Descripción del proyecto
Plataformas de sistemas mundiales de navegación por satélite y sistemas de navegación inercial para mejorar la seguridad en la movilidad aérea urbana
Los últimos avances en baterías, sistemas de propulsión eléctrica y tecnologías afines han impulsado un gran progreso en la movilidad aérea urbana y la aviónica, lo que ha llevado al desarrollo inicial de aviones eléctricos de despegue y aterrizaje vertical. Sin embargo, estos avances no han estado exentos de dificultades. A pesar de los beneficios ecológicos y de seguridad, estas aeronaves requerirían soluciones innovadoras para los sistemas de posicionamiento, navegación y temporización (PNT, por sus siglas en inglés). En este contexto, el equipo del proyecto GAUSSIAN, financiado con fondos europeos, pretende afrontar este reto aprovechando los sistemas mundiales de navegación por satélite (GNSS) para alimentar módulos de PNT. A través de esta iniciativa, el equipo del proyecto pretende demostrar el potencial de la integración de plataformas GNSS y señales Galileo E1 para mejorar la seguridad y la eficiencia de la movilidad aérea urbana y la aviónica.
Objetivo
In recent years, there has been a vibrating interest in Urban Air Mobility (UAM) with attention on advancements in batteries, distributed electric propulsion, and all technologies that are leading to the development of a new class of aircraft, commonly referred to as electric Vertical TakeOff and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft. These are expected to be safer, quieter, greener, and less expensive to operate and maintain than existing vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. They promise to be much less complex than legacy helicopters (of comparable size and carrying capability), but the reduced complexity of the aeronautical structure does not imply simpler avionics for flight control, navigation, and vehicle management, which will have to address an integration problem. This touches diverse Position Navigation and Time (PNT) technologies and the low-level data fusion between Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) is a solution, especially if new features of GNSS signals are exploited.
GAUSSIAN addresses the problem of safety and security of UAM applications that rely on PNT modules powered by EGNSS. Specifically, GAUSSIAN wants to demonstrate the value of the authenticated Galileo E1 signals combined to integrated GNSS/INS platforms to have (i) greater robustness against spoofing attempts and (ii) better continuity and availability of PNT data in constrained environments. GAUSSIAN wants to mitigate some security risks and concerns which originate from real needs of flight operators, leveraging advances in existing PNT technologies. The project also includes the application of the Precise Point Positioning (PPP)-RTK corrections provided by the Galileo High Accuracy Service (HAS) to improve the PNT data accuracy. GAUSSIAN starts from existing concepts, prototypes and components developed by the proposing companies, with a strong focus on the creation of new integrated and certified products for the upcoming air mobility market.
Ámbito científico
- social sciencessocial geographytransportnavigation systemssatellite navigation systemglobal navigation satellite system
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technology
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaircraftrotorcraft
- social sciencessocial geographytransportnavigation systemsinertial navigation system
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HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation ActionsCoordinador
63827 Pedaso Fm
Italia
Organización definida por ella misma como pequeña y mediana empresa (pyme) en el momento de la firma del acuerdo de subvención.