robert, Rafael D. Apaza, Alan N. Downey, John Wang, NASA Glenn Research Center; Konstantin J. Matheou, Zin Technologies, Inc. ICNS 2018, April 10-12, 2018, Herndon, VA.
TCL2 National Campaign Human Factors Brief
Martin, Lynn, NASA Ames Research Center; Cynthia A. Wolter, Ashley N. Gomez, San Jose State University Foundation; Joey S. Mercer, NASA Ames Research Center. NASA Technical Memorandum, March 2018.
ADS-B Mixed SUAs and NASA System Capacity Analysis and DAA Performance
Matheou, Konstantin J., Zin Technologies, Inc.; Rafael D.Apaza, Alan N. Downey, Robert J. Kerczewski, John Wang, NASA Glenn Research Center. ICNS 2018, April 10-12, 2018, Herndon, VA.
Testing Enabling Technologies for Safe UAS Urban Operations
Moore, Andrew J., NASA Langley Research Center; Swee Balachandran, National Institute of Aerospace; Steven Young, Evan Dill, Michael J. Logan, Lou Glaab, César Muñoz, Maria Consiglio, NASA Langley Research Center. AIAA AVIATION Forum, June 25-29, 2018, Atlanta, GA.
UTM-A Complementary Set of Services to ATM
Raju, Praveen, Federal Aviation Administration; Joseph Rios, NASA Ames Research Center; Addam Jordan, LS Technologies. ICNS 2018, April 10-12, 2018, Herndon, VA.
Inexpensive, Lightweight Method of Detecting Cronoas with UAVs
Rymer, Nicholas, National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA.; Andrew J. Moore, NASA Langley Research Center; Matthew Schubert, Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc., Hampton VA. IEEE 2018 ICUAS, June 12-15, 2018, Dallas, TX.
Cyber Security of Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM)
Sampigethaya, Krisha, United Technologies Research Center; Parimal Kopardekar, Jerry Davis, NASA Ames Research Center. ICNS 2018, April 10-12, 2018, Herndon, VA.
Fe3: An Evaluation Tool for Low-Altitude Air Traffic Operations
Xue, Min, Joseph Rios, NASA Ames Research Center; Joseph Silva, ASRC Research and Technology Solutions; Abraham Ishihara, Zhifan Zhu, Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies. AIAA AVIATION Forum, June 25-29, 2018, Atlanta, GA.
2017
Real-time Risk Assessment Framework for Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM)
Ancel, Ersin, Francisco M. Capristan, John V. Foster, NASA Langley Research Center; Ryan C. Condotta, Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc. 17th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference. June 5-9, 2017, Denver, CO.
A Path Planning Algorithm to Enable Well-Clear Low Altitude UAS Operation Beyond Visual Line of Sight
Balachandran, Swee, National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA, Anthony Narkawicz, César Muñoz and Maria Consiglio, NASA Langley. Twelfth USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar (ATM 2017), June, 2017, Seattle, WA.
Implicitly Coordinated Detect and Avoid Capability for Safe Autonomous Operation of Small UAS
Balachandran, Swee, National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA, César Muñoz and Maria Consiglio, NASA Langley. 17th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference, June 5-9, 2017, Denver, CO.
Preliminary Risk Assessment for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Barr, Lawrence C. US Department of Transportation Volpe Center, Ersin Ancel, John V. Foster, Christine M. Belcasatro, NASA Langley Research Center, Richard L. Newman, Crew Systems, Joni K. Evans, Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc., David H. Klyde, Systems Technology, Inc. 17th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration and Operations Conference, June 5-9, 2017, Denver, CO.
Hazards Identification and Analysis for Unmanned Aircraft System Operations
Belcastro, Christine, NASA Langley Research Center, Joni K. Evans, Analytical Mechanics Associes, Inc. Lawrence C. Barr, US Department of Transportation Volpe Lab, Richard L. Newman, Crew Systems, David H. Klyde, Systems Technology, Inc., Ersin Ancel, NASA Langley Research Center. 17th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration and Operations Conference, June 5-9, 2017, Denver, CO.
Experimental Flight Testing for Assessing the Safety of Unmanned Aircraft System Safety-Critical Operations
Belcastro, Christine, NASA Langley Research Center, David H. Klyde, Systems Technology, Inc., Michael J. Logan, NASA Langley Research Center, Richard L. Newman, Crew Systems, John V. Foster, NASA Langley Research Center. 17th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration and Operations Conference, June 5-9, 2017, Denver, CO.
