Quiet Drones 2026
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Day 2: Tuesday 30 June 2026

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Lecture room B Lecture room G
08:30   Doors open & coffee
09:00   Keynote Siddhartha Krishnamurthy (NASA Langley Research Center )
09:00
60 mins
A Brief History and Recent Efforts of Psychoacoustic Testing at NASA
Siddhartha Krishnamurthy
10:00   BREAK
10:30   Experimental Aeroacoustic Measurements – Laboratory
10:30
20 mins
Understanding and Controlling Laminar Separation Bubbles for Quieter Drone Propellers
SIMON WATKINS
10:50
20 mins
Potential annoyance from air-taxi manoeuvres in vertiport residents
Julia V. Lippold
11:10
20 mins
Acoustic characterization of drone response under various atmospheric conditions using an onboard microphone cage
Peter Hartford, Riccardo Zamponi, Christophe Schram
11:30
20 mins
Mitigation of UAV Airframe Interaction Noise Using Porous Coatings
Craig Gillespie
11:50
20 mins
Characterisation of Drone Noise in Complex Airflow
Philip McCarthy, Sean McTavish, Hali Barber
12:10
20 mins
Effect of Large scale Turbulence on Propeller Aerodynamic and Aeroacoustic performance
Gokhul Venkataraman Swaminathan, Lourenco Tercio Lima Pereira, Yannick G.A. Chance
10:30   Human Response to UAS and UAM Noise
10:30
20 mins
Comparison of aircraft sounds in a simulated Living Room laboratory study
Naomi Sieben, Aleyandra Smitt, Roalt Aalmoes
10:50
20 mins
Listening to UAS swarms: exploring the impact of swarm configuration attributes on annoyance perception
Jithin Thilakan, Lukas Aspöck, Janina Fels
11:10
20 mins
Blade Number Effects in sUAS Rotor Noise Assessed Using Psychoacoustic Metrics and an Online Listening Test
Seokhyeon Shin, Yeongmin Jo
11:30
20 mins
Effects of night-time drone noise on sleep and annoyance
Susanne Bartels, Julia V. Lippold, Marcelo Sanchez Hernandez, Benjamin Aretz, Daniel Aeschbach
11:50
20 mins
Comparing a general sound quality metric for aircraft noise using a pre-trained neural network model to traditional psychoacoustics
Thiago Lobato, Tim Kamper-Schley, Marc Green, Max Ellis, Antonio Torija Martinez
12:10
20 mins
Urban Air Mobility Noise Remote Test Response by Geographic Area and Comparison to In-Person Test
Siddhartha Krishnamurthy
12:30   LUNCH
13:30   Community Impact, Engagement, and Perception 1
13:30
20 mins
Psychoacoustic Assessment of Small-Scale Propeller Noise Generation Mechanisms
Isaac Bensignor, Roberto Merino-Martinez, Camillo I. Andino Cappagli, Lourenço Lima Tercio Pereira
13:50
20 mins
Context Matters: Public Response to Delivery Drone Noise in Quiet vs Noisy Areas
Alexandra Duffy, Henry Rice, Marco Oliveira, John Kennedy
14:10
20 mins
Drone noise impact in urban environment, from drone trajectory to noise maps
Elise Ruaud, Ingrid LeGriffon
14:30
20 mins
Comparison of sound evaluations obtained in laboratory experiments vs. remote tests via app
Susanne Bartels, Stephen Schade, Rahman Al Mahmudur, David Straub, Carla Bubeck, Clémence Dubois
14:50
20 mins
Scenarios for proactive planning of implementation of UAM in Stockholm
Pernilla Ulfvengren
13:30   Auralization and Acoustic Simulation
13:30
20 mins
Auralization of UAV Noise based on Sound Sphere Measurements
Leon Steinhoff, Dominik Gebensleben, Luljeta Sinani, Maria Stolz, Julian Benz, Stefan Becker, Carsten Spehr
13:50
20 mins
Preliminary assessment of active noise cancelling techniques for drone acoustic emissions
Jan Adam Wanatowicz, Roberto Merino-Martinez
14:10
20 mins
On the psychoacoustic impact of synchrophasing for distributed propellers and ducted fans
Stephen Schade, Roberto Merino-Martinez, Maximilian Marggraf, Karl-Stéphane Rossignol, Sébastien Guérin
14:30
20 mins
Acoustic Signatures of UAVs and How We Test Them: A Methodological Review for Human-Response Research
Tianjing Feng, Jian Kang
15:10   BREAK
15:30   Panel discussion
16:30   Labtours in Aerospace Engineering
18:00   Transportation to Conference dinner