1. Autonomy and Flight Ken Dunlap, Managing Partner Catalyst-Go
SAE Aerospace Standards Summit
Tysons Corners 2018

2. The Promise and not the reality is driving standards
Compelling use cases: unconvincing business cases
“Knowledge chasm” between technology and user
Cutting-edge driving standards: not applications
Clouding "nice to have" and what is required

3. regulatory reality Fragmented message: “Doesn’t apply to us”
Regulators lived in a manned vehicle world
Proposition 1: Unmanned regs need to be biased toward manned regulations
Proposition 2: Standards need to focus on business use cases and not technology

4. NASA proposed framework*
2015: Supervised Autonomous Systems
2015: Goal/Mission Directed Systems
2035: Distributed Collaborative Systems
Design/Assurance/Human Integration/Airspace Integration/Testing and Evaluation
*Sharon Graves/Mark Ballin

5. Organizational/systemic standards framework
Enterprise management and accountability
Flight Safety
Flight Dispatch
Engineering/Maintenance
Ground Operations
Security

6. Organizational/systemic standards framework
Machine learning (data biases, reference sets, coding guidelines)
Certification standards for hardware: redundancy MTBF/Minimum equipment standards for safe flight
Weather and separation requirements
Pilot in Command /dispatch authority
Pilot in Command: 1 to many
Automation standards for payload and operator/PIC
Situation awareness standards (Both display presentations and manual backup)
Telemetry availability standards, included loss of signal options, alerting
Detect and avoid (on platform or external)
Localized BVLOS: trajectory and intent, operator alerting for non cooperating traffic then LD BVLOS
Remote ID and integration into UTM
Long distance BVLOS:
Remote ID
UTM + ATM interoperability

7. Levels of Autonomy should map to airspace privileges

8. THANK YOU
Ken Dunlap