The European Commission, under the 7th Frame Program, has provided funds to perform the project SAFEMOBIL (Estimation and Control for Safe Wireless High Mobility Cooperative Industrial Systems), recognizing the growing importance of the UAV market and applications, which in the case of SAFEMOBIL project, are related to the utilization of autonomous systems in general and UAVs in particular, in many applications that cannot be accomplished with manned systems for including disaster management, the monitoring and measurement of events, rescue missions, particularly in stormy conditions and, in general all mission where there are risks for human beings.
The awarded consortium includes the most important organizations and companies within the European sector and represents and an appropriate mixture of research organizations and key players at the industry level. FADA-CATEC acts as the project leader and the consortium team include DLR, Astrium, Indra, SELEX GALILEO, Euroimpianti, University of Seville, University Duisburg-Essen and University of Zagreb. The EC-SAFEMOBIL project is devoted to the development of sufficiently accurate motion estimation and control methods and technologies in order to reach levels of reliability and safety to facilitate unmanned vehicle deployment in a broad range of applications. It also includes the development of a secure architecture and the middleware to support the implementation. The EC SAFEMOBIL project will develop world first technology demonstrators in several applications dealing with the landing of UAVs on mobile platforms in challenging conditions, the launching of a UAV from a manned vehicle, the surveillance, and the warehousing involving a large number of autonomous vehicles.