angle-left Test and Knowledge-based Environment for Operations, Flight and Facility
Year:
2015-2017
Funding Type:
Aiuti a sostegno dei Cluster Tecnologici Regionali 2014 Bando approvato con Determinazione del Dirigente del Servizio Ricerca Industriale e Innovazione Regione Puglia n.399 del 28/07/2014 e successiva Determinazione n. 458 del 29/09/2014
Short Description:

The research project is part of a broader strategic plan which aims, through cooperation between national enterprises and regional and national institutions, at the creation of the Grottaglie Airport Testbed. It is the first Italian industrial airport infrastructure fully dedicated to strengthening, by a scientific and technological point of view, the industrial potential related to GA aircraft and UAVs, both on the military and civilian market segment.
The objective of the research project is to study, design and implement a technological infrastructure that can support the activities of experimentation and testing. This technological infrastructure will enable the acquisition, processing and display of data and results of GA aircraft and UAVs flight tests.
The data processing will be assigned to a Data Fusion system, part of a Cloud-Private infrastructure, to which dashboard instruments are connected.

Since the Grottaglie Airport Testbed will be used by many customers at the same time, the technological infrastructure will ensure high level of security and confidentiality in data acquisition, storage and distribution.
• Automation of airport processes according to the test procedures;
• Development of a test environment able to capture all the flight information defined within the flight procedures, using both sensors deployed on the aircraft and on the ground;
• Development of a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) environment;
• Development of Data Fusion environment integrating complex data sets, resulting from on-board and field sensors, in order to present to users a restricted and selected set of information through dashboarding tools.

Take-Off is in an early-stage. Different types of technologies will be used. The Laboratory is involved in several activities related to processes discovering and modelling for operational activities, flight procedures and risk assessment.
Furthermore, it is also involved in the design and implementation of a monitoring platform for the operative activities of the airport and for flight monitoring trough acquisition and representation of data derived from sensors deployed on aircraft and in the surrounding environment.

Role: Scientific leader for Research Unit “Department of Engineering for Innovation of the University of Salento”