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Key technologies for safe and autonomous drones
Get PDFDrones/UAVs are able to perform air operations that are very difficult to be performed by manned aircrafts. In addition, drones' usage brings significant economic savings and environmental benefits, while reducing risks to human life. In this paper, we present key technologies that enable development of drone systems. The technologies are identified based on the usages of drones (driven by COMP4DRONES project use cases). These technologies are grouped into four categories: U-space capabilities, system functions, payloads, and tools. Also, we present the contributions of the COMP4DRONES project to improve existing technologies. These contributions aim to ease drones’ customization, and enable their safe operation.This project has received funding from the ECSEL Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 826610. The JU receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and Spain, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands. The total project budget is 28,590,748.75 EUR (excluding ESIF partners), while the requested grant is 7,983,731.61 EUR to ECSEL JU, and 8,874,523.84 EUR of National and ESIF Funding. The project has been started on 1st October 2019
Reuse-based agile development process for drone software systems
No full textInternational audienceDrones can perform air operations that are hard to be executed using manned aircrafts. The usage of drones in different domains brings significant environmental benefits and economic savings while decreasing risks to human life. Recently, a number of approaches have been introduced to support the development of drone software systems. However, developing customized drone software based on end-user needs is still a time consuming process. Such delay in software production does not match end-users expectations. Therefore, in the COMP4DRONES project (C4D, for short), we propose an agile-development process that is based on reuse to shorten the drone software development. In this process, based on the user requirements, a number of reusable components are selected from a repository that matches the user requirements. These components are then integrated to have a fully functioning drone system. This repository will be filled with reusable components that are being developed during the C4D project (i.e. the key enabling technologies for drones)
