“Monolith Collaborates with Vertical Aerospace For AI Engineering”

UK-based Mono­lith, an arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI) soft­ware provider, has start­ed work with eVTOL devel­op­er, Ver­ti­cal Aero­space, reports a press release. Mono­lith is to assist the Bris­tol-locat­ed com­pa­ny opti­mise its eVTOL test­ing and sim­u­la­tion pro­grams to improve per­for­mance and accel­er­ate time to mar­ket.

The release explains, “Flight and ground tests for elec­tric air taxis are incred­i­bly com­plex, expen­sive, and time-con­sum­ing, typ­i­cal­ly requir­ing engi­neers to spend hun­dreds of hours val­i­dat­ing sim­u­la­tions across tens of thou­sands of para­me­ters and oper­at­ing con­di­tions.”

Ver­ti­cal Aero­space is to use Mono­lith to accel­er­ate devel­op­ment of its VX4 eVTOL air­craft by using AI for new design insights and more effi­cient test plans. The first project focus­es on tri­alling and sim­u­la­tion of the aircraft’s sup­port­ing pylon struc­tures for pro­peller ground tests and elec­tric motor struc­tur­al and per­for­mance require­ments.

David King, Chief Engi­neer of Ver­ti­cal Aero­space, remarked, “Col­lab­o­rat­ing with Mono­lith allows us to har­ness cut­ting-edge AI tech­nol­o­gy to stream­line our test­ing process­es, enabling us to focus on the most impact­ful areas and accel­er­ate the VX4’s jour­ney to mar­ket. By inte­grat­ing Monolith’s tools, we can enhance our engi­neer­ing pre­ci­sion, reduce time­lines, and con­tin­ue set­ting the bench­mark for the eVTOL indus­try.”

Monolith’s advanced Next Test Rec­om­mender (NTR) AI-dri­ven algo­rithm will pro­vide Ver­ti­cal Aero­space engi­neers with a ranked selec­tion of the most impact­ful tests to run, increas­ing design space cov­er­age in unknown areas with a more effi­cient and trust­wor­thy test plan.

Dr. Richard Ahlfeld

Dr. Richard Ahlfeld, CEO and Founder of Mono­lith, com­ment­ed, “Urban air mobil­i­ty has the poten­tial to rev­o­lu­tionise how we trav­el, and one of the most promis­ing con­trib­u­tors to this trans­for­ma­tion is Vertical’s VX4. With us, Ver­ti­cal  will mod­el com­plex sys­tems faster and accel­er­ate test cam­paigns, enabling the com­pa­ny to learn more about design per­for­mance while reduc­ing devel­op­ment and test­ing time.”

The release con­tin­ues, “Mono­lith has a proven track record in aero­space engi­neer­ing fol­low­ing recent projects with Air­bus and BAE Sys­tems on air­craft and drones. The Lon­don-based com­pa­ny is already democ­ra­tis­ing AI for engi­neer­ing with its bespoke SaaS plat­form that uses no-code, machine-learn­ing soft­ware, giv­ing domain experts the pow­er to lever­age exist­ing, valu­able test­ing datasets for their prod­uct devel­op­ment.”

It con­tin­ues, “The plat­form analy­ses and learns from this infor­ma­tion, using it to gen­er­ate accu­rate, reli­able pre­dic­tions that enable engi­neer­ing teams to reduce cost­ly, time- inten­sive pro­to­type test­ing pro­grams.”

Inte­grat­ing high­ly effec­tive inno­va­tions such as the NTR tool and the industry’s first AI-pow­ered Anom­aly Detec­tor func­tion­al­i­ty, Mono­lith pro­vides engi­neers with smart solu­tions to devel­op high­er-qual­i­ty prod­ucts in half the time.

Back­ground

Mono­lith soft­ware is used by glob­al engi­neer­ing teams like Siemens, Hon­ey­well, and the BMW Group. Head­quar­tered in Lon­don, the com­pa­ny has been Fea­tured in Forbes mag­a­zine and named as one of the UK’s top 100 start-ups.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.monolithai.com

https://vertical-aerospace.com/

(Top Image: Mono­lith AI)

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