UAM - Urban Air Mobility ......- AW&ST

UAM, en forkortelse som ser ut til å slå an for disse dingsene, som jeg har kalt dem. Her gjelder kontroll av lavtflygende innretninger av ymse slag. Ting er på gang i erkjennelsen av at de kommer. Sjekk ut Volocopter her: https://tinyurl.com/y9j6tarn Kun ett av flere hundre konsepter. (Red.) Boeing and SparkCongition Launch SkyGrid UTM Platform Boeing and artificial-intelligence (AI) startup SparkCognition have launched SkyGrid, a company that will develop an airspace management platform for unmanned aircraft and urban air mobility (UAM). “SkyGrid is building the digital infrastructure that will make safe, seamless commercial and personal transport possible for billions of people around the world,” says Steve Nordlund, vice president and general manager of Boeing NeXt. SkyGrid is based in Austin, Texas. Formed in July, Boeing NeXt is leading the company’s research and development activities on unmanned traffic management (UTM) and next-generation transportation, including UAM. Boeing is an investor in machine-learning specialist SparkCognition through its HorizonX Ventures unit.

SkyGrid will provide airspace services for unmanned cargo and passenger vehicles using machine learning and distributed ledger technology. Credit: Boeing

SkyGrid’s software platform will provide AI-based automated route planning and streamlined flight-plan approval, inflight monitoring and alerting, distributed airspace monitoring via the vehicles themselves, dynamic rerouting and intelligent deconfliction, embedded predictive maintenance, machine-learning-based cybersecurity and blockchain-based secure storage of flight and aircraft data. “By offering scalable and robust capabilities in a single, integrated framework, SkyGrid will make large-scale air vehicle applications more practical and accessible,” says Amir Husain, founder and CEO of SparkCognition and CEO of SkyGrid. SkyGrid will provide airspace management services for unmanned aircraft—including for package delivery, industrial inspections and emergency assistance—and for future autonomous cargo and passenger air vehicles. General Electric in July launched AiRXOS, a new company to provide UTM services. Airbus, meanwhile, is an investor in unmanned airspace services provider AirMap. Thales has teamed with Unifly to provide the ECOsystem UTM platform. Typical UAM Austria’s FACC Teams With EHang on Air Taxis Austrian aerostructures manufacturer FACC has entered a strategic partnership with Chinese autonomous air-taxi developer EHang to prepare the vehicles for production. FACC is owned by China’s state-owned aircraft manufacturer Avic. Under the agreement, FACC will contribute its experience in development, certification, production and support of products for aircraft. EHang already is flight testing the single-seat 184 and two-seat 216 multicopter autonomous air vehicles (AAV). FACC will use its development and certification experience to prepare EHang’s autonomous air vehicles for production. Credit: EHang “The partnership with FACC strongly supports us in the implementation of our solutions and in the manufacturing and certification of EHang AAV that will lead to its commercialization,” says Hu Huazhi, founder, chairman and CEO of EHang. FACC and EHang intend to work with industry partners, politicians and aviation authorities to implement urban air mobility. They plan to work with authorities to accelerate the development of regulations and, subsequently, to create a test area in Austria.