Sensitivity analysis of urban air mobility aircraft design and operations including battery charging and swapping

• DOI: 10.1007/s13272-024-00725-x
• Publication Date: 2024-04-28T05:01:31Z
• Authors: Patrick Ratei; Nabih Naeem; Prajwal Shiva Pra...; Björn Nagel
• Keywords: eVTOL; 0203 mechanical engineering; System of Systems; 02 engineering and technology; Urban Air Mobility; Conceptual Aircraft Design; Agent-Based Simulation

Abstract Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is an evolving concept of passenger transportation providing on-demand flights within metropolitan environments, wherefore typically fully electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft are designed. Due to the underlying battery energy constraints, design UAM very sensitive. Apart from considerations, impact operations on entire transport network must be examined. As there no data real-world available, this research article utilizes a system systems simulation framework combining with agent-based simulation. The approach offers possibility studying several parameters concerning operations. In case study focused intra-city transport, aspects regarding payload capacity, mission profile, reserve requirement studied for multirotor configuration. Furthermore, turnaround procedures, demand, cruise speed. multi-level sensitivity analysis ranging subsystem over interest level allows us trace most sensitive aspects. Especially, fast-charging swapping shows importance holistic investigations successful development services.