 About ASTRAEA- The Astraea programme seeks to research, develop and validate the necessary technologies, systems, facilities and procedures to promote and enable safe, routine and unrestricted use of UASs
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- ASTRAEA Projects
- The Astraea programme has been divided into a series of projects, each managed by a private sector partner.
- Regulatory Framework
- Regulatory projects determine that UAS systems can be considered for routine safe operation in non-segregated airspace
- Good Airmanship
- Assessing acceptable levels of UAS Good Airmanship to ensure adequate safety levels and a framework for developing Certification and Operational Rules
- Route to Compliance
- Developing a route to compliance through investigation of the means of achieving clearance of UAS system designs
- UAV Operations and Procedures
- Framework for UAS operation, with reference to current manned aircraft rules
- Integration with Operating Environment
- Analysing the issues relating to the integration of UASs into the existing and emerging Air Traffic Control infrastructure
- Demonstration
- Projects demonstrating the technology being developed
- UAS Propulsion and Power
- Assessing, in the absence of a pilot-in-the-loop, the functionality and interface requirements between a typical propulsion system and a modern aircraft management system
- UAS Affordable processes
- Developing affordable and qualifiable processes for the design and manufacture of UAS airframes and engines
- Technology
- Information on the technology issues that the Astraea project manages
- Ground Operations & Human System Interaction
- This project is looking at technologies and procedures that will be required on the ground in order to fly a UAS in a routine manner in UK airspace
- Communications and Air Traffic Control
- This project is examining what data a UAS will need to send and receive and is researching the communications technology needed to handle this
- UAS Handling
- This project is researching and developing technology to enable a UAS to perform all these functions autonomously
- Adaptive Routing
- Developing the technology to enable an aircraft to modify its own flightpath and adapt its route in reaction to a variety of situations
- Collision Avoidance Systems
- Engaging with stakeholders to develop user requirements for UASs and to establish a performance baseline
- Multiple Air Vehicle Integration
- Joining the majority of ASTRAEA sub-projects to ensure the safe operation of autonomous systems within combined airspace
- Prognosis & Health Management
- Providing technology and systems to enable UASs to monitor their own state, perform real-time prognosis and to make decisions on how best to assist optimal mission performance
- Decision Modelling
- Developing a robust and clearable system that will provide an on-board decision-making capability
- ASTRAEA Partners
- Responsibility for delivering ASTRAEA as a key element of the National Aerospace Technology Strategy has been handed to the Aerospace Innovation and Growth Team
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- ASTRAEA is a pioneering £32 million aerospace programme which is addressing key technological and regulatory issues in order to open up non-segregated airspace to unmanned autonomous aircraft
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