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  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Navigation Systems
  • Urban Air Mobility

Background:

  • Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) require robust navigation for safe urban airspace integration.
  • Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are crucial for positioning but suffer performance degradation in urban environments.
  • Existing navigation systems often prove inadequate for the complexities of urban airspace.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) performance and failure modes for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in urban settings.
  • To develop an improved guidance strategy that mitigates the impact of urban structures on GNSS.
  • To validate the proposed guidance strategy through simulation.

Main Methods:

  • Comprehensive analysis of GNSS performance in urban environments for UAS operations.
  • Development of a novel guidance strategy incorporating urban structure effects on GNSS.
  • Simulation case study replicating UAS operations in representative urban scenarios.

Main Results:

  • The proposed guidance strategy demonstrated improved accuracy by approximately 25% compared to conventional methods.
  • Enhanced availability of navigation services was observed in simulated urban environments.
  • The strategy effectively accounted for urban structure-induced GNSS signal interference.

Conclusions:

  • The developed guidance strategy significantly enhances GNSS performance for UAS in urban areas.
  • This approach contributes to the safe and reliable integration of UAS within the urban airspace.
  • Further research can explore real-world implementation and validation of the strategy.