Descrizione del progetto
Piattaforme GNSS/INS per migliorare la sicurezza della mobilità aerea urbana
I recenti progressi nel campo delle batterie, dei sistemi di propulsione elettrica e delle tecnologie correlate hanno favorito una svolta nella mobilità aerea urbana e nell’avionica, e stiamo assistendo alle prime fasi di sviluppo di velivoli elettrici a decollo e atterraggio verticale. Ma questi progressi non sono esenti da ostacoli. Nonostante i vantaggi ecologici e in termini di sicurezza, questi velivoli richiederebbero l’adozione di soluzioni innovative per i sistemi di posizione, navigazione e temporizzazione (PNT, Position, Navigation and Timing). Alla luce di tali premesse il progetto GAUSSIAN, finanziato dall’UE, intende affrontare la sfida sfruttando i sistemi globali di navigazione satellitare (GNSS) per alimentare i moduli PNT. Attraverso questa iniziativa, il progetto intende dimostrare le potenzialità dell’integrazione delle piattaforme GNSS e dei segnali Galileo E1 per migliorare la sicurezza e l’efficienza della mobilità aerea urbana e dell’avionica.
Obiettivo
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.
Campo scientifico
- 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 ActionsCoordinatore
63827 Pedaso Fm
Italia
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