Predictions of Motion Sickness Incidence for EVTOL Passengers

The interest in developing electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicles has increased sharply in recent years. A concern for passenger acceptance of the new type of vehicle is that people may experience motion sickness. This is because eVTOL flight profiles are different from the motion conditions that people have previously...

Urban airspace design for autonomous drone delivery

The paradigm of large-scale adoption of autonomous drone delivery promises to provide commercial and societal benefits. Over the past years, several companies have investigated the use-case of drones to transport small express packages of fast-food meals and time-sensitive medical supplies. The latter has shown to be highly beneficial in many...

Predicting state of health and remaining useful lifetime of lithium-ion batteries for eVTOLs using data-driven machine learning

Ambulance drones in The Netherlands: a vision + concept design for 2035

In the previous decade, a new type of air travel has seen a surge of interest from established and start-up companies alike: Air Mobility, a type of short range air travel as an alternative to taking the train or the car. Part of air mobility are a new type of aircraft, called Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing vehicles (eVTOLs), which hold...

Designing a product-service ecosystem in humanitarian aid: Utilizing eVTOL vehicles in immunization programs for East Africa

A colossal amount of people around the world do not have access to basic health care. In order to reach the unreachable, humanitarian organizations assemble medical units that provide health service to the most outreach communities. Although, these units experience numerous challenges and drawbacks when it comes to traveling, questioning the...

eVTOL Design, Energy Storage & Charging

As electric vehicles are quickly taking over the automotive industry, electric airplanes are also starting their upswing. With air travel and transport in general being a large polluter of CO2 gases, the transition to electric flight becomes more prominent every year. This transition is starting small with non-commercial airplanes. Several...

eVTOL Design Propulsion System

In this thesis, a closer look will be taken into the design of a propulsion system of an eVTOL (electric Vertical Take-off and Landing aircraft). The primary goal of the eVTOL is to maximize the payload for a given maximum take-off weight and the eVTOL has to go into service in 2030. To make an as light weight as possible propulsion system, an...

Preliminary Propulsion and Power System Design of a Tandem-Wing Long-Range eVTOL Aircraft

Novel eVTOL aircraft configurations are picking up momentum in the emerging market of urban air mobility (UAM). These configurations feature electrical power systems and distributed propulsion architectures, both uncommon in current aircraft. As such, the design of eVTOL aircraft lies outside the bounds of current established frameworks and...

Aerodynamics of Propellers in Interaction Dominated Flowfields: An Application to Novel Aerospace Vehicles

This research is on the aerodynamics of propellers in interaction. As a propeller is dependent on the flowfield it encounters, any disturbance in that inflow results in changes in loading on the propeller. This can result in propulsive efficiency changes and affect stability through generation of in-plane forces and out-of-plane moments. The...