Project Summary

For drones there is an increasing need for onboard detect and avoid technology to see, sense or detect conflicting traffic or other hazards and subsequently take the appropriate action. Significant progress over the past few years has been made in detecting UAVs present in airspace, identifying them, and determining their existing flight path. With electronic conspicuity (EC) information made available by commercially available low-cost systems such as Flarm, PilotAware and CAP139 Devices, this project makes greater use of this information by developing an advanced collision avoidance algorithm capable of determining and executing a variety of evasive manoeuvres depending upon various levels of autonomy