Personal Aerial Transportation System
Several issues need to be resolved before a Personal Aerial Transportation System can be realised: an effective human machine interface (HMI) and Training needs to be created, full or partial autonomous behaviour of a flying vehicle needs to be established (which reduces the risk to the pilot and enables the PAV to be flown by the average person), and finally the social and economical impact of a PAV and its ideal design for acceptance by society at large needs to be investigated.The research projects will be conducted by the highest level of European expertise with state of the art equipment: unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for incremental developments of automation, and three flight simulators (one airborne, two ground-based). Finally, in addition to implementing advances of automation into UAVs and our HMI into our ground-based flight simulators, we aim to implement aspects of our automation technology and HMI design into DLR's Flying Helicopter Simulator.