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Autonomous Systems Technology Related Airborne Evaluation & Assessment (ASTRAEA) is a project to develop UAVs to fly in civil airspace. Both UK government agencies and companies such as BAE Systems, Qinetiq, Rolls-Royce plc, Cassidian, Cobham plc, EADS and Thales UK are involved.〔 The project began in 2006.〔〔〔 Currently UAVs can only operate in UK airspace under restricted conditions. ParcAberporth has a centre dedicated to ASTRAEA.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ASTRAEA Centre to be established at ParcAberporth )〕 Permission has been sought for a permanent segregated airspace around ParcAberporth for testing UAVs over land. Concerns about safety, privacy and noise were raised during consultative sessions. ==Test Flights== Test flights are scheduled to run from May to September 2012 over the Irish Sea.〔 A Jetstream aircraft is being as a UAV and a Piper Seneca as an 'intruder' to test the sense and avoid systems.〔〔 In April 2013 the first unmanned flight over British airspace was successfully completed when BAE Systems flew a Jetstream 31 from Warton, Fylde near Preston to Inverness in Scotland. The aircraft, described as the "flying test bed" was controlled by a pilot at Warton using advanced sensors and on-board robotic systems. The flight was not strictly “unmanned” as two pilots flew in the cockpit as a precaution but they were required only to monitor the flight and not to actively engage in any flying. ASTRAEA programme director Lambert Dopping-Hepenstal said: the work being done " will likely impact all of us in the next five, 10, 20 years as unmanned aircraft and associated technology develop and become a part of everyday life". The governments Business and energy minister Michael Fallon said: "We welcome this pioneering flight at the end of the ASTRAEA programme. ASTRAEA has made significant achievements, placing the UK industry in a good position globally on unmanned aircraft and the development of regulations for their civil use." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ASTRAEA」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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