AI-assisted digital aircraft design, manufacturing and MRO, towards a competitive aviation
Scope and expected outcomes
Expected Outcome:
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
AI-assisted digital aircraft design, redesign and certification – in collaboration with existing or improved digital twins and virtual products.
AI-assisted design tools for aircraft requirement definition, validation and verification, to improve efficiency of the system design activities.
AI-assisted digital (i) aircraft manufacturing, (ii) aircraft operation, condition monitoring and prediction, (iii) maintenance, repair and overhaul operations.
Scope:
This topic focuses on the development of robust AI-assisted capabilities that will work in tandem to digital twins. The term aircraft includes propulsion, aerostructures, systems and their integration, if not explicitly addressed.
Proposals may focus on:
Robust, reliable, verifiable and accelerated training of AI-assisted digital capabilities;
Efficient and high-performance AI-assisted computing, in connection to complex multi-disciplinary design and optimisation methodologies – at system and/or at integrated level;
Protocols, standards and AI-assisted digital capabilities for the entire aircraft manufacturing and MRO supply chain;
Accelerated experimental validation capabilities of machine learning algorithms, for selected industrial use cases, linked to novel EU research and technology infrastructures;
Verifiable and reproduceable usage of Generative AI and Large Language Models for recommendation systems and information retrieval, especially within areas under authority regulation to maintain airworthiness and safety of airframes and their major systems (i.e. using Explainable Generative AI or surrogate models);
AI-assisted prescriptive maintenance procedures for efficient condition-based maintenance and maximized circularity by optimizing the utilization of the globally available high-value items (components, engines, airframes);
AI-assisted maintenance assistance systems for efficient human-in-the-loop integration.
Conditions
General conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes.
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.
2. Eligible Countries
described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.
3. Other Eligible Conditions
If projects use satellite-based earth observation, positioning, navigation and/or related timing data and services, beneficiaries must make use of Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS (other data and services may additionally be used).
described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes.
5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes.
5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual.
5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes.
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
The granting authority may, up to 4 years after the end of the action, object to a transfer of ownership or to the exclusive licensing of results, as set out in the specific provision of Annex 5.
Eligible costs will take the form of a lump sum as defined in the Decision of 7 July 2021 authorising the use of lump sum contributions under the Horizon Europe Programme – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027) – and in actions under the Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community (2021-2025) [[This decision is available on the Funding and Tenders Portal, in the reference documents section for Horizon Europe, under ‘Simplified costs decisions’ or through this link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/horizon/guidance/ls-decision_he_en.pdf]].
described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes.
Specific conditions
Not applicable.
Application and evaluation forms and model grant agreement (MGA):
Application form templates— the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System
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