Project SCAFFold (Safety Critical Avionics for Future Flight)

为了应对人类面临的关键挑战，航空业的未来必须彻底改变。减少排放，更多的电动飞机和自动系统对于应对这些挑战至关重要。无人驾驶飞机将越来越多地用于商业应用，如药品配送，远程社区物流，电动飞机将被开发用于减少城市污染和拥堵。SCAFFold将展示新的无人驾驶技术如何满足并符合现有的明确安全标准，同时利用邻近行业的最新技术。消费电子领域的先进技术（如智能传感器、更强大的处理器、先进的用户界面）可以安全、经济地集成到飞行控制系统中。有人驾驶飞机非常可靠，提供最安全的运输方式。这种可靠性是通过使用非常严格的质量控制来实现的，这是非常昂贵的。为了在大幅降低成本的同时达到同等的安全水平，分布式航空电子公司开发了一种新的基于网络的控制系统架构，该架构具有高鲁棒性，因此可靠性高，成本低。分布式航空电子公司的解决方案将直接适用于无人机系统，无人机和民用应用，并将成为向全电动，更多连接飞机转变的关键技术。该解决方案通过一种新颖的、获得专利的无主控制架构实现了这一可靠性提升，该架构构成了无单点故障（SPoF）控制系统的主干。去除SPoF降低了对高度可靠的单个组件的要求，这些组件生产成本高，集成和发展具有挑战性。对于UAS和UAM等成本敏感的航空航天应用，这种方法具有明显的优势，因为传统的航空航天产品过于昂贵，无法形成合理的经济用例。

In order to deal with key challenges facing mankind, the future of aviation must change radically. Reduction of emissions, more electric aircraft, and autonomous systems are essential to meet these challenges. Autonomous drones will be increasingly used for commercial applications such as delivery of medicines, remote community logistics, and electric powered aircraft will be developed to reduce pollution and congestion in cities.SCAFFold will demonstrate how new autonomous technologies can meet and conform to existing well defined safety standards whilst exploiting the latest technology from neighbouring sectors. Advances from the consumer electronics sector (such as miniaturised sensing, more capable processors, advanced user interfaces) can then be safely and cost-effectively integrated within the flight control system.Manned aircraft are very reliable and provide the safest means of transport. This reliability is possible through the use of extremely rigorous quality control, which is very expensive. In order to achieve equivalent levels of safety but at significantly reduced cost, Distributed Avionics have developed a new network-based control system architecture with high levels of robustness, and therefore reliable, at low cost.Distributed Avionics' solution will be directly applicable to UAS, UAM, and Civil applications and will be a key enabling technology in the shift to all electric, more connected aircraft. The solution achieves this reliability improvement through a novel, patented Masterless control architecture which forms the backbone of a no single point of failure (SPoF) control system. The removal of SPoFs reduces the requirement for highly reliable individual components, which are expensive to produce and challenging to integrate and evolve. For cost sensitive aerospace applications such as UAS and UAM, this approach offers clear advantages, where traditional aerospace products are too expensive to form a sound economic use case.