Safely Integrating Drones into U.S. Airspace: NASA, UNR and Private Sector Technologies

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about us

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NAASIC on 3rd Floor

450 Sinclair Street, Reno, NV 89501

How does the Center work?

University

Faculty & students

Economic Development: Jobs, Companies, Trained Workforce, Funding, etc.

TechnicalDirector

Business Director

Thrust Area Leaders

Chief Engineer

Fellows & Interns

Admin. Assist.

Dean of Engineering

VPRI

Technical Program Manager

Center

Industry/Private Sector NIAS/FAA

NAASIC Associates

• UNR Faculty• Hydrogeology• Education/Cooperative Extension (Agriculture, 4-H, GEAR UP)• Geography• Anthropology• Engineering – all departments• Business

• Businesses• Flirtey• Drone America• Alaska UAV• AboveNV• Skyworks Aerial Systems (now Dronesmith Technologies)

• Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems (NIAS)• NASA, RTAA, EDAWN, WNDD

flight operations

NAASIC Flight Operations – Palomino Valley

• First flight under the Nevada Test Site COA – September 24, 2015• Flirtey• NAASIC• NIAS

NAASIC Flight Operations - RRCC

• First flight operations under Nevada COA with multiple aircraft – November 17• Drone America: octocopter• AboveNV: hexcopter and fixed-wing• UNR Hyrdo-geology: 2 DJI phantoms• 3 aircraft received airworthiness statements (AWS)

• First NAASIC Visual Observer (VO) training• 15 participants completed VO training

current research projects

• Flight Arena• Applications– Ecosystem Monitoring– Search and Rescue

• UAS Traffic Management• NUANCE Lab

Ongoing Work

UAS Traffic Management

NUANCE

NUANCE Team

Looking ahead

Remediation Planning

Education

Flirtey & Drone Delivery

• New rules go into effect August 29, 2016• Helpful resources:– www.knowbeforeyoufly.org– http://

www.faa.gov/uas/media/Part_107_Summary.pdf– http://

www.faa.gov/training_testing/testing/acs/media/uas_acs.pdf

– https://www.faa.gov/training_testing/testing/test_questions/media/uag_sample_exam.pdf

New Rules: Part 107

• One Drone– Sensor Fusion– Sense and Avoid– Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS)

• Many Drones– Traffic Management– “D2D” Communication

• Mapping & Navigation• Data Pipelines• Human Factors• Bigger & Faster

“Grand Challenges” in the coming years

Questions?