Project Deliverables

The Project plan  of Drones4Safety has been designed to meet the objectives of the project.

The structure consists of 9 Work Packages (WPs): one for project management (WP1), one technical WP for the overall drone system specification, requirements analysis and use case definitions (WP2), four parallel technical WPs (WP3-WP6), one technical work package for system integration, test bed establishment, validation and demonstration (WP7), one for dissemination, communication and exploitation (WP8) and one for ethical issues related to the project (WP9).

Each Work Package is expected to produce outputs ensuring the best achievement of a goal. These deliverables can be products, services, project reports or meetings. The table below show the list of deliverables for each work package with the report of the deliverables approved by the European Commission. 

It is possible to download the deliverable reports in order to evaluate the progress of the project. 

Work Package 2: System specifications, requirements analysis, and use case definitions
Work Package 3: Energy harvesting and drone operations in harsh environments
Work Package 4: AI for fault detection in bridges and railways
Work Package 7: System integration, testbed establishment, use case validation and demonstration

D7.2: Case study application 1: railway inspection
D7.3: Case study application 2: bridge inspection

Work Package 9: Ethics

Scientific Papers

Open-Source Hardware/Software Architecture for Autonomous Powerline- Aware Drone Navigation and Recharging

Authors: Frederik Falk Nyboe, Nicolaj Haarhøj Malle, Viet Duong Hoang, Emad Ebeid

Original language: English

Publication status: Accepted/In press

Event: 2023 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems

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Towards Autonomous UAV Railway DC Line Recharging: Design and Simulation

Authors: Frederik Falk Nyboe, Nicolaj Haarhøj Malle, Gerd Vom Bögel, Linda Cousin, Thomas Heckel, Konstantin Troidl, Anders Schack Madsen, Emad Ebeid

Original language: English

Publication status: Accepted/In press

Journal: 2023 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

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Open-Source Educational Platform for FPGA Accelerated AI in Robotics

Authors: Nicolaj Malle, Emad Ebeid.

Original language: English

Publication status: Published

Journal: 2022 8th International Conference on Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering (ICMRE)

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Design of an Autonomous Cooperative Drone Swarm for Inspections of Safety Critical Infrastructure

Authors: Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen, Lea Matlekovic, Liping Shi, Nicolaj Malle, Naeem Ayoub, Kaspar Hageman, Simon Hansen, Frederik Falk Nyboe and Emad Ebeid.

Original language: English

Publication status: Published

Journal: Future Autonomous Drones II

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Multi-UAV trajectory planning for 3D visual inspection of complex structures

Authors: Stefan Ivić, Bojan Crnković, Luka Grbčić, Lea Matleković

Original language: English

Publication status: Published

Journal: Automation in Construction

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Onboard Powerline Perception System for UAVs Using mmWave Radar and FPGA-Accelerated Vision

Authors: Nicolaj Haarhøj Malle; Frederik Falk Nyboe; Emad Samuel Malki Ebeid

Original language: English

Publication status: Published

Journal: IEEE Access ( Volume: 10)

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Dynamic landmark based RTK reference system for swarm of drones

Authors: Martin Pölöskey

Original language: English

Publication status: Published

Journal: POSNAV 2022 POSITIONING AND NAVIGATION FOR INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS


Microservices for autonomous UAV inspection with UAV simulation as a service

Authors: Lea Matlekovic, Filip Juric, Peter Schneider-Kamp

Original language: English

Publication status: Published

Journal:  Simulation Modelling Practice & Theory 

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MPSoC4Drones: An Open Framework for ROS2, PX4, and FPGA Integration.

Authors: Frederik Falk Nyboe, Nicolaj Haarhøj Malle, Emad Ebeid.

Original language: English

Publication status: Accepted

Conference:  ICUAS: Conference on Unmanned Aircraft System

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Experimental Investigation of EMC Weaknesses in UAVs During Power-line Inspection Presentation format.