Off-nominal Trajectory Computation Applied to Unmanned Aircraft Sysem Traffic Management
Castillo-Effen, Mauricio, Liling Ren, Han Yu, GE Global Research Center, Corey A. Ippolito, NASA Ames Research Center. IEEE-DASC 2017, September 17-21, 2017, St. Petersburg, FL.
An Integrated System for Autonomous Search and Track with a small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Chakrabarty, Anjan, Robert Morris, Xavier Bouyssounouse, Rusty Hunt, NASA Ames Research Center. AIAA SciTech Forum, January 9-13, 2017, Grapevine, TX.
Making a Risk Informed Safety Case for Small Unmanned Aircraft System Operations
Clothier, Reece, Boeing Research and Technology, Ewen Denney, Ganesh Pai, SGT, Inc./NASA Ames Research Center. 17th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration and Operations Conference, June 5-9, 2017, Denver, CO.
Real-Time Radar-Based Tracking and State Estimation of Multiple Non-Conformant Aircraft
Cook, Brandon, Timothy Arnett, Owen Macmann, Manish Kumar, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH. AIAA SciTech Forum, January 9-13, 2017, Grapevine, TX.
Evaluation of Early Ground Control Station Configurations for Interacting with a UAS Traffic Management (UTM) System
Dao, Arik-Quang V., Lynne Martin, NASA Ames Research Center, Christoph Mohlenbrink, Nancy Bienert, Cynthia Wolter, Ashley Gomez, Lauren Claudatos, San Jose State University, Joey Mercer, NASA Ames Research Center. 8th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, July 17-21, 2017, Los Angeles, CA.
Model-driven Development of Safety Architectures
Denney, Ewen, Ganesh Pai, and Iain Whiteside, SGT/NASA Ames Research Center. 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2017), September 17-22, 2017, Austin, TX.
Modeling the Safety Architecture of UAS Flight Operations
Denney, Ewen, Ganesh Pai, and Iain Whiteside, SGT/NASA Ames Research Center. 36th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SAFECOMP 2017), LNCS 10488, pp. 162-178, September 13-15, 2017, Trento, Italy.
Sense and Avoid for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Dolph, Chester V., National Institute of Aerospace, Michael J. Logan, Lou J. Glaab, NASA Langley Research Center, Thomas L. Vranas, National Institute of Aerospace, Robert G. McSwain, NASA Langley Research Center, Zachary R. Johns, National Institute of Aerospace, Kurt Severance, NASA Langley Research Center. AIAA SciTech Forum, January 9-13, 2017, Grapevine, TX.
Developing a Generalized Trajectory Modeling Framework for Small UAS Performance in the Presence of Wind
D’Souza, Sarah N., NASA Ames Research Center. AIAA SciTech Forum, January 9-13, 2017, Grapevine, TX.
High-Fidelity Multirotor Unmanned Aircraft System Simulation Development for Trajectory Prediction Under Off-Nominal Flight Dynamics
Foster, John V., NASA Langley Research Center, David C. Hartman, Drexel University. 17th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference, June 5-9, 2017, Denver, CO.
SAFEGUARD Progress and Test Results for A Reliable Independent On-board Safety Net for UAS
Gilabert, Russell V., Evan T. Dill, Kelly J. Hayhurst, Steven D. Young, NASA Langley Research Center. IEEE-DASC 2017, September 17-21, 2017, St. Petersburg, FL.
Failure Mode Effects Analysis and Flight Testing for Small Unmanned Aerial Systems
Glaab, Louis J., Michael J. Logan, NASA Langley Research Center. 17th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference, June 5-9, 2017, Denver, CO.
3D LiDAR SLAM Integration with GPS/INS for UAVs in Urban GPS-Degraded Environments
Hening, Sebastian, University of California, Santa Cruz, Corey Ippolito, Kalmanje Krishnakumar, Vahram Stepanyan, NASA Ames Research Center, Mircea Teodorescu, University of California, Santa Cruz. AIAA SciTech Forum, January 9-13, 2017, Grapevine, TX.
Technical Capability Level 2 Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) Flight Demonstration: Description and Analysis
Homola, Jeffrey, Quang Dao, Lynne Martin, Joey Mercer, NASA Ames Research Center, Christoph Mohlenbrink, Lauren Claudatos, San Jose State University. IEEE-DASC 2017, September 17-21, 2017, St. Petersburg, FL.
Concepts of Airspace Structures and System Analysis for UAS Traffic Flows for Urban Areas
Jang, Dae-Sung, KAIST and NASA Ames Research Center, Corey Ippolito, NASA Ames Research Center, Shankar Sankararaman, SGT, Inc., Vahram Stepanyan, University of California, Santa Cruz. AIAA SciTech Forum, January 9-13, 2017, Grapevine, TX.
