EUDAAS2

Main Goals of the Project

The project EUDAAS2 addresses the EDF-2023-DA-C4ISR-DAA topic “Detect and Avoid” (DAA), which aims to develop technologies that enable the safe integration of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) into non-segregated civil and military airspace, avoiding collisions with other aircraft. The DAA system observes the environment surrounding the Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA), detects traffic, assesses the risk of collision, informs and provides suggestions to the Remote Pilot (RP) to remain well clear and, when appropriate generates a new flight path to avoid collision. This way, DAA enables the RPA, or Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), to operate along with other manned and unmanned aircraft, allowing a much more flexible use of RPAS/UAS than today, in order to train for, and conduct, security and defence missions in peacetime, crisis and conflict.

The European Detect and Avoid System - Part 2 project (herein abbreviated “EUDAAS2”) will complete the development of the DAA system for RPAS, designed and validated in the EDIDP 2019 Part 1 (herein abbreviated “EUDAAS1”), delivering (via EUROCAE) a full suite of required DAA standard updates supporting the provision of the ETSO baseline (by EASA), for the future system certification and product industrialization phase.

The project’s Mission, as defined by the EDF-2023-DA-C4ISR-DAA topic scope, is to provide a fully standardised, qualified and certifiable DAA solution for UAS. The DAA solution should aim at fully integrating RPAS in the general airspace (A-G classes) without any limitations regarding operation in the airspace including in TMA.

The EUDAAS2 project runs over 4 years and is executed by a core team maintained from EUDAAS1, supported by 5 contributing Member States and additional 6 nations cross-border partners. The team consist with a mix of Defence and Aeronautics Industries, Aerospace Research Institutes, SMEs/MidCaps and Eurcontrol as the intergovernmental ATM organisation of Europe.

CIRA Activities in the Project

Specific CIRA contributions exploit CIRA matured experience in similar Eiuropean projects, such as EUDAAS1 and U-ELCOME. Based on that, the CIRA main contributions are:

• Contribution to the update of the DAA system requirements from EUDAAS.
• Contribution to study the impacts of the U-Space regulation on the DAA system.
• Contribution to the design of the Remain Well Clear system.
• Leading of the task for the development of the Real time simulator with Remote Pilot in the loop.
• Contribution to the task for the development of the Real time simulator with Remote Pilot and Air Traffic Controller in the loop.
• Leading the execution of validation simulations in real-time environment with Remote Pilot in the loop.
• Contribution to execution of validation simulations in real-time environment with Remote Pilot and Air Traffic Controller in the loop.
• Contribution to preparation of project results summary and perspective guidelines for the stakeholders.

General Project Information

Funding Programme: Euoropean Denfense Fund (EDF)

Start Date: 01/12/2024; End Date: 30/11/2028

Coordinating Organization: Saab

Partners: Saab, ONERA, DLR, CIRA, Leonardo, Indra, Safran, Thales, Hensoldt

CIRA Contact: Nicola Genito, n.genito@cira.it