Real-Time Urban Mobility Management via Intelligent UAV-based Sensing

URANUS aims to enhance urban mobility management through real-time UAV-based traffic sensing, enabling intelligent monitoring and control of vehicular and pedestrian traffic.

Subsidie
€ 1.999.938
2023

Projectdetails

Introduction

Inefficient management of urban mobility leads to congestion with several socioeconomic and environmental adverse effects. Despite numerous research efforts and deployed technological solutions to address congestion, the problem still persists. One of the main reasons is attributed to the sparsity and low quality of traffic data.

UAV Technology

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are an emerging, non-invasive, vision-based traffic sensing technology that offers economic viability and fast deployment. UAVs can swiftly and controllably move over disperse locations to capture road traffic data and simultaneously measure multiple traffic parameters.

Current Limitations

Despite these advantages, their applicability has so far been limited to occasional surveillance of road networks for live video monitoring or the extraction of historical traffic data.

Project Overview

URANUS proposes real-time, dynamic, and continuous UAV-based sensing of vehicular and pedestrian traffic and the use of the collected information for urban mobility (UM) management. The envisioned paradigm features:

  1. Intelligent spatiotemporal sampling from UAVs
  2. The generation of complete spatiotemporal measurement sets with quantified uncertainty
  3. The development of suitable methodologies to 'close the loop', by jointly controlling the urban mobility (UM) and UAV networks for enhanced UM performance
  4. The strategic selection of measured parameters

Framework Design

In this context, URANUS will design a solid framework for real-time urban mobility management targeting both vehicular and pedestrian traffic. The developed framework will include:

  • UM monitoring
  • UM control
  • UAV operational planning methodologies

This will exploit the unique URANUS sensing characteristics.

Expected Outcomes

Success of this project will transform our understanding of joint optimization between sensing, monitoring, and control, not only in UM management but also in other UAV-centric fields such as air pollution monitoring.

Financiële details & Tijdlijn

Financiële details

Subsidiebedrag€ 1.999.938
Totale projectbegroting€ 1.999.938

Tijdlijn

Startdatum1-7-2023
Einddatum30-6-2028
Subsidiejaar2023

Partners & Locaties

Projectpartners

  • UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUSpenvoerder

Land(en)

Cyprus

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