ATC Position Reports for Unmanned Aircraft (UA)

In order to improve air traffic control and UAV operations and to provide a de-confliction solution for an increasingly congested airspace, VIPMobile will develop an Air Traffic Control Position Reporting System (ATCPRS) for UAVs using 2D and 3D mapping displays on a simple user interface for easy field operator control. ATCPRS will also provide collision detection and avoidance alerts based on aircraft and UAV trajectories. Furthermore, by using CoT XML as a standard message format, ATCPRS will integrate on a single ATC display disparate data feeds and messages from multiple UAV models; manned DoD aircrafts; and commercial aircrafts and UAVs equipped with ADS-B equipment. ATCPRS is designed to be network-centric and TCP/IP compatible with automated network discovery tools, data distribution features, innovative compression algorithms and message file size reduction techniques to optimize data transfer in field operations with limited bandwidth.