NASA’s AAM Ecosystem Working Groups (AEWG) to meet on July 19th

When the pub­lic thinks about the addi­tion of drones, air taxis, or new car­go deliv­ery air­craft, noise is a com­mon con­cern. Will these air­craft buzz over hous­ing areas? Add to noise pol­lu­tion? NASA is work­ing to help make sure that when these inno­v­a­tive new air­craft join the air­space, they are qui­et.

NASA’s Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty mis­sion is devel­op­ing design tools that man­u­fac­tur­ers can use to reduce noise impacts. The Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) project and Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Ver­ti­cal Lift Tech­nol­o­gy project work togeth­er to con­duct test­ing with indus­try part­ners.

NASA’s Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) Ecosys­tem Work­ing Groups (AEWG) is to meet on July 19th for a Cross­cut­ting Work­ing Group: Auton­o­my val­i­da­tion and ver­i­fi­ca­tion (V&V) Deep Dive ses­sion.

NASA will dis­cuss the devel­op­ment of a roadmap for V&V Auton­o­my and val­i­da­tion and will seek agree­ment with­in the AAM com­mu­ni­ty based on major gaps, indus­try needs, and the future mar­ket.

To reg­is­ter, enter: https://nari.arc.nasa.gov/crosscuttingwgregistration.

There are two choic­es for reg­is­tra­tion:

1. Active par­tic­i­pant, pro­vid­ing the abil­i­ty to inter­act direct­ly with the hosts and pan­elists through the MS Teams plat­form. Active par­tic­i­pa­tion will be capped at 100 atten­dees.
2. Lis­ten-only par­tic­i­pant, pro­vid­ing the abil­i­ty to view the meet­ing in real time through a YouTube Live Stream and ask writ­ten ques­tions through the conferences.io plat­form. There is no cap for lis­ten-only par­tic­i­pa­tion.

The agen­da will include a wel­come and intro­duc­tion ses­sion by Misty Davies of NASA, fol­lowed by a Project overview from Huafeng Yu of Boe­ing Ufuk Topcu, Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas Austin.

Safe­ty in Human Auton­o­my Inter­ac­tion (HAI) will then be exam­ined by Chuchu Fan at MIT, fol­lowed by Assured Con­tin­gency Land­ing Man­age­ment (ACLM) by Ella Atkins from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan.

Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion guid­ance for arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI) and machine learn­ing (ML) is next on the agen­da by Dar­ren Cofer of Collins Aero­space, after which unmanned air­craft traf­fic man­age­ment (UTM) will be dis­cussed by Mike Durl­ing of GE Research.

A gen­er­al dis­cus­sion will then fol­low with two par­tic­i­pa­tion options:
• Active Par­tic­i­pants: MS Teams chat and open micro­phone
• Lis­ten Only Par­tic­i­pants: Conferences.io

Clos­ing Remarks will be made by Misty Davies of NASA.

Ear­ly last month, Electra.aero was select­ed as a part­ner in NASA’s AAM Nation­al Cam­paign, which aims to inte­grate air taxis, car­go deliv­ery, and oth­er advanced air­craft con­cepts into US air­space.

In May, Joby Avi­a­tion com­plet­ed test­ing with NASA, when Joby’s air­craft reg­is­tered the equiv­a­lent of 45.2 A‑weighted deci­bels (dBA) from an alti­tude of 500 meters at 100 knots air­speed, with its acoustic pro­file to be below 65 dBA at a dis­tance of 100 meters.