Descripción del proyecto
Controladores del tráfico aéreo para drones
Las tecnologías de dron se presentan cada vez más como una forma eficaz para mejorar la seguridad y la eficacia del transporte civil. No obstante, por seguridad los drones no pueden volar a baja altura en la mayoría de los entornos civiles debido a que las tecnologías de guía y control remoto no han alcanzado el nivel de madurez necesario. Para garantizar la seguridad del espacio aéreo es fundamental tener un sistema de gestión del tráfico aéreo para drones. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos LABYRINTH estudiará sistemas de planificación centralizados capaces de comunicarse con drones que operan en ciertas zonas y calcular las rutas para evitar colisiones. El proyecto creará una tecnología basada en U-space para satisfacer las necesidades de la aplicaciones de dron autónomos. Esta tecnología se instalará en varios escenarios civiles como carreteras, puertos marítimos y aeropuertos.
Objetivo
Ensuring transport safety and security is one of the EU’s main priorities, as spotlighted in WHITE PAPER–Roadmap to a Single European Transport Area, which sets out a strategy leading to reach a safer, more efficient and more sustainable civil road, rail, air and waterborne transport. Drone applications are considered as potentially capable of revolutionizing the world around us. Nevertheless, security issues make impossible to fly drones in most situations, due to drone guidance and control-related technologies have not reached enough readiness level to guarantee safe operations in most of low altitude scenarios.
To face these issues, SESAR has created U-SPACE, a new framework designed to integrate safely, securely and efficiently drone operations at low level into EU airspace. Active geofencing is one of the main drone emerging technologies outlined in the U-Space Blueprint. However, although geofencing is a useful technology to avoid drones presence in restricted places, it is not prepared to face the future proliferation of drones in areas such as cities, where drone swarm applications will lead to an increasing risk of collisions.
LABYRINTH has identified the need to research on centralized planification systems capable of communicating with the drones in a certain area, processing their desired origin and destination points and compute paths to avoid collisions. This is embodied in the Unmanned Traffic Management Systems (UTM) that, in contrast to EU strategy, are one of the NASA’s main research priorities, whose objective is to create flight control centres for auto-piloted drones.
Aligned with this, LABYRINTH aims to use this new approach to create a U-SPACE-based technology to make a leap forward in the efforts undertaken so far through the development of autonomous drone applications, focussing on solutions adressed to enhace safety and efficiency of civil trasnport in road, seaport and airport scenarios, including emergency assistance operations.
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