The unmanned aviation is an old dream of mankind. It began in the mid-19th century, with hot air balloons. Its first milestones, however, the best known and closest ones, date back to the middle of the last century (20th century). Unmanned aircraft were basically used as targets and then for reconnaissance missions (the legendary Firebees). Since then, with slight ups and downs, their use in reconnaissance and combat missions has continued to grow and develop. The technologies have undergone incremental development and have accelerated sharply since the mass digitisation of all types of systemsThe development of the new technologies, of control solutions and of the universalisation of geo-referenced navigation (GPS).
We are undoubtedly facing a paradigm shift. The rules of movement by land, sea and air are deployed in response to a conceptual objective: to regulate preferences.
Skills that originate and originate in the military sphere and which, like the internet, have been transferred to the civilian sphere in the form of a never-ending stream of solutions. Unmanned navigation, SCAs (Autonomous Driving Systems) for vehicles, aircraft and boats, are the prelude to the massive automation of goods and passenger transport and as a correlate, no less important, of an entirely new way of understanding and interpreting land, air and maritime traffic. These changes will affect the rules and, above all, safety standards. SCAs, in turn, reshape the way we think about airspace.. In the future it will be necessary to objectify it more precisely, adding the mask of the different altitudes and their specific roads for each of them with their trunk roads, secondary roads... and their respective capillary network.
We are undoubtedly facing a paradigm shift. The rules of movement on land, sea and air are deployed in response to a conceptual objective: to regulate preferences. From now on, the main objective will not be to regulate preferences. Another objective will be more important: regulating cooperation and managing evidence. Preferences will emerge from this automated regulation. We are familiar with the safety rules, the package of rules of the road in the three environments, land, sea and air, and we are faced with the imperative need to respond to new requirements. Escape or anti-collision manoeuvres in the current context of air, land or sea navigation are not at all similar to those that need to be carried out with more nervous devices.
It is about making up for human error, preventing it, ensuring the fluidity of traffic in all modes, replacing mega-infrastructures, reducing pollution and reducing predictable and random risks. New ingenuity, new rules, much more security and more distributed, more capillary, smaller and more efficient infrastructures, with easily scalable traffic densities, are needed. Demand will increase exponentially in the design and management of new projects. Aerodromes, smaller ports, intermodal (land, sea and air) and internodal (new settlements) interchanges and logistics centres will mushroom.
And transparency will, of course, form the backbone of the new security pattern, S3 (security cubed), universalised and supported by on-board technology and the corresponding Consistency Network. One telecommunications network that manages data is nothing like the other, Consistency Networkwhich manages data that moves objects, with mass, weight and speed. The former evolves behind demand and the latter, in reverse, ahead. We need such a network to monitor traffic and make it possible for all members of the network to contribute to safety.
AUVSI (Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International) Spain Its main mission is to inform public opinion, to bring together and collaborate with business, the main protagonist of the profound transformations underway, which are evolving at a very fast pace and which have the 2020-2030 decade as their main theatre of operations, and, of course, to collaborate with legislators and administrations in a frank and loyal manner.
The coming technological change is no small matter, and all indications are that it will have a fabulous impact on the GDP of the nations and regions that implement it, penalising those that are lazy or reluctant. A reactive, negligent attitude will lead to isolation that will be devastating for the populations that will have to suffer it.
The move from analogue to digital telephony, from fax to internet, is comparatively less complex than moving from analogue to digital traffic organisation. The second change, literally, moves more weight, needs more foresight and much more organisation. How long can human and autonomous or robotic driving converge in the same space? Very little. They are more antagonistic systems than we are capable of imagining. The first system is very inefficient. How will SCAs affect our lives? It will do so in an outstanding way. We are on the verge of a great social transformation, and all indications are that it will be providential. Zero pollution, zero accidents and goodbye to traffic jams. The time we can gain to be on a terrace is conquered time taken away from stress. Modern aircraft of all sizes, new vehicles and boats and the intensive use of night time for the transport of goods will be the heroes. Facts.
