Actions realized
A flight authorization has been requested from DGAC for each experiment and integration session. Permission to emit in private 4G was also requested from ARCEP.
2020
- A hardware and software integration session with several drone flights took place in February 2020 in Nancy validating the following points :
- LTE coverage up to 1200m in NLOS
- GPS RTK operational with metric accuracy
- The CEOS project and in particular the contribution of artificial intelligence for automated inspection was presented on March 3, 2020 as part of the European robotics forum ERF 2020 during the Workshop on Aerial Intelligent Robotics for Inspection and Maintenance.
- A plenary meeting of the CEOS project was to be held at Caen-Carpiquet airport on March 23 and 24. A flight authorization was requested so that tests of automated inspection of fences by a drone are carried out in the presence of project partners and invited persons. However, as part of the national effort to combat COVID-19, the day of presentation of the CEOS project at Caen-Carpiquet airport on March 24, 2020 has been postponed to 27 and 28 July.
- An integration session was held in Nancy from 6 to 8 July with several flights to check the operation of the entire system including long-distance redundant private and public Thales LTE communications, gimbal driving, automatic image shooting, automatic navigation, etc.
- The experiment with automated fences inspection at Caen airport, originally scheduled for 23 and 24 March, was scheduled for 27 and 28 July.
- Alerion did a keynote talk about "Unmanned aerial systems, societal challenges and systems efficiency" at ICUAS '20 in September.
- An experiment of automatic penstocks inspection was held in St Dalmas from 28 September to 2 October.
- An experiment of automatic power lines inspection was held in Quevilloncourt on November 2 and 6.
2019
- Caen Carpiquet Airport (AdC) joins the CEOS consortium, April 2019
- CEOS attended the international Paris air show at le Bourget, from 17 to 23 June 2019. Come on to visit us at booth!
- CEOS attended the CDC 2019 forum (The Council for Civilian UAVs), on 9 July 2019 at the large hall of DGAC.
- Two hardware integration sessions in October and December 2019 validated the following points:
- Hovering with gimbal and Canon EOS 50D camera
- Thales LTE with QoS communication
- Gimbal driving using Tegra X2
- Images acquisition from ground by using Canon EOS 50D camera
- Ground reception of the video stream for navigation from the BASLER camera via Thales LTE
- Ground reception of PX4 telemetry on QGroundControl via Thales LTE
- Two expert researchers in the embedded sector decided to create the startup Statinf (fr) in December 2019 in order to immediately exploit the results obtained by INRIA within the framework of the CEOS project. The Startup was immediately accepted into the Agoranov incubator (fr) and the Wilco accelerator and was also a laureate of the French 2019 Carnot Prize (fr). The CEOS partners want the results of the project to be used and exploited quickly.
2018
- System test campaign from 3rd to 6th April 2018 on the ENEDIS site in Heillecourt, Lorraine
- RTCSA2018 - IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications, Aug 2018, Hakodate, Japan. Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications
- ADCIS completely revised its website at the end of 2018 and decided to highlight its image processing activity related to the drone. A section of the site is dedicated to the CEOS project. ADCIS also regularly communicates on its social networks about project news. As the ADCIS part of the project is partially funded by Feder and the European Commission, numerous announcements have been made to the Normandy Region and the EEC.
2017
- Scientific organization of a Dagstuhl seminar
- The partners and objectives of the CEOS project have been presented to ADP (Aéroports de Paris) and DSNA (direction des Services de la navigation aérienne) services
- A presentation was made during the S3P Alliance day to all S3P project partners
- Scientific organization of an international workshop on real-time composition CRTS2017
- Organization for the first time in France of RTSS2017 real-time domain conference
CEOS project