RTR Conference 2026
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The EU-funded AI4HyDrop project aims to establish a comprehensive framework that efficiently facilitates the flow of information for organising airspace use and related U-space services. Additionally, the project will incorporate input from stakeholders and collect information that could impact airspace management from various sources, including meteorological data. AI4HyDrop evaluates the various stakeholder needs, delivering validated concepts, defining a methodology for an airspace structure organisation and associated U-space services. The framework considers the information from other...

ImAFUSA focuses on quantifying a variety of understudied factors influencing societal acceptance of UAM in urban, peri-urban and inter-urban areas, especially when these are deployed using U3 and U4 services. We aim to deliver an “Impact and capacity Assessment Framework for U-space Societal Acceptance” (ImAFUSA) to assist Local Authorities and other U-space stakeholders and users with the delivery of socially acceptable and beneficial UAM deployment in cities. The framework and its tools will provide insights in 3 major areas influencing societal acceptance: environmental impact (including...


Wind turbines are expected to last between 20 and 25 years, with proper maintenance to keep them in consistent working order. Current inspection techniques including drone-based approaches are limited to surface defects only. The EU-funded Romain project will develop a robotic inspection and repair solution of wind turbine blades, both onshore and offshore. By integrating thermography and shearography with laser heating, it will be possible to carry out in situ inspection of both surface and subsurface defects. The project will also develop a robotic deployment system to hold the inspection...

PLOTO aims at increasing the resilience of the Inland WaterWays (IWW) infrastructures and the connected land- infrastructures, thus ensuring reliable network availability under unfavourable conditions, such as extreme weather, accidents and other kind of hazards. Our main target is to combine downscaled climate change scenarios (applied to IWW infrastructures) with simulation tools and actual data, so as to provide the relevant authorities and their operators with an integrated tool able to support more effective management of their infrastructures at strategic and operational levels.

The EU-funded GENEX project will develop a novel end-to-end digital twin-driven framework based on enhanced computational models. These models incorporate the interdisciplinary knowledge of aircraft components and manufacturing/repair processes to support its optimization. Furthermore, they enable the development of health and usage monitoring and management system during continuous operation of aircraft to ensure aircraft safety and airworthiness. The digital twin-driven framework will be implemented into a common industrial internet of things (IIoT) platform to integrate the developed models...

URBANE brings together a multidisciplinary group of 41 partners from 12 different EU Member States, including 12 cities, industry leaders in logistics services, novel solution providers for shared, connected and automated operations and research experts to co-develop novel last mile delivery solutions combining green automated vehicles and shared space utilisation models. The project will support the transition path towards effective, resilient, safe and sustainable last mile transport, through four Lighthouse Living Labs (Helsinki, Bologna, Valladolid and Thessaloniki, that will demonstrate...