Automatic Collision Avoidance System: Design, development and flight tests

• This paper presented the fully Automatic Collision Avoidance System developed by the Italian Aerospace Research Center and the department of Aerospace Engineering of the University of Naples “Federico II” • The focus of the presentation was on the conflict detection and decision making strategies • First experimental results (based on radar-only tracking) have been discussed which were obtained from the flight test campaign carried out to validate the proposed ACAS in a real operational environment • These results clearly demonstrate the effectiveness of the system in dealing with real-world conflict scenarios • Future works will deal with results from multi-sensor based collision avoidance flight tests