Crown Consulting chosen to develop analytics on passenger ride quality in UAM market

Crown Con­sult­ing has been select­ed by NASA’s Small Busi­ness Inno­va­tion Research (SBIR) pro­gramme to study the effects of ride qual­i­ty when trav­el­ling on pas­sen­ger-car­ry­ing VTOL air­craft.

The ana­lyt­ics, infor­ma­tion solu­tions and engi­neer­ing ser­vices spe­cial­ist has part­nered with Quan­ti­ta­tive Sci­en­tif­ic Solu­tions (QS‑2) to pro­vide ana­lyt­ics exper­tise, with the ini­tial Phase I effort to last six months as it cre­ates a frame­work to fill a knowl­edge gap.

Past work has relat­ed pas­sen­ger com­fort to noise and vibra­tion, but no mea­sure has been devel­oped relat­ing pas­sen­ger accep­tance to the com­bi­na­tion of noise, vibra­tion, and vehi­cle motion.

And with eVTOL air­craft designs wide­ly expect­ed to have dif­fer­ent notion dynam­ics to heli­copter and fixed-wing air­craft, part of this new research will find out how pas­sen­gers might react to this.

In a press release, Crown’s Chief Tech­nol­o­gy Offi­cer, Dr. Tom Edwards, said that ‘this work will enable res­o­lu­tion of a major bar­ri­er to suc­cess­ful imple­men­ta­tion of UAM’.

Phase I also includes a plan for a Phase II effort, to mea­sure the effects of ride qual­i­ty with human sub­jects in a phys­i­cal sim­u­la­tion envi­ron­ment. There is also the poten­tial for fol­low-on fund­ing to fur­ther mature the tech­nol­o­gy.

For more infor­ma­tion about Crown Con­sult­ing and its work, vis­it https://www.crownci.com/