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Design Thinking for AI – Mini Forum
Discover how design thinking methods can help overcome cultural barriers to change and unlock business model innovation in a professional services firm.
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Battery Caffè Podcast Episode 4: Electric Vehicle Fire Safety
In this 4th episode of the Battery Caffè, Nikoleta Piperidou and Sheena Hindocha from KTN focus on electric vehicle fire safety – a broad topic of interest for sector specialists as well as the wider public.
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Future Flight Cafe: Developing zero emission UAV flight
Join us to hear about project HyStERIAA 2.0 – Hydrogen Storage to Energise Robotics in Air Applications 2.0 – who are creating a scalable, low pressure hydrogen fuel infrastructure to deliver zero carbon electric UAV flight. The new technology will offer longer flight time and greater autonomy.
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Future Flight Cafe: Creating a safe coordinated operational environment for drones
Hear about the Airspace of the Future project to enable routine operational drone services in a safe coordinated environment. The team are using an innovative approach by incorporating digital twins, unsegregated BVLOS, developing a national test environment and future airspace blueprint to deliver a system of systems UAV operation.
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Future Flight Cafe: ATOMICUS: Creating an integrated air cargo solution
Hear about project ATOMICUS, an integrated solution for the delivery of cargo by drones. The project aims to integrate data flows with drones, infrastructure and existing systems to reduce costs and improve productivity.
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Future Flight Cafe: Skybus: Transforming mobility through a mass air transport system
Hear about project Skybus – a transformative mode of travel taking a “system of systems” approach. This project is evaluating the operational, technical and economic feasibility of a network of large (30-50 pax) electric Vertical Take-Off & Landing (eVTOL) vehicles.
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Future Flight Cafe: SKYDROCELL: Improving autonomous flight safety with 3D risk maps
Hear about project SKYDROCELL who aim to improve autonomous flight safety with 3D map risks. For use by authorities, insurers, operators and other stakeholders, the tool will facilitate the safe and effective use of unmanned drones and other air vehicles, in complex environments such as the “urban canyons” between high rise buildings.
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Future Flight Cafe: World first dynamic safe zone system for autonomous urban flight
Hear about project SafeZone – a world first real-time aerodynamic information system for autonomous flight in urban areas. SafeZone will deliver safer and more efficient UAVs by enabling real time information on potential hazards to inform re-routing decisions. To develop the project further, the team seek: UTM data service providers and/or communications experts; 5G experts; platform developers; airports; drone port and/or infrastructure developers.
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Future Flight Cafe: Creating the first 19-seat hybrid electric aircraft
Hear from project 2Zero who aim to demonstrate the first 19-seat hybrid electric aircraft. The project uses a holistic systems approach to simulate and physically demonstrate the viability of electric aircraft in regional air transport operations in a scalable ecosystem using modelling and simulation tools to optimise flights.
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Future Flight Cafe: Towards a fully optimised and sustainable freight & logistics operational model
Hear from the team responsible for creating a novel fully optimised model to integrate and optimise freight and logistics operations. Building on the Alan Turing Institute’s BlueBird family of aviation simulation tools to include delivery UAV’s, the project will integrate multi-modal ground-based freight networks to provide optimal routing schedules across the full spectrum of future electric and sustainable delivery modes.