Our Vision
We aim to unlock a new era of flight and achieve comprehensive efficiency by applying new ML/AI techniques, and building deeply coordinated solutions that will drive operational efficiency and decarbonization.
Our role in aviation
Our role as a innovation lab is to drive the adoption of emerging technologies, and partner with future facing industry leaders to deliver distinct, complimentary, highly advanced solutions. We develop and build technologies that will underpin aviation’s future, and make them accessible to accelerate decarbonization.
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Our future
NABLA is committed to advancing decarbonization by overcoming the complexities of aviation. Our approach is to directly address the stochastic nature of flight, with new computational techniques. In doing so, we are solving fundamental problems and finding new ways to enhance the efficiency of flight operations.
Our vision begins in flight operations because its central position. Any efficiency in flight operations has a positive domino effect, unburdening and simplifying passenger and cargo logistics, as it underpins these connected logistical challenges.
Multiple layers of logistical challenges exist. Our problem space is rooted in flight operations.
Our understanding of future capabilities requires staging, both in terms of the technological building blocks, and the increasing degree of coordination that solving these problems requires. In order to find the best possible results, and the most balanced outcomes, a comprehensive, multi-objective approach is required.
This requires going beyond the current approaches, which stem from fragmented efforts to solve individual problems in isolation, for a single aircraft, on a single flight.
Scaling up new, deeper technologies will work. But we also have to increase the scope of coordination. True optimization will require overcoming silos of complexity.
Level 1: Single role decision support sees a solution nominate decision that align with an individual actor’s intentions, within specific scope
Level 2: Single flight management represents technologies that facilitate decisions among operational stakeholders by connecting information, sharing context and opportunities
Level 3: Strategic aircraft management is technology that will enact the best course of strategic action account for a series of flights.
Level 4: Resilient network management represents technology and coordination that achieves stable, resilient network operations account for multiple functional layers, and promptly reacts to any stochastic operational disturbances to minimize disruption and cost
Level 5: Demand adaptive operations represents a stage where flight schedules dynamically adapt to balance supply and demand, minimizing waste and facilitating a new kind of operational efficiency.
The industry is currently pushing towards creating software platforms, which we anticipate will resolve problems in level 2. We aim add the capabilities required for levels 3 (Strategic aircraft management) 4 (Resilient network management) and 5 (Demand adaptive operations). Therefore our work focuses on the technological building blocks necessary to facilitate these next stages.
Foresee disruptions and respond with real-time strategic recommendations
These fundamental building blocks add up to technologies that will foresee disruptions and respond with real-time strategic recommendations. We are building multi-objective optimization algorithms that anticipate operationally complex scenarios and recommend the most efficient response, with systemic comprehension.
Posted April 12, 2024
Coming soon
Coming up first in our new Vision series blog posts: A deeper look at the 5 levels of coordination