Project description
Unmanned aircraft systems platform to support situation assessment for first responders
In case of a disaster, the rapid, effective and efficient response of first responders is crucial for saving lives. Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) technology can aid emergency management in complementing existing systems used in first response missions. The EU-funded RESPONDRONE project aims at developing a multi-UAS platform for first responders to enhance their situation awareness. The fleet of UAS will provide enhanced capabilities to support assessment missions, search and rescue operations, as well as forest fire fighting by simplifying operations for first responders and thus making first response operations more efficient. The platform will be designed to provide relevant information in real-time to all involved stakeholders using a cloud-based system, supporting on-time decision making and operations management.
Objective
RESPONDRONE will develop and validate an integrated solution for first responders to easily operate a fleet of drones with multiple synchronized missions to enhance their situation assessment capacity and own protection. This System of Systems will simplify and accelerate situation assessment and sharing, decision making and operations management, while requiring a small crew to operate it. Moreover, it will deliver high-level information to any involved control centre through an intelligent web-based system that can be operated and accessed from a remote site as well as serving as on-demand airborne communications network to allow people on the ground to communicate with the command centre in case of cellular coverage collapse.
With these situational-awareness enhancing tools, emergency response teams will be able to more rapidly, effectively and efficiently respond to an emergency or disaster and therefore save more lives. The fleet of drones will provide enhanced capabilities to support assessment missions, search and rescue operations, as well as forest fire fighting. The deployment will still be very simple. Each fleet or unit of drones will be able to be operated by a single pilot and few observers. To ensure seamless uptake and adaption by first responder organizations, RESPONDRONE will be fully integrated and embedded within the current processes and procedures of real emergency response agencies and teams, among others through advanced training programs. Therefore, RESPONDRONE will increase the effectiveness and efficiency of civil protection operations as it will consider the first responder total mission time, cost, and effectiveness (and not just considering the deployment time).
RESPONDRONE will be demonstrated through participation in actual civil protection exercises on Corsica, involving several agencies simultaneously.
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- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering robotics autonomous robots drones
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Programme(s)
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H2020-EU.3.7. - Secure societies - Protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
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H2020-EU.3.7.5. - Increase Europe's resilience to crises and disasters
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-SU-SEC-2018-2019-2020
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51147 KOLN
Germany
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