Parimal Kopardekar is a senior technologist for NASA as the Air Transportation Systems and principal investigator for the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management project at the NASA Ames Research Center. He holds a doctorate and master's in industrial engineering and bachelor's degree in production engineering.[1] He is the recipient of the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals[2] in the promising innovation category for the UTM system in 2018.
Parimal Kopardekar | |
|---|---|
| Status | Director, NASA Aeronautics Research Institute |
| Nationality | Indian American |
| Alma mater | Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute, State University of New York at Buffalo, University of Cincinnati |
| Occupation | Air-Space Technologist |
| Space career | |
| NASA Air-Space Technologist | |
| Missions | UAS Traffic Management |
Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management
editParimal Kopardekar is the inventor of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management (UTM).[3] and the Director of NASA Aeronautics Research Institute[4] The UTM software was recognized as the 2019 NASA Software Of the Year[5] and the UTM patent, the 2020 NASA Government Invention Of the Year.[6] The UTM system was developed by NASA in collaboration with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and over 100 industry and academia partners.[7] The UTM system enables automated airspace access to small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (aka drones) to operate in low altitude airspace below 400 ft (120 m). The operational version of the UTM system is being deployed by the FAA and is known as Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC).[8] LAANC is currently available at 726 airports around the United States.[9]
Further reading
editUTM 101[10]
What is Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management?[11]
List of UTM Industry and Academia Partners[12]
UTM Technical Documents, Papers and Presentations[13]
References
edit- ^ "Three Indian American Scientists Among Latest Group of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Fellows".
- ^ "2018 Samuel H Heyson Service to America winner for Promising Innovation".
- ^ UTM, patent. "USPTO".
- ^ Kopardekar, Parimal. "Profile".
- ^ "NASA's 2019 Software of the Year to UAS Traffic Management Services (UTM) software".
- ^ "NASA Government Invention of the Year 2020 for Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management Patent". 4 June 2020.
- ^ "NASA, FAA and industry partnership to develop UTM".
- ^ "FAA Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM)".
- ^ "FAA LAANC".
- ^ "UTM 101". 26 June 2020.
- ^ "What is Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management?". 6 June 2018.
- ^ "List of UTM Partners". 31 August 2016.
- ^ "UTM Technical Documents, Papers and Presentations". 3 February 2021.