12:00 - 12:30PM |
Safe route planning for Drones and Air Taxis |
Unmanned aircraft systems such as drones (UAS) and air taxis (AAM) operate in a different environment than most traditional aviation, in that they operate at low altitudes. In this session Jeremy will focus on why existing GPS augmentation and integrity solutions, built for conventional applications, are not sufficient for UAS & AAM in complex environments as they do not take into account the localized impact of buildings and other signal blockages. Jeremy will demonstrate how to use a cloud-based GPS Forecast service that uses 3D maps and precise orbital information to enable users to find out where and when GNSS will be reliable. This enables route planning, vertiport site selection, optimized UTM, enhanced surveillance, and the safety case for BVLOS.
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Jeremy Bennington VP of Position Navigation, & Time, Spirent
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12:30 - 1:00PM |
Winning Hearts and Minds: The Future Role of UAM for Emergency Management and Disaster Response |
Achieving true public acceptance of unmanned air mobility technology will require more than just moving people faster and more efficiently. Complex emergencies and major disasters continue to garner immense public interest. In this session, we'll explore the future ability of UAM technology to significantly impact how emergencies are managed and help shape perceptions surrounding UAM for good.
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Tom Oatmeyer Aircraft Commander MIami-Dade Fire Rescue (MDFR)
Christopher Todd Executive Director Airborne International Response Team (AIRT)
Dawn Zoldi President UAS Colorado
Brandon-Dean Morris Instructor Security and Emergency Response Training Center (SERTC)
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12:30 - 1:00PM |
Equity and Justice is More than a Debate About "Unmanned" |
Do the concepts of equity and justice apply to UAVs? From who makes them to who uses them to who receives something from them (books from Amazon? leaflets from the health department? bathtubs and crosscut saws from Montgomery Ward?) to data collection (photo/chemical/bio/other) to who might be affected en route, this session will explore the touchpoints and implications of passenger and freight autonomous vehicles in modern society.
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Steven Polunsky Director Alabama Transportation Policy Research Center
Rhonda Binda Deputy Queens Borough President City of New York
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1:00 - 2:00PM |
Agility Prime Accelerates eVTOL Development |
The United States Air Force launched Agility Prime in 2020, a non-traditional program seeking to accelerate the commercial market for advanced air mobility vehicles. The Innovative Capabilities Opening (ICO), established a rapid contracting mechanism with a “Race to Certification” series. The Air Race is a three-phase path to military certification and potential procurement while accelerating commercialization of this revolutionary technology. These flights will provide an opportunity to assess the utility of the aircraft in missions like distributed logistics, medical evacuation, firefighting, disaster response, search and rescue, and humanitarian-relief operations. Additionally, such flight tests could generate data to support the FAA certification enabling a broader commercial market. In this session you will learn more about ICO, Area of Interest, In-kind testing, Military Airworthiness process, and more.
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Darshan "Dash" Divakaran Senior Operations Research Analyst AFWERX
Lt. Col Thomas Meagher "WCMD" Division Chief AFWERX Prime
Major John Tekell "Wasp" Agility Prime Lead, Deputy Division Chief AFWERX Prime
George Griffiths "Hogg" AFWERX Chief of Engineering, Test and Safety AFWERX
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1:30 – 2:00PM |
Advanced Air Mobility Business Case Assessment: State of Ohio |
This session will examine the exciting opportunity for new mobility solutions for the State of Ohio, bringing innovation, incremental revenues, economic growth, and job creation in the emerging Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Sector. Functioning as a review of groundbreaking AAM analysis, this session will make the case that similar studies be conducted for any city, region, or state that may be interested in assessing their market potential.
Themes covered: - Manufacturing & Supply Chain - Risk Calculation and Data Analysis - Public Acceptance - Social Equity
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Phil Dyment Vice President NEXA Capital Partners
Fred Judson Director of the Ohio Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center, Ohio Department of Transportation/DriveOhio
Chase Leeby Director NEXA Capital Partners
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2:00 – 2:15PM |
Leveraging IP rights for Autonomous Vehicles and Systems |
The presentation will generally discuss strategies for protecting and asserting IP rights for Autonomous Vehicles and Systems. The presentation will touch upon various IP protection avenues (e.g. domestic and foreign patents, trademarks, trade secrets), the scope of protection, the timeline to apply for and obtain IP rights to an invention. We will take a look at the areas where the major players in the industry are filing for patent protection, and how these applications fare. Actions that can be taken prior to filing for IP protection (e.g. freedom to operate searches, prior art searches) as well as actions that can be taken after obtaining IP rights (e.g. ways for challenging issued patents, asserting issued patents, licensing) will be discussed.
