COMP4DRONES Contributions for Enabling Safe and Autonomous Drones

Drone-based service and product innovation is curtailed by the growing dependence on poorly interoperable proprietary technologies as well as by the risks posed to people on the ground, to other vehicles and to property (e.g., critical infrastructure). The aim of COMP4DRONES is to provide a framework of key enabling technologies for safe and autonomous drones. In this paper, we discuss the different technical contributions of the COMP4DRONES project to create this framework. These contributions support (1) efficient customization and incremental assurance of drone-embedded platforms, (2) safe autonomous decision making concerning individual or cooperative missions, (3) trustworthy drone-to-drone and drone-to- ground communications even in presence of malicious attackers and under the intrinsic platform constraints, (4) agile and cost-effective design and assurance of drone modules and systems, and (5) sustainable impact and creation of an industry-driven community. In addition, lead applications driving ecosystem development and benchmarking on the fields of transport, inspection, logistic and agriculture are developed.