Path Planning and Risk Assessment in Unmanned Specific Operations

Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles (UAV) have gained traction over the last two decades for diverse applications like sensing, surveillance, disaster response, and more. The absence of human pilots in UAVs offers advantages in risky scenarios. Ensuring safety is challenging, necessitating compliance with safety levels akin to manned aviation. Regulatory bodies are extending guidelines to cover drones. Specific Operations Risk Assessment (SORA) methodology, introduced by JARUS, aids risk assessment in UAV missions. This paper aims to develop a practical mission planning method adhering to safety rules, incorporating risk distribution across terrain. An optimization algorithm that balances fuel efficiency and risk reduction in trajectories is proposed, considering route efficiency alongside risk management.