Projects
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Swiss Drone Base Camp Lodrino
The project is focused on the creation of a drone test center for outdoor activities in the area of the Lodrino airfield. The center would collaborate strategically with other swiss UAV test locations, in particular with Dübendorf, as part of Park Zurich as our main Park site, and in second priority Payerne. Themain ...
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EDGAR – EGNSS DFMC for GBAS bAsed opeRations
EDGAR (EGNSS DFMC for GBAS bAsed opeRations) Project aims at contributing towards the development of an improved, more liable, and accurate GBAS solution that responds, on the one hand, to the increasing demand for enhanced approach and all-weather operations in the ever-growing volume of air operations; and on ...
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Net4Cities – Real-Time Monitoring Networks and Transport Emissions for Tailored Zero Pollution Action Plans in European Cities
The EU Europe H2020 project Net4Cities aims to monitor and allocate traffic emissions of all kinds in order to enable their targeted reduction as part of the Zero Pollution Action Plan. To this end, new standards for monitoring air pollution and noise emissions are being developed in 11 European cities, ...
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SWEET-reFuel.ch
To comply with the timeline of Swiss net-zero targets, an accelerated market development of sustainable fuels and platform chemicals (SFPC) is necessary. While first-generation technology is available to initiate a ramp-up the production of those substances, this is not the case for policies, laws, regulations, and ...
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EASA SAMPLE IV SC02
This project is a second contract under the framework contract "Assessment of environmental impacts framework contract – Research on characteristics of aircraft engine emissions" of the SAMPLE IV consortium funded by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). The tasks of the second (and final) specific contract ...
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Emission Zero: A sustainable construction simulation game, 1990-2050
Imagine a city somewhere in Switzerland. The year is 1990 and now it's about pursuing sustainable development that aims to achieve emission zero by 2050 at the latest. Where to start? What strategies must and can be used to perhaps achieve this goal beforehand? This city is a simulation within a video game and you ...
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Making I-CNS A Reality (MIAR)
The aviation industry aims to integrate communication, navigation, and surveillance (CNS) services in order to use spectrum more efficiently and increase resilience while enabling optimal separation between aircraft and maintaining safety. In this context, the EU-funded MIAR project will focus on the capabilities of ...
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White-box Helicopter System Identification
The WHeSI project originates from a collaboration between ZHAW and the Swiss manufacturer Kopter. It aims to develop a high-fidelity simulation model to support the design and certification of Kopter’s AW09 - a new-generation, single-turbine helicopter that aims to revolutionize the light helicopter market and is ...
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Urban Green Space and Climate in a Network of Urban Climate Networks (URBNET)
Climate change is accelerating and affects livelihoods already now, while society needs to prepare for a future, even hotter climate. Among many other impacts, climate change affects human health and leads to excess mortality due to heat. In cities, the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect exacerbates the problem, all ...
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High Integrity Satellite Navigation for UAV using the Galileo HAS
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CO-NOISE: Containment of drone acoustic footprint through configuration optimisation
Identify noise generation mechanisms and characterise the associated footprint of drone configurations widely used in the market. The project aims to identify optimisation opportunities based on sensitivity assessment related to key design parameters.
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Emission Reduction using Satellite Navigation for Approach Guidance
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Digital Transformation - Case Studies for Aviation Safety Standards - Modelling and Simulation
The continuous improvement of machine learning (ML) methods could change the approachesfor the design and development of Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) and drones and thereforelead to possible changes in certification and aviation standards. To analyze this topic practicallyand effectively, the idea is ...
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LINA: Shared Large-scale Infrastructure for the Development and Safe Testing of Autonomous Systems
The goal of the LINA consortium is to create a basis for the largest European (real and virtual) infrastructure for research, development and safe testing of autonomous systems / UAS (Unmanned Aircraft System) for commercial products in the canton of Zurich.
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Detection and Classification of Risks from Radar Data
The measure is in the security area. Flying objects are detected as risks from radar data. Machine learning algorithms classify these risks as drones or birds.
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High Operational Reliability for Unmanned Systems
HORUS (High Operational Reliability for Unmanned Systems) is a proof of concept that makes flying drones with 2 autopilots possible. The goal of the project is to transform this proof of concept into a minimum viable product: reducing footprint, improving features and going through an intensive flight ...
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NEAPTIDE – Numerical Prediction and Experimental Assessment of Drone Noise
The project deals with the development of a method to characterise aircraft noise generated by drones. For this purpose, a corresponding noise database will be created, which will serve to identify the most relevant noise generation mechanisms (so-called acoustic footprint) in order to contribute to limiting the ...
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BAZL LAB
Development and delivery of assessor training on behalf of the Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation.
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AGEAIR II: Investigation of gaseous and particulate emissions of in-service AIRcraft and helicopter turbine engines, as well as the effects of performance deterioration of AGEing aircraft engines
All combustion engines emit a wide range of toxic emissions. On one hand, the gaseous fraction contains mostly nitrous gases (NOx), carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and sulfur dioxide. Thanks to ICAO regulations, NOx emissions have substantially decreased in recent years, especially by optimizing the combustion ...
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Urban climate simulation study "Zurich West"
The city of Zurich is investigating ways to improve the quality of life with regard to the heat stress that the population has to endure within the framework of the specialist planning for heat reduction. To this end, the City of Zurich has presented a catalogue of measures that contains a variety of approaches ...