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Richard G. McKercher, Fidel Khouli, Alanna S. Wall and Guy L. Larose
Urban air mobility is expected to play a role in improving transportation of people and goods in growing urban areas while contributing to sustainable urban growth and zero-emissions future aviation. The research presented herein computationally investig...
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Malik Doole, Joost Ellerbroek, Victor L. Knoop and Jacco M. Hoekstra
Large-scale adoption of drone-based delivery in urban areas promise societal benefits with respect to emissions and on-ground traffic congestion, as well as potential cost savings for drone-based logistic companies. However, for this to materialise, the ...
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Junlin Lou, Burak Yuksek, Gokhan Inalhan and Antonios Tsourdos
In this study, we consider the problem of motion planning for urban air mobility applications to generate a minimal snap trajectory and trajectory that cost minimal time to reach a goal location in the presence of dynamic geo-fences and uncertainties in ...
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Yannian Yang, Yu Liang, Stefan Pröbsting, Pengyu Li, Haoyu Zhang, Benxu Huang, Chaofan Liu, Hailong Pei and Bernd R. Noack
In the near future, urban air mobility (UAM) will let an old dream of human society come true: affordable and fast air transportation for almost everyone. Among the various existing designs, the multicopter configuration best combines the advantages of c...
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Jason Cornelius, Sven Schmitz, Jose Palacios, Bernadine Juliano and Richard Heisler
This work details the development and validation of a methodology for high-resolution rotor models used in hybrid Blade Element Momentum Theory Unsteady Reynolds Averaged Navier?Stokes (BEMT-URANS) CFD. The methodology is shown to accurately predict sing...
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Yuhan Li, Shuguang Zhang, Ruichen He and Florian Holzapfel
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has emerged in response to increasing traffic demands. As UAM involves commercial flights in complex urban areas, well-established automation technologies are critical to ensure a safe, accessible, and reliable flight. However, t...
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Bianca I. Schuchardt, Dagi Geister, Thomas Lüken, Franz Knabe, Isabel C. Metz, Niklas Peinecke and Karolin Schweiger
Urban air mobility is a rapidly growing field of research. While drones or unmanned aerial vehicles have been operated mainly in the private and military sector in the past, an increasing range of opportunities is opening up for commercial applications. ...
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Victor Gordo, Ines Becerra, Alejandro Fransoy, Enrique Ventas, Pablo Menendez-Ponte, Yan Xu, Marta Tojal, Javier Perez-Castan and Luis Perez Sanz
The demand for air mobility services will depend on the safety of these operations but also on the transportation time savings in congested urban areas. An adequate air space structure is therefore essential to achieve both objectives. Corridors, the mos...
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Xiaotao Qiao, Guotao Chen, Weichao Lin and Jun Zhou
Urban air mobility (UAM) is a promising transportation concept that can effectively address city traffic congestion and environmental pollution. Power batteries are used extensively in UAM vehicles, and their technical characteristics (charge rate and sp...
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Min Young Yoo, Jung Heon Lee, Joo-Ho Choi, Jae Sung Huh and Woosuk Sung
This paper proposes a framework for accurately estimating the state-of-charge (SOC) and current sensor bias, with the aim of integrating it into urban air mobility (UAM) with hybrid propulsion. Considering the heightened safety concerns in an airborne en...
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André Teixeira Silva, Sérgio Pedro Duarte, Sandra Melo, Adriana Witkowska-Konieczny, Michele Giannuzzi and António Lobo
This study explores attitudes towards urban air mobility (UAM) for e-commerce deliveries. UAM, which utilizes drones, has the potential to revolutionize transport services and logistics, leading to economic benefits and reductions in congestion and pollu...
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Osita Ugwueze, Thomas Statheros, Nadjim Horri, Michael A. Bromfield and Jules Simo
This paper presents the development of a robust sizing method to efficiently estimate and compare key performance parameters in the conceptual design stage for the two main classes of fully electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, the pow...
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Arinc Tutku Altun, Mehmet Hasanzade, Emre Saldiran, Guney Guner, Mevlut Uzun, Rodolphe Fremond, Yiwen Tang, Prithiviraj Bhundoo, Yu Su, Yan Xu, Gokhan Inalhan, Michael W. Hardt, Alejandro Fransoy, Ajay Modha, Jose Antonio Tena, Cesar Nieto, Miguel Vilaplana, Marta Tojal, Victor Gordo, Pablo Menendez and Ana GonzalezaddShow full author listremoveHide full author list
The emerging field of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) holds great promise for revolutionizing transportation by enabling the efficient, safe, and sustainable movement of people and goods in urban and regional environments. AAM encompasses a wide range of ele...
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Wenqiu Qu, Chenchen Xu, Xiang Tan, Anqi Tang, Hongbo He and Xiaohan Liao
Driven by recent technological breakthroughs, the electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft has gained considerable attention. The widespread demand for eVTOL aircraft can be attributed to their potential use in the commercialisation of urb...
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Xiangyu Li
The deployment of urban air mobility in built-out metropolitan regions is constrained by infrastructure opportunities, land use, and airspace zoning designations. Meanwhile, the availability and spatial distribution of infrastructure opportunities influe...
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Abdulghani Mohamed, Matthew Marino, Simon Watkins, Justin Jaworski and Anya Jones
There is a growing desire to operate Uncrewed Air Vehicles (UAVs) in urban environments for parcel delivery, and passenger-carrying air taxis for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM). The turbulent flows and gusts around buildings and other urban infrastructure c...
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Malik Doole, Joost Ellerbroek and Jacco M. Hoekstra
Package delivery via autonomous drones is often presumed to hold commercial and societal value when applied to urban environments. However, to realise the benefits, the challenge of safely managing high traffic densities of drones in heavily constrained ...
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Lukas Preis and Mirko Hornung
Urban Air Mobility is a novel concept of transportation with unknown market potential. Even in conservative estimates, thousands of operations could be expected on a single vertiport. This exceeds known heliport operations, which is the most comparable e...
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Julia A. Cole, Lauren Rajauski, Andrew Loughran, Alexander Karpowicz and Stefanie Salinger
There is currently interest in the design of small electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft to alleviate ground traffic and congestion in major urban areas. To support progress in this area, a conceptual design method for single-main-rotor and lif...
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Teresa Donateo and Antonio Ficarella
The interest in electric and hybrid electric power systems for aircraft and rotorcraft has been increasing significantly in recent years. However, advanced simulation tools still need to be developed to exploit the potentiality and address the complexity...
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