9th Biennial Autonomous VTOL Technical Meeting Jan. 26-28, 2021 8th Annual Electric VTOL Symposium Virtual
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Electric VTOL Symposium Presentations – All Times are U.S. MST, GMT-7 TimeandDate.com
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Plenary Presentations
Government Keynotes Moderator: Ram JanakiRam, Boeing (Ret.)
0800 – 0810 Welcome and Introductions: Colton Marchesseault, VFS Arizona Chapter, and Mike Hirschberg, Vertical Flight Society
0810 – 0840 Robert Pearce, Associate Administrator, NASA
0840 – 0910 COL Joseph Anderson, PM UAS, US Army
0910 – 0935 COL Nathan Diller, Director, AFWERX, US Air Force
0935 – 1000 Jay Merkle, Executive Director, Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Office, FAA
1000 – 1030 Networking Break – Please visit our sponsors and exhibitors
Industry Keynotes Moderator: Ram JanakiRam, Boeing Ret.
1030 – 1100 Brian Yutko, Chief Engineer, Sustainability and Future Mobility, Boeing
1100 – 1130 Eric Allison, Chief of Product, Joby Aviation
1130 – 1200 Stephane Fymat, VP/GM, Urban Air Mobility, Honeywell
1200 – 1330
Lunch Break – Please visit our sponsors and exhibitors Sponsored Technical Talks
Making Zero-Emission Air Transport Possible with Hydrogen: Alex Ivanenko, CEO, HyPoint Reporting on the eVTOL Revolution: Brian Garrett-Glaser, Managing Editor, eVTOL.com
Global e-Flight Update: Xin Gou and Willi Tacke, e-Flight Forum/Flying Pages
Electric VTOL Symposium Session 1 Moderator: Parimal Kopardekar, NASA
1330 – 1500
Market Development As the eVTOL industry continues to progress, it is clear there are other investments that need to be made to ensure success, from vehicle design to certification, infrastructure, and operations. This plenary session will highlight what is currently happening and what is left to be done. Moderator: Parimal Kopardekar, NASA Michael Dyment, Managing Partner, NEXA Advisors Cyrus Sigari, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, UP.Partners Jim Viola, President & CEO, HAI Starr Ginn, AAM National Campaign Lead, NASA
1500 – 1530 Networking Break – Please visit our sponsors and exhibitors
Electric VTOL Symposium Session 2 Moderator: Colin Theodore, NASA
1530 – 1700
eVTOL Industry Updates While 2020 has been a difficult year, it has been marked with great successes in advancing eVTOL technology. Aircraft developers will share their updates and plans.
Tim Williams, Chief Engineer, Vertical Aerospace
Joerg-Peter Mueller, Head of Urban Air Mobility, Airbus
Kyle Clark, Founder, Beta Technologies
Gary Gysin, President and CEO, Wisk
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Electric VTOL Symposium Session 3 Moderator: Ion Vintilescu, Boeing
0800 – 1000 Modeling and Simulation One of the key enabling technologies for eVTOL developing is access to modeling and simulation tools. These tools allow designers the ability to iterate designs and operations at faster than real-time.
0800 – 0830 David Segal, ptc
0830 – 0900 Tony Gioutsos, Siemens
0900 – 0930 Ronald du Val, Advanced Rotorcraft Technology
0930 – 1000 Dan Wachspress, Continuum Dynamics
1000 – 1030 Networking Break – Please visit our sponsors and exhibitors
Electric VTOL Symposium Session 4 Moderator: Anna Dietrich, CAMI
1030 – 1200 Standards Development The development of industry consensus standards to critical to achieving certification. This session will provide an update on the activities of the key standards development organizations.
