管理科学与工程系学术讲座

题目: Advanced Air Mobility: Are We There Yet?

先进空中交通，我们已经准备好了么？

演讲人: Prof. Hamsa Balakrishnan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

时间: 2023年11月14日11：00

地点: zoom

会议号：937 871 58878

会议密码：162731

Abstract: Advanced Air Mobility (AAM)—characterized by electric and hybrid aircraft, and highly-automated operations—has the potential to dramatically transform the way in which we transport people and goods, as well as our ability to sense our world from the sky. The excitement around these vehicles and the services they could enable has led to the investment of billions of dollars in their development. However, the deployment of such new aircraft and fleet operators will increase competition for limited airspace resources. Furthermore, in contrast to conventional air traffic that is managed by centralized Air Navigation Service Providers like the FAA, AAM operations are expected to be managed by third-party service providers. In this talk, I will discuss some of the key traffic management challenges to realizing the promise of AAM, and our initial work in overcoming them. 

Bio:  Hamsa Balakrishnan is the William E. Leonhard (1940) Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She received her PhD from Stanford University, and a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. Her research is in the design, analysis, and implementation of control and optimization algorithms for cyber-physical infrastructures, with an emphasis on air transportation. Prof. Balakrishnan is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award in 2008, the CNA Award for Operational Analysis in 2012, the AIAA Lawrence Sperry Award in 2012, the American Automatic Control Council’s Donald P. Eckman Award in 2014, the MIT AIAA Undergrad Advising (2014) and Undergraduate Teaching (2019) Awards, and several best paper awards. She is currently spending her sabbatical at the University of California, Berkeley.