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As part of the AURORA Project, Exprivia creates the Experiment Monitoring Station – EMS platform, a fundamental asset at the Grottaglie airport test bed – GATB for the management of urban air flight experiments.

The AURORA Project – ItALian Urban aiR mOBility Technologies & DistRIbuted Test-FAcility – aims to create a national infrastructure to test Satellite navigation technologies in the field of Urban Air Mobility (Urban Air Mobility).

The project involves several companies, including the National Civil Aviation Authority – ENAC and Telespazio as leader, Exprivia and other companies in the sector. The activities will take place at various locations, including Telespazio in Rome, the Italian Aerospace Research Center – CIRA in Capua and the Grottaglie airport in the province of Taranto.

Exprivia Solution

The AURORA Project for the development of urban air mobility

The activity of the AURORA project involves the development and validation of new technologies and services for advanced urban air mobility applications such as:

• future urban air transport;
• the delivery of drugs, biomedical products and goods to remote areas;
• support to emergency management authorities;
• air support services for police in urban and suburban areas.

The design and development activities will be concentrated at Telespazio’s GLASS Lab, then validated in the CIRA laboratories, while field tests will be conducted at the Aerospace Technology District – Grottaglie Airport Test Bed – DTA-GATB.

Exprivia continues its research activity in the UAM mobility sector by combining innovation and sustainability, developing solutions aimed at improving the quality of life in urban areas.

Exprivia’s EMS Experiment Monitoring Station

In the AURORA project, Exprivia will build the EMS Experiment Monitoring Station subsystem, whose main functionalities are real-time mission monitoring and debriefing sessions.

In carrying out the main functions, the EMS system will process in real time the data coming from the Ground Control Station via MAVLINK Link, from the GNNS Flying Box and RFS (Radio Frequency System) systems. It will also create an experiment cataloguing system for the analysis of results, will allow urban flight plans to be managed to verify experimental data with planned data, will implement an authentication mechanism based on roles and profile profiles and will guarantee high performance and security levels.

Finally, the EMS Experiment Monitoring Station will be equipped with a WEB-based application with modern and user-friendly functions, will present mission data on 2D/3D cartographic layers and will allow the operator to add additional layers to better contextualize urban flight experimentation operations.

The experiment monitoring station will allow the operator to perform a replay session by retrieving all the data stored in a timed manner for the required period: multiple simultaneous debriefing sessions are possible to ensure multi-user analysis.

The Exprivia Experiment Monitoring Station will be a fundamental asset for the development of the Grottaglie Test Bed.