Atlas / Learn / Research papers
Academia · 5,364 papers
Aviation research, sourced & cited.
Curated index of aviation-relevant research from NASA NTRS, NTSB safety studies, FAA CAMI, and academic sources. Every record links back to its original — we don't host PDFs, we describe each paper and credit the authors. Built for cross-link with the rest of Atlas: search by topic, drill into a CFR section or airframe and see the research that bears on it.
5,364 matches
- NASA NTRS 2026 Accepted Manuscript
Reachability-Based Forced Landing System
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Two-phase Temperature Reconstruction in Ice-Water Systems
What controls heat transport when liquid water interacts with ice? Answering this question is essential for understanding water bodies undergoing phase change.
- NASA NTRS 2026 GSFC Accepted Manuscript (Version with final changes)
Towards an Improved Understanding of the Antarctic Coastal Zone and Its Contribution to Future Global Sea Level
Understanding the coastal zone of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS), where it interacts with the Southern Ocean and warmer air masses, is crucial for predicting Antarctica's influence on the global climate and sea level.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Quantum-Based k-Coverage Optimization for UAV-Aided Search and Rescue Missions
In large-scale disaster scenarios, rapid localization of missing persons is a critical challenge for search-and-rescue (SAR) operations.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Freezing of a deformable water-saturated porous medium. Part I: THM formulation, OpenGeoSys-6 implementation and benchmarking
In this contribution, Part I, we present a coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical formulation for modeling and analyzing water-to-ice phase change in a deformable fully-saturated porous medium.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Securing Cooperative Sensing in UAV Swarms Against Conformity-Driven Byzantine Attacks
In integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) enabled 6G unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm networks, the widely adopted imitation-based conformity cooperation mechanism can be exploited by Byzantine attackers to fabri…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Designing, Deployment and Field Testing of C2Stack for Networked Intelligent Software-Defined UAVs
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are emerging as critical enablers of next-generation wireless networking and autonomous systems. Despite their potential, deploying and testing networked UAV systems in real-world environm…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Low-Altitude Fluid Antenna Network with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs) integrate terrestrial and aerial platforms to provide ubiquitous communication, sensing, and localization services for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and electric vertical takeoff …
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Joint Spectrum and Airspace Resource Optimization for Low-altitude Wireless Network
Low-altitude wireless networks have emerged as a promising platform for enabling the safe and efficient operation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
FlyBlind: Cross-Slice Timeliness Attacks on UAV Situational Awareness over 5G
Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) operating over 5G Standalone (SA) networks use a shared User Plane for both command-and-control (C2) data and video feedback.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Towards Safe Reinforcement Learning with Reduced Conservativeness: A Case Study on Drone Flight Control
Incorporating formal methods into reinforcement learning (RL) has the potential to result in the best of both worlds, combining the robustness of formal guarantees with the adaptability and learning capabilities of RL, t…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Density Field of Dilute Particle Flow in Two-Fluid Model with Incompressible Carrier Flow
We clarify some mathematical features of the density of a dilute particle flow on a body surface in a two-fluid model, with a view toward its application to icing simulations.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Phantom Navigator: Stealthy and Precise Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Redirection with Real-Time Tracking and GPS Spoofing
Redirecting unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from their intended mission trajectories has been an active area of research. However, existing UAV redirection attacks lack reliability, precision, and covertness for a target…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
SonicNudge: Controlled Displacement of Hovering UAVs via Estimator-Controller Coupling
UAV displacement attacks have traditionally relied on spoofing sensors that directly report position or translational motion, such as GNSS and optical flow.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Ice melting in an oscillatory flow
We investigate the melting dynamics of an ice disk subjected to an external oscillatory flow using two-dimensional direct numerical simulations, in the absence of buoyancy, varying the flow amplitude and its oscillation …
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Leveraging UAV Autonomy for Minimum 4D Flight Authorization Volumes
The increasing UAV traffic in urban areas has prompted the creation of U-space, an EASA framework for safe and efficient unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Spinning Quadrotor: Hover Thrust Augmentation with Passive Lifting Surfaces
