Mobile-Network Infrastructure for Cooperative Surveillance of low flying drones

This report will contain all dissemination and publication activities of the MoNIfly project (year 2).

This report will give a detailled description of the interfaces of the UTM system to the Air Traffic Control (ATC) systems.

A practical guide for the test at Airport Twente and Dusseldorf Weeze, safety & security procedures including quality assurance and risk management. A dedicated sub-chapter named “MoNIfly Test Procedures” will be included where the specific procedures for health and safety of involved persons will be described. This test procedures will be conform EASA rules or / and specific rules for the airports.

A detailled plan with planned dissemination and exploitation events will be presented. This deliverable will also include the process for all dissemination and expoitation activities.

This report will specify and detail the interfaces of the MoNIfly system to first responders.

Report on the connection of flight computer and UTM modem. This deliverable will descirbe a physical interface onboard UTM modem to which drone’s flight computer can be connected to. Using this interface flight computer will receive information from UTM modem regarding e.g. No Fly Zones.

This report will contain all dissemination and publication activities of the MoNIfly project (year 1).

Report will include a detailed information about signal coverage, strength and speed measurements of the network before and after optimization for UTM.

Coordinate the output together with partners and set up second phase of the validation program including complex tests. This will be done by evaluation criteria in earlier stage.

Summary of the installation of the mobile network, listing capabilities and limitations. This report will contain a description of hardware parts used for installation of the mobile network including the information on how the mobile network performs in terms of speed, coverage and other network capabilities.

This report will contain all dissemination and publication activities of the MoNIfly project (all 3 years).

The MoNIfly scenarios will be described in this report. The scenarios will be executed to validate the operational and technical levels of the UTM.

This deliverable will describe the MoNIfly concept of operations for an UTM system. It will detail the systems functions and purpose for all components (ground and airborne segment). The intended mode of operation will also be elaborated.

This report contains the final description of the validation exercises and the achieved results based on earlier criteria given by the other project partners.

Demonstration of the safe navigation, conflict detection, and cooperation capabilities of the customized drone.

A report summarizing the impact assessment of the UTM system with parts focussing on - performance and operational gains supported by UTM based on use of cellular network. - safety assessment of the UTM system operation supported by the cellular network use. - the commercial impact of commercial drone users, for the evolution of the drone market.

Get permission to fly with the UAV's at the test center in Twente and Airport Weeze, set up communication with the Airtraffic Manager, local, regional and national authoritie, UAV’s specified for this project, sensors, certified pilots and communicate with NSN about practical issues.

This report will contain the detailed specification of the interfaces to the UTM modems.

The detailed descriptions of the technical developments will be provided inside this report. The document will describe the technical specification and features needed for UTM system to support the scenarions defined in D1.3.

This demonstrator will be the prototype of the first drone fitted with UTM modem and customized to navigate in the MoNIfly UTM environment.

Organize safety and security measurements, and coordinate tests. Communcating procedures with project partners and local authorities.

This demonstrator will be a hardware capable of connecting to LTE network. It will in addition be capable to connect to different onboard sensors (gps, barometer..etc) which will be used for drone tracking and monitoring with the help of UTM software.

Organize safety and security measurements and coordinate test and review with partners. Coordinate flights with local and national authorities.

Demonstration of the interfaces to generate static and dynamic geo-fence areas.

The MoNIfly website will be live for public access.

Author(s): B. Blom, T. Feuerle
Published in: ENRI Int. Workshop on ATM/CNS. Tokyo, Japan. (EIWAC 2017), 2017

Author(s): Thomas Krüger, Björn Blom, Thomas Feuerle
Published in: Transportation Research Procedia, Issue 43, 2019, Page(s) 309-318, ISSN 2352-1465
DOI: 10.1016/j.trpro.2019.12.046