Public Funding for Roke Manor Research Limited

The ATI estimates that through-life engineering services in civil aerospace will be worth $2.5 trillion over the next 20 years. Within the widebody aeroengine market, airliners continue to use long-term service agreements such as Rolls-Royce's TotalCare package. In order to maximise engine uptime and product availability, and to keep the UK at the forefront of this servicing revolution, the eight REINSTATE partners will develop a portfolio of sensing, inspection, and repair techniques for use within on-wing installed engines, in the aerospace maintenance, repair, and overhaul network, and in an array of neighbouring industrial sectors.

With the civil aviation sector continuing to grow year-on-year, an ever increasing number of routine in-situ gas turbine inspections are undertaken by both gas turbine providers and their customers. Whilst these are critical for ensuring a high-level of aeroengine safety, they are time intensive, vary between inspectors, and offer limited data capture and assessment possibilities. Through the INSPECT consortium, an optical inspection system will be developed that can be permanently and retrofittably embedded into the gas turbine borescope ports. Upon engine shutdown, probes are automatically inserted into the engine gas path, providing an fast, frequent, and standardised compressor inspection after every operation. INSPECT is a state-of-the-art inspection technology, enabling future Big Data Analytics, data mining, and trending. This will ultimately make Rolls-Royce and its customers data rich and able to optimise flight paths, maintenance schedules, and possibly even OEM design.

The rapidly proliferating wireless connectivity & automation of road vehicles offers many benefits to society, and significant commercial opportunity, but also brings a potential explosion of Cyber Security threats. 5*StarS partners HORIBA MIRA, Ricardo, Roke, Thatcham Research with Axillium support will deliver an innovative assurance methodology to assure that CAV components, systems & vehicles have been designed & tested to the relevant cyber security standards throughout their whole development lifecycle, and a Euro NCAP 5 star type consumer rating framework for assessing the Cyber Security of new vehicles, clarifying risk for the insurance industry

Who is responsible for a road accident involving driverless cars? The answer to this question, and many like it, is the motivation for this proposal: To study the feasibility of producing a highly precise 3D reconstruction of a vehicle’s trajectory, in the build-up to a road accident and the accident itself, by advancing event data recorders such as dashcams.

The Passive Radar Operational Viability Evaluation (PROVE) project consortium consists of NATS, Thales ATM and Roke Manor Research. The purpose of the project is to develop the operational capability of Multi-Static Primary Surveillance Radar (MSPSR) to support the UK's future Air Traffic Management surveillance strategy. MSPSR has the potential to revolutionise the provision of civil ATM surveillance services by reducing costs, adding new capabilities and also releasing valuable Radio Frequency spectrum for other users. The project will achieve its objectives through industry and Air Navigation Service Provider collaborating to capture the operational requirements and further develop prototype systems to mature the technology to a point where it is suitable for deployment and demonstration in the target environment of the London TMA.

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