GAUSS project started officially on March 1st 2018 and ended on December 31st December 2021. The seven work packages (WP) have been successfully executed, these are the work performed and main results achieved:
WP1: Project Management
In order to provide project management infrastructure and support several actions have been taken:
• The management infrastructure, procedures and quality standards have been set up and maintained.
• Financial supervision of partners’ costs has been undertaken to ensure project is in budget.
• Several high level meetings have been arranged, being the kick-off meeting, some consortium meetings and the midterm meeting the most relevant ones.
• Collaboration and synergies between partners have been fostered.
• Advisory board has been consolidated
• Management and launch of three amendments of the Grant Agreement
WP2: UTM Operational Framework
The GAUSS-UTM Operational Concept provided relevant conceptual developments for the future European UTM Concept of Operations focusing on GAUSS scope, and it also underpinned the technological developments which are to be carried out along the project. In this sense, the development basis was the recognition that the positioning service will be principally based on GNSS, due to the availability, continuity, integrity and accuracy of the navigation signals. A group of capabilities were envisaged for the technical realisation of the GAUSS-UTM system, which are aligned with the expected U-Space services, considering U1 and U2 level of deployment. In order to do so, this WP2 specified operationally and functionally the GAUSS-UTM system considering the available descriptions of the services.
WP3: RPAS Precise Positioning & Orientation
After completing the analysis of GAUSS RPAS dynamics, operational requisites and avionics systems, the design of integral RPAS positioning and orientation solution was completed and delivered. The development of the positioning and orientation solution was concluded and reported. The unitary test RPAS could be performed in a flight campaign was performed with a different drone.
WP4: EGNSS Signal Integrity & Security
• Completion of the GNSS Security module software development
• Identification of a verification plan targeting the GNSS Security module
• Definition of integrated functional tests referred to RPA system
• Remote support to Second trials campaign
• Identification of dissemination activities (in WP7 framework) to disseminate WP4 activities and related work product
WP5: UTM Technologies
The goal of this work package is the assessment and development of algorithms and functionalities that will allow a UA to operate under a UTM framework. More specifically, in the first period an assessment and design of UTM infrastructure technologies was completed. In the second period of the project the focus was developing safe operation functionalities for UTM, security issues related to UTM communication and integration with surveillance technologies (ADS-B).
WP6: Integration, Trials and Validation
The work package 6 deliverables include the Integration and experimental methodology plan (including experimental requirements, metrics, setup, ground-truth measurements and results assessment methodology), the Integrated prototype, the Integrated functional tests results report, the First and Second trials results reports (including events, results and lessons learnt) and a Performance results analysis and conclusions (including comparison of results against ground-truth measurements, residual risk assessment and evaluation of objectives KPI as well as recommendations in terms of methodology, future regulation and standards).
WP7: Communication, Exploitation and Dissemination
The main goal with this WP is to raise awareness of the GAUSS system and ensure solid exploitation opportunities when the system is developed, at the end of the project. Several actions have been performed:
• Periodic publications on internet.
• Attendance to international events and workshops.
• Organization of two workshops.
• Publications on scientific and business journals.
• Contact establishment with other R&D projects.
