eVTOLs
Is UAM Better Together? The Potential and Promise of Ridesharing
NASA and Purdue University Associates Unveil PANVEL
While no one knows yet exactly how much an urban air mobility (UAM) eEVTOL air taxi ride will cost per mile, chances are the initial trips won’t be cheap. And, not cheap doesn’t bode well for rapid adoption by the traveling public. But… if a cohort of passengers want to travel from the same origin-destination…
Want to Upgrade Your Urban Air Mobility Fleet’s Cost-efficiency?
A trio of German researchers show you how to optimize your operational and configurational fleet decisions
Michael Husemann, a senior expert global footprint with battery manufacturer PowerCo, Ansgar Kirste,director of product management for Robert Bosch, and Elke Stumpf, a journalist have done what others have not done to date. The trio devised a model UAM optimization model to better evaluate fleet operations in order to make smart strategic choices about vehicle…
Using Redundancy and Risk Awareness to Improve UAM Network Design
In their study, “Risk-aware urban air mobility network design with overflow redundancy,” University of Texas at Austion professors John-Paul Clarke and Ufuk Topcu, along with their postdoctoral fellows, Qinshuang Wei, and Zhenyu Gao, have devised a plan for urban air mobility (UAM) network design that factors in reserve capacity that takes into account alternative landing…
Using AI-driven Drones to Put Out a World on Fire
Once a fire is detected at a specific location, an autonomous drone with a visual camera flies toward the identified geolocation of the node to monitor the fire’s progress. The drone runs our novel fire center detection and tracking algorithm for precise localization and then uses an appropriate countermeasure to extinguish the fire.
AAM by the Numbers
How much, how far, how safe, how noisy…?
Forgive the dated metaphor, but the advanced air mobility (AAM) market is picking up steam and over the next eight years or so is expected to achieve market growth valuations even the tech industry would be envious of. At AAM Today, we’ve pulled together some of the key figures to help put into perspective what…
Take Charge! Putting the e in eVTOL
A team of British researchers devise a new method to assess battery power capabilities
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…