Advancing Air Cargo, Transportation At Scale

Reliable Robotics announced a partnership with NASA as part of the Space Act Agreement (SAA) to support the integration of large UAS into the National Airspace System, with a focus on addressing UAS capabilities for air cargo and air transportation operations at scale.

Working with NASA under the SAA, Reliable will develop several autonomy simulation activities– human in the loop detect and avoid, or DAA; lost command and control (C2) Link; and airport arrival and departure interactions.

The research will examine and assess the automation needed for safe and efficient integration of large numbers of UAS deployed for cargo ops at scale.

Shivanjli Sharma, Air Traffic Management – eXploration Project Manager at the NASA Ames Research Center in California said, “The path to high-reliability uncrewed aircraft systems is through rigorous testing and validation. This collaboration underscores both Reliable Robotics’ and NASA’s commitment to advancing autonomous aviation safety and efficiency.”

Robert Rose, CEO and Co-Founder of Reliable Robotics said, “Our joint work with NASA brings us closer to a future where autonomous aircraft integrate seamlessly with, and provide safety benefits to, the national airspace system. By working closely with NASA’s experts and its unique simulation capabilities, we can validate techniques and procedures that will be necessary in the future to improve the safety of UAS and operation of UAS at higher densities across airspaces.”

The collaboration will develop a comprehensive range of contributions through joint research, data gathering, standards development, test planning, procedures development, systems integration, and both human-in-the-loop and fast-time simulations.

Reliable and NASA have previously worked together on DAA testing and collecting surveillance radar data to support work on AAM, or advanced air mobility operations.

Reliable is also working closely with the FAA to demonstrate a near-term viable DAA system for UAS in both controlled and uncontrolled airspace, through all phases of flight to gather the date to validate consensus standards.

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