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Advanced RPAS/UAS training

The UAS/RPAS sector is regarded as a growing technological asset, geared towards multiple services in both civil and military fields. Its strong expansion is making it increasingly necessary for technological applications in key sectors for civil society, not to mention its systematic use in the military sphere. We can state that it is a technology of the “present”, with extraordinary future development prospects, which calls for periodic updates to the content taught in this Master’s programme.

The excellent opportunity to have, just a few kilometres from the University of Huelva, the El Arenosillo Experimentation Centre (CEDEA)—the only European centre for the certification and approval of unmanned aircraft and Spain’s main aerospace port—led a few years ago to the launch of this training project, aimed at providing Spanish and international university students with advanced knowledge of RPAS/UAS and other technologies in the aerospace sector.

Without overlooking the Unmanned Systems Test Centre (CEUS), the largest and best-equipped complex in Europe for testing, training and development of unmanned aircraft, where students on our Master’s programme will be able to undertake their practical training.

Learn where breakthroughs are made

CEDEA and CEUS are part of the National Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA), under the Ministry of Defence. One of INTA’s most ambitious projects has been the creation of the Centre of Excellence for Medium- and Large-Size Unmanned Aerial Systems (CEUS). It is currently the largest UAS/RPAS Development Centre in Europe (experimentation, research, standardisation, approval, certification, qualification and valorisation), with construction recently completed in mid-2024. In addition, CEDEA carries out qualifications and certifications for all types of crewed and uncrewed aerial platforms; furthermore, CEDEA has become the European Union’s aerospace port, from which rockets will be launched to place public and private suborbital and orbital systems into space, as was the case with the famous “Miura 1” rocket launched in October 2023.

Eight launches per year are expected. All these scientific and technological developments, and many others, together with INTA’s institutional support, provide the University of Huelva’s High-Performance UAS/RPAS Own Master’s Degree with internationally unique field-practice facilities in real-world environments, as well as top-level expert staff.

You will train in an environment with enormous potential in research, development, project acquisition and business opportunities—highly valued by the various public administrations and companies in the aerospace sector.

RPAS technology

RPAS/UAS are being adopted across an ever-growing range of application areas, offering services and capabilities that until very recently were unthinkable: suborbital satellite systems, radio communication and long-range systems, infrastructure inspection, atmospheric research, surveying, risk management and natural-disaster response, fire detection and assistance, environmental monitoring, wildlife research, fish-school location, monitoring of electric power transmission networks, precision agriculture, security and defence, etc.

Drones that inspire new ideas

It should also be noted that they are becoming indispensable tools in sectors linked to leisure, entertainment and culture: surveying historical monuments, film production, sports photography, hunting control, etc.

Nor can we overlook that RPAS/UAS are fostering the development of complementary technologies, not necessarily specific to the aeronautical field, becoming essential to their advancement: communications, propulsion, energy, sensors, telemetry, etc. A specific example is fuel cells, whose development and application to unmanned systems are making it possible to significantly increase their expected flight endurance.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY MASTER’S IN ADVANCED UAS

Open to all profiles

For these reasons, this Master’s programme accommodates a wide range of specialisations that may seem complementary (civil engineering, agronomy, forestry, mining, …), but which are as necessary for our companies as the usual ones (aerospace, telecommunications, computer science, electronics, mechanics, physics, mathematics, …), as well as professionals focused on service delivery or interested in the field of business management.

History, present, and future of RPAS

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