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Intelligent Control for Fixed-Wing eVTOL Aircraft

2021
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) holds promise for personal air transportation by deploying "flying cars" over cities. As such, fixed-wing electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft has gained popularity as they can swiftly traverse cluttered areas, while also efficiently covering longer distances.
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Rotor/Airframe Aeroacoustic Prediction for eVTOL UAM Aircraft

Proceedings of the Vertical Flight Society 75th Annual Forum, 2019
A major innovative thrust in urban air mobility (UAM) is underway that will potentially transform how we travel by providing on-demand, affordable, quiet, and fast passenger-carrying operations in metropolitan areas using electric-powered vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.
Kenneth Brentner, Daniel Wachspress, Michael Yu   +2 more
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How to Tackle The Challenges of Evtol Aircraft

Aerospace Testing International, 2022
The development of personal or urban air mobility aircraft presents several engineering challenges
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An Improved Velocity Planning Method for eVTOL Aircraft Based on Differential Evolution Algorithm Considering Flight Economy

IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification
This research establishes an energy management method for the velocity planning of an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft to ensure and enhance flying safety and economy. This method integrates the aerodynamic and economic models of an
Yiqiang Xie, Ziyue Song, Rui Yang, Yuping Qian, Mingxing Yu, Haiwang Li, Yangjun Zhang   +6 more
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Military Mission Suitability Assessment of eVTOL Aircraft Configurations

Proceedings of the Vertical Flight Society 77th Annual Forum, 2021
The U.S. Army Concept Design and Assessment (CD&A) Technology Area has been following leading companies’ eVTOL development. Based on the Tech Area’s extensive aircraft design and analysis experience questions arose regarding current eVTOLs designs meeting potential military performance and attributes requirements. Similar concerns were seen
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A Novel Topology With the Combination of Superconducting Magnet and Permanent Magnet for the Propulsion Motor of eVTOL Aircraft

IEEE transactions on applied superconductivity
The high-temperature superconducting (HTS) tape can bring significant improvement to the performance of electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft's propulsion motor.
Xinhong Gao, Yuanzhi Zhang, H. Fang, Dawei Li, Yi Cheng, Ronghia Qu   +5 more
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A comparative study of uncertainty quantification methods in gust response analysis of a Lift-Plus-Cruise eVTOL aircraft wing

AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum
Wind gusts, being inherently stochastic, can significantly influence the safety and performance of aircraft. This study investigates a three-dimensional uncertainty quantification (UQ) problem to explore how uncertainties in gust and flight conditions ...
Bingran Wang, Michael Warner, Aoran Tian, Luca Scotzniovsky, John T. Hwang   +4 more
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Preliminary performance assessment of a long-range eVTOL aircraft

AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum, 2022
The electric aircraft industry is starting to gain traction mainly due to the growing specific energy capacity of new batteries. Within this industry electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft serve the urban and regional air mobility market, requiring less infrastructure investments such as large airports, due to their vertical takeoff and
Beyne, E.E.A. (author), Castro, Saullo G.P. (author)   +1 more
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An Efficient Parametric Modeling, Evaluation and Optimization Strategy for Aerodynamic Configuration Design of eVTOL Aircraft

Aerospace Research Communications
Traditional aerodynamic design faces significant limitations in modeling and computational efficiency during conceptual design stage. A phased collaborative aerodynamic design strategy for eVTOL aircraft was established, by combining the OpenVSP platform
Yiming Du, Zehao Liu, Meizhu Shen, Jiang Wu, Kexin Zhang, Chuanye Jiang, Jiale Zhong   +6 more
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Utilizing eVTOL Aircraft to Alleviate Traffic Congestion on an Arterial Road

IEEE transactions on intelligent transportation systems (Print)
The development of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircrafts promotes the prosperity of Urban Air Mobility (UAM). While numerous efforts have been made on UAM, little was focusing on the integrated operation of UAM and ground transportation
Bang-Kai Xiong, Rui Jiang, Kai Wang, Xinmin Tang, Ying Shang, Xiaobo Qu   +5 more
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