{"id":924,"date":"2023-08-31T14:49:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T18:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ufmal\/?page_id=924"},"modified":"2025-10-05T14:34:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T18:34:37","slug":"nasa-uli","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ufmal\/research\/nasa-uli\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA ULI: UAM in real environments"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>NASA ULI: UAM in real environments<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"\/ufmal\/files\/2023\/09\/AAM-Concept-2021-more-sky-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/ufmal\/files\/2023\/09\/AAM-Concept-2021-more-sky-1-1024x661.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"337\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-963\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ufmal\/files\/2023\/09\/AAM-Concept-2021-more-sky-1-1024x661.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ufmal\/files\/2023\/09\/AAM-Concept-2021-more-sky-1-636x411.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ufmal\/files\/2023\/09\/AAM-Concept-2021-more-sky-1-768x496.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ufmal\/files\/2023\/09\/AAM-Concept-2021-more-sky-1-1536x992.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ufmal\/files\/2023\/09\/AAM-Concept-2021-more-sky-1-2048x1322.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><b>Safe, Low-Noise Operation of UAM in Urban Canyons <\/b><b>via Integration of Gust Outcomes and Trim Optimization<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The objective of this research is to<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">address fundamental knowledge gaps related to multirotor performance and noise that are critical to enable UAM<\/span> (Urban Air Mobility) <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">operation in an urban setting. The gaps define three technical challenges addressed by the proposed research:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The effect of urban flows on UAM performance and noise.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The effect of UAM trim state on performance and noise.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The impact of noise as a metric in UAM urban path planning.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overview video : presented to Congressional staffers on July 18th, 2023.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ufmal\/uli-team\/\"><strong>The team<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ufmal\/uli-in-the-news\/\"><strong>Press related to this project<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"\/ufmal\/files\/2024\/10\/NASA_ULI_ann_rep.pdf\">Year 1 report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"\/ufmal\/files\/2025\/10\/NASA_ULI_year2.pdf\">Year 2 report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ufmal\/calcproj-events\/\">Calculus Project UAM days 25-26<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ufmal\/uli-uas-workshop\/\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">SUMMER UAS (Urban Air Systems) WORKSHOP<\/span><\/a> &#8211; 23-24, 24-25<\/h4>\n<p>Past work related to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ufmal\/research\/quadrotors\/\">quadrotor performance, noise and trim computations<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA ULI: UAM in real environments Safe, Low-Noise Operation of UAM in Urban Canyons via Integration of Gust Outcomes and Trim Optimization The objective of this research is to address fundamental knowledge gaps related to multirotor performance and noise that are critical to enable UAM (Urban Air Mobility) operation in an urban setting. The gaps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1435,"featured_media":0,"parent":35,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ufmal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ufmal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ufmal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ufmal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ufmal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ufmal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1066,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ufmal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/924\/revisions\/1066"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ufmal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ufmal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}