The Development of an Advanced Air Mobility Flight Testing and Simulation Infrastructure
The emerging field of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) holds great promise for revolutionizing transportation by enabling the efficient, safe, and sustainable movement of people and goods in urban and regional environments. AAM encompasses a wide range of electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) ai...
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| author | Arinc Tutku Altun Mehmet Hasanzade Emre Saldiran Guney Guner Mevlut Uzun Rodolphe Fremond Yiwen Tang Prithiviraj Bhundoo Yu Su Yan Xu Gokhan Inalhan Michael W. Hardt Alejandro Fransoy Ajay Modha Jose Antonio Tena Cesar Nieto Miguel Vilaplana Marta Tojal Victor Gordo Pablo Menendez Ana Gonzalez |
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| description | The emerging field of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) holds great promise for revolutionizing transportation by enabling the efficient, safe, and sustainable movement of people and goods in urban and regional environments. AAM encompasses a wide range of electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and infrastructure that support their operations. In this work, we first present a new airspace structure by considering different layers for standard-performing vehicles (SPVs) and high-performing vehicles (HPVs), new AAM services for accommodating such a structure, and a holistic contingency management concept for a safe and efficient traffic environment. We then identify the requirements and development process of a testing and simulation infrastructure for AAM demonstrations, which specifically aim to explore the decentralized architecture of the proposed concept and its use cases. To demonstrate the full capability of AAM, we develop an infrastructure that includes advanced U-space services, real and simulated platforms that are suitable for future AAM use cases such as air cargo delivery and air taxi operations, and a co-simulation environment that allows all of the AAM elements to interact with each other in harmony. The considered infrastructure is envisioned to be used in AAM integration-related efforts, especially those focusing on U-space service deployment over a complex traffic environment and those analyzing the interaction between the operator, the U-space service provider (USSP), and the air traffic controller (ATC). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6a91f8a6507e45fbaeaf769a6d0ef9c42023-11-18T23:50:10ZengMDPI AGAerospace2226-43102023-08-0110871210.3390/aerospace10080712The Development of an Advanced Air Mobility Flight Testing and Simulation InfrastructureArinc Tutku Altun0Mehmet Hasanzade1Emre Saldiran2Guney Guner3Mevlut Uzun4Rodolphe Fremond5Yiwen Tang6Prithiviraj Bhundoo7Yu Su8Yan Xu9Gokhan Inalhan10Michael W. Hardt11Alejandro Fransoy12Ajay Modha13Jose Antonio Tena14Cesar Nieto15Miguel Vilaplana16Marta Tojal17Victor Gordo18Pablo Menendez19Ana Gonzalez20School of Aerospace, Transport, and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Bedford MK43 0AL, UKSchool of Aerospace, Transport, and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Bedford MK43 0AL, UKSchool of Aerospace, Transport, and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Bedford MK43 0AL, UKSchool of Aerospace, Transport, and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Bedford MK43 0AL, UKSchool of Aerospace, Transport, and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Bedford MK43 0AL, UKSchool of Aerospace, Transport, and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Bedford MK43 0AL, UKSchool of Aerospace, Transport, and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Bedford MK43 0AL, UKSchool of Aerospace, Transport, and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Bedford MK43 0AL, UKSchool of Aerospace, Transport, and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Bedford MK43 0AL, UKSchool of Aerospace, Transport, and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Bedford MK43 0AL, UKSchool of Aerospace, Transport, and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Bedford MK43 0AL, UKBoeing Research & Technology—Europe, 28042 Madrid, SpainBoeing Research & Technology—Europe, 28042 Madrid, SpainANRA Technologies, Bedford MK43 0DG, UKAirbus-Unmanned Traffic Management, 28906 Madrid, SpainAirbus-Unmanned Traffic Management, 28906 Madrid, SpainAirbus-Unmanned Traffic Management, 28906 Madrid, SpainRoyal Netherlands Aerospace Centre, 1059 Amsterdam, The NetherlandsIneco, 28036 Madrid, SpainNTT Data, 28050 Madrid, SpainNTT Data, 28050 Madrid, SpainThe emerging field of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) holds great promise for revolutionizing transportation by enabling the efficient, safe, and sustainable movement of people and goods in urban and regional environments. AAM encompasses a wide range of electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and infrastructure that support their operations. In this work, we first present a new airspace structure by considering different layers for standard-performing vehicles (SPVs) and high-performing vehicles (HPVs), new AAM services for accommodating such a structure, and a holistic contingency management concept for a safe and efficient traffic environment. We then identify the requirements and development process of a testing and simulation infrastructure for AAM demonstrations, which specifically aim to explore the decentralized architecture of the proposed concept and its use cases. To demonstrate the full capability of AAM, we develop an infrastructure that includes advanced U-space services, real and simulated platforms that are suitable for future AAM use cases such as air cargo delivery and air taxi operations, and a co-simulation environment that allows all of the AAM elements to interact with each other in harmony. The considered infrastructure is envisioned to be used in AAM integration-related efforts, especially those focusing on U-space service deployment over a complex traffic environment and those analyzing the interaction between the operator, the U-space service provider (USSP), and the air traffic controller (ATC).https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/10/8/712Advanced Air MobilityUrban Air MobilityU-spaceUASUTMintegration |
| spellingShingle | Arinc Tutku Altun Mehmet Hasanzade Emre Saldiran Guney Guner Mevlut Uzun Rodolphe Fremond Yiwen Tang Prithiviraj Bhundoo Yu Su Yan Xu Gokhan Inalhan Michael W. Hardt Alejandro Fransoy Ajay Modha Jose Antonio Tena Cesar Nieto Miguel Vilaplana Marta Tojal Victor Gordo Pablo Menendez Ana Gonzalez The Development of an Advanced Air Mobility Flight Testing and Simulation Infrastructure Aerospace Advanced Air Mobility Urban Air Mobility U-space UAS UTM integration |
| title | The Development of an Advanced Air Mobility Flight Testing and Simulation Infrastructure |
| title_full | The Development of an Advanced Air Mobility Flight Testing and Simulation Infrastructure |
| title_fullStr | The Development of an Advanced Air Mobility Flight Testing and Simulation Infrastructure |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Development of an Advanced Air Mobility Flight Testing and Simulation Infrastructure |
| title_short | The Development of an Advanced Air Mobility Flight Testing and Simulation Infrastructure |
| title_sort | development of an advanced air mobility flight testing and simulation infrastructure |
| topic | Advanced Air Mobility Urban Air Mobility U-space UAS UTM integration |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/10/8/712 |
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