Sense and Avoid Modeling and Simulation, focusing on Airspace Encounter Models

Synopsis

• For more than two decades, MIT Lincoln Laboratory has been developing, extending, and maintaining fast-time simulations and models for existing and new airspace users
  • Focus on collision avoidance and detect/sense and avoid development and evaluation
  • Includes encounter models, traffic density models, sensor models, and pilot response models
• Recent work has focused on extending encounter models to newer operations, such as smaller UAS and urban air mobility (UAM), and the terminal environment
  • Extensions have been coordinated with and follows standardization activities (mainly RTCA), and technology development: e.g., FAA, DoD, NASA
• Several models and simulations have been open-sourced, with a fairly permissive license, that can serve as the basis for NATO-wide capabilities

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