Inspection Drones for Ensuring Safety in Transport Infrastructures

Informazioni relative al progetto

Drones4Safety

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 861111

DOI

10.3030/861111

Progetto chiuso

Data della firma CE 19 Marzo 2020

Data di avvio 1 Giugno 2020

Data di completamento 31 Maggio 2023

Finanziato da

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Smart, Green And Integrated Transport

Costo totale

€ 3 733 751,25

Contributo UE

€ 3 533 192,50

Coordinato da

SYDDANSK UNIVERSITET
Denmark

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Risultati finali

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

Report on the data management plan that includes information on the type of data that will be generated T15

Documents, reports (13)

Specification of harvester system

Requirements are analyzed with regard to the implementation of the harvester and documented in the specification and measurable targets are determined T31

Recommendations for Standardisation and Policy Making

This deliverable will identify key enablers for standardization and major policy recommendations for decision makers to use D4S findings in support of Safety European Strategies T84

Regulatory Gap/Barriers Analysis (initial)

This deliverable will collect and present the outcome of the regulatory analysis and identification of potential gaps and issues in the proposed technologies to be used as input for guiding the development of the technical WPs and to support the Request of Authorization andor Permission by the competent National Civil Aviation Authorities in the countries in which the flights will be carried out T21

Specification of the multi-drone swarm system including test and validation aspects

Report documenting the drone swarm system specifications and its communication interfaces T51

Test and validation report of the drone swarm

Report documenting the results from the prototype testing and validation activities of the drone swarm system T56

Regulatory Gap/Barriers Analysis (final)

This deliverable is a revision of D22 and will contain all the updates to the regulations collected during the project duration after D22 issue T84

Report on Dissemination, Communication and Exploitation activities

This deliverable will include a detailed report on all the dissemination and communication activities carried out by D4S T81 T82 T83

Preliminary Hazard Analysis

This deliverable will present all the hazards identified for the drone swarmbased missions including recharging from cables using SORA guidelines T21

Report on stakeholders' engagement and liaising with other EU initiatives

This deliverable will include a description of the results of the stakeholders engagement activities The deliverable will report on the liaison activities carried out by D4S consortium with regards to other relevant SESAR and EU initiatives T82

Multi-drone system threat analysis and specification of the security system design

Security analysis and specification of the security design for the drone swarm system T55

Use-case Document

This deliverable will provide a story of how the D4S system and its actors will be utilised to achieve the project specific goals It will provide a detailed stepbystep description of how the D4S system will be used by its actors to achieve the planned outcome providing normal flow and also alternative flows pre and postconditions and possible exceptions T24

Test and validation report

Report on the test and the validation of the platform T65

Specification of the Drone Inspection as a Service platform

Report detailing the design and specification of the Drone Inspection as a Service software platform T61

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Project Website

This deliverable will include the first release of the Project Website that constitute the main public interface to the project T81

Other (4)

Virtual inspection module

The objective of the task is to provide a 3D software in which the user could navigate through the digital twin of the bridge infrastructure. (T4.4)

Platform implementation with modules for planning, monitoring, and control

Prototype software system consisting of cloud and modules for the drone operating system T62 T63 T64

D4S Project start-up package

Project Handbook placed at the D4S internal software repository. It includes reporting templates, timelines, mailing list ect. (T1.2)

Implementation of the platform with data flow and visualization modules

Extended prototype software system including modules for data flow and visualization T65

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (3)

Collaborative drone swarm system hardware and software

Demonstration of the prototype hardware and software of the drone swarm system. (T5.2, T5.3, T5.4)

Case study application 2: bridge inspection

Report describing the actual test case on bridge, with results and lesson learned. (T7.3)

Case study application 1: railway inspection

Report detailing the actual test case on railway with results and lesson learned T72

Pubblicazioni

Conference proceedings (16)

