ADVANCED NEXT GENERATION LANDING SYSTEM

Informations projet

ANGELS

N° de convention de subvention: 698530

DOI

10.3030/698530

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 30 Novembre 2015

Date de début 1 Decembre 2015

Date de fin 31 Octobre 2017

Financé au titre de

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Smart, Green And Integrated Transport

Coût total

€ 2 318 163,75

Contribution de l’UE

€ 1 622 714,63

Coordonné par

PALU SRL
Italy

Periodic Reporting for period 2 - ANGELS (ADVANCED NEXT GENERATION LANDING SYSTEM)

Période du rapport: 2016-11-01 au 2017-10-31

Résumé du contexte et des objectifs généraux du projet

ANGELS is a situational awareness enhancement for rotorcraft operations, designed to aid approach and landing operations for both onshore and offshore operations, to improve safety in challenging environments. ANGELS builds on existing ADS-B infrastructure and equipage; it is available for the price of an optical guidance system.
ANGELS focuses in a very specific scenario: Helicopters A&L operations to helidecks installed in windparks and on Oil/Gas (O/G) rigs (our primary market), where poor visibility (optical guidance systems provide insufficient support), complex glide paths (not straight line approaches), high density of obstacles and reduced space are a constant, and where decision makers (usually helidecks manufacturers and helicopter transport companies) are very sensitive to price/performance ratio, who need affordable approach guidance systems.
ANGELS makes use of standards and context aware customizable predictive software to dramatically increase the level of safety in Approach & Landing (A&L) operations.
It consists of a ground station placed on the helideck and an app for iPad used by the pilot. System is designed to be certifiable for future “for credit” operations.

Travail effectué depuis le début du projet jusqu’à la fin de la période considérée dans le rapport et principaux résultats atteints jusqu’à présent

During these 12 months the consortium has worked on the following tasks:
Development of different parts of ANGELS (ground station, Approach and Landing Algorithm, iPad App), integration of these parts and test of interfaces.
Assessment with aeronautical authorities and main market players of the actual interest of the project, integration with other ongoing EU projects (SESAR,…) and actual regulations, product market positioning .
Design of the graphic interface and operation of the App with respect of the actual pilot POV, and development of a cloud server for different types of users.
During the second period, main effort has been devoted to:
• Alfa, Beta and Final tests of the system
• Improving of components
• Communication and dissemination activities (events, expo…)
• Launch on the market

Progrès au-delà de l’état des connaissances et impact potentiel prévu (y compris l’impact socio-économique et les conséquences sociétales plus larges du projet jusqu’à présent)

ANGELS has been developed as an innovative solution to improve safety and efficiency of visual approach and landing operations of rotorcrafts (support to VFR), especially within challenging environments. The final product has resulted into a much more powerful system that is able to support the aircraft instrumental operations (IFR), by reducing the flight “minima” (helideck constraints).
Our interviews with stakeholders and pilots have shown that ANGELS may be very useful also for on-shore application like Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) and private helidecks. ANGELS is able to provide a wide range of relevant information including the status of the helicopter flight and landing, the helideck status and issues that are very helpful both to the helicopter operators and platform operators (weather data, wind force, helicopter bearing…). The system has a growth path to full “for credit” operations in multiple applications.

Approach & Landing operation from inside the Helicopter

Helicopter Approach & Landing on helidecks in a Wind-park

Rescue with a Helicopter in the sea

article on Hei Expo official magazine about ANGELS System

article on La Provincia di Como about ANGELS dissemination event

Helicopter cabin