A High Performance Contingency Planning System for VAVs with Lost Communication

Lost link (LL) in unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) can cause safety hazards to other air vehicles and can also significantly increase air traffic controllers' (ATC) workload. To the best of our knowledge, there still does not exist a systematic and automatic software tool that can generate contingency plans to deal with LL. We developed a new, comprehensive, fast, automated, and standardized lost link plan (LLP) generation framework and detailed procedures that can satisfy all the FAA regulations with respect to lost link situations. Extensive simulations were performed to demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed framework.

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