Autonomous Drone Flight Trials at Heathrow
End of last year, a series of successful drone flight trials was carried out within Heathrow Airport’s Flight Restriction Zone (FRZ). The flight trials were part of the Project HADO® (High-intensity Autonomous Drone Operations) within Innovate UK’s Future Flight Challenge (FFC) programme, and were carried out together with Thales, Herotech8 and Cranfield University.
Working to make autonomous drone operations possible and safe in complex environments, such as highly congested urban environments and airports, has been both challenging and extremely rewarding.
We’re proud to see Carmenta’s UAS geospatial technology integrated into TopSky – UAS powered by AstraUTM – a Thales Company to enhance safety and situational awareness. Capabilities include real-time emergency landing site identification, obstruction height volumes, safety buffer zone validation and compliance and multi-object routing.
Read more in this blog post from Thales