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

该项目由具有工程、航空和商业专业知识的组织组成，为无人驾驶飞行器（uav）的开发、测试和最终利用提供明确的途径。关键专业领域包括重型无人机平台、雷达和雷达识别技术、BVLOS通信、UTM数据系统和集成、监管批准和公共开发。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，旨在影响英国民航局的标准，并为无人机系统的商业化铺平道路，使其成为不断扩大的未来飞行市场的核心。该项目解决了如何在高风险的极低空飞行（VLLF）环境中实现真正具有弹性和成本效益的本地化通信、导航和监视的挑战，以及这些本地化信息如何增强现有的空中交通管理（ATM）和无人交通管理（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经在受控环境中得到证明，然而，要实现此类概念的全部社会影响，需要部署和操作额外的安全系统，以便服务可以在任何地方和每个人都有需要。该项目开发的系统将展示无人机的弹性、准确和安全操作，能够将医疗设备运送到复杂的高风险环境中。该系统的试验将通过展示在复杂城市环境中起飞、降落和导航等关键场景中本地化态势感知的显著优势，帮助无人机建立更广泛的商业应用。试验还将提供一个平台来交付和测试操作需求，以确定基础设施和操作过程需求，为未来无人机操作提供一个集成的ATM/UTM环境，并告知英国民航局应该追求和实施的标准，以使国家能够利用该技术。最近的大流行和类似危机突出表明，需要为农村社区提供更好的后勤支持，特别是为老年人和需要额外护理的人提供后勤支持，例如确保国民保健服务对患者样本进行快速检测，以及迅速提供紧急用品。NHS要求在采集地点和实验室之间可靠地移动测试样本。目前，这是通过公路完成的，这严重依赖于人类的时间，由于碳排放造成的环境后果，并且很容易受到交通、行动限制或缺乏基础设施等外部因素的干扰。如果建立了一种可管理的无人机飞行能力，那么交货时间可以显著缩短。这也适用于中央血库甚至捐献器官的血液输送。建立无人机的管理控制也将允许应急服务采用该技术。在城市地区发生重大事故时，道路交通会迅速堵塞，延误救护车的到达。虽然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。使用载重无人机可以将额外的医疗用品快速运送到现场，使摩托车护理人员能够在不消耗可用物资的情况下治疗更多的患者。例如，还可以提供额外的固态氧气发生器。在未来飞行挑战的后期阶段，我们计划过渡到BVLOS试验，在区域基础上安全协调的环境中演示常规操作无人机服务，以支持完全确定的最终用例，并验证强大的业务案例。

This project consists of a consortium of organisations with expertise in engineering, aviation, and business to provide a clear path for development, test and ultimately exploitation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The key areas expertise includes heavy lift UAV platforms, radar and radar identification technology, BVLOS communication, 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 and pave the way for commercialisation of drone systems placing it at the heart of the expanding Future of Flight marketplace.This 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 unmanned traffic management (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.The systems developed in this project will demonstrate resilient, accurate and safe operations of a UAV capable of delivery of medical 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 pursued and implemented to enable national exploitation of the technology.The recent pandemic and similar crises have highlighted the need for better logistical support for rural communities, especially for the elderly and those requiring extra care, for instance to ensure rapid NHS testing of patient samples, and also for rapid delivery of critically urgent supplies. There is a requirement within the NHS to move test samples reliably between the location where they are taken and the laboratory. At present this is done by road, which has a heavy reliance on human time, environmental consequences due to carbon emissions and can be easily disrupted by external factors such as traffic, restrictions in movement or lack of infrastructure to obtain access to isolated locations. If a managed UAV flight capability were established this delivery time could be cut significantly. This could also apply to delivery of blood from central blood banks and even donor organs.Establishing managed control of UAVs will also permit the adoption of the technology by the emergency services. In the event of a major incident in an urban area, road traffic can rapidly gridlock delaying the arrival of ambulances. Although motorcycle paramedics are now very common, they are a compromise between speed and equipment carried. Using a load carrying UAV allows additional medical supplies to be quickly delivered to a scene to allow motorcycle paramedics to treat a greater number of patients without expending their available supplies. An example is that additional solid-state oxygen generators could also be delivered.In later stages of the Future of Flight Challenge, we plan to transition to BVLOS trials demonstrating a routine operational drone services in a safely coordinated environment on a regional basis in support of fully identified end use cases with validated robust business cases.