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Article

Enabling Technologies for the Navigation and Communication of UAS Operating in the Context of BVLOS

by
Elena Politi
1,*,
Patrick Purucker
2,
Morten Larsen
3,
Ricardo J. Dos Reis
4,
Raj Thilak Rajan
5,
Sergio Duarte Penna
6,
Jan-Floris Boer
7,
Panagiotis Rodosthenous
8,
George Dimitrakopoulos
1,
Iraklis Varlamis
1 and
Alfred Höß
2
1
Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University, 17778 Athens, Greece
2
Department of Electrical Engineering, Media and Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences Amberg-Weiden, 92224 Amberg, Germany
3
AnyWi Technologies BV, 2312 NR Leiden, The Netherlands
4
Embraer Research and Technology Europe Airholding S.A., 2615-315 Alverca do Ribatejo, Portugal
5
Signal Processing and Systems, Department of Microelectronics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands
6
CISTER—Research Centre in Real-Time Embedded Computing Systems, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal
7
Netherlands Aerospace Centre, 1059 CM Amsterdam, The Netherlands
8
Information Technology for Market Leadership (ITML), 11525 Athens, Greece
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Electronics 2024, 13(2), 340; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13020340
Submission received: 20 October 2023 / Revised: 2 January 2024 / Accepted: 5 January 2024 / Published: 12 January 2024
(This article belongs to the Section Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles)
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Abstract

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) have rapidly gained attraction in recent years as a promising solution to revolutionize numerous applications and meet the growing demand for efficient and timely delivery services due to their highly automated operation framework. Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations, in particular, offer new means of delivering added-value services via a wide range of applications. This "plateau of productivity" holds enormous promise, but it is challenging to equip the drone with affordable technologies which support the BVLOS use case. To close this gap, this work showcases the convergence of the automotive and aviation industries to advance BVLOS aviation for UAS in a practical setting by studying a combination of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) technologies and systems. A novel risk-based approach of investigating the key technological components, architectures, algorithms, and protocols is proposed that facilitate highly reliable and autonomous BVLOS operations, aiming to enhance the alignment between market and operational needs and to better identify integration requirements between the different capabilities to be developed.
Keywords: UAS; UAVs; BVLOS; communication systems; autonomous navigation UAS; UAVs; BVLOS; communication systems; autonomous navigation

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Politi, E.; Purucker, P.; Larsen, M.; Reis, R.J.D.; Rajan, R.T.; Penna, S.D.; Boer, J.-F.; Rodosthenous, P.; Dimitrakopoulos, G.; Varlamis, I.; et al. Enabling Technologies for the Navigation and Communication of UAS Operating in the Context of BVLOS. Electronics 2024, 13, 340. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13020340

AMA Style

Politi E, Purucker P, Larsen M, Reis RJD, Rajan RT, Penna SD, Boer J-F, Rodosthenous P, Dimitrakopoulos G, Varlamis I, et al. Enabling Technologies for the Navigation and Communication of UAS Operating in the Context of BVLOS. Electronics. 2024; 13(2):340. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13020340

Chicago/Turabian Style

Politi, Elena, Patrick Purucker, Morten Larsen, Ricardo J. Dos Reis, Raj Thilak Rajan, Sergio Duarte Penna, Jan-Floris Boer, Panagiotis Rodosthenous, George Dimitrakopoulos, Iraklis Varlamis, and et al. 2024. "Enabling Technologies for the Navigation and Communication of UAS Operating in the Context of BVLOS" Electronics 13, no. 2: 340. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13020340

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Politi, E., Purucker, P., Larsen, M., Reis, R. J. D., Rajan, R. T., Penna, S. D., Boer, J.-F., Rodosthenous, P., Dimitrakopoulos, G., Varlamis, I., & Höß, A. (2024). Enabling Technologies for the Navigation and Communication of UAS Operating in the Context of BVLOS. Electronics, 13(2), 340. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13020340

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