摘要: |
NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Project has established a line of research within its portfolio referred to as the High Density Vertiplex (HDV) sub-project [1]. Overall, the HDV sub- project endeavors to perform rapid prototyping and assessment of an Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Ecosystem to help inform future research investments with a particular focus on vertiport operations and their associated elements. Within HDV’s UAM Ecosystem prototyping, representative elements of: 1) Onboard autonomous systems, 2) Ground control and fleet management systems, 3) airspace management systems and 4) Vertiport automation systems are included. The technical work within the HDV sub-project was designed to follow an iterative, phased approach, with the first phase designated as the Advanced Onboard Automation (AOA) schedule work package (SWP). A key focus area of the HDV sub-project is the development and integration of vertiport automation systems (VAS). However, only very basic functionality for the VAS was included within the AOA schedule work package due to the initial scope being the implementation of the foundational capabilities needed to integrate and test with the VAS as part of the envisioned ecosystem. Although the HDV sub-project had many objectives for the AOA phase, this report will focus on the flight testing conducted to support Human Factors (HF) [2] [3] research related to vertiport Prototype Assessment Operations (PAO). This flight activity was designated HDV AOA Flight Test, which started February 2022 and ended April 2022. |