Conventional multirotor aerial vehicles actively suppress yaw rotation during hover, expending power to maintain a fixed heading despite the fact that yaw regulation is not required for force balance or altitude control.…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Dynamic Inversion: An Incrementally Evolving Methodology for Flight Control Design
Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion (NDI) has become a standard methodology in flight control law design. It offers an intuitive approach to decouple commanded variable responses, handle system nonlinearities, and adapt to opera…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Safety-Driven Architectural Framework for Fail-Operational Drone Swarms in Critical Missions
The certification of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms for safety-critical operations requires verifiable design assurance. Airworthiness standards demand deterministic reliability, whereas multi-agent coordination al…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Taming the Tilt: A Unified Pilot Control Concept for Transformational eVTOL Aircraft
Transformational electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles have gained significant attention over the past decade due to their efficient wing-borne cruise capabilities and reduced reliance on ground-based i…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Geometry-Aware DRL for Multi-Subband Scheduling in Satellite-Assisted UAM Networks
In this paper, we investigate downlink scheduling for urban air mobility (UAM) in a cooperative space-air-ground integrated network. Multiple ground stations (GSs) employ narrow three-dimensional beams and share spectrum…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
ETA Coordination at UAM Corridor Merging Points Using Worst-Case and Stochastic Trajectory Bounds
We study an Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA)-based traffic-coordination framework for Urban Air Mobility corridors with merging at constrained waypoints (CWPs), where approved ETAs at CWPs serve as Required Times of Arriv…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Demand-Driven Vertiport Siting and Discrete-Event Fleet Simulation for On-Demand Urban Air Mobility Network Design
This paper presents a demand-driven framework for on-demand Urban Air Mobility (UAM) network design that links vertiport siting, fleet simulation, and door-to-door travel-time feasibility.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Nonlinear Model Predictive Control via Sequential Convex Programming for Drone-to-Drone Docking
Autonomous mid-air docking of multi-rotor vehicles under disturbance-driven target motion poses a constrained non-linear trajectory optimization challenge.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Enabling Beyond-Visual-Line-of-Sight Drones Operation over Open RAN 5G Networks with Slicing
Among the foretold claims of the transition from 5G to 6G, Beyond-Visual-Line-of-Sight (BVLoS) drone operation has emerged as a prominent Internet-of-Robots enabler.
- NASA NTRS 2026 LaRC Poster
Exploratory Heterogeneity in Workload–HRV Relationships Across Flight Crews During High-Fidelity Simulation
Understanding how operators adapt to varying task demands in complex systems is central to applied human performance and resilience engineering research.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2026 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Feasibility and Performance of Aerogravity Assists for Ceres Missions
This work investigates the feasibility and performance of aerogravity assist (AGA) maneuvers for missions to Ceres, with emphasis on both interplanetary trajectory design and atmospheric flight dynamics.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Shaping Wind-Tunnel Airflow for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles using Online Learning
The development and testing of advanced aerial robots require experiments in controlled environments with tailored airflow profiles. This paper presents an online learning algorithm for controlling the complex airflow fi…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
FESOM2-JAX v1.0: a differentiable shadow of the ocean-sea-ice model FESOM2, cast onto GPUs
We present FESOM2-JAX, a Python re-implementation of the Finite-volumE Sea ice-Ocean Model (FESOM2) in JAX. The model retains the unstructured-mesh, cell-vertex finite-volume formulation of the original, runs unchanged f…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Buoyancy-driven melt rate of a vertical ice surface in seawater
Reliable estimates of the melt rate of tidewater glaciers require accurate knowledge of salt and heat fluxes at the near-vertical ice-ocean interface and such knowledge is currently lacking.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
An ArcGIS Framework for Mapping Human-Centered Noise Annoyance for AAM Infrastructure Planning
Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) represents a transformative shift in urban transportation; however, successful implementation depends strongly on public acceptance, with noise emerging as a major concern for low-altitude ele…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Closed-Loop Model-Based Control Barrier Functions with Application to Robust Flight Envelope Protection
Ensuring operation of aerospace systems within prescribed flight envelope limits is a fundamental requirement for modern flight control architectures.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Network Verified NTN Positioning for 6G A Standards Oriented Survey of Hybrid TN NTN Localization
Wireless positioning is evolving from legacy cellular and standalone satellite navigation toward hybrid, high-accuracy, three-dimensional (3D), and network-verifiable frameworks for 5G Advanced, 6G, and non terrestrial n…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Global Sensitive-Based Input Shaping for UAV-Payload Precision Motion Control
