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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 95 - Salt Lake City - March 2005
Agenda Location	9 SUBCOMMITTEE C - AVIONICS AND SYSTEM 9.4 UAV See and Avoid Employing Vision Sensors
Title	UAV See and Avoid Employing Vision Sensors
Presenter	Eric Portilla
Affiliation	Northrup Grumman Corp.
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Abstract	Collision avoidance is comprised of many layers of protection ranging from high level procedures defined by the FAA, to the pilot’s eyes and reaction acting as a last line of defense to See and Avoid. In order for UAV’s to truly meet an equivalent level of safety of a manned vehicle this See and Avoid function must be autonomously reproduced. While the functionality of “detection by sight” can easily be matched by a vision sensor, the real time assessment and processing performed by a onboard pilot is a much more difficult problem. This presentation summarizes the approaches and current technologies being evaluated to provide UAV’s with the See and Avoid capabilities required for equivalent level of safety.