From the 14th of May to the 14th of June, the city of Ingolstadt will be presenting the results of the AMI-FlyingIN2Air research project in a hybrid showroom in the THI auditorium. Under the overall management of Airbus, the presented project deals with the future take-off and landing infrastructure for urban air mobility and the integration of urban air mobility into urban infrastructure. A digital vertiport is being developed as a model based on a requirements analysis. As an airport for vertical take-offs and landings of future aircraft, it will be integrated into the intermodal travel chain and iteratively improved based on citizen and user acceptance studies. With a digital twin of such a vertiport, technical developments, design, and acceptance criteria can be investigated, merged and functionality optimized even before the physical implementation.
Visitors to the exhibition can experience a flight with the FeliFly drone simulator or noise modeling in the showroom. Using VR glasses, they can go on a digital tour of the city. They can also listen to contributions from the project partners and express their opinions on the topic of urban air mobility in a survey.
The exhibition is open to all interested parties during THI opening hours. VR experiences and the THI drone simulation are available every Friday between 1 and 5 pm during the exhibition period. In addition, a program of events will take place at the THI on selected days: Renowned experts from Airbus, Fraunhofer, and Bauhaus Luftfahrt will speak about the potential of electric aviation and shed light on how autonomous, AI-supported flight works. The exhibition was jointly conceived and realized by the IFG, the city of Ingolstadt, and the Human-Computer Interaction Group of the THI, headed by Professor Andreas Riener.
Further information on the exhibition and the program can be found at: https://www.ingolstadt-ifg.de/uam-showroom