1030 – 1200
Moderator: Anna Dietrich, CAMI Ed Lovelace, Ampaire Tom Gunnarson, ASTM F39.05, AC433 Christine DeJong, GAMA Mark DeAngelo, SAE International
1200 – 1310
Lunch Break – Please visit our sponsors and exhibitors Sponsored Technical Talk:
Recent eVTOL Certification Challenges & Real-World Solution: Vance Hilderman, Chief Technical Officer, AFuzion
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Electric VTOL Symposium Session 5 Moderator: Bill Bihlman, Aerolytics LLC
1330 – 1500 Advanced Manufacturing Electric VTOL requires very lightweight and strong materials that can be produced inexpensively. This session highlights the latest manufacturing technologies and materials that will enable affordable vehicles and infrastructure.
1330 – 1345 Bill Bihlman, Aerolytics
1345 – 1405 DeWayne Howell, Toray
1405 – 1425 Imad Atallah, Hexcel
1415 – 1430 Bob Hess, BAE Systems
1430 – 1445 Jonathan Sourkes, Victrex
1445 – 1500 Tulinda Larsen, UAMMI
1500 – 1530 Networking Break – Please visit our sponsors and exhibitors
Electric VTOL Symposium Session 6 Moderator: Carl Russell, NASA
1530 – 1700 eVTOL Industry Updates While 2020 was a difficult year, it was marked with great successes in advancing eVTOL technology. Aircraft developers will share their updates and plans.
1530 – 1550 Nobuo Kishi, SkyDrive
1550 – 1610 Jon Rimanelli, ASX6
1610 – 1630 Tine Tomazic, Pipistrel
1630 – 1700 John Piasecki, Piasecki Aircraft
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Electric VTOL Symposium Session 7 Moderator: Yolanka Wulff, CAMI
0800 – 1000 Infrastructure While eVTOL vehicles get headlines, they will need infrastructure available to fly. Not just vertiports, but weather gathering and distribution, air traffic management systems, and centers for everything from flight test to operations.
0800 – 0830 Yolanka Wulff, CAMI
0830 – 0900 Felipe Varon, Varon Vehicles
0900 – 0930 Gene Dolgin, ClimaCell
0930 – 1000 Chris Kucera, OneSky
1000 – 1030 Networking Break – Please visit our sponsors and exhibitors
Electric VTOL Symposium Session 8 Moderator: Scott Smith, ARINC
1030 – 1200
Realistic and Positive Training for eVTOL/VTOL Operators As we approach the time when vehicles and infrastructure are in place for operations, realistic flight simulation and training facilities will be required to baseline and improve piloting skills.
Moderator: Scott Smith, ARINC88 Nick Papadopoli, Consultant Michael Uleski, FlightSafety International Tim Schoenauer/Marilyn Pearson, CAE Arnab Lahiri, FAA
1200 – 1330
Lunch Break – Please visit our sponsors and exhibitors Sponsored Technical Talks
How the Partial Discharge Phenomenon Could Stall Your eVTOL Project: Tom Turner, Product Manager, Carlisle Increasing Safety for the Future of Flight: Larry Williams, CEO, Aviation Safety Resources
Electric VTOL Symposium Session 9 Moderator: Dan Newman, Boeing
1330 – 1500
Future Vertical Workforce The session covers education in vertical lift aviation, categorized into formal education and in-house (on-the-job) education.
Moderator: Dan Newman, Boeing Mark Robeson, US Army Kathryn Creedy, FA/AW News Igor Cherepinsky, Sikorsky Aircraft, LMCO Nancy Leveson, MIT Amy Pritchett, Penn State David Segal, PTC
1500 – 1530 Networking Break – Please visit our sponsors and exhibitors
Electric VTOL Symposium Session 10 Moderator: Ken Swartz, Aeromedia Communications
1530 – 1700 eCTOL / eSTOL Electric VTOL shares much of its potential success and most of its supply chain with the eCTOL/eSTOL industry. Leaders from this market provide an update on their progress and plans.