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Nesli Doran-Civan Partner Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
James J. Maune Senior Associate Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
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2:00 - 2:30PM |
Modeling the Environmental Impacts of Urban Air Mobility: Case Study of Tampa Bay Region |
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is an emerging concept proposed in recent years that uses electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles (eVTOLs), which is expected to offer an alternative way of transporting passengers and goods in urban areas with significantly improved mobility by making use of low-altitude airspace. Our previous study answered planning questions in terms of optimal vertiport locations and estimation of diverted demand from ground transportation by combining network design and travel mode choice models. Although eVTOLs generate zero air pollutant emissions during operations, the impact to the region will be dependent on the energy resources of local power companies while generating the electricity and if eVTOLs are operated efficiently to serve passengers. In this study, we took Tampa Bay Region as our study case and modeled the environmental impacts of UAM implementation, focusing on comparison of air pollutant emissions between existing transportation modes and multimodal UAM for diverted demand. We also did sensitivity analysis to demonstrate how the impacts would vary with the increase of electric vehicle penetrations in the region and for different regions given their electricity production source profiles. The outcomes help stakeholders improve their awareness of the emerging UAM and provide assists in policy making.
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Yu Zhang Professor University of South Florida (USF)
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2:30 – 2:45PM |
The Race is On: Optimizing E/E Systems Development to Capture eVTOL Market Share |
As organizations endeavor to become industry leaders in eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing), learn the critical role that electrical and electronic systems play.
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Anthony Nicoli Aerospace and Defense Director Siemens
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2:45 - 3:00PM |
FAA Federal Regulations And Certification of UAVs with Autonomous Systems and AI in US Airspace |
Providing insight into the Certification Process and giving examples of how Autonomy Systems and AI (Artificial Intelligence) can be Certified on Unmanned Aircraft for operation in US Air Space. Using existing experiences in the certification process with the FAA to clear the confusion and pave the way to UAV Revenue Operations!
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Ken Vranish President KVA Engineering, Inc
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2:45 - 3:15PM |
Multi-mode Sensing and Fusion for UAM eVTOL Safety |
The vision of opening the third dimension, i.e., altitude, for urban/regional transportation has gained substantial interest in the last 5–10 years, with significant efforts to explore the so-called on-demand air mobility (ODAM). The key idea behind ODAM is to use eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) vehicles for inter- and intracity commutes. These small vehicles (usually anticipated to fly 1–4 people) are envisioned to provide line-by- sight flights at affordable prices, while providing a safe and enjoyable flight experience. Their ability to perform vertical takeoff/landing enables them to be operated on small-size port infrastructure. A successful implementation of ODAM requires not only the development of new technologies, including vehicle design and advances in engine/propulsion technology, but also considerations of novel operational patterns, concerning its on-demand characteristics. ODAM has the potential to radically change our view of urban/regional mobility & save people’s daily commute time, as well as on regional thin-haul connections. In this session we cover enabling sensors and software stack.
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Maha Achour, PhD EO, CTO, Founder Metawave Corporation
Daniel W. Bliss Director of WISCA Center for Wireless Information Systems and Computational Architectures
Dr. Lisa Kearney Engineering Fellow Raytheon Technologies
Andrew Torgesen Perception Engineer Anduril Industries
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3:00 - 3:30PM |
Advocacy for AAM in Action |
As we continue to work towards commercial UAS integration, AUVSI is also looking ahead at autonomous AAM operations, and opportunities to learn from and cooperate with the UAS industry, especially as it relates to advocacy and public perception. This panel will focus on the shared areas of interest between the UAS and AAM industry, including certifying autonomy, public acceptance, and local infrastructure demands, challenges, & opportunities.
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Dan Dalton Vice President, Global Partnerships Wisk
Lori Pepper Deputy Secretary for Innovative Mobility Solutions CaslSTA
Michael Robbins Executive Vice President, Government and Public Affairs AUVSI
David RottblattVP, Business Development Eve Air Mobility
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3:30 - 4:00PM |
Daily Recap Session |
Presenters from the day get together to discuss highlights, impressions, and answer attendee questions.
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