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443 matches · Engineering
- Semantic Scholar 2026 Article (IEEE transactions on power electronics)
Challenges and Opportunities in Electric Propulsion Systems for Low-Altitude eVTOL Aircraft
Low-altitude aviation is rapidly emerging as a transformative solution for next-generation transportation, driving significant advancements in electric propulsion systems.
- Semantic Scholar 2026 Article (IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine)
Safety Assessment and Fault Tolerance in eVTOL Aircraft Flight Control System: Current Status and Challenges
With the integration and development of technologies in the fields of electric aviation, uncrewed driving, artificial intelligence, and information communication, electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircrafts h…
- Semantic Scholar 2026 Article (Reliability Engineering & System Safety)
Understanding human error in military aviation maintenance: The role of Performance shaping factors, cognitive workload and error orientation
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (Drones)
A Systematic Review of Urban Air Mobility Development: eVTOL Drones’ Technological Challenges and Low-Altitude Policies of Shenzhen
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is emerging as a transformative solution to urban traffic congestion and inefficient ground travel. This paper presents the UAM development of Shenzhen, a pioneering city of low-altitude economy …
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (Communications in Transportation Research)
Quantitative assessment of mid-air collision probability in urban air mobility: A safety barrier-based framework for integrated operations
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (IEEE Networking Letters)
Symbolic and Safety-Centric Formal Verification of MAVLink for Autonomous eVTOL Systems
The growing use of autonomous electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (A-eVTOL) vehicles demands secure and reliable command and control (C2) communication to meet stringent safety and regulatory requirements.
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (Cell Reports Physical Science)
Battery safety and security for electric urban air mobility
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (Drones)
Towards Safer UAV Operations in Urban Air Mobility: 3D Automated Modelling for CFD-Based Microweather Systems
Turbulence and wind gusts pose significant risks to the safety and efficiency of UAVs (uncrewed aerial vehicles) in urban environments.
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (Human-Intelligent Systems Integration)
Designing human-centric intelligent systems in aviation: applications of artificial cognitive systems, AI-enhanced investigations, and immersive eVTOL simulation training
As aviation advances toward greater automation and data integration, human-centered design, regulatory alignment, and collaborative autonomy remain critical.
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (Advanced Energy Materials)
Thermal Dynamics and Lithium Plating Detection in High‐Power Li‐Ion Batteries for eVTOL Applications
The rapid electrification of aerial transportation is driving the need for high‐performance Li‐ion batteries that can operate reliably under stringent thermal and safety constraints.
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (Italian National Conference on Sensors)
ASFT-Transformer: A Fast and Accurate Framework for EEG-Based Pilot Fatigue Recognition
Objective evaluation of pilot fatigue is crucial for enhancing aviation safety. Although electroencephalography (EEG) is regarded as an effective tool for recognizing pilot fatigue, the direct application of deep learnin…
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (Visual Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art)
Lightweight and mobile artificial intelligence and immersive technologies in aviation
This review examines the current applications, benefits, challenges, and future potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and immersive aviation technologies.
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies)
Integrated Take-off Management and Trajectory Optimization for Merging Control in Urban Air Mobility Corridors
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has the potential to revolutionize daily transportation, offering rapid and efficient aerial mobility services.
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (International Journal of Sustainable Development Goals)
Advancing Aviation Safety and Sustainable Infrastructure: High-Accuracy Detection and Classification of Foreign Object Debris Using Deep Learning Models
Foreign Object Debris (FOD) presents a critical threat to aviation safety, with the potential to damage aircraft and jeopardize lives.
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics)
Recovery from startle and surprise: A survey of airline pilots' operational experience using a startle and surprise management method
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (Future Transportation)
Optimal Location of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Vertiport Using a Three-Stage Geospatial Analysis Framework
Recent advancements in aviation and automation technologies have catalyzed the emergence of Urban Air Mobility (UAM), an innovative transportation paradigm involving the use of automated vertical take-off and landing air…
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (J. Sens. Actuator Networks)
Urban Air Mobility, Personal Drones, and the Safety of Occupants - A Comprehensive Review
Urban air mobility (UAM) is expected to provide environmental benefits while enhancing transportation for citizens and businesses, particularly in commercial and emergency medical applications.
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (Aerospace)
Urban Air Mobility Aircraft Operations in Urban Environments: A Review of Potential Safety Risks
The expansion of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has led to diverse aircraft designs, with piloted systems expected to evolve into remotely piloted and automated operations.
