A STANAG 4586 Oriented Approach to UAS Navigation

Abstract

The adoption of unmanned air vehicles into civil applications is rapidly consolidating as one of the most promising design driving factors. Consequently, interest is rapidly growing in the UAV community for those technologies that are viewed as enabling assets in the UAS’s civil role design. Many analysts believe that the key to achieve a suitable maturity level lies in the capability of combining the design guidelines originated by different standards, namely SW safety (DO-178B), Avionic IMA (ARINC 653) and UAV interoperability (STANAG 4586). This paper describes the Alenia Aermacchi approach to the harmonization of these enabling UAV technologies, that resulted in the company UAV prototype flying from a civil airport in Italy with (experimental) land surveillance purposes.