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Aerospace and Electronic

Editor-in-Chief-Maria S. Greco
Associate Editor-in-Chief-Peter K. Willett
Administrative Editor-William P. Walsh
Ass't. Admin. Editor-Susanne J. Walsh
Editor Emeritus-David B. Dobson
VP Publications-W. Dale Blair
AESS President-Teresa L. Pace
Executive Assistant, AESS
-Judy Scharmann

Contributing Editors
Awards-Erwin C. Gangl
Book Reviews Editor-Darin Dunham
Conferences-Mark Davis
Distinguished Lecturers &
Tutorials-Kathleen Kramer
Education-Kathleen Kramer
History-Hugh D. Griffiths
Student Research-Wenbo Dou,
John Glass
Technical Panels-Walter Downing
Tutorials Editor-W. Dale Blair
Website Updates-Judy Scharmann

Associate Editors and Areas of
Specialty
Scott Bawden-Energy Conversion
Systems
Erik Blasch, Roberto Sabatini-Avionics
Systems
Domenico Ciuonzo-Communications,
Signal Processing, and Data Fusion
David Crouse-Target Tracking
Mauro De Sanctis-Signal Processing and
Communication in Aerospace Systems
Michael Braasch-Navigation, Positioning
Daniel O'Hagan-Radar Systems
Moriba Jah-Astronautic and Aeronautic
Systems
Haiying Liu-Control System Engineering
and Robotic Systems
Michael Cardinale-Electro-Optic and
Infrared Systems, Image Processing
Ruhai Wang-Systems Engineering
Peter Willett-Multi-Sensor Systems

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IEEE

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SYSTEMS
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September 2016

ISSN 0885-8985

Volume 31 Number 9

COLUMNS
In This Issue - Technically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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From the Editor-in-Chief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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From the Editors of the Special Issue on Sense and Avoid: Part II . . . . . . . .

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ARTICLES
Flight Test and Evaluation of a Prototype Sense and Avoid System
Onboard a ScanEagle Unmanned Aircraft
Michael Wilson, Daniel Ryan, Dmitry Bratanov, Alexander
Wainwright, Jason Ford, Lennon Cork, Michael Brouckaert. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Onboard Visual Sense and Avoid System for Small Aircraft
Tamás Zsedrovits, Péter Bauer, Borbála Jani Mátyásné Pencz, Antal
Hiba, István Go˝zse, Máté Kisantal, Máté Németh, Zoltán Nagy, Bálint
Vanek, Ákos Zarándy, József Bokor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
An Autonomous Quadrotor Avoiding a Helicopter in Low-Altitude
Flights
Zhilong Liu, Aislan Gomide Foina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
An Advanced Sense and Collision Avoidance Strategy for Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles in Landing Phase
Yu Fu, Youmin Zhang, Xiang Yu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Proof-of-Concept Airborne Sense and Avoid System with ACAS-XU
Flight Test
Tatsuya Kotegawa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

NEWS AND INFORMATION
Obtaining an AESS Tutorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Call for Proposals for 2020 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf20) Host . . 16
IEEE Digital Member Digital Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Call for Papers: IEEE Aerospace & Electronic Systems Magazine
Special Issue on HF Radar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
2016 AESS Senior Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Nanyang Technological University: Professorship in Space Technology . . 29
Report on the 22nd Saint Petersburg International Conference on
Integrated Navigation Systems (22 ICINS 2015)
Margareta Grishina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Errata: Integrated Modular Avionics Past, Present, and Future . . . . . . . . . . . 66
2016 Distinguished Lecturers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Call for Nominations: The IEEE AESS Outstanding Organizational
Leadership Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Meetings and Conferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . inside back cover



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