Evaluation of the drone-human collision consequences

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21260%2F22%3A00361001" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21260/22:00361001 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e11677" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e11677</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e11677" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e11677</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Evaluation of the drone-human collision consequences

Original language description

The operational safety assessment of the unmanned vehicles is crucial for their subsequent practical use. The safety limit criteria used for the operation assessment, especially values closely related to the safety of persons and their vulnerability to collision with these vehicles, represent nowadays a significant limitation. This contribution presents the currently discussed and proposed human safety criteria for the UAS, evaluates the available data from the collision dynamic tests and computer modelling and provides the possibility to compare and evaluate these criteria on a validated set of data. A total of five small UAS, three multi-rotor quadcopters and two fixed-wing aircrafts were used to verify the current methods and serve as a basis for the assessment. The results of the measurements obtained through the crash tests demonstrate the excessive restrictiveness of the currently used kinetic energy threshold values and the limited value of some proposed criterions, e.g. the blunt criterion. On the contrary, they point to the appropriateness of the application of car vulnerability criterions. The UAS mass or kinetic energy tests represent an easily definable threshold value, however, the available data sets and the tests performed showed limitations of its applicability for the deformable and fragile UAS structures. The article aims to verify, based on its own impact tests, the adequacy of the evaluation of the safety criteria of the UAS operation in relation to the development of the current legislation that defines the conditions of use of these machines.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20104 - Transport engineering

Project

<a href="/en/project/CK01000210" target="_blank" >CK01000210: A system to support the safe commercial operation of unmanned aerial vehicles in shared airspace of the Czech Republic</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Heliyon

ISSN

2405-8440

e-ISSN

2405-8440

Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

11

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000919071200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85142490861