At the conclusion of ASPRID's research, the results achieved were:
• Development of a methodological framework, tools and a detailed workflow that permits the execution of a risk assessment of airport drone intrusions.
• Elicitation of 120 requirements for the design of a scalable solution that, tuned to each specific airport, responds to each drone threat scenario.
• Development and validation of:
- An operational concept and architecture that permits increasing situational awareness and supports drone incident management.
- A new operational procedure with key actors’ new roles and responsibilities to manage drones intrusions.
- A set of software tools and a simulation environment used to validate the envisaged operational concept and procedures.
• Identification of regulatory obstacles and definition of recommendations for future regulations regarding the development of an airport protection system from intruding drones.
ASPRID's results have achieved TLR2. They could be exploited in the following ways:
• Understand drone threats and analyze how airport operations are degraded in case of drone intrusions.
• Project continuation to a higher maturity.
• Promote the development of regulations to support C-UAS deployment in the airport environment.
ASPRID’s work performed is described regarding the WPs hereunder:
WP1 Scenarios and Study Cases Definition:
• Provided an analysis about off-nominal scenarios regarding drone intrusions in airports.
• Reported the historical data analysis regarding the presence of drones near airports.
• Provided an operational vulnerability assessment of the nominal airport operations.
• Provided an event tree analysis with the related flows in the tree.
• Specified the critical operational list.
• Defined risk scenarios, on the basis of the operational risk assessment.
• Provided the definition and the preliminary design of a Decision Support System to manage the reference threat scenario.
WP2 System / Solution Definition:
• Produced operational requirements from the CNS, airport, and ATC’s point of view.
• Identified possible types of countermeasures and sensors.
• Provided a description of ASPRID’s operational concept and architecture.
• Description of:
-The Detection, Identification and Tracking mechanisms.
- The Alert, Procedures and Decision System.
- How the ASPRID system facilitates the response and neutralization phase.
- The decision and support system, which helps the ASPRID user to choose the optimal countermeasures.
WP3 System Integration and Validation:
• Analyzed all the requirements elicited in the project, comparing them with the proposed architecture to assess what requirements were completely fulfilled.
• Described the assessment methodology, the simulation approach, and the assessment of results.
• Provided an estimation of reference performance metrics belonging to the following KPAs: safety, time performance, workload, and capacity.
• Provided a technical documentation of the software used for ASPRID validation activities.
• Assessed the effects of the ASPRID solution found in the Gaming Exercise.
WP4 Regulation Assessment:
• Listed and proposed evolutions of current regulations for protecting airports from drones.
• Provided a set of requirements derived from regulation analysis applicable to the systems protecting the airports from drones as ASPRID.
• Identified regulatory obstacles to the deployment of these systems at airports. Thereafter relevant obstacles were grouped and updated, proposing eight main recommendations.
• Provided general requirements for C-UAS, airport and ATM, as well as detection and neutralization technologies, interfaces with external systems.
• Includes an update of ASPRID’s process model, proposing an initial implementation of the main interactions between actors and the external systems.
WP5 Communication, Exploitation and Dissemination activities of the project supported its development through relevant events and meetings with U-space and C-UAS community.
WP6 Management and Coordination ensured the consecution of objectives on time, on quality and on budget.