1530 – 1600 Marie-Claire Carmin, Turbotech
1600 – 1630 Kevin Noertker, Ampaire
1630 – 1700 Marc Ausman, Airflow.aero
1645 – 1700 Event Wrap-up: Jim Sherman, Vertical Flight Society
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Autonomous VTOL Technical Paper Presentations – All Times are U.S. MST, GMT-7 TimeandDate.com
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Session 1. Invited Speakers Chairperson - Ajay Sehgal, KBR
1330 – 1400 eXtreme Unmanned Aerial Systems (XUAS) Multi-domain Operations through VTOL and Extreme Mobility in all Environments and Terrains (MOVEMENT): Rajneesh Singh and Brett Piekarski, Vehicle Technology Directorate, US Army
1400 – 1430 Using Autonomy to Significantly Improve Safety for VTOL Vehicles: Igor Cherepinsky, Sikorsky Aircraft, LMCO
1430 – 1500 V2V (Vehicle to Vehicle) Communications to Alleviate Burden on ATM (Advanced Air Traffic Management) or on ATC to Deconflict Traffic (in conjunction with GAMA): Francis X. Govers III, Bell
1500 – 1530 Networking Break – Please visit our sponsors and exhibitors
1530 – 1600 Micro Air Vehicles to Delivery Drones: Growing Potential Applications, Inderjit Chopra, University of Maryland
1600 – 1630 Essential Capabilities for Autonomous Flight in the National Air Space: Sanjiv Singh, Near Earth Autonomy
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Session 2. Flight Dynamics, Controls and Simulation Chairperson: Dr. Russell Enns, Boeing
0800 – 0830 Wing Tilt Scheduling in Tandem-Wing VTOL Configurations: Kacper Grzedzinski, V. Stephan, A. Zolotas, Cranfield University, UK
0830 – 0900 The Systematic Methods to Define the Deck Environment of a Non-traditional Ship Platform for a Maritime VTOL UAS, Bernard Ferrier, Hoffman Engineering; A. Sehgal, KBR; J. Duncan, MoD; M. R. Belmont, Exeter University, UK
0900 – 0930 A Robust Uniform Control Approach for VTOL Aircraft, Jacob W. Cook and Irene M. Gregory, NASA Langley
0930 – 1030 Networking Break – Please visit our sponsors and exhibitors
1030 – 1100 Toward an Urban Air Mobility Ride Quality and Safety Assessment Analytical Tool: Jeffrey D. Keller, A. Sharma, D. Wachspress, Continuum Dynamics and Joseph Horn and Pierre Theron, Penn State University
1100 – 1130 A Modular and Novel Flight Stabilization System for Highly Unstable sUAV Configurations: Nicholas Rehm and Inderjit Chopra, University Of Maryland
1200 – 1330
Lunch Break – Please visit our sponsors and exhibitors Sponsored Technical Talk
Recent eVTOL Certification Challenges & Real-World Solutions: Vance Hilderman, Chief Technical Officer, AFuzion
Session 3. Aerodynamics and Acoustics Chairperson: Prof. Lakshmi Sankar, Georgia Tech
1330 – 1400 Experimental Flight Testing of High-Speed Mini Quadrotor Biplane Tail-sitter: Peter C. Ryseck, G. Jacobellis, D. Yeo and I. Chopra, University Of Maryland
1400 – 1430 Proprotor / Wing / Flap Interaction for V/STOL Aircraft with Partial Slipstream Immersion: Todd R. Quackenbush, D. A. Wachspress, M. K. Yu and C. L. Solomon, Continuum Dynamics
1430 – 1500 Time Variation of Rotor Broadband Noise: Ze Feng, K. Brentner and E. Greenwood, Penn State University
1500 – 1530 Networking Break – Please visit our sponsors and exhibitors
1530 – 1600 Combined Momentum Simple Vortex Theory Inflow Model for Multi-Rotor Configurations: Feyyaz Guner and JVR Prasad, Georgia Tech
1600 – 1630 Fundamental Aeroelastic Analysis of an Urban Air Mobility Rotor: Stephen J. Wright, NASA Ames
