Transformational Autonomy and Personal Transportation: Synergies and Differences between Cars and Planes
| Autor: | Jim Nickolaou, Mark D. Moore, Kenneth H. Goodrich |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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050210 logistics & transportation
020301 aerospace & aeronautics Engineering Mission management business.industry Aviation media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Control (management) ComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMS 02 engineering and technology Investment (macroeconomics) Automation Transport engineering 0203 mechanical engineering Aeronautics Transformational leadership 0502 economics and business business Speculation Autonomy media_common |
| Zdroj: | 16th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference. |
| DOI: | 10.2514/6.2016-3604 |
| Popis: | Highly automated cars have undergone tremendous investment and progress over the past ten years with speculation about fully-driverless cars within the foreseeable, or even near future, becoming common. If a driverless future is realized, what might be the impact on personal aviation? Would self-piloting airplanes be a relatively simple spin-off, possibly making travel by personal aircraft also commonplace? What if the technology for completely removing human drivers turns out to be further in the future rather than sooner; would such a delay suggest that transformational personal aviation is also somewhere over the horizon or can transformation be achieved with less than full automation? This paper presents a preliminary exploration of these questions by comparing the operational, functional, and implementation requirements and constraints of cars and small aircraft for on-demand mobility. In general, we predict that the mission management and perception requirements of self-piloting aircraft differ significantly from self-driving cars and requires the development of aviation specific technologies. We also predict that the highly-reliable control and system automation technology developed for conditionally and highly automated cars can have a significant beneficial effect on personal aviation, even if full automation is not immediately feasible. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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