PoCoLoCo: Positioning through cooperating loquacious communications

• Autores: Jorge Ramírez Alcántara
• Directores de la Tesis: Pablo Royo (dir. tes.), Cristina Barrado (dir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) ( España ) en 2015
• Idioma: inglés
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Ismael Colomina Fosch (presid.), Eduard Bertran Albertí (secret.), Jordi García del Rio (voc.)
• Materias:
  • Ciencias de la tierra y del espacio
    • Geografía
      • Teoría de la localización
  • Ciencias tecnológicas
    • Ingeniería y tecnología aeronáuticas
    • Tecnología electrónica
      • Radar
    • Tecnología de los sistemas de transporte
• Enlaces
  • Tesis en acceso abierto en: TDX
• Resumen

  • Aerial Transportation system is based in a legacy infrastructure that supports its different functionality separately. There is a tendency to simplify the infrastructure, increasing its efficiency, technical and monetary. UAS are perceived by the general public as simplified versions of the conventional aviation because they have not any human flight crew on board. In fact, they have a flight crew, but this flight crew is placed on ground adding some complications to the system (e.g: Command & Control link). Conventional aviation perceives UAS as a source of problems, mainly because they have no human flight crew on board capable of creating the situational awareness of the UAS. This lack of situational awareness compromises as well the rest of airspace users safety. This PhD explores the capability of UAS to contribute to the situational awareness of both the own aircraft (generating navigation data) as to the situational awareness of the rest of airspace users (generating surveillance data). The contribution to the situational awareness of both the own aircraft (navigation data) as well as the rest of airspace users (surveillance) is simulated assuming UAS communications based on TDMA and at the communication rates described in the literature. The simulation scenario has been kept simple with a low communication rate and a low number of UAS flying in the simulated area. The results of navigation are in line with the RNP1. The results in surveillance are in line with the 3NM separation but with a refresh rate much higher. Then, with this proposal, UAS could be considered as contributors to the situational awareness instead as the problem that destroys the situational awareness.