Course Title: UAS Advanced Operations

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: UAS Advanced Operations

Credit Points: 12.00

Important Information:

Please note that this course may have compulsory in-person attendance requirements for some teaching activities. 

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Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

AERO2572

City Campus

Postgraduate

172H School of Engineering

Face-to-Face

Sem 1 2020

Course Coordinator: Dr Matthew Marino

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 4455

Course Coordinator Email: matthew.marino@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: 251.03.025

Course Coordinator Availability: by appointment


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None


Course Description

This course provides you with an overview on Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and how they are operated in the segregated airspace. Both Line of Sight (LOS) and Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) operations are explored. The CASA and FAA requirements for their safe operation both are also explored to allow for their safe operation in integration into the available airspace.

Key areas of study:

• UAS platforms
o Civil and Military
o Classification and design
o Performance and data acquisition capability

• UAS Operation o Operational requirements
o Pilot certification
o Operational limitations
o Safe operation (LOS & BLOS)

• Issues regarding UAS operation
o Social conceptions
o Contemporary issues

You will learn how to asses and initiate a complex UAS operation using a either a multirotor or fixed wing drone. You will have the fundamental knowledge to investigate the requirements of an industry specific job and research the operational requirements through various resources to construct a safe and effective operation in the bounds of the current UAS operational legislation from the Civil Aviation Safety Autority (CASA). You will understand the responsibility of operating an unmanned aircraft while gaining the skills to operate in safe and controlled manner. This course requires students to be available for flight training and operations at a flight field. A significant amount of learning is performed out in the field where hands on flight operations are executed.


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

1. Needs, Context and Systems
• Describe, investigate and analyse complex systems and associated issues (using systems thinking and modelling techniques)
• Exposit legal, social, economic, ethical and environmental interests, values, requirements and expectations of key stakeholders
• Identify and assess risks (including OH&S) as well as the economic, social and environmental impacts of industry activities

2. Problem Solving and Design
• Anticipate the consequences of intended action or inaction and understand how the consequences are managed collectively by your organisation, project or team

3. Analysis
• Apply underpinning natural, physical and applied sciences, mathematics, statistics, computer and information sciences.

4. Professional Practice
• Initiate, plan, lead or manage industry activities
• Understand the scope, principles, norms, accountabilities and bounds of contemporary industry practice in the specific discipline
• Demonstrate effective team membership and team leadership
• Communicate in a variety of different ways to collaborate with other people, including accurate listening, reading and comprehension, based on dialogue when appropriate, taking into account the knowledge, expectations, requirements, interests, terminology and language of the intended audience
• Display a personal sense of responsibility for your work
• Demonstrate orderly management of self, and professional conduct.


Upon successful completion of this course you should be able to:

1. Identify various types of UAS’ both civil and military
2. Analyse performance capabilities and operational requirements of various UAS types.
3. Apply operational-specific knowledge while adhering to legal implications relating to operating a UAS in a complex environment.
4. Analyse and formulate the requirements of a safe and efficient UAS operation.
5. Generate potential uses for various platforms of UAS
6. Describe the process of obtaining a UAS operator certificate


Overview of Learning Activities

The primary learning mode will be face-to-face lectures, supported by inclass activities, assignments, and progressive assessment (e.g., quizzes/tests). As a complementary form of acquisition of knowledge in the different topics, students will be exposed to practical activities replicating real industry scenarios by resorting to selected case-studies and/or techniques/procedures identical to those used in a real working context.

Some topics will require students to review the course material prior to the lecture, then allowing more time for group discussions, presentations and analysis of selected cases.

Course notes and other supporting material will be provided on the course Learning Management System, which is accessed through myRMIT. This can include lecture material, tutorials and references.

This course includes a Work Integrated Learning experience in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real or simulated workplace context where real-life operations are integrated into assessments. Examples include:
● Industry grade products to be delivered via a photography mission.
● Geo-mapping operations mimicking the current UAS industry and requirements.
● Operation of an industrial grade UAS


Overview of Learning Resources

All course-related resources will be provided on the Learning Management System (LMS), which is accessed through myRMIT. These will include course notes, and other learning materials generated by the lecturer(s), references, and approved links to useful material on external web-sites. The intent is to support flexible and student-directed learning as much as possible. Whilst the primary teaching method is through face-to-face lectures, where possible, all course materials (inclusive of lecture slides, lecture recordings (when available), case studies, tutorials, assignments, related readings and some assessment items) will be made available to students via the course LMS.

There are no prescribed texts for this subject due to its broad and multidisciplinary nature. Links to online articles, e-Reserve or eBooks will be provided via the LMS.


Overview of Assessment

X This course has no hurdle requirements.

Assessment tasks

Assessment 1: Operational Planning an Setup of an Aerial Photography Mission
Weighting 30%
This assessment supports CLOs 1-4

Assessment 2: Complex geo-mapping mission
Weighting 40%
This assessment supports CLOs 1-6

Assessment 3: Online quizzes
Weighting 30%
This assessment supports CLOs 1-6

All assignments must be submitted online via the myRMIT Studies Canvas/Turnitin portal by the due date/time. No hard copies or emailed copies of assignments will be accepted. Late submissions are penalised at the rate of 10% calendar per day overdue.

Feedback will be delivered by speed grader through the LMS or delivered directly. Group feedback will be posted on the LMS.