This work presents a comprehensive analysis and design of global sensitivity-based input shapers for a 3D Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-payload system, emphasizing robustness against uncertainties in payload mass and rope leng…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Online Monitoring and Risk Assessment of Non-Cooperative UAVs via STL-Aware Adaptive Fusion Kalman Filtering
This paper considers the problem of online state estimation and predictive risk assessment for non-cooperative unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the presence of asynchronous heterogeneous sensing and uncertain motion mo…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Physics-Aware End-to-End Deep Reinforcement Learning for Quadcopter Control with Actuator Dynamics
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), particularly quadcopters, present unique challenges for autonomous control due to their underactuated dynamics: only four available control inputs must govern six degrees of freedom.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Co-planning of Flight Corridors and Communication Infrastructure for Urban Drone Logistics Networks
Reliable wireless connectivity is essential for urban air mobility (UAM) networks in dense urban environments. It is therefore imperative to carefully plan the supporting communication infrastructure for UAM flight corri…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Wave-induced erosion and notch development at the Fimbul Ice Shelf front
Ocean waves erode the waterline of Antarctic ice-shelf fronts and carve a thermo-erosional notch. The notch is hidden from satellites, yet it preconditions front collapse and footloose calving, so the link between notch …
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Embedded Firmware Development for Flight Control, Telemetry, and Video Streaming for DIY UAV Research
This paper presents the design and optimization of quadcopter firmware for a low-cost UAV based on the dual-core ESP32-S3 microcontroller, targeting real-time flight control, telemetry, and video transmission within stri…
- NASA NTRS 2026 LaRC Technical Memorandum (TM)
FUN3D Manual: 14.3
This manual describes the installation and execution of FUN3D version 14.3, including optional dependent packages. FUN3D is a suite of computational fluid dynamics simulation and design tools that uses mixed-element unst…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Multi-Domain Physics-Based MDO of Multirotor UAVs: A Deterministic Framework for Discrete COTS Sizing
Multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) design is governed by a tightly coupled system of non-linear equations spanning structural mechanics, electrochemistry, aerodynamics, and kinematics.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Neural Differential Equations for Oscillatory Flows in Aeroelasticity Applied to Transonic Buffet
Self-excited aerodynamic flows arise across a broad range of systems and can drive nonlinear fluid-structure interactions and aeroelastic instabilities that are challenging and computationally expensive to predict.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Declarative Problem Solving in UAM Strategic Deconfliction
The growing demand for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) introduces significant challenges in airspace management, particularly within densely populated metropolitan regions.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Contact-Persistent Full Actuation for Aerial Physical Interaction
Fully actuated unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are usually certified through rank conditions on a control-allocation matrix or through free-flight tracking performance.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Theoretical development of an operational wave-induced ice erosion model through laboratory experiments
Wave-induced melting of vertical ice fronts is represented in several operational iceberg and coastal-erosion models by the rough-wall parameterization of White (1980), whose closure chain is incompletely documented and …
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Rethinking Joint UAV Placement and Beamforming: A Correlation-Aware Geometric Approach
In multiuser unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted downlink communications, UAV placement and transmit beamforming are inherently coupled through the propagation geometry.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
RT-SHCUA: Real-Time Self-Hosted Computer-Use Agent for UAV Control
Natural-language control offers a promising interface for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), but directly applying self-hosted computer-use agents (SHCUAs) to UAV control introduces a structural mismatch.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Obstacle-Aware Four-Dimensional Trajectory Design for Urban Air Mobility
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) with electric Vertical TakeOff and Landing (eVTOL) vehicles can help address ground traffic congestion. The design of an eVTOL trajectory that is safe and reduces travel time is key for UAM adopt…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Pick-to-Learn Calibration of an MPC Policy for an Origin-to-Destination Flight Problem
This paper illustrates the Pick-to-Learn methodology applied to the calibration of a Model Predictive Control policy. While developed around a specific example, the presentation is meant to highlight a methodology of bro…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
LIVE-RIS: Real-Time In-Flight Actuation of UAV-Mounted RIS
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are emerging as a key technology for sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks due to their ability to dynamically control the propagation environment.