The revolution of urban air mobility (UAM) covers new concepts of operations, business cases, applicable regulations, and stakeholders and end users. This new business sector needs to be secured, invented, refined, structured and industrialized while staying sustainable and interoperable within the U-space framework.
In the near future, safe, secure, green and acceptable UAM solutions will bring seamless freight, emergency, security and mobility services. Operators, regulators, traffic management, end users, public and airborne industry must collaborate to ensure UAM vehicle airworthiness and viable operations.
The consortium is composed of all relevant stakeholders:
• Aerospace research institutes
• Aerospace universities
• UAS and eVTOLs (Air Taxis)
• Aviation and air traffic management engineering and consultancy
• Aviation data management
• Air navigation service providers
• Airport authorities
• U-space service providers
• UAS operators
• Ground infrastructure providers (vertiports…)
• Mobile communication service providers
• Advisory board: National civil aviation authorities, city councils and regional governments, European bodies
The project proposes to design and deliver a detailed concept of operations and definition of urban air missions followed by simulations and a large real flight demonstration campaign to verify and validate the concepts. The project will allow UAM stakeholders to specify various use cases applicable to logistics and urban transport of passengers, to design or integrate UAM environment, to test the UAS ground and airborne platforms and finally, to assess safety, security, sustainability and public acceptance.
More than 100 flight hours in urban areas
The exercises planned within AMU-LED include more than 100 flight hours combining different unmanned aerial systems and considering various scenarios, use cases and applications. These will consist of air taxi operations, cargo transport, delivery of goods and medical equipment, inspection of infrastructures, police surveillance and emergency services support.
Through real tests and simulations, the project will explore and demonstrate how to decongest roads, improve transportation of people and goods, reduce travel times, increase flexibility, cut pollution, and reduce traffic accidents.
Thanks to the data obtained from the different tests, AMU-LED is expected to provide invaluable information to regulatory authorities, such as the EASA. Ultimately the goal is to help support the regulatory framework in the urban air mobility field.
The power of collaboration
Coordinated by everis, the consortium is made up of a group of very prominent actors within the sector:
- Airbus
- AirHub
- Altitude Angel
- ANRA Technologies
- Boeing Research & Technology-Europe
- FADA-CATEC
- Cranfield University
- EHang
- ENAIRE
- Gemeente Amsterdam
- INECO
- ITG
- Jeppesen
- NLR
- Space53
- Tecnalia.
The comprehensive and multi-disciplinary team of professionals at AMU-LED includes experts in air traffic solutions, simulation and drone operations, research technology centres, legislators and experts in tests and demonstrators.
A commitment to the evolution of air traffic management
AMU-LED is integral to the work of the SESAR Joint Undertaking on the digital transformation of air traffic management and the delivery of solutions in support of the European Commission’s initiative for safe and secure drone operations, otherwise known as U-space.
This project has received funding from the SESAR Joint Undertaking under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101017702
ANRA Technologies will play a key role in AMU-LED, a Horizon 2020 project for the European Union framed in the SESAR Joint Undertaking by providing its proven SmartSkies family of software platforms for advanced airspace management and simulation. ANRA’s platforms and expertise will enable various exercises supporting simulated and live eVTOL operations in various scenarios, use cases and applications, at scale in Europe and the UK. These will include cargo and passenger transport, delivery of goods and medical equipment, inspection of infrastructure, law enforcement operations, and emergency services support.
“We have been developing airspace management technology since 2015, constantly updating our software platform to ensure safe, efficient and secure operations for today’s Urban Air Mobility aircraft. Our SmartSkies platform was recently used for NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign and we will build upon that success to develop robust simulations leading to live flights trials with our eVTOL partners,” stated Amit Ganjoo, Founder and CEO of ANRA Technologies.
Source: Press Releases