In this seminar, Dr. Bayen investigates strategies for the low-altitude airspace designed to support future UAM operations in the Bay Area, in particular between the Berkeley Space Center and the Richmond Field Station. This work plans to use pilot experience approaches to develop novel flight routes, procedures and structures. These routes can become the foundation for concepts such as the California Airlink, and future UAM operations in the SF network. These routes likewise will connect Moffett Field/Berkeley Space Center and the four CITRIS campuses in Berkeley, Santa Cruz, Merced, and Davis.
Alexandre Bayen is director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, Liao-Cho Innovation Endowed Chair and professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences and of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and founding associate provost for the Berkeley Space Center. He is also a faculty scientist in mechanical engineering at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). From 2014–21, he served as the director of the UC Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS). He received an Engineering Degree in applied mathematics from the Ecole Polytechnique, France, in 1998, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University in 1999 and 2004, respectively. He was a visiting researcher at NASA Ames Research Center from 2000 to 2003. In 2004, he worked as the Research Director of the Autonomous Navigation Laboratory at the Laboratoire de Recherches Balistiques et Aérodynamiques, (Ministere de la Defense, Vernon, France), where he holds the rank of Major.
Relevant Expertise:
- LLM-Based Autonomous Flight Operations: Developing systems that map air traffic controller verbal interactions to autonomous airspace procedures through NLP, creating LLMs capable of managing operations in mixed-autonomy airspace.
- BSC-RFS Autonomous Operations: Designing low airspace altitude routes for UAM operations with automated conflict resolution procedures compatible with human air traffic control.
Attendees are invited to join the session in person at NASA Ames Research Center, Building N210, Room 115 (a NASA badge is required) or online:
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Air Time is a series of seminars on advanced aviation hosted by Crown Innovations, Inc., in collaboration with the University of California’s CITRIS and the Banatao Institute. The seminars feature leading experts on cutting-edge research who share interesting ideas on pertinent topics and innovative methodologies. Air Time speakers include subject matter experts from UC Berkeley, Merced, Davis, and Santa Cruz. The seminars take place weekly.
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