Projects

The US Department of Transportation announced the selected partners for the UAS Integration Pilot Program. Both state and local governments and drone industry players have applied for the opportunity to have a voice in drone integration: of the hundreds of applications the FAA has selected 10 partners to kick off the program.

Unifly set up the first Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) system in Africa in support of UNICEF's humanitarian drone corridor in Malawi

At AUVSI Xponential in Denver, drones are everywhere. The global community of commercial and military leaders meet up yearly to discover and share the latest in robotics, drones and unmanned systems. This year’s edition focuses on the unmanned economy, lifestyle and the use of drones for humanitarian purposes.

Drones have many possible uses. They have the potential bring enormous added value to our daily lives in many areas, such as agriculture, the media, maintenance, deliveries, surveillance and inspection. However they are small and difficult to detect.Left unmanaged, the increasing drone traffic can easily pose a threat to bystanders and manned aviation.

PODIUM is a SESAR Horizon 2020 project supporting U-space, the European vision for the safe, secure and efficient handling of drone traffic and a key enabler for the growing drone market to generate economic and societal benefits.

The European aviation community currently exchanges views on how, and under which conditions, drones can offer new services and applications going beyond traditional aviation and offers the promise to perform existing services in a more affordable and environmentally friendly way.

Indeed, these truly transformational technologies will help create promising new opportunities in Europe, offering sustainable jobs and new prospects for growth both for the manufacturing industry in particular for SMEs and for future users of drones in all sectors of society.

Project SECOPS (an integrated SECurity concept for drone OPerationS) is initiated by a research centre (NLR) and 3 SME industrial partners (SensoFusion, Unifly and Delft Dynamics), in response to the SESAR2020 Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) Exploratory Research Call, under Topic 06 “Security & cyber-resilience”.

CLASS is the acronym for CLear Air Situation for uaS, and is part of a Horizon 2020 SESAR-1-2016 call. The CLASS project will merge existing technologies to build the core functions of an Unmanned Traffic Management System (UTMS). This research increases the maturity level of the main technologies required for surveillance of Unmanned Aerial System (UAS, also known as drone) traffic.

The CORUS (Concept of Operation for EuRopean UTM Systems) project gathers experts from aviation (manned and drone), research and academia to develop a harmonized approach for the integration of drones into Very Low Level (VLL) airspace. It is a Horizon 2020 project, established within the context of SESAR.