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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.
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- NASA NTRS 2025 ARC Conference Paper
A Training Study to Improve Monitoring During A Go-Around
As part of an FAA program to improve go-around (GA) safety, we were asked to determine if we could improve the performance of the Pilot Monitoring (PM) during a GA maneuver.
- NASA NTRS 2025 ARC Conference Paper
Adaptive Situational Awareness for Real-Time Lunar Surface Operations
The Lunar South Pole, the site of future space operations for Artemis missions, presents unique operational challenges. The line of sight to the Earth and Sun are both low over the horizon.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Developing a Numerical Framework for the High-Fidelity Simulation of Contrails: Sensitivity Analysis for Conventional Contrails
Contrails have recently gained widespread attention due to their large and uncertain estimates of effective radiative forcing, i.e., warming effect on the planet, comparable to those of carbon dioxide.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
On the Deployment of RIS-mounted UAV Networks
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) enable smart wireless environments by dynamically controlling signal propagation to enhance communication and localization.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Coverage Path Planning For Multi-view SAR-UAV Observation System Under Energy Constraint
Multi-view Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging can effectively enhance the performance of tasks such as automatic target recognition and image information fusion.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
UAV Control with Vision-based Hand Gesture Recognition over Edge-Computing
Gesture recognition presents a promising avenue for interfacing with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) due to its intuitive nature and potential for precise interaction.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Robust Longitudinal-lateral Look-ahead Pursuit Path-Following Control: Fast Finite-Time Stability Guarantee
This paper addresses the challenging problem of robust path-following for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in complex environments with bounded external disturbances and non-smooth predefined paths.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Monitoring in the Dark: Privacy-Preserving Runtime Verification of Cyber-Physical Systems
In distributed Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things applications, the nodes of the system send measurements to a monitor that checks whether these measurements satisfy given formal specifications.
- NASA NTRS 2025 ARC Conference Paper
Development and Integration of Flight Dynamics Models for Study of eVTOL Aircraft in the NASA Vertical Motion Simulator
A piloted simulation study in the Vertical Motion Simulator at NASA Ames Research Center will investigate the handling and ride qualities of eVTOL configurations (lift-plus-cruise and tiltwing) for both civilian and mili…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Enhancing Secrecy Energy Efficiency in RIS-Aided Aerial Mobile Edge Computing Networks: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
This paper studies the problem of securing task offloading transmissions from ground users against ground eavesdropping threats. Our study introduces a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided unmanned aerial vehic…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Model Identification Adaptive Control with $ρ$-POMDP Planning
Accurate system modeling is crucial for safe, effective control, as misidentification can lead to accumulated errors, especially under partial observability.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Continuous World Coverage Path Planning for Fixed-Wing UAVs using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Coverage Path Planning (CPP) is critical for applications such as precision agriculture and search and rescue.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Leaderless UAV Formation Flying with Collision Avoidance under Directed Graphs
This paper studies the leaderless formation flying problem with collision avoidance for a group of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which requires the UAVs to navigate through cluttered environments without colliding whi…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Secure Safety Filter: Towards Safe Flight Control under Sensor Attacks
Modern autopilot systems are prone to sensor attacks that can jeopardize flight safety. To mitigate this risk, we proposed a modular solution: the secure safety filter, which extends the well-established control barrier …
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Emergent Multi-View Fidelity in Autonomous UAV Swarm Sport Injury Detection
Accurate, real-time collision detection is essential for ensuring player safety and effective refereeing in high-contact sports such as rugby, particularly given the severe risks associated with traumatic brain injuries …
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Barrier Function Overrides For Non-Convex Fixed Wing Flight Control and Self-Driving Cars
Reinforcement Learning (RL) has enabled vast performance improvements for robotics systems. To achieve these results though, the agent often must randomly explore the environment, which for safety critical systems presen…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Numerical Investigation of the Aeroelastic Interaction between Transonic Buffet and Structural Nonlinearity
Transonic shock buffet is a nonlinear, unsteady aerodynamic phenomenon characterized by self-sustained, periodic shock oscillations that can critically affect aircraft structural integrity.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
MARS: Defending Unmanned Aerial Vehicles From Attacks on Inertial Sensors with Model-based Anomaly Detection and Recovery
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) rely on measurements from Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) to maintain stable flight. However, IMUs are susceptible to physical attacks, including acoustic resonant and electromagnetic in…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
FalconWing: An Ultra-Light Indoor Fixed-Wing UAV Platform for Vision-Based Autonomy
We introduce FalconWing, an ultra-light (150 g) indoor fixed-wing UAV platform for vision-based autonomy. Controlled indoor environment enables year-round repeatable UAV experiment but imposes strict weight and maneuvera…
- NASA NTRS 2025 KSC Extended Abstract
FDIR for Autonomous Space Systems for Anomalies and Cyberattacks
Fault detection, identification, and remediation (FDIR) is a challenging task for any space system. Faults are not necessarily binary in nature, and several different faults may all create the same symptoms or bad perfo…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Urban Air Mobility as a System of Systems: An LLM-Enhanced Holonic Approach
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is an emerging System of System (SoS) that faces challenges in system architecture, planning, task management, and execution.
