Why it matters
The airspace environment is rapidly changing as commercial and general aviation traffic is increasing and new users (including uncrewed aircraft) desire greater and less restricted access to the airspace. New processes and autonomous systems will need to be developed to safely and efficiently manage air traffic and allow higher levels of autonomy for greater capability and efficiency of operations. These systems will need to manage traffic at scale, allow higher levels of autonomy, and ensure capability and efficiency across diverse operations.
Project overview
QUT currently has projects on airspace integration technology (detect and avoid, uncrewed traffic management, and air traffic analysis), single and multiple UAV navigation and target detection in GPS /GNSS denied environments, platform autonomy (large scale flight planning, fault detection, sensor coverage, and aerial manipulation), cognitive onboard decision making and technologies for multi-UAS integration (decision making, fault tolerance, and human factors) and digital toolkit for quantitative collision risk analysis across most of Australia’s airspace enabling advanced modelling and interactive tools for regulators, government agencies, and industry. These tools help streamline planning, assessments, and approvals, ensuring safer and smarter use of the skies.
Real world impact
QUT provides access to world-leading aerospace autonomy research capabilities in areas of subsystem analysis, design and build, optimisation and data-driven air-traffic analysis. Our expertise and experience in working with the aerospace industry offers capabilities in:
- Vision based detect and avoid, control, navigation and situational awareness.
- Single and Multiple UAV navigation in GPS/GNSS denied environments.
- Multi-sensor navigation, fusion, estimation, fault detection and integrity monitoring.
- Single and multi-vehicle mission planning, scheduling, on-board decision making and human factors.
- Data driven air traffic modelling and analysis, and autonomy assessment and qualification.
- Quantitative collision risk analysis
These projects are funded by the Federal Government, Queensland State Government, the Australian Research Council, Cooperative Research Centres and industry partners. We welcome industry collaborations in this field. For more information about collaborating with our team, please contact us.
Partners
- Boeing
- FlyFreely
- Caterpillar
- Mining3
Projects
Australian Digital Airspace Characterisation – ADAC