CASCADE (Complex Autonomous aircraft Systems Configuration, Analysis and Design Exploratory)

CASCADE（复杂自主飞机系统配置、分析和设计探索）

• 批准号: EP/R009953/1
• 负责人: James Scanlan
• 金额: $ 566.8万
• 依托单位: University of Southampton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FR009953%2F1
• 关键词: CASCADE; Complex; Autonomous; aircraft; Systems

CASCADE will be a keystone in the current aerial robotics revolution. This programme will reach across a wide range of applications from fundamental earth science through to industry applications in construction, security, transport and information.There is a chasm between consumer level civilian drone operations and high cost military applications. CASCADE will realise a step change in aerial robotics capability and operations. We will be driven by science and industry problems in order to target fundamental research in five key areas; Integration, Safety, Autonomy, Agility, Capability and Scalability as well as overall project methodology.In targeting these six areas, CASCADE will free up current constraints on UAV operations, providing case study data, exemplars, guidance for regulation purposes and motivating links across the science and engineering divide. The landscape of aerial robotics is changing rapidly and CASCADE will allow the UK to be at the forefront of this revolution. This rapid change is reflected by the wide range of terminology used to describe aerial robots including; Drones, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Remotely Piloted Aerial Systems, and Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS). Supporting technologies driving the aerial robotics revolution include improved battery technologies, actuators, sensors, computing and regulations. These have all significantly expanded the possibilities offered by smart, robust, adaptable, affordable, agile and reliable aerial robotic systems. There are many environmental challenges facing mankind where aerial robots can be of significant value. Scientists currently use resource intensive research ships and aircraft to study the oceans and the atmosphere. CASCADE will focus on reducing these costs and at the same time increasing capability. Some mission types involve prohibitive risks, such as volcano plume sampling and flight in extreme weather conditions. CASCADE will focus on managing these risks for unmanned systems, operating in conditions where it is not possible to operate manned vehicles.Similarly, there are many potentially useful commercial applications such as parcel delivery, search and rescue, farming, inspection, property maintenance, where aerial robots can offer considerable cost and capability benefits when compared to manned alternatives. CASCADE will focus on bringing autonomous aerial capabilities to a range of industry applications. For both scientific and industry purposes, CASCADE will consider a range of vehicle configurations from standard rotary and fixed wing through to hybrid and multi modal operations. These will bring unique capabilities to challenging operations for which there is no conventional solution.At present, because of concerns over safety, there are strict regulations concerning where and how aerial robots can be operated. Permissions for use are granted by the UK Civil Aviation Authority and operations are generally not permitted beyond line of sight, close to infrastructure or large groups of people, or more than 400 feet from the ground. These regulations currently restrict many of the potentially useful applications for aerial robots. CASCADE aims to undertake research into key underpinning technologies that will allow these to be extended or removed by working with regulating authorities to help shape the operating environment for future robotic systems.CASCADE will prove fundamental research through a wide variety of realistic CASE studies. These will be undertaken with academic and industry partners, focussing on demonstrating key technologies and concepts. These test missions will undertake a wide range of exciting applications including very high altitude flights, aerial robots that can also swim, swarms of sensor craft flying into storms, volcanic plumes and urban flights. Through these CASCADE will provide underpinning research, enable and educate users and widely support the aerial robotics revolution.

CASCADE将成为当前空中机器人革命的基石。该计划将涵盖从基础地球科学到建筑、安全、运输和信息等行业应用的广泛应用。消费级民用无人机操作和高成本军事应用之间存在鸿沟。CASCADE将实现空中机器人能力和操作的一步变化。CASCADE将以科学和工业问题为驱动力，针对五个关键领域进行基础研究：集成、安全、自主、敏捷、能力和可扩展性以及整体项目方法。在针对这六个领域的基础研究中，CASCADE将释放当前对无人机操作的限制，提供案例研究数据、范例、监管指南，并促进科学和工程领域的联系。空中机器人的前景正在迅速变化，CASCADE将使英国处于这场革命的最前沿。这种快速变化反映在用于描述空中机器人的广泛术语中，包括无人机，无人驾驶航空器，遥控航空系统和小型无人驾驶飞机系统（SUAS）。推动空中机器人革命的支持技术包括改进的电池技术、执行器、传感器、计算和法规。这些都大大扩展了智能、强大、适应性强、价格合理、敏捷和可靠的空中机器人系统所提供的可能性。人类面临着许多环境挑战，空中机器人可能具有重要价值。科学家目前使用资源密集型研究船和飞机来研究海洋和大气。CASCADE将专注于降低这些成本，同时提高能力。有些使命类型涉及到令人望而却步的风险，例如火山羽流取样和在极端天气条件下飞行。CASCADE将专注于管理无人系统的这些风险，在不可能操作有人驾驶车辆的条件下运行。同样，有许多潜在有用的商业应用，如包裹递送，搜索和救援，农业，检查，财产维护，与有人驾驶的替代品相比，空中机器人可以提供相当大的成本和能力优势。CASCADE将专注于将自主航空能力引入一系列行业应用。为了科学和工业的目的，CASCADE将考虑一系列的飞行器配置，从标准的旋转和固定翼到混合动力和多模式操作。这些将为没有传统解决方案的挑战性操作带来独特的能力。目前，由于对安全的担忧，对空中机器人的操作地点和操作方式有严格的规定。使用许可证由英国民航局批准，一般不允许在视线之外、靠近基础设施或大型人群或距离地面400英尺以上的地方进行操作。这些规定目前限制了空中机器人的许多潜在有用的应用。CASCADE旨在研究关键的基础技术，这些技术将通过与监管机构合作，帮助塑造未来机器人系统的操作环境来扩展或删除。CASCADE将通过各种现实案例研究来证明基础研究。这些活动将与学术和行业合作伙伴一起进行，重点展示关键技术和概念。这些测试任务将进行广泛的令人兴奋的应用，包括非常高的海拔飞行，也可以游泳的空中机器人，成群的传感器飞行器飞入风暴，火山羽流和城市飞行。通过这些CASCADE将提供基础研究，使和教育用户，并广泛支持航空机器人革命。

项目成果

The Rise Of High-Performance Multi-Rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles - How worried should we be?

高性能多旋翼无人机的兴起——我们应该有多担心？

• 发表时间: 2019
• 作者: Bond, E

Measurement and Modelling of Noise-Power-Distance Curves of a Fixed-Wing UAV

固定翼无人机噪声-功率-距离曲线的测量和建模

• DOI: 10.2514/6.2022-3037
• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Amargianitakis D

CASCADE Open Aircraft Project: University of Southampton VTOL Drone Development

CASCADE 开放式飞机项目：南安普顿大学 VTOL 无人机开发

• DOI: 10.2514/6.2021-1929
• 发表时间: 2021
• 作者: Boyd C

Determining the three-dimensional structure of a volcanic plume using Unoccupied Aerial System (UAS) imagery

使用无人航空系统 (UAS) 图像确定火山羽流的三维结构

• DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2019.106731
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
• 影响因子: 2.9
• 作者: Albadra A

Decentralized deconfliction of aerial robots in high intensity traffic structures

• DOI: 10.1002/rob.22340
• 发表时间: 2024-04-11
• 期刊: JOURNAL OF FIELD ROBOTICS
• 影响因子: 8.3
• 作者: Crann，Verdon;Amiri，Peyman;Crowther，William
• 通讯作者: Crowther，William