LGU+·GS Construction Successfully Completes Phase 1 UAM Demonstration Project Led by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport

Conducted Using Helicopters at Jeonnam Goheung Aviation Center
LGU+ as Traffic Manager and GS Construction as Vertiport Lead Contractor

LG Uplus and GS Construction announced on the 28th that they have successfully completed the first phase of the "Korean Urban Air Mobility Grand Challenge (hereinafter K-UAM Grand Challenge)" demonstration project, hosted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

Officials from LG Uplus and GS Construction are taking a commemorative photo at the Goheung Aviation Center in Jeollanam-do after completing the "Korean Urban Air Mobility Grand Challenge Phase 1" demonstration project hosted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. Photo by LG Uplus

The K-UAM Grand Challenge is a large-scale public-private joint demonstration project promoted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport to verify the safety of aircraft and establish operational concepts and technical standards suitable for domestic conditions, aiming for the commercialization of UAM in Korea next year.

This demonstration was conducted at the Goheung Aviation Center in Jeollanam-do for about three weeks, using a large rotorcraft (helicopter) to carry out aircraft operation, traffic management, and vertiport operation.

LG Uplus, as the main operator of traffic management, verified not only the functions of the traffic management platform but also the construction of communication networks and traffic management operations essential for UAM operation. They conducted demonstrations of 18 scenarios including normal UAM operation and collision situations, and completed verification of a total of 43 items, including those required by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

Prior to the demonstration, LG Uplus established LTE and 5G aerial communication networks in the Goheung area of Jeollanam-do, installed a self-developed integrated control information (CNSi) package on the helicopter to transmit real-time data, and supported real-time monitoring of the aircraft on the ground traffic management platform.

Additionally, to prepare for voice communication interruptions in the very high frequency (VHF) band of 30?300 MHz, LTE and 5G radios were used to enable voice communication between pilots and air traffic controllers.

GS Construction participated as the main operator of vertiport operations, developing and testing the performance of the vertiport operation system linked with LG Uplus’s traffic management platform.

Based on the results of the first phase demonstration, LG Uplus plans to review measures to provide a safe traffic experience at the time of UAM commercialization.

Youngseo Jeon, Head of Corporate Service Development Lab at LG Uplus, said, "In this first phase of the Grand Challenge demonstration, we operated the UAM traffic management platform and traffic management procedures at an actual environment level, laying the foundation to prove the safety of air traffic control using aerial communication networks."

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