AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR THE COLLECTION AND DELIVERY OF GOODS, DOOR TO DOOR

OLIMPUS sets itself challenging and exciting goals. Building a new infrastructure for logistics and the transport of goods and things for third parties as an alternative to road transport is truly challenging. Many variables affect the service that OLIMPUS wants to implement and make commonly used. OLIMPUS together with a multinational consortium composed of UNI-TA' Malta - Aerospace Division, AIRHUB, DRONEBASE, ITALMECCANICA, is preparing to organize a test environment of colossal dimensions. At Forlì airport, in a safe and segregated environment, over about 90 days, on an area of almost 600,000 square meters, over 30,000 cargo collection and delivery missions will be carried out and a team of about fifty technicians will be involved. In support of the OLIMPUS test, it will also be able to count on the collaboration of ENAC, VODAFONE, ENAV / D-FLIGHT, UNIBO, and POLITO. An automated VERTIPORT will be set up in the area from where 12 drones will depart to carry out their respective missions to the 18 positions that will simulate an urban environment.
The test environment will allow the creation of a POC, Proof of concept, with characteristics very close or similar to those that would be during the execution of the normal service to the user. The POC to demonstrate the TECHNOLOGICAL feasibility, the ECONOMIC sustainability, and the ACCEPTANCE by the users regarding a system that will surely impact daily life.