Separation minimums for Urban Air Mobility

Separation minimums create an important part of safe air transportation. Mission performing by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) within an urban environment has multiple hazards including collision with a ground, artificial construction, and other airspace users. Separation minimums identify a safety boundary for each flying object to ensure the target level of flight safety in Urban Air Mobility. An approach of separation minimums selection based on performance of UAV on-board positioning system has been proposed in the paper. Performance-based approach for separation minimums selection takes into account errors of positioning methods, which mainly depends on surrounding environment. Values of separation minimums have been estimated based on performance of available UAV equipment.