Flight Test Evaluation of an Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) Concept for Multiple Beyond-Visual-Line-of-Sight Operations
Johnson, Marcus, Jaewoo Jung, Joseph Rios, Joey Mercer, Jeffrey Homola, Thomas Prevot, Daniel Mulfinger, Parimal Kopardekar, NASA Ames Research Center. 12th USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar (ATM2017), June 26-30, 2017, Seattle, WA.
Safe Autonomous Flight Environment (SAFE50) for the Notional Last “50 ft” of Operation of “55 lb” Class of UAS
Krishnakumar, Kalmanje, Parimal Kopardekar, Corey Ippolito, John E. Melton, Vahram Stepanyan, Shankar Sankararaman, Ben Nikaido, NASA Ames Research Center. AIAA SciTech Forum, January 9-13, 2017, Grapevine, TX.
Enabling Airspace Integration for High-Density On-Demand Mobility Operations
Mueller, Eric, Parimal Kopardekar, NASA Ames Research Center, Kenneth Goodrich, NASA Langley Research Center. 17th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration and Operations Conference, June 5-9, 2017, Denver, CO.
Communicating with Unmanned Aerial Swarms using Automatic Dependent Surveillance Transponders
Nag, Sreeja, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute; Jaewoo Jung, NASA Ames Research Center; Karishma Inamdar, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute. IEEE Sensors Xplore. 10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8234227, ISBN: 978-1-5090-1013-4. November, 2017.
Small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) Categorization Framework for Low Altitude Traffic Services
Ren, Liling, Mauricio Castillo-Effen, Han Yu, GE Global Research, Eric Johnson, Yongeun Yoon, Nakamura Takuma, Georgia Institute of Technology, Corey A. Ippolito, NASA Ames Research Center. IEEE-DASC 2017, September 17-21, 2017, St. Petersburg, FL.
Small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) Trajectory Modeling in Support of UAS Traffic Management (UTM)
Ren, Liling, Mauricio Castillo-Effen, Han Ju, GE Global Research, Eric Johnson, Takuma Nakamura, Hongeun Yoon, Georgia Institute of Technology, Corey A. Ippolito, NASA Ames Research Center. 17th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference, June 5-9, 2017, Denver, CO.
NASA Technical Memorandum-UTM Data Working Group Demonstration 1 Final Report
Rios, Joseph L, Daniel G. Mulfinger, Irene S. Smith, NASA Ames Research Center, Priya Venkatesan, ASRC Federal, David R. Smith, Vijayakumar Baskaran, Leo Wang, SGT, Inc. April 2017, Moffett Field, CA.
NASA Technical Memorandum-UAS Reports (UREPs): Enabling Exchange of Observation Data Between UAS Operations
Rios, Joseph L, Irene S. Smith, NASA Ames Research Center, David R. Smith, SGT, Inc. February 2017, Moffett Field, CA.
Towards A Computational Framework for Autonomous Decision-Making in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Sankararaman, Shankar, SGT, Inc., Kalmanje Krishnakumar, NASA Ames Research Center. AIAA SciTech Forum, January 9-13, 2017, Grapevine, TX.
NASA Technical Memorandum-UTM TCL 2 Software Requirements
Smith, Irene S., Joseph L. Rios, NASA Ames Research Center, Patrick O. McGuirk, Millennium Engineering and Integration Co., Daniel G. Mulfinger, NASA Ames Research Center, Priya Venkatesan, ASRC Federal, David R. Smith, Vijayakumar Baskaran, Leo Wang, SGT Inc. April 2017, Moffett Field, CA.
Estimation, Navigation and Control of Multi-Rotor Drones in an Urban Wind Field
Stepanyan, Vahram, University of California, Santa Cruz. Kalmanje Krishnakumar, NASA Ames Research Center. AIAA SciTech Forum, January 9-13, 2017, Grapevine, TX.
Initial Study of An Effective Fast-time Simulation Platform for Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management
Xue, Min, Joseph Rios, NASA Ames Research Center. 17th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration and Operations Conference, June 5-9, 2017, Denver, CO.
UAV Trajectory Modeling Using Neural Networks
Xue, Min, NASA Ames Research Center. 17th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration and Operations Conference, June 5-9, 2017, Denver, CO.
