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http://dx.doi.org/10.5139/JKSAS.2015.43.12.1054

Flight Technical Error Modeling for UAV supported by Local Area Differential GNSS  

Kim, Kiwan (Aerospace Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Kim, Minchan (Aerospace Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Lee, Dong-Kyeong (Aerospace Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Lee, Jiyun (Aerospace Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences / v.43, no.12, 2015 , pp. 1054-1061 More about this Journal
Abstract
Navigation accuracy, integrity, and safety of commercial Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is becoming crucial as utilization of UAV in commercial applications is expected to increase. Recently, the concept of Local-Area Differential GNSS (LADGNSS) which can provide navigation accuracy and integrity of UAV was proposed. LADGNSS can provide differential corrections and separation distances for precise and safe operation of the UAV. In order to derive separation distances between UAVs, modeling of Flight Technical Error (FTE) is required. In most cases, FTE for civil aircraft has been assumed to be zero-mean normal distribution. However, this assumption can cause overconservatism especially for UAV, because UAV may use control and navigation equipments in wider performance range and follow more diverse path than standard airway for civil aircraft. In this research, flight experiments were carried out to understand the characteristics of FTE distribution. Also, this paper proposes to use Johnson distribution which can better describe heavy-tailed and skewed FTE data. Futhermore, Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Anderson-Darling tests were conducted to evaluate the goodness of fit of Johnson model.
Keywords
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle; Local Area Differential GNSS; Flight Technical Error; Johnson Model;
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