U-SPACE Workshop 2027

Welcome to U-SPACE 2027

U-SPACE Workshop 2027 will bring together researchers and practitioners working on the systems, methods and operational arrangements needed for UAVs to share urban airspace safely.

The workshop is intended for an academic and technical audience. We are interested in results that are explicit about assumptions, evidence, uncertainty and limits, and that help explain how a research result might be used in an actual operation.

Particular attention will be given to work relevant to SESAR and the Digital European Sky, UKRI-supported research and innovation, and Horizon Europe projects. This includes work on dependable computing, autonomy, communications, cybersecurity, U-space services, human factors, environmental impact and public health.

We also welcome critical work. Urban UAVs may provide useful services, but their introduction can create noise, pollution, ecological disturbance, safety risks, intrusive observation and unequal effects. Technical proposals should take these issues seriously and should not assume that more data or more automation is necessarily better.

Read the Call for Papers

Topics of interest

Safety and assurance

Safety cases, uncertainty, AI assurance, fault tolerance, degraded modes, detect-and-avoid and human oversight.

U-space and integration

U-space services, UTM, telemetry, command and control, navigation, interoperability and operations at scale.

Operationalisation

Testbeds, field trials, incident learning, maintenance, metrics, certification, standards and deployment evidence.

Health and environment

Noise, emissions, energy, biodiversity, air quality, occupational safety, public health and climate resilience.

Ethics and civil liberties

Privacy-preserving sensing, data minimisation, proportionality, accountability, redress and dual-use concerns.

Human-centred urban life

Accessibility, inclusion, public value, community engagement, trust and the effects of aviation on everyday life.