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (PeerJ Computer Science)
Data-driven flight path monitoring technique using recurrent neural network for the safety management of commercial aircraft
Aviation spins, particularly at low altitudes, significantly contribute to fatalities due to limited recovery time. Standard recovery procedures typically only become eligible after a spin is fully developed, by which ti…
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (Aerospace)
Designing an Urban Air Mobility Corridor Network: A Multi-Objective Optimization Approach Using U-NSGA-III
The corridor network serves as an effective solution for the airspace structure safety design of UAM. However, current studies rarely account for the ground risk posed by the corridor operation and typically consider a s…
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (Safety)
Preliminary Safety Assessment of a Liquid Hydrogen Storage System for Commercial Aviation
The development of liquid hydrogen storage systems is a key aspect to enable future clean air transportation. However, safety analysis research for such systems is still limited and is hindered by the limited experience …
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (Applied Sciences)
Decision-Making Framework for Aviation Safety in Predictive Maintenance Strategies
The implementation of predictive maintenance (PM) in aviation presents unique challenges due to strict safety requirements, complex operational environments, and regulatory constraints.
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (Journal of planning literature)
Decoding the Vertiport: Planning for Urban Air Mobility
The potential of advanced air mobility (AAM) has recently been receiving a tremendous amount of attention in both the media and within the research literature.
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (Urban Science)
Prediction of Urban Air Mobility and Drone Accident Rates and the Role of Urban Management Systems
Urban air mobility (UAM) and drones can significantly improve traffic movement in saturated cities because the skies above them are not frequently used; furthermore, they do not require large-scale infrastructure, like r…
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (Journal of Aerospace Information Systems)
On-Demand Urban Air Mobility Scheduling with Operational Considerations
This paper introduces an on-demand sequencing and scheduling framework for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) with electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (Safety)
Classifying Aviation Safety Reports: Using Supervised Natural Language Processing (NLP) in an Applied Context
This paper presents a practical approach to classifying aviation safety reports in an operational context. The goals of the research are as follows: (a) successfully demonstrate a replicable, practical methodology levera…
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (Ergonomics)
An experimental comparison on the effectiveness of various levels of simulator fidelity on ab initio pilot training
Abstract Despite recent advances in technology use for education and training, the approach to pilot training over the past several decades has largely remained unchanged.
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum)
Applications of natural language processing in aviation safety: A review and qualitative analysis
This study explores using Natural Language Processing in aviation safety, focusing on machine learning algorithms to enhance safety measures.
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (2025 International Conference on Pervasive Computational Technologies (ICPCT))
Classification of Operational Records in Aviation Using Deep Learning Approaches
Ensuring safety in the aviation industry is critical, even minor anomalies can lead to severe consequences. This study evaluates the performance of four different models for DP (deep learning), including Bidirectional Lo…
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology)
Aerial-Terrestrial Heterogeneous Networks for Urban Air Mobility: A Performance Analysis
Urban air mobility (UAM) is increasingly capturing the attention of researchers and industry experts, as it holds the promise of providing faster and more economical solutions for urban commuting.
- Semantic Scholar 2024 Article (2024 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Electrical, Automation and Computer Engineering (ICEACE))
CAST-Eval: A Domain-Specific Benchmark for Large Language Models in Civil Aviation Safety
In this paper, we present CAST-Eval, a novel, comprehensive and domain-specific benchmark designed to assess the knowledge and reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in the civil aviation domain.
- Semantic Scholar 2024 Article (Drones)
Urban Air Mobility Communications and Networking: Recent Advances, Techniques, and Challenges
Over the past few years, our traditional ground-based transportation system has encountered various challenges, including overuse, traffic congestion, growing urban populations, high infrastructure costs, and disorganiza…
- Semantic Scholar 2024 Article (Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies)
Wind of Change: Investigating Information Visualizations for Passengers and Residents' Perception of Automated Urban Air Mobility
Automated Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is expected to improve passenger transportation but raises concerns about passenger trust and its impact on residents.
