CATEC has participated this week in a debate on the challenges in automation and artificial intelligence in UAS operations at a conference in Madrid organized by the State Aviation Safety Agency (AESA) and the Spanish Aerospace Technology Platform to analyze the state of technology, regulation and social acceptance of the drone sector.
In recent years, UAS technology has made it possible to automate certain functions, favoring the implementation of operations that until recently were considered too complex, such as swarm flights or air shows, or multiple simultaneous MSO operations. To this end, it is essential to increase the level of automation, which will make it possible to raise the level of safety of air operations and increase mission efficiency. All this is essential for the future growth of the UAS sector.
In this day, the director of Avionics and Systems of CATEC Antidio Viguria has presented, as coordinator of the Autonomy working group of the PAE, the white paper on UAS Automation, a document that addresses automation in a transversal and comprehensive way, which aims to provide a 360º vision (technological, regulatory, industrial sector and social acceptance) to highlight the importance of automation in the UAS sector.
The conclusions have been discussed in a final round table entitled ‘Automation and AI application in UAS’, in which Viguria has also participated, together with Alfonso Lorenzo ,from Gradiant, Francisco Javier Ramos Salas, from Airbus, and Alejandra Martinez Fariña from AESA. The experts talked about the possibilities in the short term (a couple of years) and in the medium term (10 years) for automation and AI in UAS, the differences between applications for payload mission and for safety critical functions; also about the challenges and needs for the development and validation of these possibilities (clarity, means of compliance, collaboration of designers, security…).
