System for High Integrity Monitoring of Advanced-Air-Mobility Network Operations (SHIMANO)

该项目由一个具有工程、航空和商业专业知识的组织组成，为无人机(UAV)的开发、测试和利用提供了一条明确的途径。专业知识的关键领域包括重型无人机平台、雷达和雷达识别技术、超视距(BVLOS)通信、无人交通管理(UTM)数据系统和集成、监管审批和公共开发。该项目特别具有创新性，因为它结合了尚未大规模使用的技术，旨在影响英国CAA标准，为无人机系统的商业化铺平道路，使其处于不断扩大的未来飞行市场的核心。该项目解决了如何真正具有弹性和成本效益的本地化通信的挑战。导航和监视在高风险的极低层飞行(VLLF)环境中是可能的，以及这种本地化信息如何增强现有的空中交通管理(ATM)和UTM技术，以提供增强的态势感知。使用无人机提供此类服务的潜在价值已在受控环境中得到证明。然而，要实现这些概念的全部社会影响，需要部署和运行更多的安全系统，以便服务可以随时随地提供，每个有需要的人都可以获得。例如，在市区发生重大事故时，道路交通拥堵可能会延误救护车的到达。摩托车护理人员现在很常见，但他们是速度和携带的设备之间的折衷。无人机将允许更多的医疗物资快速运送到现场，以便摩托车护理人员可以在不耗尽现有物资的情况下治疗更多的患者。该项目开发的系统将展示无人机的弹性、准确和安全操作，能够将设备运送到复杂的高风险环境中。该系统的试验将有助于为无人机建立更广泛的商业应用，通过展示在复杂的城市环境中起飞、着陆和导航等关键场景中的本地化态势感知的显著好处。试验还将提供一个交付和测试操作要求的平台，以确定基础设施和操作流程要求，为未来的无人机操作提供一个集成的ATM/UTM环境，并向英国CAA通报应实施的标准，以实现国家对该技术的开发。

This project consists of a consortium of organisations with expertise in engineering, aviation, and business to provide a clear path for development, testing and exploitation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The key areas of expertise include heavy lift UAV platforms, radar and radar identification technology, Beyond Visual Line Of Sight (BVLOS) communication, Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) data systems and integration, regulatory approval, and public exploitation.This project is particularly innovative as it incorporates technology that has not yet been used on a wide-scale, and aims to influence the UK CAA standards to pave the way for commercialisation of drone systems, placing it at the heart of the expanding Future of Flight marketplace.The project addresses the challenge of how truly resilient and cost-effective localised communication, navigation and surveillance is possible in high-risk Very Low-Level Flight (VLLF) environments and how this localised information can augment existing Air Traffic Management (ATM) and UTM technologies to provide enhanced situational awareness.The potential value of the use of UAVs to provide such services has been demonstrated in controlled environments. However, to realise the full societal impact of such concepts requires additional safety systems to be deployed and operated, such that the services may be available everywhere and to everyone in need. For example, in the event of a major incident in an urban area, gridlocked road traffic can delay the arrival of ambulances. Motorcycle paramedics are now common, but they are a compromise between speed and equipment carried. UAVs will allow additional medical supplies to be quickly delivered to the scene, so that motorcycle paramedics can treat a greater number of patients without expending their available supplies.The systems developed in this project will demonstrate resilient, accurate and safe operation of a UAV capable of delivery of equipment into complex high-risk environments. Trials of this system will help to establish wider commercial business applications for UAVs through demonstrating the significant benefits of localised situational awareness in critical scenarios such as take-off, landing and navigating in complex urban environments. Trials will also provide a platform to deliver and test operational requirements to identify the infrastructure and operational process requirements to provide an integrated ATM/UTM environment for future UAV operations and inform UK CAA of the standards that should be implemented to enable national exploitation of the technology.