Unmanned aerial vehicles are developing quite rapidly - and now unmanned air traffic in special zones is being worked out on the territory of the Innovation Center. The tests are carried out using the first Russian digital platform Nebosvod, developed by Aeroscript, a Skolkovo resident, with the support of the Skoltech Space Center.
These tests have become part of the urban air mobility project, which is being implemented jointly with the Moscow Government and the Moscow Innovation Cluster. It includes the creation of a service testing zone using drones on the territory of Skolkovo. Well, one of the global goals of the project is to develop services for integrating drones into the common RuSPACE airspace.
To achieve this goal, it is necessary to solve several problems, including authorization and planning of flights, electronic identification, monitoring and control of ongoing flights, provision of aeronautical and meteorological information.
Aleksey Khripunov, General Director of Aeroscript: “Within this zone, using the Nebosvod platform, it is possible to obtain permits for flights of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a simplified mode. Coordination of a flight in this zone will not take several days, but only 15 minutes or less. We tested the possibility of operational access to the airspace. In the future, it is planned to automate the system completely and take the person out of the flight control loop.”
The development of the urban air mobility project is included in the Skolkovo strategy until 2024. Testing urban air mobility technologies and services is a step towards the safe use of unmanned aerial vehicles in real urban environments.
Arkady Dvorkovich, Chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation: “In 2022, the test zone project is scheduled to pass a number of checkpoints related to the creation of conditions on the territory of the Innovation Center for testing various services using unmanned aerial vehicles. We look forward to the active involvement of Skolkovo participants in the project, including the test flight program, which is currently in the process of being formed. The Foundation also continues to actively search for new teams that will become participants and use the created infrastructure of the test zone. These can be developers of drones, components and systems for them, service providers using unmanned aircraft, developers of air traffic control systems and security systems.”
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