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Doing the Math: Optimizing Routing and Scheduling for UAM Fleet Management Using Quantum Annealing
Finding the best solution to an optimization problem can help UAM operators
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…
What Can UAM Operators Do to Ensure They Gain Passengers’ Acceptance of Air Taxis?
Keep your passengers informed
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…
The Temperature’s Falling While the UAM Market Is Heating Up
The batteries used for UAM will need to cool down as well
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…
Getting Together – UAMs and NAS
Should the U.S. begin integrating UAM vehicles into the NAS now?
Writing in the Texas A&M Law Arguendo, Robert Notari, a Juris Doctor candidate, helicopter pilot, and certified flight instructor, raises the questions “AUTONOMY NOW?: IS IT TIME TO START INTEGRATING (AUTONOMOUS) URBAN AIR MOBILITY VEHICLES INTO THE NATIONAL AIRSPACE SYSTEM?” Inasmuch as auto manufacturers have yet to master autonomous-driving vehicles, it may be premature to ask…
The Upside of Dispensing with Downwash
Australian advanced air mobility infrastructure developer Skyportz reveals a new vertipad design.
While exhibiting at the Avalon International Airshow in Melbourne, Skyportz, the Australian developer of ground-based infrastructure for the impending advanced air mobility (AAM) revolution, revealed its innovative vertipad design which mitigates eVTOL downwash and outwash. A study conducted by Professor Justin Leontini of the Department of Mechanical and Product Design Engineering at Swinburne University of…
Swatting Down Drone Swarms
Countermeasures Militaries Can Take Against This Latest Battlefield Threat
Advanced vehicular capabilities combined with a significant reduction in the cost of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs), aka drones, have created a dangerous and difficult-to-counter military menace. Writing in the Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies, Matthieu J. Guitton, a faculty member at Université Laval in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, provides a summary of the nature of…