Avionics Analytics Ontology Preliminary Flight Test Results for Decision Support

The Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Avionics Analytics Ontology (U-AAO) framework prototype experimental results demonstrate verification for UAV traffic management (UTM). The U-AAO prototype is a proof-of-concept framework that consists of a software application and a hardware platform. The software application entails a digital support system (AAO), its managing mechanisms to access query and retrieve query results information from the AAO, and the user interface to display the AAO querying results to the system stakeholders, and an Automatic Dependence Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) collection application. The hardware platform consists of two rotary-wing drones and two fixed-wing drones equipped with ADS-B, and a computer that runs the decision support system and ADS-B collection software application. The computer plays the role of a ground operation station to monitor ADS-B communications for aircraft detection.