Drones for Inspection of Overhead Power Lines with Recharge Function

Autori: Gerd vom Bögel; Linda Cousin; Nicolai Iversen; Emad Ebeid; Andreas Hennig
Pubblicato in: Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, 2020
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/dsd51259.2020.00084

Novel Power Line Grasping Mechanism with Integrated Energy Harvester for UAV applications

Autori: Nicolai Iversen, Aljaz Kramberger, Oscar Bowen Schofield, Emad Ebeid
Pubblicato in: International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), 2021
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ssrr53300.2021.9597692

From Monolith to Microservices: Software Architecture for Autonomous UAV Infrastructure Inspection

Autori: Lea Matlekovic, Peter Schneider-Kamp
Pubblicato in: 11th International Conference on Cloud Computing: Services and Architecture (CLOUD 2022), Numero arXiv:2204.02342v1 [cs.SE] 5 Apr 2022, 2022, ISBN 978-1-925953-65-7
Editore: 11th International Conference on Cloud Computing: Services and Architecture (CLOUD 2022)
DOI: 10.5121/csit.2022.120622

Multi-UAV Path Coordination through Generalized Potential Games

Autori: Liping Shi; Néstor J. Hernández Marcano; Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen
Pubblicato in: 2022 8th International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications (ICARA), 2022
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icara55094.2022.9738578

Finite Buffer Queuing Delay Performance in the Low Earth Orbit Land Mobile Satellite Channel

Autori: Néstor J. Hernández Marcano; Luis Diez; Ramon Agüero; Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen
Pubblicato in: 2022 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2022
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/wcnc51071.2022.9771859

Realistic Assessment of Transport Protocols Performance over LEO-based Communications

Autori: Cristina Hervella, Luis Diez, Fátima Fernández, Néstor J. Hernández Marcano, Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen, Ramón Agüero
Pubblicato in: PE-WASUN '22: Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, & Ubiquitous Networks, 2022
Editore: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3551663.3558680

Experimental Investigation of EMC Weaknesses in UAVs During Power-line Inspection Presentation format.

Autori: Martin Skriver, Anders Stengaard, Ulrik Pagh Schultz, Emad Ebeid
Pubblicato in: 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2022, ISBN 978-1-6654-0593-5
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icuas54217.2022.9836109

Pneumatic-Mechanical Systems in UAVs: Autonomous Power Line Sensor Unit Deployment

Autori: Nicolai Iversen, Aljaz Kramberger, Oscar Bowen Schofield, Emad Ebeid
Pubblicato in: International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2021 (ICRA), 2021, Pagina/e 548-554, ISBN 978-1-7281-9077-8
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icra48506.2021.9560946

Open-Source Educational Platform for FPGA Accelerated AI in Robotics

Autori: Nicolaj Malle, Emad Ebeid
Pubblicato in: 2022 8th International Conference on Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering, ICMRE 2022, Numero 2022, 2022, Pagina/e 112-115, ISBN 9781665483773
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icmre54455.2022.9734102

LOCATOR - Lightweight and Low-Cost Autonomous Drone System for Overhead Cable Detection and Soft Grasping

Autori: Nicolai Iversen, Oscar Bowen Schofield, Emad Ebeid
Pubblicato in: 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), 2020, Pagina/e 205-212, ISBN 978-0-7381-1123-0
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ssrr50563.2020.9292591

Reactive Motion Planning for Rope Manipulation and Collision Avoidance using Aerial Robots

Autori: Liping Shi; Michael Pantic; Olov Andersson; Marco Tognon; Roland Siegwart; Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen
Pubblicato in: 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iros47612.2022.9981658

Security Threats Analysis of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System

Autori: Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen and Ali Marandi
Pubblicato in: IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2021
Editore: IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM)
DOI: 10.1109/milcom52596.2021.9652900

MPSoC4Drones: An Open Framework for ROS2, PX4, and FPGA Integration.

