UAM and UTM

(Urban Air Mobility and Unmanned Traffic Management)

General info

Welcome to the class! A word of caution: Information on this site is not final until the class starts
Instructor: Leonid Sedov (email: leonid.sedov@liu.se)
Schedule 2024:
- f2f meetings
  - Intro, Assignments&Grading: Tuesday, week 45 (Nov 5 in 2024), 10-12
  - 15-17 on Monday, Nov 18 in TP43 (mandatory): guest lecture by UMS Skeldar
  - 15-17 on Friday, Nov 29 online (mandatory, you will receive link by email): guest lecture by TrV
  - 15-17 on Monday, Dec 2 in TPM51 (mandatory): guest workshop by TrV
  - Help session in preparation for the test 13-15 on Tuesday, Dec 10 in TP45 (I will be answering your questions and helping you to prepare for the test; you may want to watch the course videos and work on the practice test before coming. This occasion is optional)
  - test (mandatory): Wed week 51 (Dec 18 in 2024) 13:15-14:30
- Otherwise no specific times — go through the slides and watch the videos at your pace, and submit the project; contact the lecturer with questions whenever you have them
- Office hours: Mon, Wed, Fri 13-15 (please ping the lecturer to schedule a Zoom or in-person meeting)
Checklist of activities mandatory for passing the course (for details see the Assignments&Grading above):
- Completing the project
- Visiting all three guest lectures
- Passing the test

Regulations/Risk
- Part 1: Terminology Video (19 min)
- Part 2: Regulations Video (29 min)
- Other U-space summary videos
  - - in the Webinar "The new EU U-space regulatory framework and its challenges to UAM" (from 6m26s to 14m50s)
    - From EASA 15min
SORA video 1hr10min
- Changes in the new SORA v2.5 Video (in Swedish; 2h 45 min; optional)
Quantitative risk assessment
- Ground risk Video (40min) GUI
- Air risk (Video 20min) and Airspace availability (Video 20min)
UTMOK (UTM Optimering och Kapacitet) project Video 50min
UTM safety thresholds Video 23min
A couple of definitions:
- - - A connected component of a graph is a subset C of vertices, such that you can reach any vertex in C from any other vertex in C, following the graph edges
    - The size of a connected component is the number of vertices in it
FInal remarks on Regulations/Risk Video 40min
Algorithms and geometry
- Shortest paths Video 22min
  - Continuous Dijkstra applet
  - GeoGebra VG example Video 16min
- Voronoi diagram Video 32min
  - GeoGebra VD cell example
Applications Video 15min
Infrastructure Video 20min
Vertiport presentations
- - - design (DLR)
    - location considerations (NASA)
  - Brian German's video (1hr15min) on charging opt
Common Altitude Reference System (CARS)
- ICARUS project: Does it have the solution yet? If yes, what is it? (664 AMC/GM says USSP must provide MSL)
- Zoning video 15min

Class project: report or coding (mandatory to do one). No deadline (recommendation: do it after studying the course material)
Homework (optional)
Practice test (optional)

We are very thankful to the organizations who kindly present in our classes

2021: Lecture by Kaija Sterner from LFV
2022: Lecture by former FTL students Christoffer Massinger and Ola Andersson (now with Transportstyrelsen, UTM experts)
2024:
- Lecture by Annette Macrae-Bystedt, Ola Härkegård, and Per Malmström from UMS Skeldar (video of a similar presentation)
- Lecture by Jean-Marie Skoglund with help from Katarina Wigler and Max Ohlsson from Trafikverket as well as Christoffer Massinger from Transportstyrelsen
- Workshop by Katarina Wigler with help from Jean-Marie Skoglund and Max Ohlsson from Trafikverket as well as Christoffer Massinger from Transportstyrelsen

Some videos were recorded during earlier events/classes, therefore you may hear references to chat, times, Q&A, etc
Sorry if YouTube shows ads before the videos -- it's YouTube monetizing, not me. (AdBlockers on laptop and NewPipe on Android may help.)