Contingency Planning Toolkit for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) 

CSEL in collaboration with Mosaic ATM is working on building a Contingency Planning Toolkit for Advanced Air Mobility. CSEL’s role in the project is to develop and apply novel modeling and simulation (using Work Models that Compute) techniques for evaluating candidate architectures and identify requirements for distributed AAM contingency planning. Through fast-time simulation, we can identify what is necessary to (1) create feasible concepts of operations that create the desired outcomes, (2) conduct comparisons between different system architectures and strategies for responding to contingencies, and (3) identify where further resources need to be invested to improve the robustness of envisioned concepts. We will investigate the modeling and simulation results to look at factors like cognitive work, coordination, synchronization, and information exchange. We will also use other CSE (Cognitive Systems Engineering) models and methods to evaluate envisioned ConOps using the above factors.


Researchers

Dr. Martijn IJtsma

Abhinay Paladugu


Featured Publications

Use of Model Based System Engineering to Drive UAM Contingency Management Procedure Design, AIAA Scitech 2025

The Use of Computational Modeling and Simulation to Design and Evaluate a Distributed Work System, ASPIRE 2024

“Future of air mobility latest NASA-ISE collaboration”, Ohio State College of Engineering News, 2022

Evaluating Envisioned Air Mobility Architectures Using Computational Simulations of Work, 22nd International Symposium on Aviation Psychology 2022.

Contingency Planning Toolkit for Emerging Air Mobility Ecosystems, AIAA AVIATION
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