Passenger Experience of Simulated Urban Air Mobility Ride Quality: Response to Large-Scale Motion

Twenty-three participants took two ~10-min solo Urban Air Mobility (UAM) vehicle flights in a large-motion flight simulator. Their subjective ratings matched predicted motion sickness severity in high to low order for the quadrotor model when it was: 1) under rotor speed control; 2) under rotor blade pitch control; and 3) preflight before departing the vertiport pad. Various of the objective test data collected indicate potential UAM flight impacts on visuomotor task learning and preflight/inflight passenger stress.