Projecte
Títol: Drone logistics: operational flight planning in the U-space environment
Director/a: PASTOR LLORENS, ENRIC
Departament: DAC
Títol: Drone logistics: operational flight planning in the U-space environment
Data inici oferta: 15-02-2021 Data finalització oferta: 15-10-2021
Estudis d'assignació del projecte:
MU DRONS
| Tipus: Individual | |
| Lloc de realització: EETAC | |
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| Drone logistics, performance modelling, U-space operations. | |
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| Short description of theme and working plan The objective of
the project is to develop an automated system that can schedule repetitive drone flight plan operations in an optimal way within the upcoming U-space. The project assumes that a certain volume of operations would be requested, which should be fulfilled by a limited fleet of vehicles. The operations could be of different types: drones that depart a vertiport and will return to the same location as soon as they complete the operation; drones that depart but do not return; drones that arrive from other vertiports. Other types of operations may be considered if considered relevant. The key to the project is considering that there a number of limitations imposed by how U-space will function; which is, access to airspace should be granted before actually performing the flight. For that reason, it will be necessary to understand how drone operations will interact with U-space to attain the desired flight clearances. The project is proposed to be divided into three main research parts. First, development a basic performance model for drone operations. Any operational panning requires an initial understanding on how flight plans will be executed by drones, so that precise timing on those operations could be predicted. Second, the investigation of the actual concept of operations regarding scheduled drone operations and their interaction with the U-space airspace acces services. In this part it will be also investigated which type of information should be exchanged with U-space and how many planning phases may be required, somehow following the SESAR business/execution flight plan model. Additionally, it will be investigated how to consider re-planning or urgent operations. Finally, the third part will investigate potential optimization algorithms to be employed to attain an initial solution. The scope of the algorithm implementation will be limited to achieve a preliminary implementation that may evolve as further data becomes available and planning experience is attained. |
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| Horari d'atenció a estudiants per a l'assignació de projecte: 9:00 - 14:00 |
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