Descrizione del progetto
Controllori del traffico aereo per droni
Le tecnologie dei droni sono sempre più presentate come un modo potenzialmente efficiente per migliorare la sicurezza e l’efficienza del trasporto civile. Tuttavia, finora, questioni relative alla sicurezza hanno reso impossibile far volare i droni a basse altitudini nella maggior parte degli ambienti civili, poiché le tecnologie relative alla guida e al controllo da remoto non hanno raggiunto il livello di maturità richiesto. Per garantire la sicurezza dello spazio aereo, è essenziale un sistema di gestione del traffico per i droni. Il progetto LABYRINTH, finanziato dall’UE, studierà sistemi di pianificazione centralizzata in grado di comunicare con droni che operano in determinate aree e calcolerà percorsi per evitare collisioni. Il progetto creerà una tecnologia basata sullo spazio U per soddisfare le esigenze delle applicazioni di droni autonomi. Questa tecnologia verrà impiegata in diversi contesti civili quali strade, porti marittimi e aeroporti.
Obiettivo
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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