Quiet Drones 2026
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Day 2: Tuesday 30 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
08:30   Doors open & coffee
09:00   Keynote Damiano Casalino (Dassault Systèmes & TU Delft)
Chair: Roberto Merino-Martinez
09:00
60 mins
Recent advances in low-Reynolds number rotor aeroacoustics models
Damiano Casalino
10:00   BREAK
10:30   Session 9: Experimental Aeroacoustic Measurements – Laboratory 1
Chair: John Kennedy
10:30
20 mins
Understanding and Controlling Laminar Separation Bubbles for Quieter Drone Propellers
SIMON WATKINS
10:50
20 mins
Effect of Large scale Turbulence on Propeller Aerodynamic and Aeroacoustic performance
Gokhul Venkataraman Swaminathan, Lourenco Tercio Lima Pereira, Yannick G.A. Chance
11:10
20 mins
Rotor Speed Estimation from Onboard Audio Recordings of Multirotor Drones
Dmitrii Mukhutdinov, Lin Wang
10:30   Session 10: Human Response to UAS and UAM Noise 1
Chair: Nick Zang
10:30
20 mins
Comparison of aircraft sounds in a simulated Living Room laboratory study
Roalt Aalmoes, Aleyandra Smitt, Naomi Sieben
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, Joong-Kwan Kim
11:30   short BREAK
11:40   Session 11: Experimental Aeroacoustic Measurements – Laboratory 2
Chair: Damiano Casalino
11:40
20 mins
Psychoacoustic Assessment of Small-Scale Propeller Noise Generation Mechanisms
Isaac Bensignor, Roberto Merino-Martinez, Lourenço Lima Tercio Pereira
12:00
20 mins
Mitigation of UAV Airframe Interaction Noise Using Porous Coatings
Craig Gillespie, Matthew Mulcahy, Gareth Bennett, John Kennedy
12:20
20 mins
Characterisation of Drone Noise in Complex Airflow
Philip McCarthy, Sean McTavish, Hali Barber
11:40   Session 12: Human Response to UAS and UAM Noise 2
Chair: Roalt Aalmoes
11:40
20 mins
Effects of night-time drone noise on sleep and annoyance
Susanne Bartels, Julia V. Lippold, Marcelo Sanchez Hernandez, Benjamin Aretz, Daniel Aeschbach
12:00
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 C. Green, Max W. Ellis, Antonio J. Torija
12:20
20 mins
Urban Air Mobility Noise Remote Test Response by Geographic Area and Comparison to In-Person Test
Siddhartha Krishnamurthy
12:40   LUNCH
14:00   Session 13 Community Impact, Engagement, and Perception 1
Chair: Maria Stolz
14:00
20 mins
Context Matters: Public Response to Delivery Drone Noise in Quiet vs Noisy Areas
Alexandra Duffy, Henry Rice, Marco Oliveira, John Kennedy
14:20
20 mins
Drone Noise Impact Assessment in Urban Environments: From Flight Trajectories to Noise Maps
Elise Ruaud, Ingrid LeGriffon, Tatjana Krstić Simić, Jovana Kuljanin
14:40
20 mins
Scenarios for proactive planning of implementation of UAM in Stockholm
Pernilla Ulfvengren, Fabian Ulfvengren
14:00   Session 14: Auralization and Acoustic Simulation
Chair: Siddhartha Krishnamurthy
14:00
20 mins
Preliminary assessment of active noise cancelling techniques for drone acoustic emissions
Jan Adam Wanatowicz, Roberto Merino-Martinez
14:20
20 mins
On the psychoacoustic impact of synchrophasing for distributed propellers and ducted fans
Stephen Schade, Maximilian Marggraf, Roberto Merino-Martinez, Karl-Stéphane Rossignol, Sébastien Guérin
15:00   BREAK
15:30   Panel discussion: Environmental and ecological impact of drones
Chair: Antonio Torija Martinez
Panel discussion
Presentation by Saadia Afridi

Acoustic Characterization of Drone Swarm Noise in a Wildlife Environment: Field Measurements at Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya
Saadia Afridi (saadia@avy.eu)Edouard Rolland (edr@mmmi.sdu.dk)Guy Maalouf (guym@mmmi.sdu.dk)Lucie Laporte-Devylder (lucie@biology.sdu.dk)Samuel G. Penny (spenny@bzsociety.org.uk)Ulrik Pagh Schultz Lundquist (ups@mmmi.sdu.dk)

Panel members:

  • Amy Leedale (Salford University)
  • Saadia Afridi (The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute)
  • James Hutton (TU Delft)
17:00   3-minutes walk to the boats for the canal cruise
18:30   Conference dinner Restaurant Pavarotti