WBS – Eagles Project

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To conduct an efficient project management process, which ensures that the work is performed following the Description of the Action (DoA)
To ensure the required quality and time schedules are achieved throughout the entire project duration
To ensure appropriate risk monitoring, detection and application of proper mitigation measures
To ensure the fulfillment of the partners’ obligations towards the (European Union) EU from the legal, financial and administrative perspective
To effectively manage communication between the consortium and the EU
To communicate, disseminate and exploit the project results ensuring this is done in compliance with security and confidentiality obligations
To maximize the impact of the project results ensuring exploitability by end-users and integration with previous and ongoing pertinent R&D activities in the defense and civil sectors

To define, with the support of the Advisory Board (AB), the use cases in terms of specific missions to be addressed by the Drone Guard system, intended as a System of Systems (Sy-o-Sy)
To derive high-level Sy-o-Sy requirements and constraints
To define demonstration scenarios to prove the effectiveness of the technologies developed by EAGLES

Assessment of concept feasibility of the whole Sy-o-Sy
Definition of the requirements for the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) mothership mission
Trade-off analysis at system level of the UAV mothership drone performance, by dedicated feasibility studies
Conceptual development, at system level, of the UAV mothership architecture

To perform the conceptual design of the sub-systems of the UAV mothership studying the aerodynamic performances, the loads and the propulsion system to manage the configuration of the vehicle and make a concept of the primary structure
To define the avionics architecture and Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC) software for the autonomous flight
To define the dedicated flight- and mission-related sensors suite, including air drop and recovery of mini-drones
To conceive the data-link system, from both hardware and software points of view
To perform an ex-post final assessment of architecture (and performance) with the aim to evaluate the technological gaps

To define the Requirements for the management of swarm of mini-drones
To study the different architectures by means of a trade-off analysis with respect to the expected mission performance
To design the data link subsystem
To design the sensing subsystem with related algorithms
To study and design the protocols of coordination and mission management
To study and design the GNC algorithm for retreat and rendezvous

Define the requirements of the demonstration
Design a simplified test scenario foreseeing the use of commercial mini-drones suitably adapted for the purpose of EAGLES project
Adaptation of commercial mini-drones for the scope of EAGLES
Implementation of ground station and data link
Set-up of the test campaign and post-process and analysis of the data.