Air tracking and monitoring for unmanned aircraft traffic management

Abstract

The large increase in the sale of drones as well as their use in more and more aspects of daily life has led to the emergence of increasingly voices warning of the need to track and monitoring these drones. The prototype UTM monitoring system to be described in this paper is aimed to address this problem. It is implemented as a microservice to be inserted in a complete UTM SW ecosystem, processing telemetry and other sensors position/velocity information to be able to track, monitor and control the good operation and thus avoid the possible conflicts or accidents that can cause due to a bad use or malfunction of them. This prototype may also allow the analysis of the performance without putting at risk neither people nor material goods since all drone data may be simulated. Also, it has been tested using real data from industrial multirotors.