RAMPAWARE

Development of a robust cost-effective collision awareness and avoidance system for ground support equipment operating on the airport ramp

Coordinatore	MALLAGHAN ENGINEERING LIMITED    more  Organization address address: COALISLAND ROAD 69 city: DUNGANNON postcode: BT71 6LA contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Kiera Cognome: Mckenna Email: send email Telefono: +44 2887723444 Fax: +44 2887727194
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	1˙647˙354 €
EC contributo	1˙236˙896 €
Programma	FP7-SME Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
Code Call	FP7-SME-2012
Funding Scheme	BSG-SME
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-03-01   -   2015-08-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	MALLAGHAN ENGINEERING LIMITED  Organization address address: COALISLAND ROAD 69 city: DUNGANNON postcode: BT71 6LA contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Kiera Cognome: Mckenna Email: send email Telefono: +44 2887723444 Fax: +44 2887727194	UK (DUNGANNON)	coordinator	357˙320.00
2	NAVTECH RADAR LIMITED  Organization address address: "APPLEDORE, ODUN ROAD 6" city: BIDEFORD postcode: EX39 1PT contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Richard Cognome: Poulton Email: send email Telefono: +44 1235832419 Fax: +44 1235821675	UK (BIDEFORD)	participant	331˙890.00
3	WLB LIMITED  Organization address address: ZINONOS SOZOU (OFFICE 103) 11 city: LEFKOSIA postcode: 1075 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Silvia Cognome: Sotiropoulou Email: send email Telefono: 35722475621 Fax: 35722475619	CY (LEFKOSIA)	participant	272˙225.00
4	NUEVAS SOLUCIONES VIRTUALES SL  Organization address address: CALLE ROMERO 12 POLIGONO INDUSTRIAL EMPRESARIUM city: ZARAGOZA postcode: 50720 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Fernando Cognome: Rivera Ferrer Email: send email Telefono: +34 976 464 544 Fax: +34 976 476 187	ES (ZARAGOZA)	participant	218˙154.00
5	AER LINGUS LIMITED  Organization address address: HEAD OFFICE BUILDING HANGER 6 city: DUBLIN contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Owlyn Cognome: Lane Email: send email Telefono: +353 818 365044	IE (DUBLIN)	participant	20˙400.00
6	INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DE ARAGON  Organization address address: MARIA DE LUNA 8 city: ZARAGOZA postcode: 50018 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Pablo Cognome: Perez Benedi Email: send email Telefono: +34 976010000 Fax: +34 976716201	ES (ZARAGOZA)	participant	19˙574.00
7	THE UK INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE LIMITED  Organization address address: MIDDLE ASTON HOUSE city: OXFORDSHIRE postcode: OX25 5PT contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Richard Cognome: Baker Email: send email Telefono: +44 1664501501 Fax: +44 1664501589	UK (OXFORDSHIRE)	participant	14˙638.00
8	INNORA PROIGMENA TECHNOLOGIKA SYSTIMATA KAI YPIRESIES AE  Organization address address: IOANNOY METAXA 59 KARELAS 59 city: KOROPI ATTIKIS postcode: 19400 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Xenia Cognome: Bania Email: send email Telefono: +30 6977467158 Fax: +30 2106779888	EL (KOROPI ATTIKIS)	participant	2˙695.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Even without taking into account expected increases in airport capacity, ground handling crews responsible for aircraft turnaround are already operating under time constraints and in highly congested areas, often in difficult weather conditions. The outcome is damage on an extraordinary scale, to the hugely expensive aircraft they are servicing. The direct cost of ground accidents involving Ground Support Equipment (GSE) and their aircraft amounts globally to €1billion annually and a staggering €5billion in indirect costs. As more aircraft manufactured from composite materials come into service, these costs are likely to rise even higher. More worryingly, safety will be compromised as damage to composites can easily go unnoticed.

Existing state-of-the-art technologies cannot address this growing problem. The Ramp-Aware project will develop a novel system for sensing the location of GSE in relation to aircraft, thereby greatly reducing the number of costly collisions between GSE and aircraft. This system will provide a robust solution for its environment, by achieving the following objectives: specialist short range radar capable of 50mm ranging accuracy at 30m from aircraft with a vehicle orientation detection accuracy of 0.1° in all weather conditions and a GSE positional tracking system with overall accuracy of 50mm.

Using this solution the project expects to comprehensively address the problem of accidents involving GSE & aircraft on the ramp. In doing so, we will deliver €42.02 million revenue with a profit of €10.95 million to the SME partners after 5 years. This will lead to the creation of over 200 highly skill jobs, greatly reduce the enormous direct and indirect costs of damage for ground handling providers and airlines, alleviate travel disruptions to passengers, make the job of the ground handler more manageable and safer, reduce the emerging threat of unnoticed damage to composite aircraft which will maintain and improve air safety standards.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

An EU group is developing tools that prevent drivers of aircraft support vehicles from colliding with parked aeroplanes. The system employs several sensing and navigation methods plus analysis software, which together alert drivers about proximity.