Title: A roadmap to autonomous of airlines: specifications and communication protocols

Authors: Hadi Jafarzadeh

Addresses: Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechatronics, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, 009821, Iran

Abstract: The future challenge of civil aviation industries will be autonomous air lines that in addition to providing of travel requirements with full safety for passengers and cargo owners, it must has economical savings and benefits for air fleets owners too. The first step in this way is understanding and investigating safe and secure communication methods with proper data transfer speeds that are required for the autonomous airplane's avionics and navigation systems . synchronous, with notice to existing or under developing methods to establish reliable data links for civil aviation, should also look at used technologies in unmanned aerial systems (UASs) and facilities whom provided for them in accordance with the international civil aviation organisation (ICAO) and federal aviation administration (FAA) standards. In this article, after introducing and familiarising with an autonomous airline, some of ahead challenges have been addressed and proposed for future work.

Keywords: autonomous; UAS; unmanned aerial system; data link; frequency; civil aviation; UAV; unmanned aerial vehicle; airline; communication protocols.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSA.2018.092914

International Journal of Sustainable Aviation, 2018 Vol.4 No.1, pp.63 - 77

Received: 15 Dec 2017
Accepted: 24 Jan 2018
Published online: 02 Jul 2018 *

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