Artificial intelligence might hold the key to expansion in commercial drone use
A drone flying in Hanworth Park in west London, as a British Airways 747 plane prepares to land at Heathrow Airport in February 2017. Photo: John Stillwell/PA Wire/Zuma Press By Andy Pasztor June 21, 2019 5:41 am ET LE BOURGET, France—Europe’s aviation industry and regulators are eager to significantly expand commercial drone operations in coming years, including harnessing artificial intelligence for air-traffic control.
Existing radars and human traffic controllers simply won’t be able to handle the crush of data, Mr. Cresswell said, and only artificial intelligence applications are likely to have the capacity to react quickly enough to maintain a safe buffer around individual drones. European air-safety regulators are pursuing shorter-term initiatives. Last month, the European Commission formally adopted regulations establishing enhanced safety requirements and paving the way for creation of air-traffic management changes.
In the U.S., regulators face similar industry pressure to expand drone flights. The Federal Aviation Administration is moving to allow a limited number of commercial operations by determining how they can fit into existing regulations originally tailored for piloted aircraft. With data collected from such early projects, the FAA hopes to eventually write more effective industrywide rules.
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