A systematic approach towards the integration of initial airworthiness regulatory requirements in remotely piloted aircraft system conceptual design methodologies

dc.contributor.authorGómez-Rodríguez, Álvaro
dc.contributor.authorTurkoglu, Cengiz
dc.contributor.authorCuerno-Rejado, Cristina
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-14T14:35:21Z
dc.date.available2024-10-14T14:35:21Z
dc.date.freetoread2024-10-14
dc.date.issued2024-09-07
dc.date.pubOnline2024-09-07
dc.description.abstractThe regulatory framework of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPASs) has recently experienced an extraordinary evolution. This article seeks to improve the integration of certification considerations in RPAS conceptual design approaches so as to enhance the safety, certifiability and competitiveness of their resulting designs. The first part of the research conducts a two-stage analysis of contemporary regulations related to an RPAS’s initial airworthiness. In the first stage, the broad international regulation paradigm is evaluated attending to a set of criteria that are tightly related to both airworthiness and design considerations. The second stage keeps the most promising documents from a design–integration standpoint, which are assessed according to their applicability considering both design and operational aspects. The results of this analysis provide insights regarding the main issues in airworthiness design criteria extraction and integration in design methodologies. To aid the designer in surmounting these challenges, a flexible procedure named DECEX is developed. Considering the documents and findings from the survey, and attending to the scope of the design methodology being developed, it aids in establishing a complete regulatory document corpus and in comparing and extracting the applicable airworthiness design criteria. Two case studies for different RPAS types are conducted to demonstrate its application.
dc.description.journalNameAerospace
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research is the result of an international research stay of Álvaro Gómez-Rodríguez at Cranfield University. This international stay was funded by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and Santander Universidades through the UPM’s predoctoral research stay programme, grant reference: VMOVILIDAD23AGR, and concept: 2784885—V CRANFIELD
dc.format.extentpp. 735-735
dc.identifier.citationGómez-Rodríguez Á, Turkoglu C, Cuerno-Rejado C. (2024) A systematic approach towards the integration of initial airworthiness regulatory requirements in remotely piloted aircraft system conceptual design methodologies. Aerospace, Volume 11, Issue 9, September 2024, pp. 735-735
dc.identifier.eissn2226-4310
dc.identifier.elementsID554096
dc.identifier.issn2226-4310
dc.identifier.issueNo9
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace11090735
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/23018
dc.identifier.volumeNo11
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/11/9/735
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject40 Engineering
dc.subject4001 Aerospace Engineering
dc.subject4001 Aerospace engineering
dc.titleA systematic approach towards the integration of initial airworthiness regulatory requirements in remotely piloted aircraft system conceptual design methodologies
dc.typeArticle
dcterms.dateAccepted2024-09-04

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