Research paper 6.4
Jingwen Cai
Due June 5th, 2016.
Imagine public use of UAS for the medical emergency service when
your family member has heart attack or broken bone, you may not expect a big red
fire truck with a white ambulance showing up at your door at all. Instead, a UAS
may show up at your patio or backyard to take your bio send the information to
the doctor in emergency room, or let you load the patient inside the UAS and
flight him/her to hospital.
There are three platforms capable of performing the medical
emergency service.
The rotorcraft UAS platform is vertical take-off and landing,
which has advantage of landing in the residential area, either at the drive
way, the backyard, or the roof of the apartment or office building. It doesn’t require the run way or big open
field for landing or take off. This will help to deliver the fresh donor human
organ between hospitals, pick up the patient and send to the emergency room
without delay due to the traffic.
The fixed wing UAS platform has advantage of long distance
travel, and transport higher payload. For example, if one hospital needs some
equipment that is only available in another facility, then a fixed wing UAS can
be assigned to transport this heavy equipment. It not only can help to
transport the medical supplies to remote area, but also to dangerous area where
manned aircraft is too risky. The UAS
may drop off the supplies in the dangerous without being detected because it is
smaller, quieter than manned aircraft.
The min UAS platform is unique to the unmanned
aircraft. The mini UAS can be sent to
high contagious area to take bio and sample from the patients and do instant
analysis for blood samples if microchip payload is added. The UAS will not
breath the virus filled air and still have the job done.
The benefits associated with performing the medical care
response for the UAS mission are: cost effective, shorten response time,
flexible in location and time, applicable to remote or dangerous areas.
The Challenges associated with performance the particular UAS
mission are not limited on how to operate a UAS, or where to get a permit. It
is the long time to have many UAS platforms certificated, because UAS platforms
must comply with safety standards for technology, such as DO-178 B and C for
flight-critical software, as well as DO-254 for hardware, explains RTI (UAO
staff, 2016).
Two legal or ethical challenges to the medical emergency
missions are people’s concern of safety, and unintended trespass. The safety concern
is due to accident from design, communication, reliability, and operation
mistakes. Who will be responsible for
UAS accidents where the owner or the operator is not at the crash scene? The
space boundary and trespass is a drag of war because of the UAS intrusion and ambiguous
airspace definition. How many feet above
your backyard is your space? How many feet from your parked car in the drive
way is your airspace that neighbor’s UAS service can’t go in? (Duno, 2015).
Reference:
UAS
platforms. Retrieved on June 3d from https://www.icarus.upc.edu/en/facilities/experimental-facilities
Emergency
Medical. Retrieved on June 3rd, 2016 from http://www.uas-core.com/#!emergency-medical/xdefv
Duno,
D. 2015. Unmanned Aircraft in the National Airspace: Critical Issues,
Technology, and the Law
UAO
staff. March 2016. Upcoming Webinar: ‘Solving Avionics Safety Certification
Challenges in UAS Platforms’. Retrieved on June 3rd, 2016, from upcoming-webinar-solving-avionics-safety-certification-challenges-in-uas-platforms
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