Assisted Recovery Embedded Sensors
GEOCAN credit - Seen 150 meters high.The project RAPACE 2 certified in November 2008, follows the RAPACE project, supported by the ANR in 2005.
Project leader
GEOCEAN
Industrial partners
AERO COMPOSITE SAINTONGE, AKA, PROPELLER, DELTY, Aegate CONSULTING
Research partners
Ecole Centrale de Marseille, Ecole Centrale de Lille, INRIA
Budget
2.4 M € over 36 months, funded by the DGCIS. Starting work in late 2009.
RAPACE The project aims to develop a captive motor carrier, able to deploy easily and quickly a sensor to an average height of aerial observation of 150 meters by any operator without special training.
The onboard sensor becomes an "eye deported" to:
- Monitor various target areas: industrial sites, forests, ports, pipelines ...
- Locate and identify objects (people, vehicles, clean sheets, containers, ...)
- Geo-referencing these objects
- To guide response teams to the objects identified.