Descrizione del progetto
Un metodo economico per la sicurezza del trasporto aereo
I ritardi dei voli comportano notevoli perdite di introiti per l’industria dei trasporti aerei. Dato che questo problema è principalmente dovuto alla bassa visibilità, sono oggi sempre più i sistemi migliorati per la visibilità in volo a essere installati nei velivoli civili, nell’ottica di agevolare i piloti ad atterrare in qualsiasi situazione di visibilità. Il progetto 3DGUIDE, finanziato dall’UE, riunirà un gruppo interdisciplinare di esperti di livello mondiale in radiofrequenze e antenne allo scopo di dimostrare un metodo produttivo efficace in termini di costi per fabbricare mediante produzione additiva antenne a guida d’onda millimetrica in grado di fornire elevata precisione. Si tratta di un processo promettente per la produzione di antenne dotate di forme tridimensionali complesse, che riduce le procedure di assemblaggio e i costi di produzione complessivi.
Obiettivo
Flight delays are costing billions of Euros yearly to the air transportation industry yearly. A large part of delays being linked to low visibility, Enhanced Flight Vision Systems are slowly coming to civil aircrafts and will eventually support pilots to land in any visibility condition. The Systems ITD of Clean Sky 2 aims to accelerate the development of new functions in cockpit systems for flight optimization in all conditions, increased crew awareness and efficiency. These new solution must however remain competitive in an industry under increasing cost pressure.
To address these challenges, the 3DGUIDE project intends to demonstrate an affordable production method for high precision mm-wave waveguide antennas with Additive manufacturing (AM). AM is a promising candidate to produce antennas with complex 3D shapes, reduce assembly steps and decrease overall production costs. The selected process, Laser Powder bed fusion (L-PBF), a metal AM technology, is optimized by CSEM for high printing resolutions and will be benchmarked against traditional manufacturing processes through the manufacturing, testing and performances comparison of printed mm-wave slotted antenna array elements (e.g. WG, single slotted WG array). An inductive iris waveguide bandpass filter operating at 94 GHz is suggested as 3D printed phase shifter and dummy MEMS will be integrated into the phase shifter element structure for the project. Furthermore, a later integration of MEMS biasing lines printed in the WG structure will be tested. The project will target a TRL4.
To reach these objectives, 3DGUIDE brings together an interdisciplinary team of experts including world-class researchers on radiofrequency and antennas (UPM), an industry expert in development and deployment of high frequency antennas in challenging environments (TTI), and finally an industry oriented research and technology organization well versed in leading and managing interdisciplinary international projects (CSEM).
Campo scientifico
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technologyradio frequency
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaircraft
- social sciencessocial geographytransport
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringmanufacturing engineeringadditive manufacturing
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesopticslaser physics
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IA - Innovation actionCoordinatore
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