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PORTAL Partners

Cambridge Sensoriis

Cambridge Sensoriis, a UK SME, is a designer of millimetric radar sensors for applications requiring robust high-resolution measurements in a small sensor form factor, also known as low SWaP (Size, Weight, and Package). 

Within Project PORTAL, Cambridge Sensoriis is using its radar expertise to develop technology for ground-to-air surveillance above the vertiport, where the radar supports localised airspace management and support for landing pad automation.  RadarAware, which has also been developed for onboard obstacle detection and collision avoidance, is being designed to detect non-cooperative targets such as UAVs, microlights, birds, and light aircraft, providing range, elevation, bearing/azimuth, relative velocity and tracking information - allowing determination of a time-to-impact in order to allow for appropriate corrective action.
 

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SLiNK-TECH is leading Project PORTAL, in a consortium of seven organisations. 

You can find out more about our Project PORTAL partners below.

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R4DAR Technologies 

R4DAR Technologies (R4DAR) is a Cambridge UK start-up with a mission to improve the safety of all users in the smart autonomous world. 

R4DAR’s unique, low-cost solution tackles the challenge of achieving truly resilient situational awareness in high-risk, very low-level flying (VLLF) environments by using small, lightweight identification beacons that can be read by Ground or UAV-mounted radar. Their innovation enables a radar to unequivocally identify, classify and localise the hazard day or night, in all weather conditions, in GNSS(GPS) denied environments or where no communication network exists. Their goal is to ensure seamless integration and operation of their beacon into the PORTAL system, which will provide a GNSS and cellular comms-independent method of locating, characterising, and identifying co-operative assets within the PORTAL airspace.
 

University of Bristol

The University of Bristol (UoB) is a world-leading research institution and consistently ranks in the world's top 100 and UK's top ten universities.  UoB’s contribution to PORTAL combines expertise from its FlightLab and Bristol Robotics Laboratory, in aerial robotics, and its Intelligent Systems Laboratory, supporting data science.  The UoB team in PORTAL is developing data-driven models of flight performance and high-performance VTOL traffic management systems.  Together these will enable safe and efficient air operations at future vertiports.

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Snowdonia Aerospace Centre

Snowdonia Aerospace LLP operates the Snowdonia Aerospace Centre, Llanbedr, Gwynedd, the premier commercial UK test centre for next-generation aerospace including "drones-for-good”. They have also established Snowdonia Aerospace Drone Services Ltd. to further develop and commercially exploit the output of their research.

ANGOKA

ANGOKA  is an IoT Security company headquartered in Belfast with offices in London and The Hague. ANGOKA’s embedded technology creates trust between devices to allow them to communicate securely over untrusted networks, providing security for their users regardless of the network they use. ANGOKA’s quantum- resilient solution provides a whole systems approach to securing the operational design domain of new services and solutions. We offer the only integrated Identity and Key Management solution, which gives us a unique advantage for securing complex and dynamic IoT systems for Smart Mobility and Smart Cities.

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Auriga Aerospace

Auriga Aerospace (Auriga) is an SME focused on developing large UAV/HAPS platforms and delivering commercial UAV operations. Auriga is engaged to develop several platforms and undertake BVLOS operations in support of CAA trials in non-segregated airspace. Auriga has an experienced engineering and operations team and will provide hub to spoke flight test activities using their EVTOL air vehicle. 

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