Multi-disciplinary integrated city aviation
Mobility Core Technology Development Center
Multi-disciplinary integrated city aviation
Mobility Core Technology Development Center
In the global era, the city center is expected to be congested with ground trafficas human resources are concentrated. Urban air mobility (referred to as UAM) has recently emerged as an alternative to solving this problem.
Due to the nature of the UAM market that has not yet been realized, the analysis figures of major consulting reports are different. It is expected to grow to a total of 731 trillion won by 2040.
The Korean government, including the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, launched the OPPAV project in 2019, designated UAM as a representative item of domestic transportation innovation through the K-UAM roadmap in 2020, and expected activation and growth by 2035.
UAM is currently being developed by more than 400 industries and research institutes worldwide. Major developers include Lilium in Germany, Volocopter in the United States, Boeing in the United States, Job Aviation, Ehang in China, Airbus in Europe, and Cartivators in Japan. Unlike the conventional development of manned aircraft with large development costs, clear design procedures and frameworks have not yet been presented.
However, there are currently no research groups that have achieved actual flight and airworthiness certification except for Job Aviation in the United States and Ehang in China, especially the global standard for aircraft shape does not yet exist.
UAM development has a clear aspect of multi-field integration, and at the same time, it must meet the flight certification criteria as in conventional aircraft. In this regard, it is expected that early commercialization and technology acquisition will be possible when converging academic multi-disciplinary capabilities such as domestic aerospace, automobiles, electric propulsion, and autonomous flight.
The center aims to develop seven core-based technologies (vertical landing, long-distance flight, distributed electric propulsion, motor driving/hybrid, autonomous flight, sensors, noise reduction) for UAM development, and aims to expand basic R&D capabilities to the world's best group and achieve practical results.
This center aims to develop an integrated high-precision design framework using multi-disciplinary technology and artificial intelligence-based data science. It aims to acquire independent UAM design/interpretation/manufacturing technology in Korea, away from dependence on Dassault's 3D Experience, NASA's NDARC and Johnson Aeronautics' CAMRAD II, a foreign interpretation/design program.
As a result of the acquisition of the UAM prototype of this center, we intend to provide design numerical data and standards that can be usefully used in various fields of industry, academia, and electronics.
