Quiet Drones 2026
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Day 1: Monday 29 June 2026

All plenary sessions will take place in Lecture room A

[ Mon Jun 29] [ Tue Jun 30] [ Wed Jul 01] [compact]


Lecture room B Lecture room G
08:00   Registration & coffee
09:00   Conference opening
09:30   Keynote Siddhartha Krishnamurthy (NASA Langley Research Center)
Chair: Antonio Torija Martinez
09:30
60 mins
A Brief History of Psychoacoustic Testing at NASA
Siddhartha Krishnamurthy
10:30   BREAK
11:00   Session 1: Noise propagation and low-noise route planning
Chair: Xin Zhang
11:00
20 mins
Incorporation of Ambient Sound Levels into UAS Flight Path Optimisation
Nathan Shrubsole-Green, Carlos Ramos-Romero, Antonio T Martinez
11:20
20 mins
From aeromechanics to auralization – a comprehensive analysis model of a novel eVTOL concept
Daniel Eble, Daniel Redmann, Johannes D. Schmid, Michael W. Bauer, Julia V. Lippold, Susanne Bartels
11:40
20 mins
Combined drone and road-traffic noise modelling for dynamic exposure assessment in cities
Sacha Baclet, Ulf Tengzelius, Ulf Orrenius, Romain Rumpler
12:00
20 mins
Flight Test Characterization of Multirotor Aircraft Noise Variability
Joel Sundar Rachaprolu, Eric Greenwood
11:00   Session 2: Experimental Aeroacoustic Measurements – Field 1
Chair: Nicolaas van Oosten
11:00
20 mins
Commercial Multicopter Propellers in Flight: Noise Directivity, Sound Power, and Efficiency
Julian Benz, Gert Herold, Andreas Gründer, Stefan Becker
11:20
20 mins
Development of an onboard microphone cage for in-flight characterization of drone noise sources
Peter Hartford, Riccardo Zamponi, Christophe Schram
11:40
20 mins
Modelling the sound exposure for a field study on medical UAV operations in the city of Zurich, Switzerland
Claudio Affolter, Jonas Meister, Jean Marc Wunderli
12:00
20 mins
Towards accurate UAV source models for noise mapping
Ulf Orrenius, Ulf Tengzelius, Mats Åbom
12:20   LUNCH
14:00   Session 3: UAS/UAM noise modeling 1
Chair: Lin Wang
14:00
20 mins
Drone Directivity Measurements under Realistic Flight Conditions in an Anechoic Environment for Spectral and Psychoacoustic Characterization
Felix Hochbaum, Gert Herold, Vanessa R. Kempen, André Fiebig
14:20
20 mins
Gaussian Process-Based Time-Domain Modeling for Multi-Rotor Noise Prediction
Jeongwoo Ko, Minhyuk Kim
14:40
20 mins
A numerical study on the aeroacoustics of a propeller at low Reynolds number subjected to vortical gusts
Mario Alì, Andrea Piccolo, Riccardo Zamponi, Daniele Ragni, Francesco Avallone
14:00   Session 4: Experimental Aeroacoustic Measurements – Field 2
Chair: Camilo Ignacio Andino Cappagli
14:00
20 mins
Effect of Propeller Blade Spacing on Quadcopter’s Aeroacoustic Noise and Sound Quality
Carlos Ramos-Romero, Dima Usov, Antonio Filippone, Antonio Torija Martinez
14:20
20 mins
Influence of acoustic ground reflections on the sound perception of a hovering quadcopter drone
Roberto Merino-Martinez, Renatto Yupa Villanueva, Josephine Pockelé, Amy Morin, Mirjam Snellen
14:40
20 mins
Wireless accelerometers: can they be useful for understanding drone vibration at flight?
Bin Liu, N. Costa, D. Tcherniak
15:00   BREAK
15:30   Session 5: UAS/UAM noise modeling 2
Chair: Ingrid Legriffon
15:30
20 mins
Noise mitigation using toroidal blade propeller in quadrotor UAV
Sai Kiran Reddy Adapa, Navrose Navrose
15:50
20 mins
Aerodynamic and Aeroacoustic Evaluation of Looped Propeller Blades with Biomimetic Modifications
Ewan Courts, Abdesselam Bouferrouk, Justin du Plessis
16:10
20 mins
Numerical noise prediction of a tilting rotor in forward flight
Marco Picillo, Mattia Barbarino, Francesco Avallone
16:30
20 mins
Design and Optimisation of a Low Noise Unmanned Aerial System Propeller
Nikki Brown, Dan Withey
15:30   Session 6: Experimental Aeroacoustic Measurements – Field 3
Chair: Felix Hochbaum
15:30
20 mins
Prediction of acoustic dynamics during horizontal flights of a contra-rotating propeller UAV
Camilo Ignacio Andino Cappagli, Alireza Amiri-Simkooei, Mirjam Snellen
15:50
20 mins
Measurements of outdoor drone noise
Christine Huth, Sonia Alves, Florin Herold, Julian Babl, Emilian Zehetbauer
16:10
20 mins
On-board Acoustic Measurements on Drones: Self-Noise Characterization and Detection of External Sound Sources
Stefan Becker, Julian Benz
16:30   short BREAK
16:50   No Session
16:50   Session 8: Drone Audition - Listening with Drones
Chair: Jeongwoo Ko
16:50
20 mins
Can Drones Hear Birds from the Sky? Hardware and Software Lessons from UAV Bioacoustic Monitoring
Lin Wang
17:10
20 mins
Listening with drones: Denoising algorithms for best performance
Paula Chale Castell, Roberto Merino-Martinez, Toros Senan, Stephy Annie Curie
17:30   Welcome drinks