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5,883 papers · NASA NTRS, NTSB, FAA CAMI
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- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Autonomous Trajectory Optimization for UAVs in Disaster Zone Using Henry Gas Optimization Scheme
The unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a disaster-prone environment plays important role in assisting the rescue services and providing the internet connectivity with the outside world.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Bistability in radiatively heated melt ponds
Melting and solidification processes, intertwined with convective flows, play a fundamental role in geophysical contexts. One of these processes is the formation of melt ponds on glaciers, ice shelves, and sea ice.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Toward Low-Altitude Airspace Management and UAV Operations: Requirements, Architecture and Enabling Technologies
The low-altitude economy (LAE) is rapidly advancing toward intelligence, connectivity, and coordination, bringing new challenges in dynamic airspace management, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operation, and security manag…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Large eddy simulations of conjugate heat transfer in boundary layers over laser-scanned ice roughness
Accurate modeling of ice accretion is important for safe and efficient design of aircraft and wind turbine systems. Heat transfer predictions obtained from fluid flow solvers are used as input in ice accretion codes.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Delay Optimization in Remote ID-Based UAV Communication via BLE and Wi-Fi Switching
The remote identification (Remote ID) broadcast capability allows unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to exchange messages, which is a pivotal technology for inter-UAV communications.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Trajectory Optimization for UAV-Based Medical Delivery with Temporal Logic Constraints and Convex Feasible Set Collision Avoidance
This paper addresses the problem of trajectory optimization for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) performing time-sensitive medical deliveries in urban environments.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Hierarchical and Collaborative LLM-Based Control for Multi-UAV Motion and Communication in Integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely adopted in various real-world applications. However, the control and optimization of multi-UAV systems remain a significant challenge, particularly in dynamic and constrai…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Dynamics and Control of Vision-Aided Multi-UAV-tethered Netted System Capturing Non-Cooperative Target
As the number of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) operating in low-altitude airspace continues to increase, non-cooperative targets pose growing challenges to low-altitude operations.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Adaptive Traffic-Following Scheme for Orderly Distributed Control of Multi-Vehicle Systems
We present an adaptive control scheme to enable the emergence of order within distributed, autonomous multi-agent systems. Past studies showed that under high-density conditions, order generated from traffic-following be…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Long Duration Inspection of GNSS-Denied Environments with a Tethered UAV-UGV Marsupial System
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become essential tools in inspection and emergency response operations due to their high maneuverability and ability to access hard-to-reach areas.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
VLM-RRT: Vision Language Model Guided RRT Search for Autonomous UAV Navigation
Path planning is a fundamental capability of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), enabling them to efficiently navigate toward a target region or explore complex environments while avoiding obstacles.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Monolithic framework to simulate fluid-structure interaction problems using geometric volume-of-fluid method
We develop a three-dimensional Eulerian framework to simulate fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems on a fixed Cartesian grid using the geometric volume-of-fluid (VOF) method.
- NASA NTRS 2025 ARC Presentation
What Would You Have Done? Learning From Others' Aviation Safety Events
The capacity to learn from both expected and unexpected events has been identified as a critical component of resilient performance. One’s own experiences, however, are not the only opportunities to learn from these type…
- NASA NTRS 2025 ARC Conference Paper
What Would You Have Done? Learning From Others' Aviation Safety Events
The capacity to learn from both expected and unexpected events has been identified as a critical component of resilient performance. One’s own experiences, however, are not the only opportunities to learn from these type…
- 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.
- 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.
- 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…
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (Hum. Factors)
Investigating the Independent and Combined Effects of Startle and Surprise in a Simulated Flight Task
Objective We aimed to characterize the impact of startle and surprise, both independently and in combination, on subjective feelings, behavior (task performance and gaze behavior), and several physiological parameters.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.