Autori: Frederik Falk Nyboe, Nicolaj Haarhøj Malle, Emad Ebeid.
Pubblicato in: 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2022, ISBN 978-1-6654-0593-5
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icuas54217.2022.9836055

Survey and Evaluation of Sensors for Overhead Cable Detection using UAVs

Autori: Nicolaj Haarhøj Malle; Emad Ebeid; Frederik Falk Nyboe
Pubblicato in: International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, 2021
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icuas51884.2021.9476724

Inspection Path Planning for Aerial Vehicles via Sampling-basedSequential Optimization

Autori: Liping Shi, Golizheh Mehrooz and Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen
Pubblicato in: International conference on unmanned aircraft systems (ICUAS’21), 2021, Pagina/e 679-687, ISBN 9780738131153
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icuas51884.2021.9476784

MPDrone: FPGA-based Platform for Intelligent Real-time Autonomous Drone Operations

Autori: Balint Kövari, Emad Ebeid
Pubblicato in: International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), 2021, ISBN 978-1-6654-1764-8
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ssrr53300.2021.9597857

Peer reviewed articles (4)

Onboard Powerline Perception System for UAVs Using mmWave Radar and FPGA-Accelerated Vision

Autori: Nicolaj Haarhoj Malle; Frederik Falk Nyboe; Emad Samuel Malki Ebeid
Pubblicato in: IEEE Access, Numero 2, 2022, ISSN 2169-3536
Editore: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/access.2022.3217537

A review on communication protocols for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles for inspection application

Autori: Liping Shi; Néstor J. Hernández Marcano; Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen
Pubblicato in: Microprocessors and Microsystems, 2021, ISSN 0141-9331
Editore: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.micpro.2021.104340

On the Queuing Delay of Time-Varying Channels in Low Earth Orbit Satellite Constellations

Autori: Néstor J. Hernández Marcano; L. Diez; R. Agüero Calvo; Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen
Pubblicato in: IEEE Access, 2021, Pagina/e 87378 - 87390, ISSN 2169-3536
Editore: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/access.2021.3089005

Microservices for autonomous UAV inspection with UAV simulation as a service

Autori: Lea Matlekovic; Filip Juric; Peter Schneider-Kamp
Pubblicato in: Microservices for autonomous UAV inspection with UAV simulation as a service, Numero 4, 2022, ISSN 1569-190X
Editore: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.simpat.2022.102548

Book chapters (2)

Multi-UAV trajectory planning for 3D visual inspection of complex structures

Autori: Stefan Ivić, Bojan Crnković, Luka Grbčić, Lea Matleković
Pubblicato in: Automation in Construction, Numero Volume 147, March 2023, 104709, 2022
Editore: ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2022.104709

DRONES4SAFETY

Autori: European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency
Pubblicato in: Drones and Sustainable Urban Air Mobility (UAM), Numero 17 March 2022, 2022, Pagina/e 10, ISBN 978-92-9208-126-3
Editore: European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency
DOI: 10.2840/439571

Non-peer reviewed articles (2)

Use of UAS for damage inspection and assessment of bridge infrastructures

Autori: M. Mandirola, C. Casarotti, S. Peloso, I. Lanese, E. Brunesi, I. Senaldi eucentre.it (I. Lanese), [e-mail] (E. Brunesi), [e-mail] (I. Senaldi).
Pubblicato in: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Numero Volume 72, 2022, 102824, 2022, ISSN 2212-4209
Editore: Elsevier Limited
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.102824

Design of an Autonomous Cooperative Drone Swarm for Inspections of Safety Critical Infrastructure

Autori: Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen,Lea Matlekovic,Liping Shi,Nicolaj Malle,Naeem Ayoub, Kaspar Hageman,Simon Hansen,Frederik Falk Nyboe and Emad Ebeid.
Pubblicato in: Future Autonomous Drones II, Numero Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(3), 1256, 2023, ISSN 2076-3417
Editore: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app13031256