Safety Critical Harsh Environment Micro-processing Evolution

The Goal

Bringing together a world-class consortium of UK industry and academia to develop the next generation of microprocessors for use in aerospace and other harsh environments.

Our Role

Leading on delivery of simulation, flight demonstration, and flight evaluation for uncrewed aircraft.

The £37.5m investment program is co-funded by the ATI Programme, which funds civil aerospace research in the UK and is delivered in partnership with the Aerospace Technology Institute, the Department for Business & Trade, and Innovate UK.

Selected for our safety-first approach to deterministic autonomous systems, we recognise that a cyber-secure, high-integrity processor will be at the heart of the software-enabled aerospace systems of the future.

Traject is our connected, interoperable, and high-assurance Detect And Avoid. This functionality will be essential to the emerging Uncrewed Aviation Systems market.

As operations evolve and safety criticality increases, Traject is being developed and tested on the next generation of processors.

It is UTM interoperable, as demonstrated through integration with Via. This combination maximises safety through defences in depth.

BVLOS Flight Planning & Management

High integrity Detect And Avoid

Project Partners

Ports of Jersey are the Air Navigation Service Provider for the ALIAS project.

TekTowr are an ALIAS project partner and close collaborator working to enable high integrity BVLOS operations.

DroneDefence are an ALIAS project partner delivering integrated ground-based surveillance.

DroneCloud are an ALIAS project partner delivering UTM, with a teaming arrangement for ongoing commercial exploitation.

Cambridge Sensoriis are an ALIAS project partner delivering high-fidelity radar sensing.

SkyLift are an ALIAS project partner as one of three BVLOS operators.

SkyDrones are an ALIAS project partner as one of three BVLOS operators.

SkyPorts are an ALIAS project partner as one of three BVLOS operators.

Draken and Volant have signed a teaming arrangement to collaborate on delivery of uncrewed operations.

Rapita is a Scheme project partner, collaborating on fast delivery of high integrity software.

AdaCore is a Scheme project partner, collaborating on fast delivery of high integrity software.

Rolls Royce is the lead for the Scheme project, delivering high integrity hardware for Connected Autonomous Vehicles.

ATI funded the Rolls Royce led Scheme project that will develop and demonstrate Volant’s high integrity systems.

7Percent ventures, a DeepTech specialist venture fund, are backing Volant

DARI won the 2019 SESAR Special Prize for outdoor autonomous flight, avoiding static and moving hazards

Nova Systems have flown Traject on their Gazelle and H135 Helicopters

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