Lauren is an innovative electric VTOL urban air taxi concept that tackles two main challenges: Obtaining an adequate performance for optimal integration in the urban environment,in terms of safety, controllability, efficiency and aircraft dimensions.
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Increasing the final user acceptability by offering a dynamic travel experience similar to any other mode of urban mass transport such as the car, the bus or the subway.
Lauren is designed with an innovative architecture that allows controlling the 6 degrees of freedom of the cabin independently, offering an enhanced manoeuvrability over conventional multicopter designs.
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Lauren has a decentralized control architecture to increase safety, with a controller for each of the peripheral propulsion modules and a central controller located in the main cabin that manages the peripheral modules and follows the desired flight path.//TECNALIA