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A Survey of Airworthiness and Certification for UAS

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The Italian SMAT project is a civilian program supported by Piemonte Region developed for the territorial monitoring and surveillance and for the prevention of natural hazards. In a different way from the previous surveillance programs, the SMAT project is based on the use of several unmanned platforms that are able to cooperate through ground coordination and control station. The flight in non-segregated airspace, needed in order to accomplish the territorial monitoring mission, is a main issue to be investigated and defined, because of the current lack of a common consensus and agreement on the regulations of UAS. The present work outlines the international initiatives that deal with the development of the regulatory framework on airworthiness and certification of UAS and their potential impact on the SMAT project.

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  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aeronautica e Spaziale, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129, Torino, Italy

    Giorgio Guglieri, Valeria Mariano, Fulvia Quagliotti & Alessandro Scola

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Guglieri, G., Mariano, V., Quagliotti, F. et al. A Survey of Airworthiness and Certification for UAS. J Intell Robot Syst 61, 399–421 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-010-9479-7

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