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dacus Official Reports
To share our progress we continuously publish the official project reports. In this section you can find our latest documents, sorted in the order of latest approval.
D5.2 Separation Management Process Definition (2021)
The aim of this document is to provide an approach to the offsetting of a Separation Management process within U-space, and in particular to highlight its link to the drone Demand and Capacity Balancing (DCB) process which is the core of DACUS project.
Separation Management is associated with maintaining the separation minima, and defining the conditions of application of the appropriate techniques (rules and responsibilities). An analysis has been done to identify the principles and assumptions necessary to define, in a theoretical level, this Separation Management process in U-space. The Time Horizon in which Separation Management is foreseen has been defined as a framework for setting these principles and assumptions, articulated around three main headings:
- Full Automation of Ground U-space Services;
- Simultaneous Operations under different Separation Schemes;
- Adaptive (performance-based) Application of Separation Schemes.
DACUS D5.1 Structures and Rules in Capacity Constrained (urban) Environments (2021)
Demand and
Capacity Balancing is required where the amount of drone operations justifies
the use of this service. Within the scope of the DACUS project, it has been
identified that the urban environments would mainly be the location where
high-density operations will take place in the near future. In order to lay
down the environmental framework for a Concept of Operations for Demand and
Capacity Balancing in U-space, an exhaustive description of the urban
environments was necessary to well understand in which context the DCB service
would be triggered and come into use.
The document provides a deep characterizations of the ground, low-level airspaces and expected CNS performances, so as a description of the legislative framework likely to constrain the operations, just to name a few.
DACUS D1.1 Drone DCB concept and process (2021)
This document describes the preliminary Concept of Operations for “Demand and Capacity Balancing” of drone operations within an urban environment. It provides a guideline for how U-space designated airspace shall be managed from the planning phase up until the execution of drone flights. This process is supported by an extensive literature study and background information on the operational environment in which it takes place. Given the novel nature of drone operations in a civilian setting, several parallels of the proposed solution and the existing air traffic management environment are provided. Finally, the document highlights several relevant research areas which the DACUS project will address.
dacus white papers
The DACUS official reports contain a wide set of solutions for the Demand and Capacity management of drone operations. To highlight the contributions of our research to the U-Space development, White Papers on key results obtained in the project are published in this section.
DACUS D5.1 social acceptance survey results (2021)
As the emergence of high-density operations in low-level airspace challenges traditional notions of safety, noise, and privacy, DACUS aims to incorporate society’s concerns and considerations into the distribution of drone traffic. To this end, a survey was conducted in 2020 to gain a better understanding of public perceptions of drone operations and the extent to which concerns could potentially slow unmanned flight operations over urban areas.
The following white paper summarizes the results of the survey.
Related scientific research publications
The concepts from the DACUS research are serving as a starting point to develop and evaluate different solutions for the DCB models and service functionalities. In this section you can find related scientific and DACUS Research publications in the format of compressed White Papers. The publications base their research on the DACUS concepts and explore these with innovative ideas and methods.
White paper rule-based separation for dynamic airspace management
Authors:
- Ramón Meyer auf der Heide
- Technical University Darmstadt, a member of the DACUS Consortium
This White Paper presents the results of a Master’s thesis, which evaluates solutions for the traffic organisation of drones in support of dynamic airspace management, in order to reduce the number of conflicts through focused strategic separation. Considering related research activities and recognizing the ongoing regulatory development, multiple separation rules have been developed and compared. Finally, the implications of implementing these rules are discussed.
Towards a continuous demand and capacity balancing process for u-space - sid 2020 paper
Authors:
- CRIDA, a member of the DACUS Consortium
- Technical University Darmstadt, a member of the DACUS Consortium
- Chris Forster, Altitude Angel
This paper proposes an innovative approach to implement performance-based separation for tactical conflict resolution purposes by integrating multi-parametric and dynamic criteria into an algorithm that is based on the principles of the Field Theory.