- NASA NTRS 2025 ARC Accepted Manuscript (Version with final changes)
Scenario-Based Task Design for Airline Pilot Anticipatory Behaviors: Asynchronous Assessment of Complex Cognitive Skills
In airline operations, pilots are asked to actively produce positive safety outcomes and to learn from their own and others’ successes.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Toward Realization of Low-Altitude Economy Networks: Core Architecture, Integrated Technologies, and Future Directions
The rise of the low-altitude economy (LAE) is propelling urban development and emerging industries by integrating advanced technologies to enhance efficiency, safety, and sustainability in low-altitude operations.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
UAV Marketplace Simulation Tool for BVLOS Operations
We present a simulation tool for evaluating team formation in autonomous multi-UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) missions that operate Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS).
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Non-Equilibrium Phase Changes in Aircraft Exhaust: A Computational Study on Early Contrail Formation
A numerical framework is developed to model contrail formation in the near-field exhaust of aircraft engines, resolving non-equilibrium phase transitions in compressible, multi-component, non-ideal fluid flows.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Unscented Particle Filter for Visual-inertial Navigation using IMU and Landmark Measurements
This paper introduces a geometric Quaternion-based Unscented Particle Filter for Visual-Inertial Navigation (QUPF-VIN) specifically designed for a vehicle operating with six degrees of freedom (6 DoF).
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Quadratic Programming Approach to Flight Envelope Protection Using Control Barrier Functions
Ensuring the safe operation of aerospace systems within their prescribed flight envelope is a fundamental requirement for modern flight control systems.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Implications of shallow-shell models for topographic relaxation on icy satellites
Icy satellites host topography at many length scales, from rifts and craters on the small end to equatorial-pole shell thickness differences that are comparable to these bodies' circumference.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Multiple Target Tracking Using a UAV Swarm in Maritime Environments
Nowadays, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly utilized in search and rescue missions, a trend driven by technological advancements, including enhancements in automation, avionics, and the reduced cost of ele…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Explainable AI for UAV Mobility Management: A Deep Q-Network Approach for Handover Minimization
The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into cellular networks presents significant mobility management challenges, primarily due to frequent handovers caused by probabilistic line-of-sight conditions with mul…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Joint Resource Estimation and Trajectory Optimization for eVTOL-involved CR network: A Monte Carlo Tree Search-based Approach
Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft, pivotal to Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), are emerging as a transformative transportation paradigm with the potential to redefine urban and regional mobility.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Flying through cluttered and dynamic environments with LiDAR
Navigating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) through cluttered and dynamic environments remains a significant challenge, particularly when dealing with fast-moving or sudden-appearing obstacles.
