Berat is a PhD researcher focused on assessing and improving passenger comfort in urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles using aeroelastic modeling. His work aims to address comfort challenges that emerge in UAM environments due to unique dynamics of them and their compact designs. Berat is passionate about making some contribution to the novel means of transportation which aims zero carbon emission goals while ensuring that the flight is not only efficient but also enjoyable.
A promising solution to increasing emission concerns in air transport is electric urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles, which can provide new mobility models offering zero carbon footprint and be a mainstream mode of air transport in the next decades. However, UAMs cannot offer a ride experience as smooth as that of passenger jets since they will experience complex flight regimes analogous to those of helicopters, such as hover to forward flight transition and high-speed cruise, resulting dynamical loads transferred to the passenger cabin. The dynamical loads are felt by the occupants as oscillations and vibrations, which can lead to an uncomfortable ride. This is deemed to be critical in UAMs since they will be dominantly used in human transport and their market acceptance depends on the passenger comfort perception. Therefore, UAMs are expected to face various comfort related problems, which needs to be addressed using novel tools and methods.
This research aims following to tackle the problem:
i.improve the understanding of the comfort perception in UAM occupants;
ii.develop multidisciplinary techniques to assess comfort levels in UAM designs;
iii.provide industry with UAM design methodologies on passenger comfort;
iv.suggest changes in the current ergonomics standards and certificate
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