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Safe with Autonomous Navigation Demonstration (SAND) shall be held in Langley Research Center later this year. The competition shall include opportunities to small businesses in America to take part in a contest of UAV (autonomous uncrewed vehicles). This shall aid NASA in addressing critical risk safety measures related to the flying UAVs within various national spaces. Safeguard is the technological challenge which shall be showcased during the competition. The issue of safeguarding has been proven to work in multiple areas. By the use of competition act in America, SAND will aid in preparing small businesses in the competition which might take place in future dates. The UAV flights and showcasing of technological devices from NASA shall assist in assuring the safety of participants. The primary goal for this competition is to open skies so those drone operators can as well utilize the space safely without problems.

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A competition has been scheduled to take place later this year. This will take place in the Langley Research Center. The event shall be hosted by Safeguard with Autonomous Navigation Demonstration (SAND). This shall offer an opportunity for the small businesses in America to compete in UAV (Autonomous Unmanned Aerial vehicle) competition. This shall be assisting NASA in its attempts to address essential risks which are linked to flying with UAVs within the public spaces.  During this competition, the first piece of technology which will be showcased is Safeguard (Natalie,  2020).  It will be a challenge that makes most of the flies done in the social space to get monitored.

Safeguard is employing the technology of geo-fencing in the creation of fly zones. This is utilized in support of any UAV which is completely equipped. The UAV gives assurance only when an operation is approved within the airspace. Such zones may be mapped customarily in safeguarding significant infrastructures like hospitals, airports, power-lines and schools. Safeguard may similarly be employed in determining flight ceilings (Natalie, 2020). By this, it will make sure those UAVs flights are remaining under the maximum altitude, which is allowable.

Through using boundaries, Safeguard has the capacity of assuaging unmanned dangers which can be experienced by the aircraft flying beyond perimeters which are unauthorized. Thus, it is done through the initiation of immediate actions for such planes. Whenever there are boundary violations, Safeguards might prompt the stoppage of UAV. Besides, boundary violations can as well get substitute routes and carry out emergency landings. Additionally, when all these fail to happen, then Safeguard might completely fail to cut power in disabling the vehicle (Natalie, 2020).

The issue of Safeguard failing to cut power in an attempt to disable the vehicle can be at times risky. However, this never averted NASA scientists at Langley whenever it came to placing Safeguard towards an ultimate test. It permitted UAV to fly towards no-fly zones. Eventually, the flight was terminated in the middle of air at about 100 feet higher. As explained by Lou Glaab, UAV was made to fly to about 30 meters using the speed of 5 meters per second. This was meant to look for the path having waypoints of geofence breach. The Safeguard was in the mode of a bypass. Mostly, this was executed to assess the vehicle as well as confirm that every system was properly operating.

The waypoint geo-fence breach means that researchers told the vehicle to violate the boundary rule intentionally. With that Safeguard, the system would be triggered, thus disabling the drone from operations. As long as the researcher made the confirmation that UAV was in a position to go move, adjustments were made on the speed of the vehicle to account for the present conditions of the wind.  Thus, it later proved to be critical when it came to the location for estimating the crash.

For the second flight, visibility was authenticated by the anticipated location of the crash through the documentation of onboard videos. The trigger lights were similarly entrenched with the view fields to establish the time Safeguard could be in a position of terminating the vehicle.

When the final inspections of UAV were finalized, it took off for the grand finale. A search pattern was conducted on the UAV before moving to towards the goal. The activation of Safeguard was done within the terminate roles. The drone instantly stopped operating thus starting to fall to the ground levels. Therefore, the vehicle crashed into the safety net before the research group could set up a team for saving the drone from destructions. Primarily, the Safeguard worked well. By using American competition acts, SAND shall assist in preparing small businesses so that they could take part in the coming UAV showcases. The technology of Safeguard as will be showcased by NASA has the capability of assuring the safety of drones when offered a public space (Natalie, 2020). Thus, the mission would be to open skies for the operators of a drone by giving them assurance partaking their safety. The competition is scheduled to take place in August 2020 at Hampton in Virginia.