A High-Performance Computing Process for Urban Air Mobility Simulations

Olatunde Sanni; Thanakorn Khamvilai; Teppatat Puntawuttiwong; Eric Feron; Brian German; Mehrdad Pakmehr

doi:10.1109/DASC52595.2021.9594353

A High-Performance Computing Process for Urban Air Mobility Simulations

Olatunde Sanni, Thanakorn Khamvilai, Teppatat Puntawuttiwong, Eric Feron, Brian German, Mehrdad Pakmehr

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

Commercial aviation is statically proven to be the safest mode of commercial transportation. This feat is largely due to technological advances and stringent regulations that yield an under-utilized national airspace. However, as the air transportation system (ATS) evolves to support a new class of vehicles, known as urban air mobility (UAM) systems, airspace utilization will increase and a new set of safety requirements will be needed to sustain, or preferably improve, ATS' safety record. This paper addresses this safety challenge with a novel process for developing and testing safety standards. It outlines and demonstrates a high-performance computing (HPC) process for large-scale high-fidelity UAM simulations. The developed HPC process incorporates automated air traffic control (ATC) services, which have been proposed in the unmanned traffic management (UTM) system. In addition to outlining a process for gathering UAM performance and safety data, this paper more generally contributes a novel blueprint for performing high-fidelity simulations of a large set of autonomous UAM systems that concurrently fly in an urban environment.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	40th Digital Avionics Systems Conference, DASC 2021 - Proceedings
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665434201
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/DASC52595.2021.9594353
State	Published - 2021
Event	40th IEEE/AIAA Digital Avionics Systems Conference, DASC 2021 - San Antonio, United States Duration: Oct 3 2021 → Oct 7 2021

Publication series

Name	AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference - Proceedings
Volume	2021-October
ISSN (Print)	2155-7195
ISSN (Electronic)	2155-7209

Conference

Conference	40th IEEE/AIAA Digital Avionics Systems Conference, DASC 2021
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Antonio
Period	10/3/21 → 10/7/21

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Keywords

air traffic management
autonomy
computational fluid dynamics
multi-agent simulation
trajectory generation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Aerospace Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Sanni, O., Khamvilai, T., Puntawuttiwong, T., Feron, E., German, B., & Pakmehr, M. (2021). A High-Performance Computing Process for Urban Air Mobility Simulations. In 40th Digital Avionics Systems Conference, DASC 2021 - Proceedings (AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference - Proceedings; Vol. 2021-October). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/DASC52595.2021.9594353

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Sanni, O, Khamvilai, T, Puntawuttiwong, T, Feron, E, German, B & Pakmehr, M 2021, A High-Performance Computing Process for Urban Air Mobility Simulations. in 40th Digital Avionics Systems Conference, DASC 2021 - Proceedings. AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference - Proceedings, vol. 2021-October, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 40th IEEE/AIAA Digital Avionics Systems Conference, DASC 2021, San Antonio, United States, 10/3/21. https://doi.org/10.1109/DASC52595.2021.9594353

A High-Performance Computing Process for Urban Air Mobility Simulations. / Sanni, Olatunde; Khamvilai, Thanakorn; Puntawuttiwong, Teppatat et al.
40th Digital Avionics Systems Conference, DASC 2021 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2021. (AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference - Proceedings; Vol. 2021-October).

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Sanni O, Khamvilai T, Puntawuttiwong T, Feron E, German B, Pakmehr M. A High-Performance Computing Process for Urban Air Mobility Simulations. In 40th Digital Avionics Systems Conference, DASC 2021 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2021. (AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference - Proceedings). doi: 10.1109/DASC52595.2021.9594353

A High-Performance Computing Process for Urban Air Mobility Simulations

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