By the end of the project period, we successfully developed a functional DIGITAL TOOLBOX proof of concept along with a potential business model. This plug-and-play environment, which is technology agnostic, will in future assist cities in avoiding vendor lock-in within the UAM technology sector and will foster trust among citizens regarding the use of UAM in their airspace through enhanced transparency. This initiative will effectively eliminate several significant barriers to the adoption of UAM.
The UAM INTEROPERABILITY GOVERNANCE MODEL, the IDOT SCHEME, and the INTEROPERABILITY FRAMEWORK were refined through experiences gained from integrating with other FF2020 frameworks during tests in the living labs. These developments have ensured that UAM activities can be conducted in accordance with EU governance models in a standardized manner.
To further facilitate the integration of UAM into the European regulatory framework, FF2020 successfully:
• Created an overview of applicable laws through subject matter experts and citation analysis.
• Created a drone rule ontology was through converting individual sentences into machine-readable instructions. This, in it’s turn, was created into a queryable database for operators to question predone SORA’s and for municipalities to get a minimum level of understanding of the rules.
• Developed and tested methods to extract relevant information from rules, in order to try express regulation in a machine-interpretable and machine-executable format.
Akey innovation of FF2020, lies in the efficient querying, visualization and handling of transactions on assets, most vitally, validation of changes to those assets, such as location or ownership. This is belied to the Geospatial digital infrastructure. Legacy networking and communication protocols (TCP/IP etc) lack “spatial” dimensions. They do not possess the ability to explicitly describe, query or update the specific location or orientation of an object within a physical or virtual space, nor do they include a common language for correlating those spatial relationships to permissions and trade contracts.
During the project period all above frameworks were tested in 5 living labs and their use cases. This has resulted in tested and iterated frameworks achieve the highest standards. They provided clear results that furthered the current state of knowledge through 11 scientific articles.
Identification and introduction of a function we defined as “Fleet Manager” in the current ISO standards that was not yet described. FF2020 partners introduced and are guiding this change in the ISO working groups. It will add a great improvement to the field of UAM.
