ADACORSA

ADACORSA aims to strengthen the European drone industry and increase public and regulatory acceptance of BVLOS drones, by demonstrating technologies for safe, reliable and secure drone operation in all situations and flight phases.

The project will drive research and development of components and systems for sensing, telecommunication and data processing along the electronics value-chain: On the component level, this includes functionally redundant and fail-operational radar and LiDAR sensors as well as 3D cameras. In order to reduce risk, time and costs the ADACORSA project aims to port technologies from the automotive sector to the drone market for these components. On the system level, the project targets hardware and software for reliable sensor fusion and data analytics as well as technologies for secure and reliable drone communication using multipath TCP and registration and identification by developing platforms based on eUICCs/eSIM. On an architecture level, the project will develop fail- operational drone control and investigate in a pre-operational Flight Information Management System (FIMS) the integration with CoTS components for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management System (UTM).

Within the project, physical as well as virtual demonstrators of BVLOS (beyond visual line-of-sight), long-range drone flight shall pave the way toward certifiable systems for future integration of drone operations.

For more information, see the external project website using this link.