AI-assisted digital aircraft design, manufacturing and MRO, towards a competitive aviation
Funds research into AI-assisted digital twins for aircraft design, manufacturing and maintenance, repair and overhaul.
This is a Research and Innovation Action paid as a fixed lump sum rather than reimbursed actual costs, with the topic's budget expected to produce two awards of EUR 5,000,000 each. Applicants file the standard application form for Research and Innovation Actions once, through the Funding & Tenders Portal's Submission System. Award criteria, scoring and evaluation thresholds are not published on th…
The Commission wants robust AI-assisted digital capabilities that work alongside digital twins to improve aircraft design, redesign, certification, manufacturing, condition monitoring and MRO across propulsion, aerostructures and systems. It wants proposals to explore generative AI and large language models for airworthiness-relevant recommendation and information retrieval, using explainable or surrogate models where regulation demands it.
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