{"id":28638,"date":"2023-10-31T10:27:28","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T09:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eucentre.it\/progetto-drone4safety\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T09:42:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:42:55","slug":"drones4safety-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eucentre.it\/en\/drones4safety-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Drones4Safety Project"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Building a cooperative, autonomous, operating drone system to enhance transport safety<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The Drones4Safety (D4S) project was a Horizon 2020 (H2020) project that aims to increase the safety of the European civil transport system by developing a system of autonomous, self-charging, and cooperative drones to inspect a big portion of transportation infrastructure in a continuous operation. The project solutions utilize the existing energized infrastructure, like overhead power or rail lines, to charge its drones to operate for a longer time. The project gets information about the transport infrastructure to be inspected from open maps and satellite data and forwards that information to its drones to conduct their autonomous and collaborative inspection missions.
\nThe conceptual view of the project shows a set of drones that have a self-charging capability to harvest energy from overhead power line cables (transmission lines\/railway catenary lines). The drones are working autonomously in a swarm and apply sensor fusion and onboard signal processing techniques to fly, inspect, and recharge autonomously. Advanced AI algorithms have been developed and trained to detect anomalies in the gathered transportation infrastructure (railways\/bridges) data. A cloud service system has been also developed to offer inspection services such as mission control and swarm fleet management.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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The D4S project\u2019s main objectives was:<\/p>\n