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Prof. Dr. Daniel Rohacs

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Department of Aeronautics, naval Architecture and railway vehicles, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
Interests: development of innovative operational concepts; demand & business modeling; personal air transportation

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Dear Colleagues,

The special issue is devoted to the created visions and developed theoretical, practical sustainable methods that could support the integration of the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) / drones in the air traffic management (ATM) environment and in the intelligent / autonomous transportation framework related to smart cities.

The contributions welcome topics listed, while, seeing that the sustainable unmanned system traffic management looks for original, disruptive solutions, other interesting and radically new ideas, new fields will be also pleased to accept.

research and test environment of drones and autonomous transportation,
development of UAS and drones,
demand & business modeling,
safety & security problems
obstacle / conflict detection and resolution,
autonomous transportation,
interactions of various autonomous vehicles,
formation flight, group control concepts,
route network design, route planning
application of special traffic rules,
artificial intelligence in traffic management,
general estimation of total life cycle cost,
total (environmental) impact,
sustainable system optimisation
design, manufacture and operational optimization with environmental benefits

Prof. Dr. Daniel Rohacs
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Keywords

traffic management
autonomous transportation
autonomous vehicles
route network design, route planning
special traffic rules

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14 pages, 3924 KiB

Open AccessArticle

Experimental Investigation of Communication Performance of Drones Used for Autonomous Car Track Tests

by Melih Yildiz, Burcu Bilgiç, Utku Kale and Dániel Rohács

Sustainability 2021, 13(10), 5602; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13105602 - 17 May 2021

Cited by 5 | Viewed by 2101

Abstract

Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) represent an emerging and disruptive technology that provides a great opportunity for future transport not only to have a positive social and environmental impact but also traffic safety. AV use in daily life has been extensively studied in the literature in various dimensions, however; it is time for AVs to go further which is another technological aspect of communication. Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) technology is an emerging issue that is expected to be a mutual part of AVs and transportation safety in the near future. V2V is widely discussed by its deployment possibilities not only by means of communication, even to be used as an energy transfer medium. ZalaZONE Proving Ground is a 265-hectare high-tech test track for conventional, electric as well as connected, assisted, and automated vehicles. This paper investigates the use of drones for tracking the cars on the test track. The drones are planned to work as an uplink for the data collected by the onboard sensors of the car. The car is expected to communicate with the drone which is flying in coordination. For the communication 868 MHz is selected to be used between the car and the drone. The test is performed to simulate different flight altitudes of drones. The signal strength of the communication is analyzed, and a model is developed which can be used for the future planning of the test track applications. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Traffic Management of Unmanned Aircraft and Ground Vehicle Systems)

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