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Simulating Urban Air Mobility Supply
Urban air mobility (UAM) is a relatively new concept in the transportation industry. As on-demand services like Uber and Lyft have transformed our daily lives, our objective is to explore how on-demand UAM impacts mobility patterns by modeling the supply-side of such a service within a realistic, …
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System Level Optimization of Urban Air Mobility
The rise of interest in urban mobility, along with trends in vehicle electrification and autonomy have led to the development of electric vertical and takeoff landing aircraft to offer Urban Air Mobility (UAM) services. We have quantified the market demand of UAM for 5 U.S. cities considering …
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Novel Technology Perspectives for Urban Air Mobility Applications
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Systems analysis of urban air mobility operational scaling
Urban air mobility (UAM) refers to a set of vehicles and operational concepts that provide on-demand or scheduled air transportation services for passengers and cargo within a metropolitan area. Prior UAM systems based on helicopters or small aircraft did not achieve sustained, large-scale …
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Urban Air Mobility: Demand Estimation and Feasibility Analysis
… analysis, and environmental impact of the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) or Advanced Air Mobility (AAM). UAM is a concept aerial transportation mode designed for intracity transport of passengers and cargo utilizing autonomous (or piloted) electric vehicles capable of Vertical Take-Off and Landing …
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Optimizing Urban Air Mobility Operations in a Corridor Network
… vehicles give rise to Urban Air Mobility (UAM) concepts. Initial UAM systems are projected to operate high volumes of flights within a capacitated corridor network. This paper develops a tractable methodology to optimize vehicle dispatching and routing in UAM networks, along …
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Prediction of Handling Qualities Deficiencies for Advanced Air Mobility Aircraft
<p>To date, there are hundreds of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) vehicles under development. Most of these vehicles differ significantly from traditional airplanes and rotorcraft when it comes to configuration and handling qualities. Handling qualities for traditional airplanes and rotorcraft are …
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Envelope Analysis of Speed-Controlled eVTOL Urban Air Mobility Vehicles
<p>There are many vehicles being developed which rely on electrically driven propellers/rotors for both control and propulsion. Based on these vehicles, it is hypothesized that there exists a size limit for speed-controlled propellers/rotors in terms of propeller/rotor diameter. To investigate …
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Centralized and Decentralized Approaches to Advanced Air Mobility Traffic Management
Advanced air mobility (AAM) is an emerging air transportation concept that leverages new types of aircraft, such as electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, to carry passengers or cargo in urban or rural settings. Initial AAM operations will be low-volume, so traffic can be managed …
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Market Mechanisms for Service Provider Operations in Advanced Air Mobility
The proliferation of advanced air mobility (AAM) flights in the form of vertical take-off and landing aircraft (VTOL) and uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) in the near future will require a new air traffic management system adapted for on-demand flights flying at low altitudes and far from existing …
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Safety-Aware Trajectory Generation for Increased Autonomy in Advanced Air Mobility
<p>Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) envisions highly automated aircraft that will enable short and medium range transportation. Unlike conventional aviation, these vehicles are expected to operate closer to populated areas and with increased levels of autonomy, making safe operation under abnormal or …
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Reinforcement Learning for Cybersecurity Risk Assessment of Advanced Air Mobility Systems
… to accelerate the development of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) systems that use unmanned aerial systems for providing mobility services. The efficacy of these systems relies on highly granular, reliable, and trustworthy sensor data. This thesis is motivated by the need to assess safety risks …
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Propeller Noise Prediction of an Urban Air Mobility Vehicle in Urban Environment
<p>Urban Air Mobility (UAM) vehicles operate in complex, unsteady aerodynamic environments where wake interactions, gust and turbulence significantly affect both performance and noise generation. Understanding these mechanisms is critical for developing quieter and more efficient eVTOL systems that …
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Monte-Carlo-Based Analysis of Traffic Flow for Urban Air Mobility Vehicles
… predict the traffic flow patterns of the Urban Air Mobility vehicles to alleviate some of the challenges related to their traffic management. First, an introduction to the concept of Urban Air Mobility is given, the usage of Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast systems for Urban Air …
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Investigation of qualification methods for electric machines in urban air mobility application
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Multi-mission optimized re-planning in air mobility command's channel route execution
The United States Air Force's Air Mobility Command is responsible for creating a schedule and executing that schedule for a large-scale air mobility network that encompasses different mission areas. One of the mission areas is channel route. Channel route execution often experiences disruptions …
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A Safe and Robust Multi-Agent Motion Planning Framework for Urban Air Mobility
… vehicles (UAVs) as well as their usage in urban air environments. This is referred to as the urban air mobility (UAM) problem, and the UAM problem has emerged as a leading challenge for these drones in recent years. Agents must be capable of real-time dynamic obstacle avoidance, planning motion …
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Control Driven Scaling Effects of Motor and Rotors for Urban Air Mobility Design
… part of the Personal Aerial Vehicle Embry-Riddle aircraft, which serves as test bed. The simulation includes the electric motor, rotor and aircraft mathematical models, which are developed in this research.</p> <p>Included in this thesis are motor sizing and weigh analysis as well as a …
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Design of an innovative urban air mobility vehicle (UAMV) - A control-oriented study
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Emergent Themes of Operational Safety at Urban Air Mobility at Vertiports: The Stakeholder Perspective
<p>The emerging urban air mobility (UAM) industry is dynamic, complex, and still highly conceptual, as vertiports are not currently an operational reality in the United States. The UAM vertiport is at the epicenter of the emerging advanced aviation ecosystem, representing significant operating …
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