Urban Air Mobility (UAM) vehicles have the potential to augment urban transportation systems, allowing passengers to skip the traffic below for a fee. This emerging market is opening up the design space for a new class of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) vehicles which could be powered by electric propulsion systems to be economical and environmentally friendly. However, development of these UAM concepts presents several additional challenges in the design process. First, these concept designs require including new disciplinary models for subsystems including the electric motors, cables, batteries and thermal management systems. Second, correctly designing and evaluating these various subsystems requires tight coupling between the discipline models to capture interactions. This paper presents the continued development of a multidisciplinary design optimization environment to aid in the development of these vehicle concepts. The multidisciplinary environment fully couples the various subsystem models allowing for the full vehicle to be designed and optimized simultaneously. In this research, the developed modeling approach is demonstrated in the analysis of a small, all-electric quadrotor UAM concept. Results from these studies show that numerous disciplines can be tightly coupled and producing improved overall vehicle designs.


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    Title :

    Multidisciplinary Optimization of an Electric Quadrotor Urban Air Mobility Aircraft



    Conference:

    AIAA Aviation 2020 Conference ; 2020 ; Virtual, US


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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