At this year’s AUVSI XPONENTIAL we’re on the Oklahoma pavilion #4421, with the Tulsa Innovation Labs team, discussing our latest projects.
Detect and Avoid (DAA) Standards, Compliance, and Approvals – a “How To” (do it right) Workshop – May 19, 12:30-2:30pm CDT
CEO Kraettli Epperson will also be participating in the Detect and Avoid (DAA) Standards, Compliance, and Approvals – a “How To” (do it right) Workshop, on the Technical Research & Platform Development Track, and organized by ASTM. He’ll be running the culminating exercise portion.
Overview: Flying your uncrewed aircraft Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) requires a way to meet the rules of the air – especially that you “see and avoid” other aircraft. Operators seeking BVLOS approvals are required to describe their system’s conformity with “pertinent sections of industry standards related to collision avoidance systems, ground-based surveillance systems, and detect and avoid systems.”
They must then provide a declaration, and evidence supporting this declaration, that their system was “tested and determined to meet these requirements”.
This evidence should include documentation of the testing, including the specific encounter sets used in the tests, to verify the system’s performance. The panel sets out how to address such questions as:
- What Industry Consensus Standards are out there to use?
- How do you find the pertinent requirements?
- How do you design a test to show you meet them? And just what is an “encounter set” anyway?
It’s an impressive lineup, including:
- Kyle Ryker, Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence
- Rob Knochenhauer, Censys Technologies
- Andy Thurling and Alexander Fomenko, DroneUp
- Marcus Cunningham, Federal Aviation Administration
- Matthew Edwards, NATO Sense and Avoid Specialist Team
Workshop details here. The workshop requires its own registration.
Location: 351 DEF – Technical Research & Platform Development Track
Session Code 2: XPO25-3022-WK
More info and to register: XPONENTIAL 2025 | AUVSI
To schedule time to meet: Contact – Vigilant Aerospace Systems, Inc.
See you in Houston!
Vigilant Aerospace is the leading developer of multi-sensor detect-and-avoid and airspace management software for uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS or drones). The company’s product, FlightHorizon, is based on two NASA patents and uses data from multiple sources to display a real-time picture of the air traffic around a UAS and to provide automatic avoidance maneuvers to prevent collisions. The software is designed to meet industry technical standards, to provide automatic safety and to allow UAS to safely fly beyond the sight of the pilot. The software has won multiple industry awards and the company has had contracts and users at NASA, the FAA, the U.S. Department of Defense and with a variety of drone development programs. Visit our website at www.VigilantAerospace.com