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INTELLIGENT UNMANNED AIR VEHICLE SWARM SYSTEMS FOR SAFETY AND SURVEILLANCE TASKS

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  • European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
  • 1 Jan 2014 to 31 Dec 2017
  • Spain

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Operation co-funded by EU cohesion policy (European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)) under the programme Multi-regional Spain - ERDF (2014ES16RFOP002), managing authority: Subdirección General de Gestión del FEDER, de la Dirección General de Fondos Europeos del Ministerio de Hacienda.. The source names no beneficiary for this operation. Location: Alicante (NUTS ES521); Spain. Budget: total eligible expenditure EUR 44,709.5; EU co-financing EUR 22,354.75 (co-financing rate 50%), as stated by the source. Runs 2014-01-01 to 2017-12-31. Source: Kohesio, EU cohesion policy projects managed by national and regional authorities (not CORDIS); selected because its summary names quantum technology. Summary from Kohesio (English machine translation by the source): THIS PROJECT REPRESENTS AN IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF BEHAVIORS AND SWARM MODELS FOR SAFETY TASKS WITH UNMANNED AIR VEHICLES (UAVS). WE BELIEVE THAT THE USE OF UAVS WITH SWARM BEHAVIORS IS FEASIBLE, NECESSARY AND HIGHLY BENEFICIAL TO DEVELOP IN A ROBUST MANNER CERTAIN SECURITY TASKS WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF CHALLENGE 8 (SECURITY, PROTECTION AND DEFENCE) OF THIS CALL. THIS PROJECT IS THE CONTINUATION OF THE PROJECT TIN200910581, THE RESULTS OF WHICH SUPPORT THE VIABILITY OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT. the USE OF SYSTEMS, WITH TOTALLY DISTRIBUTED CONTROL, FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF Collaborative CONDUCTS USING UAVS IS A HIGH NEW TECHNICAL TECHNOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGICAL STATE, and THAT THE IMMSY OF APPLICATIONS OF ACTUAL UAVS OR WELCOME BETWEEN IN A Unique UAV OR WE ARE UTILISED TOTALLY CENTRALITED CONTROL, WITH THE INCONVENENTS THIS CONVENTION. MORE CONCRETING, WITH THIS PROJECT PROJECT BEFORE ADVANCED FOR PERSPECTIVE MULTIPLES. ON THE ONE HAND, A SIMULATOR WILL BE DEVELOPED TO TEST SWARM BEHAVIORS THAT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE SPECIFIC OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS OF UAVS. IN ADDITION, MICROSCOPIC (INDIVIDUAL) SWARM BEHAVIORS WILL BE STUDIED, MAKING AN EMPHASIS ON THEIR APPLICABILITY FOR SAFETY TASKS. AMONG THE BEHAVIORS TO BE ANALYSED ARE THE FORMATION OF FLIGHT PATTERNS, PATROL, SURVEILLANCE, TRACKING, DISTRIBUTED SWARM DEPLOYMENT AND RESOURCE SEARCH. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT THESE BEHAVIORS ALLOW OBTAINING A SWARM OF UAVS CAPABLE OF: Patrolling EXCLUSION ZONES, FRONTER SHIPPING, SECUREING COLABORATIVE MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVES, DISPLAY A LOCAL TRANSMISION NETWORK, SEARCH RESOURCES, ETC. FOR OTHER PARTY, microscopic consignments will be validated by providing macroscopic models that allow verification of the GLOBAL JAMBRE FUNCTION. IT IS ESSENTIAL, ONCE THE MICROSCOPIC BEHAVIORS OF THE SWARM HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED AND ITS EXPERIMENTAL FUNCTIONING HAS BEEN VALIDATED, TO DEMONSTRATE MATHEMATICALLY WHAT IS THE TENDENCY OF THE SWARM STATES IN A GLOBAL WAY AS WELL AS TO KNOW [shortened; the full text is on the Kohesio page]

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Source: Kohesio (EU cohesion policy projects), European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). Retrieved 2026-10-21. Licence: CC0 1.0 (Cohesion Open Data Platform, dataset 2014-2020 Kohesio projects). Selected metadata, adapted presentation; the publisher's record is authoritative. No endorsement by the source is implied. Licence: public domain dedication (CC0 1.0).

AI-assisted summary: The project focuses on developing swarm behaviors for unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) aimed at safety and surveillance tasks. It was co-funded by the EU with a total budget of EUR 44,709.5, running from January 1, 2014, to December 31, 2017, in Alicante, Spain. Suggested technology pillar: sensing. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.

Source: kohesio.ec.europa.eu · checked 21 Oct 2026 · AI-assisted summary