2016
ICAROUS-Integrated Configurable Algorithms for Reliable Operations of Unmanned Systems
Consiglio, Maria, NASA Langley Research Center, César Muñoz, George Hagen, Anthony Narkawicz, NASA Langley Research Center, Swee Balachandran, National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA. IEEE-DASC 2016, September 26-29, 2016, Sacramento, CA.
Safety Considerations for UAS Ground-based Detect and Avoid
Denney, Ewen, and Ganesh Pai, SGT/NASA Ames Research Center. IEEE-DASC 2016, September 26-29, 2016, Sacramento, CA.
Architecting a Safety Case for UAS Flight Operations
Denney, Ewen, and Ganesh Pai, SGT/NASA Ames Research Center. 34th International System Safety Conference (ISSC), August 8-12, 2016, Orlando, FL.
Feasibility of Varying Geo-Fence around an Unmanned Aircraft Operation based on Vehicle Performance and Wind
D’Souza, Sarah, NASA Ames Research Center. Abe Ishihara, SGT/NASA Ames Research Center. Ben Nikaido and Hashmatullah Hasseeb, STC/NASA Ames Research Center. IEEE-DASC, September 26-29, 2016, Sacramento, CA.
UAS Traffic Management (UTM) Simulation Capabilities and Laboratory Environment
Homola, Jeffrey, Thomas Prevot, Joey Mercer, NASA Ames Research Center; Nancy Bienert, San Jose State University/NASA Ames Research Center. IEEE-DASC 2016, September 26-29, 2016, Sacramento, CA.
URapid Trajectory Prediction for a Fixed-Wing UAS in a Uniform Wind Field with Specified Arrival Times
Ishihara, Abraham, Jaewoo Jung, Joseph Rios, NASA Ames Research Center. 16th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference, June 13-17, 2016, Washington, DC.
Applying Required Navigation Performance Concept for Traffic Management of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Jung, Jaewoo, Sarah D’Souza, Marcus Johnson, NASA Ames Research Center; Abraham Ishihara, Hemil Modi, SGT, Inc., Ben Nikaido, Hashmatullah Hasseeb, Science and Technology Corp./NASA Ames Research Center. ICAS 2016, September 25-30, 2016, Daejeon, Korea.
Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) Concept of Operations
Kopardekar, Parimal, Joseph Rios, Thomas Prevot, Marcus Johnson, Jaewoo Jung, John E. Robinson III, NASA Ames Research Center. 16th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference, June 13-17, 2016, Washington, DC.
Multi-Rotor Aircraft Collision Avoidance using Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes
Mueller, Eric, NASA Ames Research Center/Stanford University; Mykel Kochenderfer, Stanford University. AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference, June 13-17, 2016, Washington, DC.
From Rural to Urban Environments: Human/Systems Simulation Research for Low Altitude UAS Traffic Management (UTM)
Prevot, Thomas, Jeffrey Homola, Joey Mercer, NASA Ames Research Center. 16th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference, June 13-17, 2016, Washington, DC.
NASA UAS Traffic Management National Campaign – Operations Across Six UAS Test Sites
Rios, Joseph, Daniel Mulfinger, Jeff Homola, NASA Ames Research Center, Priya Venkatesan, ASRC Federal/NASA Ames Research Center. IEEE-DASC 2016, September 26-29, 2016, Sacramento, CA.
Assessing the Impact of Operational Constraints on the Near-term Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management Supported Market
Vascik, Parker, MIT, Jaewoo Jung, NASA Ames Research Center. 16th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference, June 13-17, 2016, Washington, DC.
UAS Industry Growth: Forecasting Impact on Regional Infrastructure, Environment, and Economy
Wargo, Chris, Corey Snipes, Mosaic ATM, Aloke Roy, Honeywell Int’l; Robert Kercewski, NASA Glenn Research Center. IEEE-DASC 2016, September 26-29, 2016, Sacramento, CA.
NASA Presentations to the October, 2015 UTM Convention
Safely Enabling UAS Operations in Low-Altitude Airspace
Briefing presented by Dr. Parimal Kopardekar at the 2015 UTM Convention, October 2015, Moffett Field, CA.
Partner Documents and Presentations
Integrating UAS into the Managed Airspace Through the Extension of ARINC Cloud Services
Elmasry, George, Diane McClatchy, Rick Heinrich, Boe Svatek, Rockwell Collins. Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) April 18-20, 2017, Washington, DC.
Google UAS Airspace System Overview
October, 2015.
Determining Safe Access with a Best-Equipped, Best-Served Model for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Amazon white paper, October, 2015.
Revising the Airspace Model for the Safe Integration of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Amazon white paper, October, 2015.
