Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Research on drones, UAS integration and urban air mobility.

Unmanned Aircraft Systems are currently perceived as a major breakthrough in aviation that needs to be addressed both at the operational and research levels. Due to the fact that this is an area almost as old as aviation itself, it is only with the emergence of digitisation and miniaturisation that it has become increasingly more and more important. This means more and more new challenges, where the current era can be described as the main beginning of unmanned aviation. Only this decade will actually show what unmanned aircraft operations on our planet will look like. Unmanned Aircraft Systems and their operation are a fundamental step away from the previously existing and complied with air traffic organisation with all rules, regulations and procedures focused on the core element of the system, the human, which can be largely replaced by autonomous operation today. However, Unmanned Aircraft Systems are entering the airspace as a new part of aviation and within it, cooperation is needed between all the participants involved, from research, to supervisory authorities, to all types of operators and contributors. The Unmanned Aircraft Systems Research Team is addressing the full scope of this issue so that the development of unmanned aviation can be as rapid as possible.