At Kąkolewo aerodrome, located in the Grodzisk Wielkopolski municipality (58 km from the center of Poznań), the "Aerosfera. Airport of Things" laboratory has been established, focusing on research and development in the applications of unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous systems, and flight control.
The AEROSFERA project has also supported the development of new drone solutions, particularly in agriculture, where they are utilized for testing and virtual consulting in some areas (project EDWIN). However, this is not the only application; through ICT and UAVs, we can explore new areas such as:
- aviation (applications and IT systems, next-generation hardware, pilot training, monitoring of pilots' psychophysical conditions),
- precision agriculture (including both large farm owners and companies providing services for smaller farms) and precision construction,
- energy,
- strategic environmental protection and forestry,
- logistics (transport services, courier services),
- insurance and crisis situations, etc.
LABORATORY FOR AUTONOMOUS
AND ENERGY-EFFICIENT AIRPORT INFRASTRUCTURE
Main elements of infrastructure and equipment:
- Hangar with scientific and research facilities
- IT infrastructure for local data processing from the UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles)
LABORATORY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES
Main elements of infrastructure and equipment:
- Mobile laboratory with ICT (Information Communication Technology) for remote storage of UAVs and processing of data from UAVs
- Next generation flying wing UAVs and multi-rotors
- Laboratory kit for construction work
and optimisation of targeted development of unmanned flying platforms
and measurement of their key performance parameters - Wyposażenie pracowni w aparaturę laboratoryjną parku maszynowego CNC,
pozwalającą na obróbkę elementów z włókna węglowego - Components for the construction of experimental flying platforms
- Workshop tools
- New generation of multispectral cameras
- New generation 3D scanners and aerial photogrammetry equipment
LABORATORY FOR AIRPORT
SAFETY AND SECURITY
Main elements of infrastructure and equipment:
- Infrastructure for intelligent monitoring and management
of the rest space and airport facilities - Safety net for testing new solutions for UAV with equipment
z wyposażeniem - Elements of the test track construction
- UAV positioning system in 3D space
(in the safety cage or in a dedicated laboratory area) - Set of cameras, vision sensors and tools to support remote
monitoring of experiments with UAV in the indoor and outdoor areas - A set of sensors and tools for R&D work
on autonomous inspection and monitoring scenarios
for diagnostics and safety of airport infrastructure
using UAV and mobile wheeled platforms
LABORATORY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF FLIGHT AND AIRSPACE CONTROL SYSTEMS
Main elements of infrastructure and equipment:
- Hardware and software chip sets modelled
on neural circuits and hardware accelerators - IT infrastructure to enable local processing of UAV data
and local support for local machine learning processes - Technical infrastructure for the operation of the laboratory
- A set of high-quality digital cameras
integrable with UAV platforms
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