- NASA NTRS 2025 ARC Presentation
LEO to GEO Communications from Concept to On Orbit Mission Success
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and the NOW (Nano Orbital Workshop) project at NASA Ames Research Center collaborated to prove that the GOES satellites can communicate with spacecraft in LEO and pr…
- NASA NTRS 2025 ARC Abstract
LEO to GEO Communications from Concept to On Orbit Mission Success
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and the NOW (Nano Orbital Workshop) project at NASA Ames Research Center collaborated to prove that the GOES satellites can communicate with spacecraft in LEO and pr…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Distributed Time-Varying Gaussian Regression via Kalman Filtering
We consider the problem of learning time-varying functions in a distributed fashion, where agents collect local information to collaboratively achieve a shared estimate.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Robust Planning and Control of Omnidirectional MRAVs for Aerial Communications in Wireless Networks
A new class of Multi-Rotor Aerial Vehicles (MRAVs), known as omnidirectional MRAVs (o-MRAVs), has gained attention for their ability to independently control 3D position and orientation.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Enhanced UAV Navigation Systems through Sensor Fusion with Trident Quaternions
This paper presents an integrated navigation algorithm based on trident quaternions, an extension of dual quaternions. The proposed methodology provides an efficient approach for achieving precise and robust navigation b…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Imperative MPC: An End-to-End Self-Supervised Learning with Differentiable MPC for UAV Attitude Control
Modeling and control of nonlinear dynamics are critical in robotics, especially in scenarios with unpredictable external influences and complex dynamics.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Integrator Anti-Windup Design for Servo-Controllers with Position Constraints
A control design modification to prevent integrator windup for position saturated servo-controllers is introduced. The design is based on the formalism of Control Barrier Functions and represents an anti-windup integrato…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Spectrum Sharing in STAR-RIS-assisted UAV with NOMA for Cognitive Radio Networks
As an emerging technology, the simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) can improve the spectrum efficiency (SE) of primary users (PUs) and secondary users (SUs) in cognitive…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
WildLive: Near Real-time Visual Wildlife Tracking onboard UAVs
Live tracking of wildlife via high-resolution video processing directly onboard drones is widely unexplored and most existing solutions rely on streaming video to ground stations to support navigation.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A highly maneuverable flying squirrel drone with controllable foldable wings
Typical drones with multi rotors are generally less maneuverable due to unidirectional thrust, which may be unfavorable to agile flight in very narrow and confined spaces.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Multi-Robot Coordination with Adversarial Perception
This paper investigates the resilience of perception-based multi-robot coordination with wireless communication to online adversarial perception.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Leveraging Large Self-Supervised Time-Series Models for Transferable Diagnosis in Cross-Aircraft Type Bleed Air System
Bleed Air System (BAS) is critical for maintaining flight safety and operational efficiency, supporting functions such as cabin pressurization, air conditioning, and engine anti-icing.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Quickest change detection for UAV-based sensing
This paper addresses the problem of quickest change detection (QCD) at two spatially separated locations monitored by a single unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with a sensor.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Cable Optimization and Drag Estimation for Tether-Powered Multirotor UAVs
The flight time of multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is typically constrained by their high power consumption. Tethered power systems present a viable solution to extend flight times while maintaining the advant…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Contrail, or not contrail, that is the question: the "feasibility" of climate-optimal routing
The environmental impact of aviation has been a focus of significant research for several decades. While there is a broad consensus among stakeholders on reducing carbon emissions, leading to efforts to improve route eff…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Jointly-optimized Trajectory Generation and Camera Control for 3D Coverage Planning
This work proposes a jointly optimized trajectory generation and camera control approach, enabling an autonomous agent, such as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operating in 3D environments, to plan and execute coverage …
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Collision-free landing of multiple UAVs on moving ground vehicles using time-varying control barrier functions
In this article, we present a centralized approach for the control of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for landing on moving unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) using control barrier functions (CBFs).
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A data-driven convergence booster for accelerating and stabilizing pseudo time-stepping
This paper introduces a novel data-driven convergence booster that not only accelerates convergence but also stabilizes solutions in cases where obtaining a steady-state solution is otherwise challenging.