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Non-Cooperative RPAS Surveillance Surveillance Services Information Days 6-7 December David Sancho, [email protected] 7-12-2017 ARTAS is a EUROCONTROL product
Non-Cooperative RPAS Surveillance
Surveillance Services Information Days 6-7 December
David Sancho, [email protected] 7-12-2017
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Overview
• Motivation
• Non-Cooperative RPAS
• Detection of Non-Cooperative RPAS
• Tracking Non-Cooperative RPAS with ARTAS
• ARTAS
• ARTAS CNS/ATM environment
• ARTAS @ NLR
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Motivation
https://www.youtube.com/ABCNews/
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Motivation
• Safety
– Increasing number of Non-
Cooperative RPAS / Drones
– Increasing number of incidents
with drones
– “Sooner or later we are going to
loose an airplane to a drone due to
a collision”
• Security
– E.g. potential attack with drones
armed with explosives
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Non-Cooperative RPAS
• Small RPAS
– undetectable by classical Primary Surveillance Radar
– usually not equipped with ADS-B and/or Mode-S
– non-cooperative by default
• Large RPAS
– detectable by classical Primary Surveillance Radar
– possibly equipped with ADS-B and/or Mode-S
– non-cooperative if not equipped or if ADS-B
and/or Mode-S are down or switched off
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Detection of Non-Cooperative RPAS - Sensors
• Acoustic sensors
– Range, depending on acoustic
signature and environment noise, 100
m - 5000 m
• Drone surveillance radars
– Range, depending on size / radar
cross section of drone,
4 – 48 km
• Video surveillance systems
• Radio Frequency (RF) sensors
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Detection of Non-Cooperative RPAS - Sensors
• Aveillant
– Holographic Radar / Gamekeeper
• TNO
– Affordable Multi BEam Radar
(AMBER)
• Raytheon
– Air and Missile Defense Radar
(AMDR)
• IDS
– Black Knight
• Drone Lab
– Drone Detector
• More... ARTAS is a EUROCONTROL product
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Non-Cooperative RPAS Surveillance
• How to detect and track Non-Cooperative RPAS?
• How to obtain a full air traffic situation picture including drones?
– Multi-Sensor Data Fusion
• Multi-Sensor Multi-Target Tracking
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Non-Cooperative RPAS Surveillance
• Tracking Non-Cooperative RPAS with ARTAS ?
• EUROCONTROL Call for tenders no. 17-110352-A ”ARTAS prototype for
INCS in the context of SESAR project 14.04.03”
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ARTAS – ATM suRveillance Tracker and Server
• Product
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• Concept
Europe wide SDPS (Surveillance Data
Processing System)
• Capability
Multi-Sensor Multi-Target tracking based on
data from PR, SSR, CMB, Mode-S, ADS-B,
ADS-C, WAM
• Purpose
To provide its users with the best estimate of
the actual air traffic situation
• Technology
The ARTAS Tracker is based on tracking
technology developed at the Netherlands
Aerospace Centre NLR
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ARTAS Tracker Architecture
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Tracking Non-Cooperative RPAS with ARTAS
ARTAS extensions towards drone detection
and tracking:
• Sensor Models
– Drone detection sensor models
• Object Models
– Drone object model
• Tracker
• Server
• Router Bridge
• Relevant external and internal interfaces
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Non-Cooperative RPAS Surveillance
• NLR is awarded EUROCONTROL contract no. 17-110352-A ”ARTAS
prototype for INCS in the context of SESAR project 14.04.03”:
– Feasibility Study on CAT 015 items essential to the Tracker
– Develop ARTAS Tracker prototype for INCS
– Support the future RPAS surveillance needs
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ARTAS CNS/ATM environment
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ARTAS at NLR
25 years of ARTAS projects at NLR
• 1993-1998: ARTAS development (classical sensors PR, SSR, CMB)
• 1998-1999: ARTAS2 feasibility study to include aircraft derived data (ADD)
• 2002-2004: ARTAS extension with Mode-S and ADS-B
• 2004-2005: Quality of Service project (estimation of errors in ADD)
• 2007-2008: ARTAS extension with ADS-C and WAM
• 2010-2011: ARTAS Test Battery (SWAL 3 testing of ARTAS TRK requirements)
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ARTAS at NLR
25 years of ARTAS projects at NLR
• 2010-Present: ARTAS Tracker Course (with CSO)
• 2013-2015: ARTAS-SMSp (prototype ext. for Surface Movement Surveillance)
• 2014-Present: APS4AW (ARTAS Performance Specification for ADS and WAM)
• 2016-Present: APS4SMSP (ARTAS Performance Specification for SMSp)
• 2016-Present: ARTAS Tuning for German Air Force (with 42 Solutions)
• 2017-Present: ARTAS SMS industrialisation (with CSO)
• 2017-Present: ARTAS INCS prototype for EUROCONTROL
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ARTAS at NLR
TRADEF is the NLR environment with both internal and external tools for the
development, testing and analysis of trackers.
– generate plots/reports from synthetic sensors based on synthetic aircraft
trajectories
– feed the tracker in real-time with sensor data from either generated plots/reports
or from recorded live data
– instrument the tracker to get access to the internal data
– record the output of the tracker in the TRADEF environment for off-line analysis
– visualise the sensor data and the multi-radar track data
– perform track accuracy and track detection performance analysis
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Collaboration with Partners
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