‘The Future of Unmanned Vehicles & Systems-Aerospace’ International Conference will discuss technological challenges, flight solutions and space exploration related to Unmanned Aircraft and Unmanned Vehicles. It is being held on October 27, 201, as part of the ‘Aerospace & Defense Meetings’, the international aerospace business convention in Turin – Italy, on 26 and 27 October. The event is sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce of Turin and is organised by Abe-Bci Aerospace, in collaboration with Ceipiemeonte (Piedmont agency) taking care of international aspects abroad, Alps Enterprise Europe Network and with the support of the Piedmont Aerospace District Committee and AIAD.
‘The Aerospace & Defense Meetings bring the bar of the technological challenges to an even higher level, this year hosting an event of great scientific international event dedicated to unmanned aircraft on board, explains Alessandro Barberis, President of the Chamber of Commerce of Turin The goal is to respond to the very high interest in these topics with a levy worldwide increasingly important also and especially in the civil’.
The support of the scientific committee of large Piedmont companies and research centres, the coordination of the Chamber of Commerce of Turin and the SAE International have been fundamental. A team that has managed to bring for the first time in Italy the European Defence Agency, which, together with other representatives of the scientific community such as the Italian Aerospace Research Centre and the Polytechnic of Turin, will face important representatives of the aviation industry: Avio, Dassault, EADS, Thales, Selex Galileo, Rockwell Collins and PMI.
The increasing relevance is demonstrated by the project civil Smat F1, born in the Piedmont Aerospace District Promoting Committee and co-funded by the Piedmont Region through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) which involved large companies, the Polytechnic of Turin and many local SMEs. Piedmont at the end of September flew three unmanned aircraft: the Sky-Y, Alenia Aeronautica, Selex Galileo and the Hawk of the small C-Fly’s Nimbus. The three companies, who will be present to ‘The Future of Unmanned Vehicles & Systems-Aerospace’, worked in the same airspace in an area of land that is not flying on a military firing and taking off from a civil airport, to make a monitoring mission in the territory for civil purposes.
This result was achieved thanks to the support received by ENAC (National Civil Aviation Authority) and ENAV (National Flight Assistance Agency), both helping to define the requirements and safety procedures needed in order to obtain permission to fly in a civil area for the first time in Italy. The main purpose of the project is to study and test a surveillance system which supports the prevention, emergency and safeguarding the territory to control events like -floods, fires, traffic, urban planning, pollution and farming.
Source: AvioNews