Is there a smart glove in your handsfree drone operational future?
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…
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Doing 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…
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What Can UAM Operators Do to Ensure They Gain Passengers’ Acceptance of Air Taxis?
A study conducted by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) reveals what is and isn’t important to gain passengers’ acceptance of urban air mobility (UAM) air taxi services. While the flights were simulated, the sentiments expressed were real. The researchers set up a mixed reality (MR) Air Taxi Simulator merging a real-world environment with a computer-generated…
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The Temperature’s Falling While the UAM Market Is Heating Up
At the heart of the impending urban air mobility (UAM) revolution are the electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft that will rise to the occasion to transport people and products from Point A to Point B. At the heart of those eVTOLs are the lithium-ion batteries powering their flight. Lithium-ion batteries, however, have an…
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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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