Advanced technique to support ADS system failure exploiting MEMS inertial sensors

Due to the increase in air traffic, additional systems with high reliability and highperformance must be adopted in order to keep the safety requirements. On the other hand, they must be compliant with the specifications in terms of light-weight, small size, and low power-consumption for the small aerial vehicles. The paper presents an advanced integrated solution for increasing the performance of the traditional Air Data System adopting an Inertial Measurement Unit based on Micro Electro-Mechanical System sensors, i.e., accelerometer and gyroscope. The aim is to identify the Air Data System failure, thus overcoming the issues of adopting additional technology that increase the size, weight, and power consumption of the systems and make. This way, the considered solution is tailored for small manned and unmanned vehicles applications. To this aim, the authors propose an