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EHang and Spain’s Advanced Center for Aerospace Technologies complete ICEX’s BAUD project

EHang has col­lab­o­rat­ed with Spain’s Advanced Cen­ter for Aero­space Tech­nolo­gies (CATEC) to suc­cess­ful­ly com­plete the BAUD Project in Spain. 

Framed under the Invest in Spain pro­gram of ICEX Trade and Invest­ment, and spon­sored by the Span­ish Min­istry of Indus­try, Trade and Tourism, the BAUD project aims at enhanc­ing the oper­a­tional safe­ty and effi­cien­cy of Unmanned Aer­i­al Sys­tems for aer­i­al logis­tic mis­sions, as well as enabling their inte­gra­tion in U‑Space. 

After one year of intense indus­tri­al research, EHang and CATEC achieved the project objec­tives through the devel­op­ment of an autonomous air­borne bea­con, which pro­vides more pre­cise and com­pre­hen­sive UAS posi­tion­ing by using Glob­al Nav­i­ga­tion Satel­lite Sys­tems, EGNOS (Euro­pean Geo­sta­tion­ary Nav­i­ga­tion Over­lay Ser­vice) and Galileo, along with pro­vid­ing the UAS sta­tus, remote e‑ID (elec­tron­ic iden­ti­fi­ca­tion) and oth­er tac­ti­cal infor­ma­tion with U‑Space sys­tems. 

The devel­oped autonomous air­borne bea­con can not only be applied by EHang AAVs, but also by any UAS and will enable the safe oper­a­tion of UAS in Euro­pean air­space, through their intel­li­gent inte­gra­tion with U‑Space sys­tems. 

Vic­to­ria Xiang, COO of EHang Europe and Latin Amer­i­ca, said: “We are delight­ed to announce the suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of the BAUD project, achiev­ing all of its goals and objec­tives. EHang wel­comes pub­lic-pri­vate part­ner­ship oppor­tu­ni­ties for research, devel­op­ment, and invest­ment in the UAS field in Spain.

“This has encour­aged EHang to exe­cute sev­er­al inno­va­tion projects, share EHang’s world-lead­ing tech­nol­o­gy and exten­sive inter­na­tion­al expe­ri­ence on Urban Air Mobil­i­ty, and strength­en our wide tech­no­log­i­cal col­lab­o­ra­tion net­work in Europe”.

The BAUD project was exe­cut­ed under the Invest in Spain pro­gram of ICEX Trade and Invest­ment, and received fund­ing from the Span­ish Min­istry of Indus­try, Trade and Tourism.

The flight test cam­paign of the BAUD project was con­duct­ed at CATEC’s Air Traf­fic Lab­o­ra­to­ry for Advanced Unmanned Sys­tems (ATLAS”) test flight cen­tre, using two EHang Fal­con B autonomous aer­i­al vehi­cles.

CATEC is a tech­no­log­i­cal cen­tre ori­ent­ed to the aero­nau­ti­cal sec­tor with more than eleven years of expe­ri­ence in the devel­op­ment of tech­nolo­gies for UAS, includ­ing new tech­nolo­gies that allow the inte­gra­tion of autonomous aer­i­al vehi­cles in the air­space and high pre­ci­sion nav­i­ga­tion sys­tems. CATEC also has a strong pres­ence in work­ing groups relat­ed to the new Euro­pean drone reg­u­la­tion.

While ICEX Trade and Invest­ment is a pub­licly owned busi­ness-ori­ent­ed enti­ty of the Min­istry of Indus­try, Trade and Tourism’s Sec­re­tary of State for Com­merce. It works world­wide with the objec­tive of pro­mot­ing the inter­na­tion­al­i­sa­tion of Span­ish com­pa­nies, in order to improve their com­pet­i­tive­ness and add val­ue to the Span­ish econ­o­my as a whole, as well as boost­ing for­eign invest­ment in Spain.

Its mis­sion is to pro­mote for­eign direct invest­ment (“FDI”) in Spain and to sup­port busi­ness own­ers and entre­pre­neurs that want to set up their com­pa­nies in Spain. 

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Jason Pritchard

Jason Pritchard is the Editor of eVTOL Insights. He holds a BA from Leicester's De Montfort University and has worked in Journalism and Public Relations for more than a decade. Outside of work, Jason enjoys playing and watching football and golf. He also has a keen interest in Ancient Egypt.

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