SURE's primary goal is to identify, design and develop (up to TRL 4) on-board avionics and GNC capabilities for autonomous, safe and robust atmospheric flights.

My main contributions to the project was identifying the need of and developing the first on-board safety filter for launchers. This capability allowed the reduction of dispersions of extreme cases, enforced safety-related constraints and facilitated their monitoring for flight termination.

TBA

AAU Space Group, Aalborg University

European Space Agency (Contract No. 4000142645/23/NL/CRS)

Completed

• Deimos Enginheria (Project leader)
• Aalborg University
• Orbex

The MARIOT project has the objective of developing the first commercial VDES satellite constellation network to improve maritime safety and navigation in the arctic and other naval waters.

I contributed with LEOP, orbital and collision avoidance analyses, and developed an end-to-end Python simulation environment for system verification and communication throughput validation.

MARIOT-1 satellite was launched on 3rd of January 2023.

Learning and Decision Lab, Aalborg University

Innovation Fund Denmark

Completed

• Sternula (Project leader)
• Aalborg University
• Space Inventors S/A
• GateHouse
• Satlab
• Danmarks Meteorologiske Institute

Design, construction and testing of an automated flight termination system for big drones (>7kg). This includes the implementation of neural-networks for 1) classification of landable ground areas and 2) structural vibration monitoring; and 3) the formulation of a decision function to terminate the flight. Airborne tests were conducted, as well as lab tests using VICON motion capture system on a DJI M800 to gather nominal and faulty vibration data.

Gomez, A. R. & la Cour-Harbo, A., “Emergency Landing Decision Method for Unmanned Aircraft”, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2021.

Bektash, O. M., Pedersen, J. N., Gomez, A. R. & la Cour-Harbo, A., “Automated Emergency Landing System for Drones: SafeEYE Project”, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2020.

Drone Research Lab, Aalborg University

Innovation Fund Denmark

Completed