EU project looks to the future of personal air transport

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An envisioned Personal Aerial Vehicle illustrates what our city skies could soon look like (Image by Gareth Padfield, Flight Stability and Control)

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A concept PAV cockpit (Image by Gareth Padfield, Flight Stability and Control)

myCopter HeliFlight R Simulator (Image by myCopter)

myCopter CyberMotion Simulator (Image by myCopter)

myCopter Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Image from myCopter)

myCopter project milestones (Image from myCopter)

The CyberMotion Simulator for human-in-the-loop experiments (Image by Max-Planck-Institut ...

Computer vision algorithms for terrain detection (Copyright cvlab.epfl.ch)

Simulation of a swarm of vehicles (Copyright lis.epfl.ch)

Article Summary

A European Union project known as myCopter has set aside funds of €4.2 million (US$6.2m) to investigate the possibility of introducing Personal Aerial Vehicles (PAVs) into the skyways of many congested European cities. This coming age of the "flying car" where vehicles leave the roads and launch into the skies promises to solve problems like dramatically rising urban traffic congestion, but it also throws up some formidable challenges - it's these challenges that the myCopter project aims to address.

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