Spatiotemporal population movement for ground risk of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in urbanized Environments using public transportation data

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or ’drones’ are expected to increase in the future and be employed for a multitude of applications like parcel delivery, industrial inspection, aerial photography, and safety surveillance. Consequently, increase in UAV traffic may lead to higher likelihood of UAV failu...

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Main Authors: Sivakumar, Anush Kumar, Mohd Hasrizam Che Man, Low, Kin Huat
Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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Online Access:https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2022-3766
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1605512022-07-30T20:10:23Z Spatiotemporal population movement for ground risk of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in urbanized Environments using public transportation data Sivakumar, Anush Kumar Mohd Hasrizam Che Man Low, Kin Huat School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum Air Traffic Management Research Institute Engineering::Aeronautical engineering Engineering Risk Analysis Population Modelling Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or ’drones’ are expected to increase in the future and be employed for a multitude of applications like parcel delivery, industrial inspection, aerial photography, and safety surveillance. Consequently, increase in UAV traffic may lead to higher likelihood of UAV failure and crash to occur. For urbanized environments, operation of UAV poses high risk to the population on ground due to increased population movement and expectation of people to be outdoors. Diffusive model simulation using random walk was employed to estimate population movement outside buildings at different times especially near Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) train stations. In our preliminary study, the influence of different times to the population movement was highlighted. It was observed that the population was more concentrated around MRT stations at morning and afternoon during weekdays, while more constant throughout the day during weekends or holidays. Ground risk mapping due to UAV operation could also be studied and performed in future study to have better understanding on this risk. Study of population movement in urbanized environments for the ground risk assessment of UAV operations will provide better insights on the limitation of current risk assessment. At the same time, this could help provide information for national aviation authorities to formulate risk assessment and approve UAV operation in urban environments. Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) National Research Foundation (NRF) Submitted/Accepted version This research is supported by the National Research Foundation, Singapore, and the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, under the Aviation Transformation Programme. 2022-07-27T01:06:00Z 2022-07-27T01:06:00Z 2022 Conference Paper Sivakumar, A. K., Mohd Hasrizam Che Man & Low, K. H. (2022). Spatiotemporal population movement for ground risk of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in urbanized Environments using public transportation data. AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum, 2022-3766-. https://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-3766 https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2022-3766 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160551 10.2514/6.2022-3766 2022-3766 en © 2022 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc. All rights reserved. This paper was published in Proceedings of AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum and is made available with permission of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc. application/pdf
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topic Engineering::Aeronautical engineering
Engineering
Risk Analysis
Population Modelling
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Engineering
Risk Analysis
Population Modelling
Sivakumar, Anush Kumar
Mohd Hasrizam Che Man
Low, Kin Huat
Spatiotemporal population movement for ground risk of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in urbanized Environments using public transportation data
description Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or ’drones’ are expected to increase in the future and be employed for a multitude of applications like parcel delivery, industrial inspection, aerial photography, and safety surveillance. Consequently, increase in UAV traffic may lead to higher likelihood of UAV failure and crash to occur. For urbanized environments, operation of UAV poses high risk to the population on ground due to increased population movement and expectation of people to be outdoors. Diffusive model simulation using random walk was employed to estimate population movement outside buildings at different times especially near Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) train stations. In our preliminary study, the influence of different times to the population movement was highlighted. It was observed that the population was more concentrated around MRT stations at morning and afternoon during weekdays, while more constant throughout the day during weekends or holidays. Ground risk mapping due to UAV operation could also be studied and performed in future study to have better understanding on this risk. Study of population movement in urbanized environments for the ground risk assessment of UAV operations will provide better insights on the limitation of current risk assessment. At the same time, this could help provide information for national aviation authorities to formulate risk assessment and approve UAV operation in urban environments.
author2 School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
author_facet School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Sivakumar, Anush Kumar
Mohd Hasrizam Che Man
Low, Kin Huat
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author Sivakumar, Anush Kumar
Mohd Hasrizam Che Man
Low, Kin Huat
author_sort Sivakumar, Anush Kumar
title Spatiotemporal population movement for ground risk of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in urbanized Environments using public transportation data
title_short Spatiotemporal population movement for ground risk of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in urbanized Environments using public transportation data
title_full Spatiotemporal population movement for ground risk of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in urbanized Environments using public transportation data
title_fullStr Spatiotemporal population movement for ground risk of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in urbanized Environments using public transportation data
title_full_unstemmed Spatiotemporal population movement for ground risk of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in urbanized Environments using public transportation data
title_sort spatiotemporal population movement for ground risk of unmanned aerial vehicles (uavs) in urbanized environments using public transportation data
publishDate 2022
url https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2022-3766
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