SkyWay Simulator: an integrated ATM/UTM simulator for autonomous operations

The SkyWay Simulator is a novel, comprehensive simulation environment designed for modeling and simulating air traffic management and unmanned aircraft system traffic management scenarios, with a particular focus upon the analysis of scenarios where safety may be compromised due to an unexpected event. This simulator has arisen out of the Spanish Galician SkyWay project whose objective was to prototype solutions for monitoring, diagnosing, preventing, and mitigating a selection of the most critical contingencies that are known to occur during a remotely piloted aircraft system operation.This paper presents an overview of the capabilities, architectural details, and components of the simulator. It also describes how this simulator was used to prototype, test, and demonstrate several mitigation solutions for those contingencies.