Authors: Martin Skriver, Anders Stengaard, Ulrik Pagh Schultz, Emad Ebeid

Original language: English

Publication status: Accepted

Conference:  ICUAS: Conference on Unmanned Aircraft System

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From Monolith to Microservices: Software Architecture for Autonomous UAV Infrastructure Inspection

Authors: Lea Matlekovic & Peter Schneider-Kamp

Original language: English

Publication status: Accepted

Conference:  11th International Conference on Cloud Computing: Services and Architecture (CLOUD 2022)

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High Precision Landmark based Positioning Algorithm for autonomous UAVs by using geofence and neural network

Authors: Sam Münchow, Dr. Naeem Ayoub, Martin Pölöskey, Peter Schneider-Kamp

Original language: English

Publication status: Published

Conference:  NAVITEC 2022 in Noordwijk

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Use of UAS for damage inspection and assessment of bridge infrastructures

Authors: M. Mandirola, C. Casarotti, S. Peloso, I. Lanese, E. Brunesi, I. Senaldi

Original language: English

Publication status: Published

Journal: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Volume 72, 2022, 102824, ISSN 2212-4209

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Multi-UAV Path coordination through Generalized Potential Games

Authors: Liping Shi, Néstor J. Hernández Marcano, Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen

Original language: English

Publication status: Accepted 

Conference: ICARA, Prague

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Security Threats Analysis of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System

Authors: Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen, A. Marandi

Original language: English

Publication status: Accepted

Conference: IEEE MILCOM, San Diego

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A review on communication protocols for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles for inspection application

Authors: Liping Shi, Néstor J. Hernández Marcano, Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen

Original language: English

Publication status: Published – 2021

Journal: Microprocessors and Microsystems, vol. 86, 2021

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Radio Frequency Energy Harvesting

Authors: Gerd vom Boegel

Original language: English

Conference: EnABLES Summer School 2021


On the Queuing Delay of Time-Varying Channels in Low Earth Orbit Satellite Constellations

Authors: Néstor J. Hernández Marcano; L. Diez; R. Agüero Calvo; Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen

Original language: English

Publication status: Published – 2021

Journal: IEEE Access, volume 9, 2021

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MPDrone: FPGA-based Platform for Intelligent Real-time Autonomous Drone Operations

Authors: Balint Barna Kövari, Emad Ebeid

Original language: English

Publication status: Published – 1. Sep 2021

Conference: 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR)

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Novel Power Line Grasping Mechanism with Integrated Energy Harvester for UAV applications

Authors: Nicolai Iversen, Aljaz Kramberger, Oscar Bowen Schofield, Emad Ebeid

Original language: English

Publication status: Published – 31. Aug 2021

Conference: 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR)

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Inspection Path Planning for Aerial Vehicles via Sampling-based Sequential Optimization

Authors: Liping Shi, Golizheh Mehrooz, Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen

Original language: English

Publication status: Published – 2021

Conference: 2021 International conference on unmanned aircraft systems (ICUAS’21)

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Survey and Evaluation of Sensors for Overhead Cable Detection using UAVs: Sensor Evaluation Dataset

Authors: Gerd Nicolaj Haarhøj Malle, Frederik Falk Nyboe, Emad Samuel Malki Ebeid

Original language: English

Publication status: Published – 2021

Conference: 2021 International conference on unmanned aircraft systems (ICUAS’21)

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Pneumatic-Mechanical Systems in UAVs: Autonomous Power Line Sensor Unit Deployment

Authors: Nicolai Iversen, Aljaz Kramberger, Oscar Bowen Schofield, Emad Ebeid

Original language: English

Publication status: Published – 2021

Conference: International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2021 (ICRA)

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Drones for Inspection of Overhead Power lines with Recharge Function

Authors: Gerd Vom Bögel*, Linda Cousin, Nicolai Iversen, Emad Ebeid, Andreas Henning

Original language: English

Publication status: Published – 2020

Conference: 2020 23rd Euromicro Symposium on Digital System Design

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LOCATOR - Lightweight and Low-Cost Autonomous Drone System for Overhead Cable Detection and Soft Grasping

Authors: Nicolai Iversen, Oscar Bowen Schofield, Emad Ebeid

Original language: English

Publication status: Published – 2020

Conference: 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR)

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