Description du projet
Tester le futur des drones
Le ciel est la limite pour les drones, mais l’Europe entend définir un cadre pour une exploitation sûre de ces aéronefs sans pilote afin de réduire les risques et d’accroître la sécurité. L’Agence européenne de la sécurité aérienne a publié des lignes directrices afin d’aider les opérateurs aériens et les autorités nationales à gérer les incidents liés aux drones à proximité des aéroports. Dans ce contexte, le projet FlightAI financé par l’UE examinera la technologie d’IA générée dans le cadre du programme FET Open GOAL-Robots, afin de trouver des solutions dans des espaces de recherche fortement non linéaires. Son but est de formuler des plans de vol à partir d’une interface interactive. En testant le potentiel d’acceptation et d’utilisation de la technologie proposée, FlightAI testera le système intégré par le biais du vaste réseau de parties prenantes du consortium.
Objectif
Drones in Europe are a rapidly developing sector with enterprises increasingly using drones for their business and the EU Legislator giving EASA rulemaking responsibility for civil drones of any mass. The common rules have been developed and will be enforced from January 2021. The performance of flight operations requires the compilation of a safety risk assessment document, in particular, the SORA (Specific Operations Risk Assessment) established for drone operations and endorsed by EASA. Compiling this assessment is expertise intensive and time-consuming. Currently, EUSC supports this operation with a web service called SAMWISE that, however, still requires the manual gathering of a large amount of information and the satisfaction of several constraints. The project aims to integrate into the web-solution built by EUSC the Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology generated by the FET-OPEN GOAL-Robots project, allowing the search of solutions in highly-nonlinear search spaces. The new technology from GOAL-Robots will support the semi-autonomous search of a solution to formulate flight plans based on an interactive interface, that meets the user’s requirements (flight start/arrival points, drone available, pilot licences, etc.), the SORA requirements, and the GIS characteristics of the involved overflown territory/airspace. The project will accomplish a systematic validation of the integrated system by testing the acceptability and usability of the proposed technology by selected stakeholders through the wide stakeholder network of the consortium. Moreover, business case refinement and focused dissemination activities will pave the way to the commercialisation of the produced service within the European drone market.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligence
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesphysical geographycartographygeographic information systems
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringroboticsautonomous robotsdrones
- social sciencessocial geographytransporttransport planningair traffic management
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