Preliminary study and design of the avionics system for an eVTOL aircraft.

The project consists of the study, creation, implementation, and development of the avionics system of an electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) airplane for an ongoing project from the company ONAEROSPACE. The plane is intended to be for 7 passengers and 1 pilot, with a maximum range of 1000+ km. The fuselage will be formed of carbon fiber composite to reduce weight and it will use electric motors powered by batteries. The avionics system will provide the aircraft with communication and navigation systems, an autonomous Take-Off (T/O) and landing system, as well as the development of cockpit management systems. This document is divided into two parts. The first part begins with the study of all the necessary tools for communication and navigation systems. That means all compulsory antennas and sensors to obtain information about the surroundings (weather, obstacles, other planes¿). The intern communication network to send data from these sensors and antennas to main flight management systems is also studied in this first part. The second part of the project is dedicated to cabin cockpit systems and the study for the future development of autonomous systems. The cabin will have a full-glass cockpit, with touchable screens and an intelligent voice assistant. It will be very ergonomic and simple, with a lot of space in the cabin. In order to have an idea of the cost of the implementation of all the systems for the aircraft, a weight and cost estimation analysis are done at the end of each section. The last part of the project consists of the study of the design of a virtual intelligent voice assistant and the implementation of autonomous systems. Nowadays, the virtual intelligent voice assistant is an artificial intelligence system that works as a pilot monitoring system which assists the pilot in order to decrease the pilot¿s workload. The future idea is that the pilot could tell commands to the voice assistant and do nothing with the hands, just control that everything works correctly. Regarding the autonomous system, the conclusion is that with the existent technology is not possible today. Nevertheless, in the future, when fully autonomous aircraft are possible, the idea is that although being fully autonomous, the pilot can take the control of the aircraft at any moment.OutgoingObjectius de Desenvolupament Sostenible::9 - Indústria, Innovació i InfraestructuraObjectius de Desenvolupament Sostenible::11 - Ciutats i Comunitats Sostenible

HIDROID: prototyping a behavioral host-based intrusion detection and prevention system for android

Previous research efforts on developing an Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS) for Android mobile devices rely mostly on centralized data collection and processing on a cloud server. However, this trend is characterized by two major limitations. First, it requires a continuous connection between monitored devices and the server, which might be infeasible, due to mobile network's outage or partial coverage. Second, it increases the risk of sensitive information leakage and the violation of user's privacy. To help alleviate these problems, in this paper, we develop a novel Host-based IDPS for Android (HIDROID), which runs completely on a mobile device, with a minimal computation burden. It collects data in run-time, by periodically sampling features reflecting the utilization of scarce resources on a mobile device (e.g. CPU, memory, battery, bandwidth, etc.). The detection engine exploits statistical and machine learning algorithms to build a data-driven model for the benign behavior. Any observation failing to match this model triggers an alert, and the preventive agent takes proper countermeasure(s) to minimize the risk. HIDROID requires no malicious data for training or tuning, which makes it handy for day-to-day usage. Experimental test results, on a real-life device, show that HIDROID is well able to learn and discriminate normal from malicious behavior, with very promising accuracy of up to 0.9, while maintaining false positive rate by 0.03

Wireless Communication Technologies for Safe Cooperative Cyber Physical Systems

Cooperative Cyber-Physical Systems (Co-CPSs) can be enabled using wireless communication technologies, which in principle should address reliability and safety challenges. Safety for Co-CPS enabled by wireless communication technologies is a crucial aspect and requires new dedicated design approaches. In this paper, we provide an overview of five Co-CPS use cases, as introduced in our SafeCOP EU project, and analyze their safety design requirements. Next, we provide a comprehensive analysis of the main existing wireless communication technologies giving details about the protocols developed within particular standardization bodies. We also investigate to what extent they address the non-functional requirements in terms of safety, security and real time, in the different application domains of each use case. Finally, we discuss general recommendations about the use of different wireless communication technologies showing their potentials in the selected real-world use cases. The discussion is provided under consideration in the 5G standardization process within 3GPP, whose current efforts are inline to current gaps in wireless communications protocols for Co-CPSs including many future use casesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio