HIRO-MicroDatacenters is looking for partners to work on EDF-2024-LS-RA-CHALLENGE-SENS-RADNP

HIRO-MicroDatacenters develops compact, energy efficient portable heterogeneous (CPU's, GPU's, FPGA's, NVMe storage) datacenters that can process big data and AI and work in federation across the battle field. They include an edge-cloud computing software stack, hardware based security capabilities, data governance, AI management, dataspaces. We are interested in further developing our microdatacenters and services for more high resilient and secure application area's, incl defence industry.  Multi-sensor integration for robust autonomous drone navigation – Participation in a technological challenge 

TOPIC ID: EDF-2024-LS-RA-CHALLENGE-SENS-RADNP

Type of grant: Call for proposals

General information

Programme: European Defence Fund

Call: Research actions in the form of a technological challenge implemented via lump sum grants (EDF-2024-LS-RA-CHALLENGE)

Type of action: EDF-LS EDF Lump Sum Grants

Type of MGA: EDF Lump Sum Grant [EDF-AG-LS]

Status: Forthcoming

Deadline model: single-stage

Planned Opening Date: 20 June 2024

Deadline dates: 05 November 2024 17:00 (Brussels time)

Topic description

Objective:

To fulfil their missions, the next generation of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are expected to offer an increased level of autonomy. Their effective deployment necessitates key features of swarming and navigation to target positions when GNSS availability is contested or lost and more generally in non-permissive environments. The use of various types of sensors (e.g. inertial, optical, infrared, hyperspectral, radar, LIDAR, acoustic, etc.) and intelligent information fusion are needed to provide the necessary capabilities to tackle these technical and operational challenges. Such intelligent navigation payloads should be usable on a wide range of unmanned assets, including in swarm formations, while having a low SWaP-C (Size, Weight, Power and Costs). Their performances should be measured in a quantitative, objective and comparable way.

Scope:

The proposals must address technological solutions for autonomous aerial drone navigation in non-permissive environments. These solutions must be evaluated through the testing environment set up in the framework of the technological challenge.

Please, visit the following page to get more information regarding this call: https://www.developmentaid.org/grants/view/1283286/multi-sensor-integration-for-robust-autonomous-drone-navigation-participation-in-a-technological-cha?useNavigation=true