Value Sensitive Design and Environmental Impact Potential Assessment for Enhanced Sustainability in Unmanned Aerial Systems

What happens when an engineer attempts to address the value-neutral paradigm and the holistic deficits in engineering science? This paper sets out to account for the interplay between an unmanned aerial system engineer acting as a “champion” of value sensitive design (VSD) and their more objectivist research organization. Action research methods are used by the authors in an attempt to implement VSD in a real-world research organization and thereby bridge the theory-practice gap. Primary empirical data are collected which indicate the engineer has internalized and often utilizes a VSD approach. Both barriers and catalysts to wider adoption of VSD within the organization are experienced, and recommendations for overcoming paradigmatic, strategic, structural, and cultural barriers are addressed. This work demonstrates how action research can be used to shift engineering away from a value-neutral paradigm towards the value-sensitive approach advocated by the authors.

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Human systems integration: A discrete event simulation of operational utility for control of multiple small unmanned aerial systems

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e578862012-006 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

John M. Colombi ◽

Jill R. Ward

Keyword(s):

Discrete Event Simulation ◽

Discrete Event ◽

Systems Integration ◽

Unmanned Aerial Systems ◽

Event Simulation ◽

Human Systems Integration ◽

Aerial Systems ◽

Human Systems

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LIGHTER-THAN-AIR (LTA) UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM (UAS) CARRIER CONCEPT FOR SURVAILLANCE AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Seminar Nasional Geomatika ◽

10.24895/sng.2018.3-0.1051 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

pp. 1255

Author(s):

Ahmad Salahuddin Mohd Harithuddin ◽

Mohd Fazri Sedan ◽

Syaril Azrad Md Ali ◽

Shattri Mansor ◽

Hamid Reza Jifroudi ◽

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Keyword(s):

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽

Disaster Management ◽

Unmanned Aerial Systems ◽

Unmanned Aerial System ◽

Border Control ◽

Aerial Vehicles ◽

Operational Safety ◽

In Situ Methods ◽

Aerial Systems

Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) has many advantages in the fields of SURVAILLANCE and disaster management compared to space-borne observation, manned missions and in situ methods. The reasons include cost effectiveness, operational safety, and mission efficiency. This has in turn underlined the importance of UAS technology and highlighted a growing need in a more robust and efficient unmanned aerial vehicles to serve specific needs in SURVAILLANCE and disaster management. This paper first gives an overview on the framework for SURVAILLANCE particularly in applications of border control and disaster management and lists several phases of SURVAILLANCE and service descriptions. Based on this overview and SURVAILLANCE phases descriptions, we show the areas and services in which UAS can have significant advantage over traditional methods.

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Implementation of Multiple Model: Simulation and Experimentation for Future State Prediction on Different Classes of Small Unmanned Aerial Systems

AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum ◽

10.2514/6.2021-0449 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

James Z. Wells ◽

Rumit Kumar ◽

Manish Kumar

Keyword(s):

Model Simulation ◽

Unmanned Aerial Systems ◽

Multiple Model ◽

Future State ◽

State Prediction ◽

Aerial Systems

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Reliability of Analytically Redundant Systems for Small Unmanned Aerial Systems

AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum ◽

10.2514/6.2021-1178 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Aditya Kotikalpudi ◽

Edwin A. Williams ◽

Peter J. Seiler

Keyword(s):

Unmanned Aerial Systems ◽

Aerial Systems ◽

Redundant Systems

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Beach and dune impacts due to Hurricane Florence in Dare County, North Carolina

Shore & Beach ◽

10.34237/1008725 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 44-49 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Elizabeth Sciaudone ◽

Liliana Velasquez-Montoya

Keyword(s):

North Carolina ◽

Prior Knowledge ◽

Unmanned Aerial Systems ◽

State University ◽

National Wildlife Refuge ◽

Sediment Samples ◽

Wildlife Refuge ◽

Full Report ◽

Aerial Systems

Less than two weeks after Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina (NC), a team of researchers from NC State University traveled to Dare County to investigate the storm’s effects on beaches and dunes. Using available post-storm imagery and prior knowledge of vulnerabilities in the system, the team identified several locations to visit in the towns of Kitty Hawk, Nags Head, Rodanthe, Buxton, and Hatteras, as well as a number of locations within the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge (Figure 1). Data collected included topographic profiles, still imagery and video from unmanned aerial systems, sediment samples, and geo-located photography. This Coastal Observations piece presents some of the data and photos collected; the full report is available online (Sciaudone et al. 2019), and data collected will be made available to interested researchers upon request.

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