The priority programme 2433 entitled ‘Measurement Technology on Flying Platforms’ has been launched. The project deals with measurements carried out with the aid of drones.

The Chair of Automatic Control and Systems Theory, together with the Chair of Digital Communication Systems, successfully applied for the priority programme with their project ‘Flying Intelligent Surfaces for Radar Detection’. The aim of the project is to enable radar detection of objects in hard-to-reach locations without the radar system itself having to fly on the drone. A reconfigurable meta-surface acts as a bridge. Unlike the radar system, it is small, lightweight and energy-efficient, and therefore has little impact on the drone's flight behaviour. In addition to the technical implementation, the quantification of measurement uncertainty plays a central role within the project, as it is an important factor in evaluating the measurement method due to the coupling of several systems.