Safety4Drones

Automated identification of emergency landing sites / points in rural areas

Safety4Drones provides an emergency landing system for drones in order to minimize the risk to humans in the event of technical emergencies or flight disruptions and to recover the valuable aircraft with its instrumentation as undamaged as possible.

Due to the technical complexity, various technical components and software solutions must communicate with each other via different interfaces. Essentially, three main technical areas can be identified that make up the emergency landing system for a drone:

  • GIS-Tool
  • Ground control station (BKS)
  • Drone autopilot

The emergency landing is executed either via the drone pilot's ground control station (BKS) or autonomously via the drone's autopilot. The necessary geobase data is evaluated from the GIS system and delivered to the emergency landing control system via the BKS. The ground control station represents the most important main component of the emergency landing system and at the same time acts as an interface between flight planning, the drone pilot and the drone's autopilot. Based on the requirements of the BKS, the following core tasks of the GIS tool were defined and implemented by Prof. Schaller UmweltConsult GmbH in close coordination with the project partners:

  • Creation of the emergency landing areas
  • Identification of suitable emergency landing points

The following video shows an application example for Safety4Drones.


Safety4Drones ZIM Exhibition film


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Sponsored by

Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
ZIM - Central Innovation Program for SMEs

Project partner

Prof. Schaller UmweltConsult GmbH
Esri Deutschland Group GmbH
Quantum Systems GmbH
Universität der Bundeswehr München

Project period
2017 - 2019
Services

2D and 3D GIS data preparation and integration
2D and 3D GIS analysis and model coupling
2D and 3D visualization of the results
3D GIS coordinate output for the BKS
Autopilot interface of the GIS data

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