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The aircraft will be "flying all over the sky".

  2018-05-27

introduce:NetEase news May 20th, according to the Scientific American magazine, Amason (Amazon), Uber and other technology giants want to use small UAVs to "occupy" the air and send passengers and parcels to their destinations faster. In order to achieve

NetEase news May 20th, according to the Scientific American magazine, Amason (Amazon), Uber and other technology giants want to use small UAVs to "occupy" the air and send passengers and parcels to their destinations faster. In order to achieve this goal, these UAVs need special air traffic control systems to prevent them from bumping into buildings, manned aircraft, or colliding with each other.
Photo: at the Elevate summit that was held a long time ago, Uber, the tycoon, announced the design specification of its electric aircraft, which will be the "air taxi" for the company's urban air traffic network UberAIR service.
NASA is developing UAS traffic management (UTM) network with several other agencies. They plan to complete the test next year. In particular, the success of Uber and UTM will bring great advantages to them. Last week, the web giant announced several plans to promote its UberAIR air taxi service. However, there are still many problems with monitoring and management systems when and when they are able to deal with a large number of UAVs. These aircraft will fly far away to transport everything from pizza to passengers.
At the very least, Uber is working with NASA. The company announced at the Elevate summit in Losangeles in May 8th and 9th that it had signed an agreement with NASA to provide the UberAIR service details and data that it first launched in Dallas - Fort Worth. In return, NASA will use Uber data to simulate computer simulations of small passenger and cargo aircraft flying over Texas metropolis during the peak hours of air traffic.
Uber will analyze these simulations to help them manage the air taxis in the already crowded Dallas, Losangeles and Dubai airspace. In 2020, many cities are expected to start using UberAIR services. The document on the Uber website shows that its UberAIR service aims to be launched in urban areas with more than 2 million people and where the population density exceeds "2000 people per square mile".
In addition, these cities must also have a large and scattered layout, allowing air taxis to "provide significant time saving services at a speed of 240 to 320 kilometers per hour". The company also points out that its UAVs will run in a "node to node" way rather than a "point to point" model, which means they will have specific pick-up and delivery points, rather than random landing.
At the Elevate summit that was held a long time ago, Uber, the tycoon, announced the design specification of its electric aircraft, which would be the "air taxi" for the company's urban air traffic network UberAIR service. Uber hopes that uberAIR services will be fully launched in 2023. Uber expects its air taxis to take off and go vertically, flying at a speed of 320 km at a cruising altitude of around 300 meters. Uber plans to build a large number of "skyports" platforms, which can take off or land on the top and approach the final destination of customers as far as possible.
These UAVs need to be able to fly 100 kilometers every time they are charged with electricity, and are equipped with four sets of electric propellers specially designed for take-off and landing. When the aircraft is flying in the air, the fifth thrusters at the rear will provide thrust for the forward movement. The company plans to introduce autopilot taxis at some point in the future, but this service will initially be controlled by human pilots.
NASA began studying UTM in 2015 to identify technology and programs to help unmanned aerial vehicles flying safely in the air of up to 120 meters, which is usually not monitored by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
NASA is studying space design (such as creating lines or routes) and geographic fence software that uses GPS or radio signals to prevent UAVs from flying over some areas. This year, NASA is testing a technology that can ensure the safety distance between these aircraft when they are flying in densely populated areas. Next year's final phase test will focus on the operation of high density population in urban areas, and perform tasks like news gathering and parcel delivery. FAA currently does not allow UAVs to fly over the crowd. once the test is completed, NASA will give UTM to FAA and accept the same air traffic control with the existing manned spacecraft.
"Automated UAS air traffic controls have a long way to go before they are ready for daily use," said David Ethan (David Ison), an associate professor at the College of global aviation at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Some sensing and communication technologies will be deployed on the ground, while other devices will be installed on an aircraft to broadcast coordinates, images, altitudes, and other data to help the UAVs maintain a safe distance from the surrounding environment. Ethan said: "the question is, if we have a large number of UAVs flying in the air at the same time, how can we keep these systems from collapse?"
Parimal Kopadkal (Parimal Kopardekar), senior technical expert at NASA air transport system and UTM project chief investigator, said that even after a comprehensive test of UTM, FAA may take years to deploy a strong enough system to meet the expected needs of US commercial UAVs delivery services. He also said that at present, as many as 6000 UAVs fly across the US airspace at all times. And when FAA opens its airspace to the UAV, it could increase by 100 times.
The situation has begun to emerge. The US Transport Department announced last week that 10 places in California, North Carolina and Oklahoma were used as pilots to allow greater scope in these places.

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