USEPE - Enabling safe drones operation in Europe

What we do

USEPE is an Exploratory Research Project funded by the SESAR Joint Undertaking. It aims at exploring potential separation methods to ensure the safety of drone operations in urban environments, with a particular focus on densely populated areas.

How we do it

USEPE will propose, develop and evaluate a concept of operations and a set of enabling technologies to ensure the safe separation of drones (from each other and from manned aviation).

To this end, the following steps will be conducted:

  1. Identify who shall be making the decisions

  2. Define and simulate a set of concepts

  3.  Assess the impact of the proposed concepts

Expected Outcomes 

The project’s main outcomes will be:

  • An Initial Concept of Operation, with proposals for an Urban Space Separation Management System
  • A set of validation experiments of the proposed solutions, to complete the V1 phase as defined by E-OCVM (European Operational Concept Validation Methodology) and achieve the TRL2 (Technology Readiness Level).

 

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For more information, visit the USEPE website.