- Semantic Scholar 2024 Article (International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems)
Artificial Intelligence in Aviation Safety: Systematic Review and Biometric Analysis
The analysis discerns prominent research trends, including aviation accident analysis, pilot behavior, aviation safety measures, and endeavors to enhance safety standards, and highlights China’s notable contributions to …
- Semantic Scholar 2024 Article (IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid)
Secondary Voltage Control for DC Microgrids: A Design Perspective for SoC With Voltage Restoration Provision
The energy management system (EMS) secondary voltage control design, integrating state-of-charge (SoC) equalization and droop control in redundancy-based dc microgrids (MGs), is ideal for vehicles, aircraft, and medical …
- Semantic Scholar 2024 Article (Aerospace)
Aviation-BERT-NER: Named Entity Recognition for Aviation Safety Reports
This work introduces Aviation-BERT-NER, a Named Entity Recognition (NER) system tailored for aviation safety reports, building on the Aviation-BERT base model developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Aerospace …
- Semantic Scholar 2024 Article (arXiv.org)
Ultra-reliable urban air mobility networks
Recently, urban air mobility (UAM) has attracted attention as an emerging technology that will bring innovation to urban transportation and aviation systems.
- Semantic Scholar 2024 Article (Aerospace)
Joint Optimization of Cost and Scheduling for Urban Air Mobility Operation Based on Safety Concerns and Time-Varying Demand
As the value and importance of urban air mobility (UAM) are being recognized, there is growing attention towards UAM. To ensure that urban air traffic can serve passengers to the greatest extent while ensuring safety and…
- Semantic Scholar 2024 Article (Aerospace)
Hazard Analysis for Massive Civil Aviation Safety Oversight Reports Using Text Classification and Topic Modeling
There are massive amounts of civil aviation safety oversight reports collected each year in the civil aviation of China. The narrative texts of these reports are typically short texts, recording the abnormal events detec…
- Semantic Scholar 2024 Article (Advanced Engineering Informatics)
Enhancing aviation safety and mitigating accidents: A study on aviation safety hazard identification
- Semantic Scholar 2024 Article (BMC Medical Education)
Augmented reality visualization for ultrasound-guided interventions: a pilot randomized crossover trial to assess trainee performance and cognitive load
Augmented reality (AR) technology involving head-mounted displays (HMD) represents a significant innovation in medical education, particularly for training in guided invasive procedures.
- Semantic Scholar 2024 Article (IEEE Internet of Things Journal)
RIS-Aided Trajectory Optimization in Layered Urban Air Mobility
Urban air mobility (UAM) relies on developing aerospace industries, where safe aviation and efficient communication are critical features of aircraft.
- Semantic Scholar 2024 Article (Drones)
Performance Analysis and Conceptual Design of Lightweight UAV for Urban Air Mobility
In the present study, a performance analysis of three different VTOL configurations is presented within an urban air mobility context.
- Semantic Scholar 2024 Article (Defence Science Journal)
Modelling of Human Factors in Aviation Maintenance Using HFACS ME Human Factors Analysis and Classification System Maintenance Extension and Bayesian Network
Aircraft maintenance is a complex task involving a skilled human workforce, spare parts, and various other resources. Human factors are an inherent element of the human workforce.
- Semantic Scholar 2024 Article (Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting)
Cognitive Biases in Commercial Aviation: Empirical Review of Accident Reports
Cognitive biases in commercial aviation can coax pilots into disregarding established protocols or overlooking potential hazards, a concern that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has acknowledged.
- Semantic Scholar 2024 Article (AIAA AVIATION FORUM AND ASCEND 2024)
Design of a Six-Tiltrotor Concept Vehicle for Urban Air Mobility
NASA has developed a series of aircraft concepts known as reference vehicles for urban air mobility operations to facilitate research and development, enabling system-level comparisons between design candidates.
- Semantic Scholar 2024 Article (American Control Conference)
Optimal Charging with Active Thermal Management for eVTOL Aircraft Battery Packs
Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft operation often requires the battery packs to be charged and thermally conditioned to a given range of state-of-charge (SOC) and temperature for the next flight in m…
- Semantic Scholar 2024 Article (ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences)
Towards enhancing the safety of Advanced Air Mobility: Automatic 3D inter-urban modelling for improved weather monitoring
Abstract. Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) is an emerging sector that aims to optimise transportation in urban and interurban environments using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).
- Semantic Scholar 2024 Article (Volume 3A: Combustion, Fuels, and Emissions)
Considerations for Hydrogen Fueled Aerospace Gas Turbine Combustion Sub-System Design
As part of its commitment to the decarbonization of the aviation sector and the UN Race to Zero global campaign, Rolls-Royce is actively developing hydrogen combustion gas turbine engine technology capable of powering a …
- Semantic Scholar 2024 Article (Syst.)
Exploring Safety Culture in Urban Air Mobility: System of Systems Perspectives Using Enterprise Architecture
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is an emerging industry marked by technological advancements, new operational contexts, and regulatory frameworks.