Abstract

NASA's Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) project aims at enabling near-term, safe operations of small UAS vehicles in uncontrolled airspace, i.e., Class G airspace. A far-term goal of UTM research and development is to accommodate the expected rise in small UAS traffic density throughout the National Airspace System (NAS) at low altitudes for beyond visual line-of-sight operations. This paper describes a new capability referred to as ICAROUS (Integrated Configurable Algorithms for Reliable Operations of Unmanned Systems), which is being developed under the UTM project. ICAROUS is a software architecture comprised of highly assured algorithms for building safety-centric, autonomous, unmanned aircraft applications. Central to the development of the ICAROUS algorithms is the use of well-established formal methods to guarantee higher levels of safety assurance by monitoring and bounding the behavior of autonomous systems. The core autonomy-enabling capabilities in ICAROUS include constraint conformance monitoring and contingency control functions. ICAROUS also provides a highly configurable user interface that enables the modular integration of mission-specific software components.


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https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7778033,
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7778033,
http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20170001936,
https://repository.exst.jaxa.jp/dspace/handle/a-is/594470,
https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2564538084
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Published on 01/01/2016

Volume 2016, 2016
DOI: 10.1109/dasc.2016.7778033
Licence: Other

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