摘要: |
Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) is quickly developing
as a new air transportation system with increasing autonomy
levels to support low-cost on-demand passenger and package
transport. AAM must operate safely despite the potential to
encounter hazards and experience anomalies and failures in-
flight. It becomes especially important to have systematic auto-
mitigation strategies to perform safe contingency actions in AAM
flight operations, as pilots have limited Situational Awareness
(SA) and limited time to make decisions when encountering
failures/anomalies in complex airspace and terrain. This paper
presents Assured Contingency Landing Management (ACLM)
with an online landing strategy selection capability to decide
between the following three options when a contingency landing
is required: (1) Return-to-launch landing, (2) Land immediately
at a nearby clear but unprepared site, and (3) Land at a
prepared landing site within the aircraft’s reachable footprint.
Our presented algorithm shows a real-time auto-mitigation
loop with multiple threads that run simultaneously to check
controllability, reachability, and intermediate decisions to hold/
loiter or continue the flight plan as the landing strategy solution is
being computed. A simulation case study demonstrates ACLM
with a focus on safety-critical propulsion and battery system
degradation scenarios to illustrate ACLM functionality. |