Mobile-Network Infrastructure for Cooperative Surveillance of low flying drones

Informations projet

MoNIfly

N° de convention de subvention: 723509

DOI

10.3030/723509

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 20 Mars 2017

Date de début 1 Juin 2017

Date de fin 31 Mai 2020

Financé au titre de

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Smart, Green And Integrated Transport

Coût total

€ 2 021 250,00

Contribution de l’UE

€ 2 021 250,00

Coordonné par

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET BRAUNSCHWEIG
Germany

Periodic Reporting for period 2 - MoNIfly (Mobile-Network Infrastructure for Cooperative Surveillance of low flying drones)

Période du rapport: 2018-12-01 au 2020-05-31

Résumé du contexte et des objectifs généraux du projet

As primary objective of MoNIfly the established concept will finally be validated in detail on a prototype level, where usage of LTE based mobile network will be exploited to create a drone traffic management cloud system. The results of the project will lead towards a common technology to be implemented into future drones for safe and simplified cooperative use. In the end, this project will provide input to rule makers by deriving requirements which new regulations can be based upon using results from the operational validation.
This is relevant research, because the number of drones in low altitude airspace is rising significantly in the last several years, with recent events at Gatwick airport highlighting the necessity of a surveillance system for the low altitude airspace. Even if it cannot handle all cases (as the MoNIfly system is designed to be of cooperative nature), the benefits of a low altitude surveillance system which can be used to track drones and make use of flight restriction zones is obvious.
MoNIfly will demonstrate that the mobile network available almost everywhere (and predominantly in urban areas) can be used to communicate between a central UTM server and individual drones, exchanging information and even override inputs from the operator.

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

In the reporting period, the concept of operations has been developed and aligned with other concepts of operation, derived for example in the CHORUS project. From this, requirements on the UTM system to be used in MoNIfly were derived. Additionally, the communication devices designed to be integrated into the drones have been developed. The next steps are integration of these UTM modems into the drones that are being used in the project and validation.

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)

To this day, a lot of work is being done on the design of the UTM system and its functions by much larger projects than MoNIfly, but there is a lack of investigation into the data link itself. MoNIfly intends to close this gap by using a rudimentary UTM server in order to investigate whether or not the mobile network provides the required latency, bandwith and throughput to communicate with drones through the mobile network for safety applications.

Validation of MoNIfly