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NASA Superior Air Mobility Venture: ANRA to supply UAM
ANRA Technologies has won a leading spot in NASA’s new advanced air mobility project, National Advanced Air Mobility Campaign 2 (AAM) for community planning and integration of the aeronautical research mission. ANRA will partner with FlyOhio, a collaboration between public, private and academic institutions led by DriveOhio’s Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) group, to address the safety issues and other barriers to integrating passenger drones and other advanced air mobility vehicles into transportation systems. This profit comes after ANRA 2020 successfully completed the NASA AAM NC (X3) simulations as a service provider for UAM and tested scenarios in a simulated environment.
ANRA was instrumental in the global development of unmanned traffic management (UTM) and other drone integration technologies. For NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility project, ANRA will be the primary provider of services for UAM (PSU) technology for this multi-year program that enables information sharing between aircraft operators and other stakeholders and the development and testing of PSU integration with Vertiport automation directs services.
The problem of advanced air mobility is becoming more complex as many urban air mobility vehicles exist but new solutions are being developed.
The NASA states AAM can be characterized by: (1) novel vehicle configurations made possible by the electrification of the propulsion system including fully electric and hybrid electric propulsion architectures; (2) Degree of autonomous vehicle operation and reduced pilot / operator workload while improving flight path compliance; and (3) operations at densities that current air traffic management system architectures cannot manage.
“We are honored to be part of the winning FlyOhio team and look forward to helping NASA build the entire AAM ecosystem through operational testing and demonstration approaches, robust technology research and evaluation activities, and collaboration with community organizations and advancing stakeholders, “said Amit Ganjoo. Founder and CEO of ANRA.
The FlyOhio team will work with NASA on “multimodal transportation planning, modeling and simulation of the AAM part of a transportation system,” according to a press release. The team will study the impact of passenger drones and other AAM vehicles on communities: taking into account “public acceptance (including noise issues), community engagement, infrastructure planning,” and more.
“Advanced air mobility technology is revolutionizing the transportation industry and Ohio is well positioned to drive market adoption as these solutions scale. At DriveOhio, we have set ourselves the goal of developing and deploying networked, automated, shared and electric vehicles and infrastructures on the ground and in the air. This program reflects that ethos and we are excited to grow advanced aviation investments in the Ohio economy, “said Howard Wood, Executive Director, DriveOhio.
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