What is the DIZH funding project LINA? | Brigitte Rohner

Brigitte Rohner is innovation manager and project leader of "LINA" (= "Shared Large-scale Infrastructure for the Development and Safe Testing of Autonomous Systems") and tells us about the project in the video.

LINA provides the operational basis of a real and virtual infrastructure for research, development and safe testing of autonomous systems in the canton of Zurich in an internationally unique test setup. he LINA Hub is the place where international experts from science and industry gather to shape the future in an interdisciplinary way and to educate society about the civilian applications of autonomous systems.

The Centre for Research and Development of Autonomous Systems comprises three test arenas:

  1. an outdoor digital cage ensuring that UAS can be tracked and safely operated under Light Unmanned Aircraft Operator Certificate (LUC) conditions in the low airspace of Dübendorf and within the confines of the digital cage,
  2. an outdoor physical cage with a safety net,
  3. an indoor tracking arena with a large-scale, high-precision position tracking system and a wind tunnel facility for autonomous systems research and prototype development.

All stakeholders around the airspace and airfield of Zurich-Dübendorf – in particular the Swiss Air Force, REGA and blue light organisations – as well as the Federal Office of Civil Aviation FOCA and other regulatory authorities are closely involved in the development of the booking and flight planning system.

The LINA project team, would like to learn more about the current and future need for such infrastructure for research, development and safe testing of your drones and other autonomous aerial and ground vehicles and systems. To determine the need, an online survey was created - join in! Click here to go to the survey.

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