EHang’s EH216 Autonomous Aerial Vehicle this week completed its participation in the European Union’s Air Mobility Urban-Large Experimental Demonstration (AMU-LED), with a series of flight tests in Spain. The Chinese company, which is one of 16 consortium members involved in the program, demonstrated its two-seat eVTOL aircraft at the Rozas Airborne Research Center, which is part of Spain’s National Institute of Aerospace Technology.
The AMU-LED project is focused on work that includes the validation of a concept of operations for urban air mobility. Flight data from the EH216 was integrated into the project team’s U-space platform for uncrewed air traffic management (ATM). It demonstrated conflict-management procedures during flight and on approach to a vertiport.
As part of the EU’s Horizon 2020 program supporting the Single European Sky ATM Research “joint undertaking,” the AMU-LED project is culminating with a large-scale demonstration of eVTOL aircraft and uncrewed air vehicles with the goal of establishing how various types of traffic can be safely accommodated in urban airspace. The work started in January 2021 and is due to be concluded at the end of October. It has also involved aerospace research institutes and universities, other aircraft manufacturers, ATM specialists, aviation data management groups, air navigation service providers, uncrewed aircraft operators, ground infrastructure providers, and regulators.
