The Latest Advanced Air Mobility News
For Urban Air Mobility, A Picture May Be Worth Billions of Words
Researchers believe presenting storyboards of different UAM scenarios will help professionals charged with launching UAM.
eVTOLs Gone in the Wind?
More than half of weather-related aviation accidents are caused by wind. Research into how wind impacts eVTOLs is being addressed.
eVTOLs: Plug In, Charge Up, Take Off
Building an advanced air mobility infrastructure takes time, capital, and cooperation.
AAM-Gym for Artificial Intelligence Practice
Researchers have created an Advanced Air Mobility “gym” that will allow for thousands of potential simulations to improve the development of eVTOLs.
Skating on Thin Ice – Better UAS Than You or Me
Unmanned drone systems equipped with sensors may be able to help move the scientific study of sea ice forward.
Advancing Advanced Air Mobility
The future of urban air mobility depends in part on how well humans and autonomous machines can team together.
Can UAVs Lead to Better Healthcare Outcomes?
In Milan, Italy, a group of researchers at IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele Advanced Technology in Health and Wellbeing, including Sara de Silvestri, Mirco Pagliarani, Filippo Tomasello, Diana Trojaniello, and led by Alberto Sanna, conducted a study to explore the potential for drones to deliver pharmaceuticals. The study, published by MDPI in March 2022, was part of Flying Forward 2020, “a three-year collaborative research project that will develop a new Urban…
The Flight Path to Urban Air Mobility Success May Be on the Ground
Planning for VTOLs (flying cars) is no longer a consideration for the far-off future. Today’s city planners must take into consideration urban air mobility (UAM) concerns.
eVTOLs Need Lithium Batteries
Flying cars will likely be powered by lithium batteries. How these batteries will be safely and economically recycled remains to be seen.
Drone Alone: Advanced Air Mobility Advances Pilotlessly
During the EnRicH 2021 European Robotics Hackathon, the San Antonio, Texas-based Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) successfully demonstrated an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) that fully autonomously explored and mapped the interior of the Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant located in Zwentendorf an der Donau, Austria. The Zwentendorf plant is the world’s only nuclear facility that has been fully built but never activated. This makes…
