@inproceedings{8d005cd621f74bd3860633a9b0f10447,
title = "A performance benchmark of recent personal air vehicle concepts for urban air mobility",
abstract = "The prospect of a future Urban Air Mobility scenario brought up a vast number of according vehicle programs. Due to a novel design space enabled by distributed electric propulsion, fundamentally different vertical take-off and landing aircraft concepts are developed. To further concretize the vision of an urban air transportation system, it is important to know the characteristics of the various vehicle technologies and to understand the effects on an overall system. This technical paper evaluates two recent aircraft concepts: an 18-rotor multicopter and a configuration with separate propulsion systems for vertical take-off and landing and fixed-wing cruise flight (lift+cruise). Starting from a base configuration, several versions of the aircraft are derived to investigate sizing effects and trade-offs between VTOL and cruise efficiency. Mission performance calculations for a defined design mission and off-design missions are conducted. Finally, a demonstration scenario simulation is presented, which will allow future investigations regarding the transport performance of a vehicle within a complete urban air transportation system.",
keywords = "EVTOL, Lift+Cruise, Multicopter, Performance Characteristics, Urban Air Mobility",
author = "Michael Shamiyeh and Raoul Rothfeld and Mirko Hornung",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 31st Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, ICAS 2018. All rights reserved.; 31st Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, ICAS 2018 ; Conference date: 09-09-2018 Through 14-09-2018",
year = "2018",
language = "English",
series = "31st Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, ICAS 2018",
publisher = "International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences",
booktitle = "31st Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, ICAS 2018",
}
