RESPONDRONE – Situational awareness system for first responders
Project time period:
2019-2022
Project Description:
ResponDrone is an international project co-funded by the EU and Korean government, which is dedicated to developing and applying a situational awareness system in emergency situations, providing critical information and communication services to first responders.
The three-year project aims to develop an integrated solution for first responders to easily operate several drones with multiple synchronized missions to enhance their situation assessment capacity and own protection. The ResponDrone Project mission is to enable emergency response teams to respond more rapidly, effectively and efficiently to an emergency or disaster and therefore save more lives. The fleet of drones will provide enhanced capabilities to support mission assessment, search and rescue operations, as well as forest fire fighting.
The ResponDrone consortium consists of 20 organizations from Industry, Public Sector and Academia.
AUA is leading two major research and quality assurance components of the project (WP 9 and WP 15). This includes analysis of existing best practices on drone use in disaster response. Also, in partnership with the French High Committee for Civil Defense (HCFDC), AUA will identify the requirements of first responders and the capabilities that they deem effective to have when using drones in disaster management.
Satenik Mnatsakanyan, Project Manager
AUA Zaven & Sonia Akian College of Science & Engineering (CSE)
Email: smnatsakanyan[at]aua.am
Phone: +374 60 612 643
Arthur Khalatyan, Researcher
AUA Zaven & Sonia Akian College of Science & Engineering (CSE)
Email: akhalatyan[at]aua.am
Phone: +374 60 612 645
Davit Kocharov, Researcher
AUA Zaven & Sonia Akian College of Science & Engineering (CSE)
Siranush Harutyunyan, Researcher
AUA Acopian Center for the Environment
Email: siranush.harutyunyan[at]aua.am, ace[at]aua.am
Phone: +374 60 612 688
Sean Reynolds, Researcher
AUA Acopian Center for the Environment
Email: sreynolds[at]aua.am, ace[at]aua.am
Shantal Adajian, Researcher
AUA Zaven & Sonia Akian College of Science & Engineering (CSE)
Aram Hajian, Researcher
AUA Zaven & Sonia Akian College of Science & Engineering (CSE)
Email: ahajian[at]aua.am
Phone: +374 60 612 609
Alen Amirkhanian, Researcher
AUA Acopian Center for the Environment
Email: alen[at]aua.am
Phone: +374 60 612 690
The project consists of 15 work packages, including:
● WP 1 – Ethics requirements
● WP 2 – Risk Assessment & Management
● WP 3 – Multi Mission Planning & Operation
● WP 4 – Multi-drone Operation Optimization
● WP 5 – Video Analytics
● WP 6 – Integrated Data Processing for Risk-Based Decision Support
● WP 7 – General Architecture, Integration, Validation and Testing
● WP 8 – Ethical & Legal Issues of RESPONDRONE-enabled missions
● WP 9 – Integrating RESPONDRONE into First Responders’ Processes & Operations
● WP 10 – Large Training Programs
● WP 11 – Large Scale Demo
● WP 12 – Innovation Management, Exploitation & Business Planning
● WP 13 – Dissemination, Communication and Visibility
● WP 14 – Project Management
● WP 15 – Studies of Disaster Response Operations
AUA is leading two major research and quality assurance components of the project (WP 9 and WP 15). This includes analysis of existing best practices on drone use in disaster response. Also, in partnership with the French High Committee for Civil Defense (HCFDC), AUA will identify the requirements of first responders and the capabilities that they deem effective to have when using drones in disaster management.
Partners:
The project includes 20 partner organizations such as American University of Armenia (AUA) Acopian Center for the Environment (Armenia), Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Armenia (Armenia), German Aerospace Center (DLR) (Germany), Israel Aerospace Industries (Israel), ALPHA Unmanned Systems (Spain), The Ministry of Defense of the Government of Israel (Israel), Thales Six GTS (France), Korea Aviation Technologies (KAT) (South Korea), French High Committee for Civil Defense (HCFDC) (France), AGORA (Israel), TIME.LEX (Belgium), French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (France), INESC TEC – Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (Portugal), Regional Administration Varna (Bulgaria), Region of Central Macedonia (Greece), Perifereia Dytikhs Makedonias (Greece), State Fire and Rescue Service (Latvia), Veiligheidsregio Haaglanden (Netherlands), Service Départemental d’Incendie et Secours de la Haute Corse (France).
Funding: This project is funded by the European Union’s H2020 Research and Innovation Programme and the Korean Government under Grant Agreement No. 833717