Date of Award

Fall 12-2021

Access Type

Thesis - Open Access

Degree Name

Master of Systems Engineering

Department

College of Engineering

Committee Chair

Radu F. Babiceanu

First Committee Member

M. Ilhan Akbas

Second Committee Member

Omar Ochoa

Abstract


In recent years, the demand for airspace access of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) increased significantly and is continuously increasing for different altitude-types UAS. A similar evolution is expected from Commercial Space Operations (CSO) in the next years. These aviation/aerospace systems will need to be seamlessly integrated into the National Airspace System (NAS), at their operational altitude levels, and accounted for from all perspectives, including proactively addressing their safety hazards. This thesis captures the requirements for the new entrants’ integration, and then identifies and analyzes the safety risks added to the NAS operations by its new entrants, the future omnipresent UAS on different NAS levels, and the coming CSO age. Methodologies such as Functional Hazard Analysis, Subsystem and System Hazard Analysis, and Safety Risk Management are explored and integrated into the airspace new entrants’ framework and models. In addition, techniques such as state-machine modeling and simulation are used on an identified use case of UAS operations in crowded airspace.

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