Description: The Fleet Logistics Optimization Engine (FLOE) is a multi-layered optimization system for determining the most efficient routes for deploying aircraft and ground crews for a UAS mission, building on the Uncrewed Aviation Fleet and Flight Operations Optimization (UA-FFOpt) framework developed during Phase I. In Phase II, we will further the optimizers’ accuracy through streaming and modeling of weather and traffic data to produce real-time updates to the optimizers’ inputs, which will help further dynamic route planning. Secondly, we will improve FLOE’s data collection abilities by implementing an SQL database for aircraft management that will be critical for developing the anomaly detectors in the situational awareness subsystem designed to help UAS Service Suppliers perform better fleet and network management and make growth potential for future operations greater and safer. We will develop a feedback mechanism that utilizes the data gathered during flights to further improve the optimizers by improving the inputs’ accuracy. Last, we will develop a user interface that can be used to control the entire system, including developing inputs and monitoring vehicles, weather, and traffic. These FLOE features will further fleet management capabilities as specified under A3.02 Advanced Air Traffic Management for Nontraditional Airspace Operations – Focus Area 20 Airspace Operations and Safety – Nontraditional Aviation Operations for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM).

Benefits: For the NASA AOSP program, ATM-X project and AMP sub-project, this system could be modified to provide AAM flight routings across an AAM fleet The UTM-based rural delivery market. NASA-UTM applications can use this tool. Wildfire management and support using UAS. AAM flights from one part of an urban area to another.

Aerial Vantage’s crop surveying efforts Wildfire spotting and surveying operations Border security and surveillance DoD UAS surveillance and targeting operations Fleet and route planning for crewed flight surveillance operations Advanced Air Mobility fleet and route planning