The U.S. Space Force Launches Its AI Initiative
Declaring “Never a day Without Data,” the U.S. Space Force published its Data & Artificial Intelligence Strategic Action Plan for Fiscal Year 2025. The Space Force explained it needs to emphasize AI literacy to employ these tools to solve operational challenges. The plan lays out four key objectives for the agency. Mature enterprise-wide data and AI…
Read MoreDoing the Math: Optimizing Routing and Scheduling for UAM Fleet Management Using Quantum Annealing
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…
Read MoreA Flight Path to Reducing UAM and Drone Accident Rates in Seoul in 2035
Writing in the January 2025 issue of Urban Science, Han Yeol Baek of the Department of Architecture at Hannam University, South Korea and Jung Hon Kim of the Department of Urban Planning and Real Estate Studies, Pyeongtaek University South Korea, published their study, “Prediction of Urban Air Mobility and Drone Accident Rates and the Role of…
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In their research paper, “Novel battery power capability assessment for improved eVTOL aircraft landing,” researchers Ollie Hatherall, Anup Barai, Mona Faraji Niri, and James Marco from the Energy Innovation Centre, WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom and Zeyuan Wang from Vertical Aerospace Group Ltd in Bristol, United Kingdom sought to find innovative ways to develop a power testing capability testing framework. They sought…
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