UAM Open Source Model​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Summary of G1-G2-G3 Meetings

Aim of the Project

The UAM Open Source Model project is an international collaboration which:

deploys an open-source modular model as a common test platform constituted by:

• a vehicle design,

• an operation envelope and strategy,

• an integrated open-source environment

• with a dedicated chosen infrastructure.

The aim is to have a representative and scalable

test-platform to solve scientific questions in physics, operations and integration, which can be used and accessed by anyone, anywhere, anytime.

Project organization

The project is structured in 3 groups and the collaboration operates voluntarily.

The groups are divided into:

G1: Vehicle design

G2: Flight Operation

G3: Infrastructure

Project leaders

The project and group leads

responsible for advancing the activities in the project:

PL: Sen Wang

G1: Combey Kangni

G2: Yazan Safadi

G3: Ottavio Pedretti

List of collaborators

to be updated...

Sailing bulletin ... 13-2-2025

Group 1 - Vehicle Design Updates

Milestone 1: Chosen missions and representative configurations (January - February 2025)

Objective and tasks: Freeze three potential target configurations and missions and evaluate common components.

Completed actions:

• chosen reference configuration: multi-copter, split take-off+cruise, tilt-rotor configuration;

• chosen missions including range, cruise speed, altitude, powertrain, fuselage and number of rotors;

• identified common parts to be designed: fuselage, wing attachment, and rotor unit.

Group 2 - Flight Operation Updates

Milestone 1: Chosen missions and representative configurations (January - February 2025)

Objective and tasks: the flight operation group is dedicated to planning and simulating UAM operations, addressing demand modeling, route planning, and airspace integration.

Completed actions:

• started preparing a simulation environment with scenario generators according to vehicle inputs;

• starting designing mission profile and flight operation strategies with vehicle inputs;

• identified assessment parameters for integration of operations into vehicle and infrastructure integration.

Group 3 - Infrastructure Updates

Milestone 1: Context Analysis (January - February 2025)

Objective and tasks:

Conduct an in-depth study of São Paulo’s helicopter market and urban context to identify key factors for vertiport design, take São Paulo as target reference.

• Gather and analyze data on helicopter operations, urban density, and potential vertiport locations.

• Identify trends, challenges, and opportunities relevant to vertiports.

• Summarize findings into actionable design criteria.

Completed actions:

• check capacity of vertiports;

• look to helicopters/heliports in san paolo to check location

  • relation between population and number of flights and dimension of vertiport

  • depending on number of population to move scaling of vertiports;

• interaction and interference with elements around the vertiport and interrelation between the elements of vertiport itself

• material for sustainability of vertiport.