UAV/Drone COVID19 Emergency Airbridge to the Isles of Scilly

持续的新冠肺炎危机导致锡利岛渡轮和航空服务削减，阻碍了医疗和其他物流服务。我们的财团，以DronePrep为首，由Windracers、南安普顿大学和Consortiq支持，提议利用Windracers超无人机平台来交付锡利岛委员会和康沃尔委员会要求的一系列有效载荷，以应对时间紧迫的新冠肺炎挑战。在收集支持方面，这些合作伙伴联合向我们的财团表示：‘CIO面临的主要挑战之一是它是一个社区分散的农村外围地区。超无人机提供了一种解决方案，可以用来连接整个地区的偏远社区，使NHS服务能够更有效地提供，并克服与传统运输方式相关的限制。经过验证的CIO合作伙伴支持为拟议的试飞提供他们的设施。西利岛议会负责运营圣玛丽机场，和康沃尔委员会拥有并运营康沃尔机场新闻码头。锡利岛议会负责岛屿上的社会护理/养老院提供，建议这些试验将集中于向护理环境中的人试送基本物品，如个人防护用品和新冠肺炎测试，并可能在之后扩展到补充NHS供应链，如果CLOS合作伙伴要求并启用这一点。为了实现这一点，我们将成为第一个财团，以：1)展示无人机向岛屿运送物资的能力，同时将这种干预的性能与现有的人工干预方案进行比较2)探索确保多个着陆点的可行性，以允许动态和灵活的替代方案岛屿之间的货物转移3)致力于通过UAVOur财团对通过UAVOur财团运输危险货物的协议研究做出贡献的工作于2020年7月31日被告知，该申请(于2020年5月提交)已在UKRI新冠肺炎开放呼叫创新英国响应大赛的技术评估阶段获得成功，资金奖励将于2020年8月26日到期，这将促进该项目的启动，从2020年9月2日开始，为期最多4个月。

Cuts to Isles of Scilly ferry and air services due to the on-going Covid-19 crises is hindering medical and other logistics services.Our consortia, led by DronePrep and supported by Windracers, University of Southampton and Consortiq propose to utilise the Windracers ULTRA UAV platform to deliver a range of payloads as required by the Council of the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall Council and Cornwall Council in response to time-critical Covid-19 challenges.In gleaning the support these partners they have jointly stated to our consortia that:'One of the main challenges facing CIoS is that it is a rural peripheral region with dispersed communities. The ULTRA UAV provides a solution which could be used to connect remote communities across the region, enable NHS services to be delivered more effectively and overcome the limitations associated with traditional modes of transport.'Validated CIoS partners are supportive of offering their facilities for the test flights proposed. The Council of the Isles of Scilly operate St Mary's Airport, and Cornwall Council own and operate Cornwall Airport Newquay.The Isles of Scilly Council are responsible for Social Care/Care Home provision on the Islands and it is proposed that these trials will focus on trial delivery of essential items such as PPE and Covid-19 tests to those in a Care setting and potentially thereafter extend to supplement NHS supply chains should CLoS partners request and enable this thereafter.To achieve this we will be the first consortia to:1) Demonstrate UAV capability in delivering supplies to the islands whilst comparing performance of this intervention to existing manned alternative2) Explore the viability of securing multiple landing sites to allow dynamic and flexible goods transfer between islands3) Work toward contributing to protocols research to test the transport Dangerous Goods via UAVOur consortium were informed on 31st July 2020 that this application (submitted in May 2020) had been successful at the technical assessment phase of the UKRI COVID-19 Open Call Innovate UK response competition and a funding award is due on 26th August 2020 which would facilitate the commencement of this project for a period of upto 4 months starting 2 September 2020\.