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The FAA and stakeholders are moving full speed ahead on urban air mobility (UAM). The US has committed to advanced air mobility operations by the Los Angeles Olympic games in 2028. One in every of the projects established to assist move the industry forward is the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Airspace Management Demonstration (UAMD.)
How Will Deconfliction Work When Multiple Unmanned Aircraft Share Routes?
The UAMD has been in process for the last yr. The project is designed to check concepts of airspace management and show how UAM corridors might work. The work culminated in live flights of Aurora Flight Science’s optionally piloted Centaur aircraft, with ANRA providing airspace management services. The Centaur flew the 20-mile corridor between St. Martin and Hollister Airports in central California.
Within the test, the corridor included multiple entry points (CEPs): points the aircraft used to transition to and from corridors to permit other air traffic to flow. “ANRA was answerable for deconflicting and managing the Centaur aircraft with one other participating UAM aircraft provided by Reliable Robotics and simulated traffic,” says a press release.
“There have been many meetings, quite a few simulations and lots of tests to make sure the protected operation of real aircraft flying while connected to the ANRA platform within the NAS,” stated David Murphy, UAMD Project Lead for ANRA. “The ANRA [systems] worked great, but we’ve got rather more to learn on how we proceed to integrate UAM operations in today’s air traffic system.”
Industry technology partners included Reliable Robotics, Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing Company, and OneSky. Texas A&M University Corpus Christi Lone Star UAS Center of Excellence & Innovation provided test site operator support and Embry Riddle Aeronautical University was the general project manager. The FAA was the project sponsor and provided air traffic controller expertise and support from their NexGen Integration and Evaluation Capability laboratory.
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