About AMU-LED
AMU-LED will allow UAM stakeholders to specify various use cases applicable to logistics and urban transport of passengers, to integrate UAM environment, to demonstrate the UAS ground and airborne platforms and finally, to assess safety, security, sustainability and public acceptance.
AMU-LED will test real UAM operations in a U-space eco-system for coordinated flights of several types of UAVs in different scenarios, use cases and applications (e.g. air taxis, emergency services, delivery of goods, surveys, etc.) for surveillance, logistics and mobility using air vehicles. At the end of the project, it will be demonstrated that any city or urban region (e.g. sparsely populated areas) may have the capability to offer UAM services and infrastructures taking into account its specificities, but in a standardized and safe form. Finally, this project will contribute significantly to define the needs and features of the Urban Air Vehicle (UAV) on-board equipment. A set of various experimentations will be performed in three counties in Europe (the UK, Spain and the Netherlands), towards the test of the drone platform itself but also the U-space relevant services to be deployed. The UAM eco-system needs to be holistically considered as a system of systems.
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Objective 1
Safe interaction of UAM with other Airspace Users: AMU-LED will define and test U-space services and technologies to provide means to coordinate and integrate safely UAM operations with other Air Space Users, including manned aviation and ATC coordination. (Please note that the objective is different from full integration with ATM, and SWIM information exchanges activities foreseen in SESAR Pj34)
Objective 2
Safe UAM flight: Additionally, AMU-LED Project will explore the requirements of UAM platforms to fly and navigate safely even in complex urban environments, considering the impact of buildings both in surrounding air streams and multipath effects on electromagnetic signals in space providing guidance (e.g. GNSS) and communications (e.g. 4G/5G) to the UAM platforms
Consortium
The 1st AMU-LED workshop is now available online!
Latest news
AMU-LED Open Demo Day in Spain, September, October and November 2022
The AMU-LED Open Demo Day in Spain, led by the Instituto Tecnológico de Galicia (ITG), took place in the city of Santiago de Compostela on September 28th and 29th. The event was completed with two unmanned air taxi flights at the Rozas aerodrome in the city of Lugo, on October 3rd and November 10th. The Read more about AMU-LED Open Demo Day in Spain, September, October and November 2022[…]
AMU-LED Demos in the Netherlands, August 2022
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Invite for AMU-LED open day in Santiago de Compostela (SPAIN)
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AMU-LED First Open Day
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AMU-LED participates in the 11th Horizon Europe Conference
AMU-LED was selected to participate in the 11th Conference about Horizon Europe, the new research and innovation program in the European Union which was held on 6 April in Valencia (Spain). More than 1,300 attendees discovered the opportunities of the Horizon Europe program and could get information about European projects coordinated by Spanish entities. The Read more about AMU-LED participates in the 11th Horizon Europe Conference[…]
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