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COVER · COOPERATIVE AND INTELLIGENT UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE APPLICATIONS

Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2023-01-01 → 2026-12-31
EU contribution
€579,600
Participants
16
Scheme
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-SE

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Results in brief

COOPERATIVE AND INTELLIGENT UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE APPLICATIONS

Equipped with sensors and cameras to provide real-time information, drones or unmanned aircraft can provide efficient and effective support during emergency situations. In this context, the EU-funded COVER project develops a cooperative, connected and intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system for emergency response applications (ERAs). It will create a context-aware and service-oriented UAV-to-everything network, as well as robust cooperative UAV sensing and computing schemes and intelligent cooperative UAV control strategies. By leveraging cutting-edge technologies, the project seeks to enhance the potential of participating researchers, promote research innovation, and contribute to European leadership in UAVs. The technologies and applications will have broad applications in various ERAs, as well as in public safety and agriculture. This COVER project has the following scientific research and innovation (R&I) objectives (RO): RO-1: Research and develop context-aware and service-oriented UAV-to-everything (U2X) networks with advanced and scalable communication and networking technologies for delivering mission-critical control messages and sensing data for both direct UAV cooperation and first responder communication under dynamic and challenging emergency environments. RO-2: Research and design scalable and robust cooperative UAV sensing and computing (CSC) schemes to jointly provide a comprehensive perception of the complicated environment and situational awareness of the emergency scenarios for both UAV and emergency response applications. Particular attention will be on developing secure, privacy-preserved, and incentive-based data-sharing schemes for cooperative perception and situational awareness of UAV flying environments. RO-3: Develop and test CSC-based intelligent cooperative UAV control schemes for representative ERAs, in order to ensure efficient UAV cooperation, safe UAV flights, and maximize emergence response with accurate situational awareness under tight UAV constraints and strict service requirements of the ERA systems.

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Project objective

The climate change is now one of the biggest threats faced by our natural world and leads to many extreme weather events, flooding, wildfires and heatwaves. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are the promising technologies for the emergency response applications (ERAs) to provide more efficient and faster services to save lives and reduce economic loss. This project aims to develop an innovative cooperative, connected and intelligent UAVs (CIUs) for ERAs, where sensing and computing resources, and flying information from individual UAV could be shared and exploited through effective communications and control of the CIUs. Specifically, context-aware and service-oriented UAV-to-everything (U2X) networks; robust cooperative UAV sensing and computing (CSC) schemes and intelligent cooperative UAV control strategies for ERAs will be investigated. An international inter-sector and inter-disciplinary consortium consisting of world leading academic institutions and prominent industrial partners is created to collaborate on developing novel CIU technologies in ERAs. Cutting-edge communications networks, edge computing, cooperative sensing, intelligent control, and machine learning related technologies will be investigated to tackle the associated challenges. With competent and complementary expertise of the partners and their extensive international research collaboration experience, this project will promote research innovation, foster knowledge sharing, enhance the potentials of participating researchers, and contribute to the European leadership in the UAVs, cooperative sensing and computing, multi-agent control, information and communications technology (ICT), and emergency response sectors. The developed CIU technologies and applications are not only applicable in various ERAs, like flooding, wildfires, and earthquake; but can also be readily extended to other applications, such as smart cities, public safety, agriculture, and the wider scientific community.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · EindhovenCoordinatorNetherlands
  • BRUNEL UNIVERSITY LONDON · UXBRIDGEUnited Kingdom
  • CENTRALESUPELEC · GIF SUR YVETTEFrance
  • CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · ParisFrance
  • GEORG-AUGUST-UNIVERSITAT GOTTINGEN STIFTUNG OFFENTLICHEN RECHTS · GottingenGermany
  • KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN · StockholmSweden
  • MCMASTER UNIVERSITY · HamiltonCanada
  • NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY · SingaporeSingapore
  • RANPLAN WIRELESS NETWORK DESIGN LTD · CAMBRIDGEUnited Kingdom
  • THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA · EdmontonCanada
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF READING · ReadingUnited Kingdom
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY · SydneyAustralia
  • The University of Electro-Communications · ChofuJapan
  • UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX · ColchesterUnited Kingdom
  • UNIVERSITY OF NORTHUMBRIA AT NEWCASTLE · NEWCASTLE UPON TYNEUnited Kingdom
  • WEST AQUILA SRL · L AQUILAItaly

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