Airborne Data Collection on Resilient System Architectures

Drones have a great potential in the civilian section, but this potential is currently limited by the fact that drones cannot yet operate reliably (semi-) autonomously beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) and furthermore it is not allowed. The primary goal of the ADACORSA research project was to develop the technical components for drones that enable BVLOS flights.

In flying ad-hoc networks (FANETs) it is essential to be able to check whether the information received is trustworthy or not. Imagine, for example, that an autonomously flying drone without contact to the operator receives a notification from another drone to initiate an emergency landing immediately – can this request be trusted? As part of the project, an authentication scheme and a trust management system was developed for the BVLOS use of drones in FANETs. At the end of the project, the experts concluded that this was the world’s first blockchain-based authentication procedure for drones.