Much of the contemporary discussion around passenger-based urban air mobility (UAM) has been about transporting folks from major airports to their respective city centers to circumvent the congestion and added load to the transportation grid. It will also provide quick access for business travelers who sometimes spend as much time (or more) on ground travel as they do in the air.
An electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft is a variety of VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aircraft that uses electric power to hover, take off, and land vertically. This technology came about thanks to major advances in electric propulsion (motors, batteries, fuel cells, electronic controllers) and the emerging need for new aerial vehicles for Urban Air Mobility (#uam ) that can enable greener and quieter flights. Electric and hybrid propulsion systems (#EHPS) have also the potential of lowering the operating costs of aircraft.
With this as basis, a lot of old and new aerospace companies are exploring the domain of air taxi services to connect metropolitan centers to outlying airport hubs. But I quite don’t understand the basis of this design by Airbus which would make navigation of such UAM systems hazardous in cityscapes.
Flying Vehicle Introduced by Airbus; Electric 4-Seater (iotworldtoday.com)
If wings are so needed to provide for more lift and glide, and make travel more economical, why not have them retractable?
But it’s not just the design of such eVTOLS, but also the entire ecosystem of wayports, travel logistics, charging, routing, supply chain and integrating with the existing network that needs to be considered in such endeavors. We also need to explore and exploit adjacencies of connected services to enable a more circular development of such initiatives.
At Numorpho Cybernetic Systems (NUMO), we are following a graded ascension in mobility – from micro, macro to hyper and for this last construct we will be providing meaningful solutions (like our folding helmets) for such transportation services that would not only ease the load on the current grid but also provide for a more efficient and sustainable solution for the movement of people and goods. At each stage of our journey, we will be creating compelling products to assert our brand and provide the DNA for our future solutions.
Our solutioning will be based on our Krebs Cycle for Process Engineering that steps thru upstream, midstream and downstream activities to concert people, processes and platforms together to provide for the data engineering fabric needed for such endeavors.
Here is our seminal whitepaper that also talks about hypermobility:
Stay tuned to our evolution as we make new hard tech possible by merging the digital and the physical to choreograph our futures. We are indebted to our relationships with mHUB and MxD, both premier Chicagoland organizations that have helped theme our progression and provided us with the resources and mentorship to achieve our goals.
NITIN UCHIL Founder, CEO & Technical Evangelist
nitin.uchil@numorpho.com