Research
UAVs Face Headwinds, Tailwinds, and Downdrafts: What’s a Drone to Do?
CalTech Engineers Are Working on the Solution
Researchers are teaching drones how to adapt and stay on course in different wind conditions using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.
Skating on Thin Ice – Better UAS Than You or Me
University of Maryland Researchers and NOAA Take Their eVTOL Out for a Test Flight
Unmanned drone systems equipped with sensors may be able to help move the scientific study of sea ice forward.
Advancing Advanced Air Mobility
Trust Us. Trust the Computers. Trust Us and the Computers?
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…
Vertiport or Vertistop?
The Answer May Surprise You
Much of the conversation regarding urban air mobility (UAM) has focused on vertiport location and how noise factors might affect site selection. Researchers at the University of Missouri’s Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering proposed a “novel two-phase location analytics model” published in the March 2022 issue of Decision Analytics Journal. One-Size-Fits-All May Not…
Will Urban Air Mobility Take Off?
Yes, No, and Maybe
Urban Air Mobility’s success, depends as much on where services are offered as it does on solving technological issues.