As new electric propulsion technologies have matured, many new electric propulsion Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft concepts have been proposed. These new aircraft concepts enable the creation of new aviation markets including Urban Air Mobility (UAM) but also pose new challenges in safety assurance. One early challenge is the evaluation of the diverse aircraft configurations and accompanying advanced control systems and automation designed to aid controllability. This paper describes a research activity to propose candidate means of evaluation for the aircraft concepts and automation in the context of UAM operations. The research activity proposes the adaptation of an evaluation design standard used by the military for advanced rotorcraft along with proposed descriptions and definitions to support evaluation of diverse automated concepts in the civilian eVTOL community.
Evaluation of Novel eVTOL Aircraft Automation Concepts
AIAA Aviation Forum and Exposition ; 2023 ; San Diego, CA, US
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Evaluation of Novel eVTOL Aircraft Automation Concepts
NTIS | 2023
|Evaluation of Novel eVTOL Aircraft Automation Concepts
TIBKAT | 2023
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