Airbus UTM

As part of the Airbus organization, it is in our DNA to ensure that the UTM system we develop and deploy is designed to serve a broad spectrum of stakeholders for both today's airspace, and the increasingly complex and crowded airspace of tomorrow. Solving problems in an airspace that doesn’t yet exist is challenging - but simulating those conditions in a virtual environment is one way to understand and quantify how that future airspace will look and operate.

Airbus UTM’s proprietary simulation environment, USim, was built to explore how future airspace will operate. USim not only allows researchers to explore the unknown, but recent advances have made the technology a useful tool for the aerospace industry to understand and develop a safe and sustainable framework for our future skies. Airbus UTM’s USim provides a digital twin of each element in the UTM ecosystem. This digital twin technology allows UTM stakeholders to test individual services and verify interoperability between existing ones – all without the real-world consequences of system failures.

With advances in machine learning, researchers can also explore the properties of a trade space with greater efficiency. When stress testing a system, for example, machine learning facilitates identifying and exploring failure scenarios in simulation that would otherwise be difficult for researchers to anticipate.

Airbus UTM is fortunate to work with leading research institutions and government agencies to help build our future digital sky.