Updated 16 November 2025

Quiet Drones is an international conference focused on all aspects of noise and acoustics from Advanced Air Mobility aircraft, including Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS, also known as ‘drones’) and electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing aircraft (eVTOL).

Quiet Drones is for Industry representatives, public authorities, regulators, consultants, and academics working on noise control and acoustics with a focus on Advanced Air Mobility. An international audience is expected, with expertise covering topics such as aeroacoustics, psychoacoustics, bioacoustics, signal processing, noise control, auralisation and acoustic predictions and standards and regulation.

To date, 3 conferences have been organised by INCE/Europe in association with CidB - Centre d’Information sur le Bruit (in 2020 and 2022), and the University of Salford in 2024. Quiet Drones 2020, the first conference in the series was held online in October 2020.  The second conference, Quiet Drones 2022, was held remotely in June 2022. Quiet Drones 2024 was the first conference taking place in person (Manchester, September 2024).  These events were a huge success and you can read more about it and find out what people thought about it on the past conferences page.  You can also download the conference proceedings of the Quiet Drones 2020, 2022, and 2024 conferences.

Quiet Drones 2026, the next conference in the series, is jointly organised by the University of Salford (UK) and TU Delft (The Netherlands), and will take place between 29th June and 1st July 2026 in Delft.

Quiet Drones 2026 will present methods under development for establishing measurement standards on noise from UAS and eVTOLs, as well as new metrics to characterise the impact of their noise on people and the environment. It will cover recent advances in the study of noise generation and control at its source as well as propagation in different flying conditions and environments. It will also present acoustic tools for the detection and identification of drones as well as drone audition methods for search and rescue. And it will discuss public acceptance of the noise of delivery UAS as well as of air taxis in European cities and the rest of the world.

Quiet Drones 2026 will provide a venue for researchers on drone noise to meet with manufacturers, users and those engaged in designing innovative applications for these new technologies.

 

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Prof. Antonio J Torija Martinez 

Chair of the Organising Committee of Quiet Drones series