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Enabling Technologies for Personal Air Transport Systems
Start date:2011-01-01
End date:2014-12-31
Project Acronym:MYCOPTER
Project status:Execution
Coordinator
| Organization name:MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V. | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Patrice |
Hofgartenstrasse MUENCHEN DEUTSCHLAND Region:BAYERN OBERBAYERN München, Kreisfreie Stadt |
| Tel:+49-70716011791 | |
| Fax:+49-70716011793 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.mpg.de | Organization Type: |
Description
Objective:
Considering the prevailing congestion problems with ground-based transportation and the anticipated growth of traffic in the coming decades, a major challenge is to find solutions that combine the best of ground-based and air-based transportation. The optimal solution would consist in creating a personal air transport system (PATS) that can overcome the problems associated with all of our current methods of transportation.
We propose an integrated approach to enable the first viable PATS based on Personal Aerial Vehicles (PAVs) envisioned for travelling between homes and working places, and for flying at low altitude in urban environments. Such PAVs should be fully or partially autonomous without requiring ground-based air traffic control. Furthermore, they should operate outside controlled airspace while current air traffic remains unchanged, and should later easily be integrated into the next generation of controlled airspace.
The myCopter project aims to pave the way for PAVs to be used by the general public within the context of such a transport system. Our consortium consists of experts on socio-technological evaluation to assess the impact of the envisioned PATS on society, and of partners that can make the technology advancements necessary for a viable PATS. To this end, test models of handling dynamics for potential PAVs will be designed and implemented on unmanned aerial vehicles, motion simulators, and a manned helicopter. In addition, an investigation into the human capability of flying a PAV will be conducted, resulting in a user-centred design of a suitable human-machine interface (HMI). Furthermore, the project will introduce new automation technologies for obstacle avoidance, path planning and formation flying, which also have excellent potential for other aerospace applications. This project is a unique integration of social investigations and technological advancements that are necessary to move public transportation into the third dimension.
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Project Details
Start date:2011-01-01
End date:2014-12-31
Duration:48 months
Project Reference:266470
Project cost:4496419 EURO
Project Funding:3424534 EURO
Programme Acronym:
FP7-TRANSPORT
Programme type:Seventh Framework Programme
Subprogramme Area:Personal air transport systems
Contract type:Small or medium-scale focused research project
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Subject index:Aerospace Technology, Transport
Results for this Project
| Periodic Report Summary - MYCOPTER (Enabling technologies for personal air transport systems) | 31/10/2012 |
Documents for this Project
| Periodic Report - MYCOPTER (Enabling technologies for personal air transport systems) | 31/10/2012 |
Other participants
| Organization name:KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Natascha |
Kaiserstrasse 76131 KARLSRUHE DEUTSCHLAND Region:BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG STUTTGART Stuttgart, Stadtkreis |
| Tel:+49-724-7825414 | |
| Fax:+49-724-7825403 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
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| Organization name:THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Veronica |
Brownlow Hill, Foundation Building LIVERPOOL UNITED KINGDOM Region:NORTH WEST (UK) MERSEYSIDE |
| Tel:+44-1517948722 | |
| Fax:+44-1517948728 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.liverpool.ac.uk | Organization Type: |
| Organization name:ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Martin |
BATIMENT CE 3316 STATION 1 LAUSANNE SCHWEIZ/SUISSE/SVIZZERA Region:RÉGION LÉMANIQUE Vaud |
| Tel:+41-216936678 | |
| Fax:+41-216937575 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.epfl.ch | Organization Type:Education |
| Organization name:EIDGENOSSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZURICH | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Cornelia |
Raemistrasse ZUERICH SCHWEIZ/SUISSE/SVIZZERA Region:ZÜRICH |
| Tel:+41-446323972 | |
| Fax:+41-446321181 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.ethz.ch | Organization Type: |
| Organization name:DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV | |
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Name:Marc |
Linder Hoehe KOELN DEUTSCHLAND Region:NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN KÖLN Köln, Kreisfreie Stadt |
| Tel:+49-5312953249 | |
| Fax:+49-5312952641 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.dlr.de | Organization Type: |
Record control number:96480
