Air Mobility Collision Avoidance Using Risk-Zone Surveillance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing air mobility systems face challenges in ensuring safe and accurate avoidance flights, particularly with the increasing number of unmanned aircraft, without requiring new system constructions.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and method for controlling air mobility using an ADS-B device, radar, and camera to receive and analyze surveillance information, determine risk zones, and perform avoidance flights by modifying flight paths based on surveillance and sensor information, either cooperatively or autonomously.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If multiple sensor devices (ADS-B, radar, camera) are deployed to improve detection accuracy, then measurement precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the detection function into multiple specialized sensor devices (ADS-B receiver, radar, camera), where each sensor is responsible for specific aspects of surveillance. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized for its specific function while collectively achieving comprehensive detection accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The processor integrates multiple detection functions into a single processing unit that handles data from ADS-B, radar, and camera sensors simultaneously. This multi-functional approach consolidates the complexity into a centralized unit while maintaining high detection precision through coordinated sensor operations.
2Reliability
If real-time surveillance information is processed to determine risk zones and perform avoidance flights, then flight safety is improved, but loss of time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously receives and processes surveillance information in advance to pre-determine risk zones before conflicts occur. By maintaining real-time awareness of the operational environment and predicting potential hazards, the system prepares avoidance maneuvers proactively rather than reactively, reducing actual response time when threats emerge.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements continuous feedback loops where surveillance data from multiple sensors is constantly monitored, analyzed, and used to adjust flight paths in real-time. This closed-loop control ensures rapid response to changing conditions while maintaining safety through ongoing assessment and automatic correction of flight trajectories.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables safe and accurate avoidance flights by identifying potential threats and adjusting flight paths, enhancing safety without needing additional system construction.
Implementation Method 1
an receiving device that is mounted on a first air mobility to receive first surveillance information of the first air mobility and second surveillance information of a second air mobility
Implementation Method 2
a sensor device that is mounted on the first air mobility to obtain sensor information for searching for the second air mobility
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AI summary
An embodiment apparatus for controlling an receiving device on a first air mobility to receive first surveillance information of the first air mobility and second surveillance information of a second air mobility, a sensor device on the first air mobility to obtain sensor information for searching for the second air mobility, one or more processors, and a storage device storing a program to be executed by the one or more processors, the program including instructions to determine a risk zone on a first flight path of the first air mobility based on the first surveillance information, determine whether the second air mobility is an avoidance target located in the risk zone based on the second surveillance information or the sensor information, and perform an avoidance flight of the first air mobility in response to a determination that the second air mobility is the avoidance target.