My Graduate Research in Urban Air Mobility
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The need for secure and autonomous Urban Air Mobility#
The world as a collective is transitioning to a more autonomous future with the advent of intelligent transportation vehicles running on renewable energy. The UAM concept highlights the use of Urban Air Taxis, that can take off and land vertically from densely populated areas, and as such need to be highly reliable as the UAM market is projected to grow to roughly 28.3 billion USD upto 2030 along with an infrastructure growth of 58.7% (World UAM Market - 2022 : ResearchAndMarkets.com)
My role and Purdue’s role#
Our team at Purdue is in charge of systems integration of all of the 15+ research teams throughout this NASA ULI project. As part of this work, we develop detailed Interface Control Documents (ICDs) and roadmap the integration process for each team with the others. Some of these projects include AI, Cybersecurity, Robotics and more. Additionally, I also work on the development of an internal software tool to classify and quantify the impact of UAM infrastructure level disruptions.