NASA is working on software to air traffic control for unmanned aircraft to achieve. The space agency hopes so in the long term drones safely through inhabited areas to be able to assist.
The software that NASA is working on is intended for unmanned airplanes that are up to approximately 150 meters high flying, writes The New York Times. The system would be without direct intervention of people drones safely through the airspace must be able to assist, even though they fly in each other’s proximity. In addition, the system checks the weather conditions. In particular, wind has a negative impact on the relatively light drones.
NASA wants the systems to build the air traffic management platform ensures that drones obstacles to dodge. Also ‘no-fly zones’, such as, for example, in the vicinity of airports, must be avoided.
It is unclear yet how far NASA is with the software development and how future drones communicated. Currently it is in the US not allowed to be for commercial gain, with drones flying, even though companies like Google and Amazon are fully engaged with the development of unmanned aircraft, among other things, for the delivery of parcels.
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