There is increasing interest by the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) community in the technologies comprising Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast and its potential operational applications.
Implementation Consideration for Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast on Unmanned Aircraft Systems
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There is increasing interest by the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) community in the technologies comprising Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast and its potential operational applications. However, there are significant weight, space, power and cost challenges to applying ADS-B to small UAS. The MITRE Corporation has been conducting research on ADS-B for many years and has recently been investigating applying ADS-B to small UAS. From this experience have emerged unique insights about the ADS-B technologies and considerations of interest to UAS and avionics implementers. This paper examines the technology, the key issues affecting weight and performance, and issues that impact UAS avionics costs.