Drobotize

DROBOTIZE project’s vision of the future states, that completely autonomous and secure operation of the mixed fleet of robots and drones in logistics and surveillance actions will be achieved. Then, parcels are delivered end-to-end combining outdoor and indoor transportation of interworking Uncrewed Ground Vehicles (UGV), i.e., mobile robots, and Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAV), commonly known as drones. Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) and Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) are employed for various surveillance and logistics operations on the sea and underwater. UGVs, UAVs, USVs and UUVs together are called UxVs, which at the same time with logistics operations can perform automated tasks like surveillance and safety inspections increasing the benefits achieved by them. A key challenge in this respect is to address the cyber security concerns like manipulation, jamming and spoofing that are associated to UAVs. DROBOTIZE project goal is to define and demonstrate secure interoperability of tasking platforms, “an Uber for ‘drobotized’ logistics and surveillance”, which will allow for on-demand access to UxV fleets, providing both B2C and B2B services. AI functionalities provide synchronized demand and supply allocation, where the best potential logistics and surveillance solution is provided for individual needs. AI based situational awareness will ensure safety, reduce any problems during the operation and will minimize the need of human operator in the loop. DROBOTIZE will scale up globally mixed drone-robot fleet operations, which will disrupt the global logistics and surveillance markets. The DROBOTIZE consortium from Finland, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Republic of Korea is well balanced for studying this challenge with the various use cases in different environments and consortium covers widely the value chain in challenge frame.