Research
Vertiports to Fly For (and To and From)
Optimizing vertiports: A performance-based approach
As advanced air mobility (AAM) moves closer to reality, an integral component of the infrastructure supporting it will be the vertiports where the electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles will depart from and arrive to. A quartet of researchers from the University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have developed a performance-based…
Going with the Flow: Minimizing Inflight Power Consumption in Shifting Wind Conditions
Sometimes your eVTOL will fly with the wind at your back. At other times, you will face headwinds. And, there will be times where a crosswind stands between you and your destination. These dynamic conditions will each challenge your electric power plan differently. But, with the right energy control system and knowledge of the environmental…
Delayed Communications’ Effect on Advanced Air Mobility Cooperative Surveillance
Communication delays pose a a dangerous risk to AAM
By using a separation assurance and collision avoidance system which uses a unified analytical framework which leverages cooperative and non-cooperative sensory data to generate an avoidance volume which considers the performance of navigation and surveillance systems it is perhaps possible to address performance issues in data link and vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems. Writing in the June…
Getting It Together: eVTOLs, NAS, and U-space
The time to plan for integrating national air spaces and U-space is now
With funding from the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy, researchers from Airbus Urban Mobility GmbH and the Institute of Air Transportation Systems at Hamburg University of Technology have developed what they believe is a viable plan to integrate current national air spaces with the soon to be upon us, uncrewed air…
Is there a smart glove in your handsfree drone operational future?
There could be.
European researchers from the Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, eCampus University, Novedrate, Italy, the Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Roma, Italy, the Institute for Systems Analysis and Computer Science, Italian National Research Council, Roma, Italy, and the Department of Computational Intelligence, Czestochowa University of Technology, Częstochowa, Poland have…
Doing the Math: Optimizing Routing and Scheduling for UAM Fleet Management Using Quantum Annealing
Finding the best solution to an optimization problem can help UAM operators
Writing in Scientific Reports, seven researchers from Japan’s Tohuku University and Sumitomo Corporation proposed a plan to optimize how urban air mobility (UAM) operators, infrastructure managers, and others in the UAM ecosystem manage routing and scheduling using quantum annealing. Quantum annealing, a quantum computing process, uses quantum fluctuations to find the best solution to an optimization…