Project description
Advanced solutions for safer drone use
The use of drones today is expanding as it reduces costs and offers environmental benefits. However, existing technologies could make drones’ usage harmful for humans, vehicles and properties. SESAR JU, in charge of EU research in air traffic management, suggested that further investments and motivations are needed for the safe use of drones. The ECSEL JU-funded project COMP4DRONES will work on safe software and hardware drone solutions aligned with SESAR objectives. Coordinated by Indra, COMP4DRONES brings together 49 partners from 8 countries aiming to build an ecosystem that will support the systemization and safety of drone platforms, reliable communications, cost-efficient and safe design of drones. COMP4DRONES will deploy applications in five domains: transport, construction, surveillance and inspection, logistics and agriculture.
Objective
Drones can perform air operations that manned aircrafts struggle with, and their use brings significant economic savings and environmental benefits whilst reducing the risk to human life. Drone-based service and product innovation, as driven by increased levels of connectivity and automation, is limited by the growing dependence on poorly interoperable proprietary technologies and the risks posed to people, to other vehicles and to property. SESAR JU identified that issue has a high impact on European innovation, which demands R&D investments and incentives for the convergence of shared technologies and markets as a remedy. Actions creating globally harmonized, commercially exploitable yet widely accessible R&D ecosystems should be publicly performed. The COMP4DRONES project complements SESAR JU efforts with a particular focus on safe software and hardware drone architectures. COMP4DRONES will bear a holistically designed ecosystem ranging from application to electronic components, realized as a tightly integrated multi-vendor and compositional drone embedded architecture solution and a tool chain complementing the compositional architecture principles. The ecosystem aims at supporting (1) efficient customization and incremental assurance of drone embedded platforms, (2) safe autonomous decision making concerning individual or cooperative missions, (3) trustworthy drone-to-drone and drone-to-ground communications even in presence of malicious attackers and under the intrinsic platform constraints, and (4) agile and cost-effective compositional design and assurance of drone modules and systems. COMP4DRONES will also build an open sustainable ecosystem around public, royalty-free and goal-driven software platform standards that will ease the development of new drone functionalities for multiple application domains. Lead applications driving ecosystem development and benchmarking on the fields of transport, inspection, logistic, precision agriculture, parcel delivery.
Fields of science
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaircraft
- social sciencessociologyindustrial relationsautomation
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringroboticsautonomous robotsdrones
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
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Call for proposal
H2020-ECSEL-2018-2-RIA-two-stage
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
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28036 Madrid
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1210 Wien
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7000 Eisenstadt
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7000 Eisenstadt
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5020 Salzburg
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3001 Leuven
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601 90 Brno Stred
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301 00 Pilsen
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46000 Saint Martin De Valgalgues
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31400 Toulouse
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92320 CHATILLON
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31670 LABEGE CEDEX
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86961 Futuroscope Cedex
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86034 Poitiers Cedex
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07100 SASSARI SS
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41121 Modena
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82100 Benevento
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07100 Sassari
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67100 L Aquila
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66030 Poggiofiorito
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81020 San Nicola La Strada
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1006 Riga
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1459 Riga
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2312 NR Leiden
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5656 AE Eindhoven
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7554 RR Hengelo Ov
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7011 Siegendorf
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5612 AE Eindhoven
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28033 MADRID
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39011 Santander
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28020 Madrid
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28036 Madrid
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20500 Mondragon
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75015 PARIS 15
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39005 Santander
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16122 Genova Ge
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30100 Plzen
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83910 Pourrieres
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3800 Sint-Truiden
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2628 CN Delft
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7521 PH Enschede
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7521 PH Enschede
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66010 Torrevecchia Teatina Chiete
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92000 Nanterre
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56017 San Giuliano Terme
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1039 Riga
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00175 Roma
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10146 TORINO
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3013 AK Rotterdam
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92400 Courbevoie
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75016 Paris
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41039 La Rinconada Sevilla
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31700 Blagnac
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