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Session 4. UAV Operations and Certification Chairperson: Dr. Daniel Schrage
0800 – 0830 Certification of Machine Learning Algorithms for Safety-Critical Avionics: Luuk van Dijk, Daedalean
0830 – 0900 Concept of Operations for Unmanned Rotorcraft in Maritime Security and Rescue Operations in Germany: Bianca Isabella Schuchardt and Alexander Donkels, DLR Institute of Flight Systems, Germany
0900 – 0930 Detection of Obstacle-free Landing Zones in Crowded Environments for Aerial System Emergency Planning: Caleb Harris, A. Payan and D. Mavris, Georgia Tech
0930 – 1000 Urban Aerial Mobility Networks using Amphibious Vertical Takeoff and Landing Vehicles: Larry Young, NASA Ames
1000 – 1030 Networking Break – Please visit our sponsors and exhibitors
1030 – 1100 A Civil Military Functional Safety Management Development Assurance Framework Example for Certification of Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Systems: Dan Schrage, JVR Prasad, Georgia Tech; Eric Johnson, Penn State; and Suresh Kannan, Nodein Autonomy
1200 – 1330
Lunch Break – Please visit our sponsors and exhibitors Sponsored Technical Talks
How Partial Discharge Phenomenon Could Stall your eVTOL Project: Tom Turner, Product Mgr., Carlisle Increasing Safety for the Future of Flight: Larry Williams, CEO, Aviation Safety Resources
Session 5. Design and Structures Chairperson: Prof. Inderjit Chopra, University Of Maryland
1330 – 1400 Real-time Load Following with a 100kW Hybrid-Electric Generator System of an eVTOL Power Profile Simulation in a Turbulent Atmosphere: Kyle Collins, P. Curier, R. Prazenica and R. Anderson, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
1400 – 1430 Interface Properties & Improvements in Overmolded Composites: S. Ivan, S. Green, F. Ferfecki and J. Sourkes, Victrex in UK and USA and TxV Aero composites
1430 – 1500 A Study of Past, Present, and Future Mars Rotorcraft: Michael Radotich, S. Withrow-Maser, Z. deSouza, S. Gelhar, H. Gallagher, NASA Ames
1500 – 1530 Networking Break – Please visit our sponsors and exhibitors
1530 – 1600 High Speed Long Range Powered-Lift e/hVTOL Dual System Aircraft Designs: Brian Morgan, VOX Aircraft
1600 – 1630 Automation-Ready Process for High-Rate Manufacturing of Aerospace Capable Composite Parts: Kevin Dupuis, A Rodriguez, R.Key, A. Bras and A. Whysall, Solvay Composite Materials
1630 – 1700 Mechanical Design of the Urban Air Mobility Side-by-Side Test Stand: Haley Cummings, G. Willink, and C. Silva, NASA Ames
Upcoming Events
Thank you for joining us for 8th Annual Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) Symposium
and 9th Biennial Autonomous VTOL Technical Meeting! We hope you learn much this week and
translate that to your daily work.
Plan now for the VFS Transformative Vertical Flight, Jan. 25-27, 2022 in San Jose, CA, which will
include our 9th Annual Electric VTOL Symposium.
Keep up to date with the latest advances in VTOL technology. Our full list of upcoming events is
online at www.vtol.org/events.
VFS is successful only because of the efforts of our members who dedicate their time, working to advance vertical flight. Many thanks to all our conference organizers, especially:
General Meeting Chair: Ram JanakiRam, Boeing (ret.) Autonomous VTOL Chairs: Bryan Chu, Kendra Befort, Boeing Arizona Chapter Leadership: Tonja Reinert, Colton Marchesseault, Conor Briggi 8th Annual Electric VTOL Symposium: Dan Newman, Boeing; Scott Smith, ARINC-IA;
Anna Dietrich, Community Air Mobility Initiative
