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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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- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Self-Supervised Learning Approach with Differentiable Optimization for UAV Trajectory Planning
While Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant traction across various fields, path planning in 3D environments remains a critical challenge, particularly under size, weight, and power (SWAP) constraints.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Energy Aware and Safe Path Planning for Unmanned Aircraft Systems
This paper proposes a path planning algorithm for multi-agent unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) to autonomously cover a search area, while considering obstacle avoidance, as well as the capabilities and energy consumption…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Modular Energy Aware Framework for Multicopter Modeling in Control and Planning Applications
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), especially multicopters, have recently gained popularity for use in surveillance, monitoring, inspection, and search and rescue missions.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
On Composable and Parametric Uncertainty in Systems Co-Design
Optimizing the design of complex systems requires navigating interdependent decisions, heterogeneous components, and multiple objectives.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Autonomy Architectures for Safe Planning in Unknown Environments Under Budget Constraints
Mission planning can often be formulated as a constrained control problem under multiple path constraints (i.e., safety constraints) and budget constraints (i.e., resource expenditure constraints).
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Intuitive Human-Drone Collaborative Navigation in Unknown Environments through Mixed Reality
Considering the widespread integration of aerial robots in inspection, search and rescue, and monitoring tasks, there is a growing demand to design intuitive human-drone interfaces.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Safety program report
U.S. Federal Aviation Administration Safety Management System Regulations: An Informal Policy Evaluation
The United States (US) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) revised 14 CFR § Part 5 Safety Management Systems, effective May 28, 2024.
- NASA NTRS 2025 ARC Technical Memorandum (TM)
BVLOS UAS Cargo Delivery Simulation - A DoD-Sponsored Operational Evaluation with NASA and Project ULTRA
Currently existing UAS flight system implementations often require a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Certificate of Waiver or Authorization (COA), thus posing the challenge of missions being repeatable.
- NASA NTRS 2025 GRC Presentation
NASA Icing Update – March 2025
This NASA Icing Update was prepared for presentation to the SAE International AC-9C Inflight Icing Technology Committee. This update includes the following topics: planned Rotational Icing Scaling tests, the Glenn Icing …
- NASA NTRS 2025 ARC Conference Paper
Potential of United States and European Regional Air Cargo Operations for Uncrewed Aircraft Systems
Regional air cargo is a promising initial use case for Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) to address scalability challenges such as pilot shortage.
- NASA NTRS 2025 ARC Conference Paper
Initial Study of Tailored Trajectory Management for Multi-Vehicle Uncrewed Regional Air Cargo Operations
The primary contribution of this paper is an evaluation of the potential value of a tailored trajectory management (TTM) capability for uncrewed aircraft (UA) operators that is proactive in detecting conflicts and develo…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Intent-Aware MPC for Aircraft Detect-and-Avoid with Response Delay: A Comparative Study with ACAS Xu
In this paper, we propose an intent-aware Model Predictive Control (MPC) approach for the remain-well-clear (RWC) functionality of a multi-agent aircraft detect-and-avoid (DAA) system and compare its performance with the…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Deep Visual Servoing of an Aerial Robot Using Keypoint Feature Extraction
The problem of image-based visual servoing (IBVS) of an aerial robot using deep-learning-based keypoint detection is addressed in this article.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
USE-LFA: A Data-Driven Framework for UAM Site Evaluation using Latent Factor Analysis
Urban air mobility (UAM) introduces new challenges for infrastructure planning, requiring data driven approaches for sustainable site selection.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Multiple Artificial Potential Functions Approach for Collision Avoidance in UAV Systems
Collision avoidance is a problem largely studied in robotics, particularly in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications. Among the main challenges in this area are hardware limitations, the need for rapid response, and …
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Energy-efficient UAV movement and user-UAV association in multi-UAV networks
These days, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems have drawn a lot of attention due to the increasing demand for faster data rates.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Strategies for decentralised UAV-based collisions monitoring in rugby
Recent advancements in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology have opened new avenues for dynamic data collection in challenging environments, such as sports fields during fast-paced sports action.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Merits of Serving UAVs via Terrestrial Networks: A Vertical Antenna Radiation Study
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used in a plethora of applications such as shipping, surveillance, and search-and-rescue. For UAVs to operate safely, reliable cellular connectivity is essential.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Class of Hierarchical Sliding Mode Control based on Extended Kalman filter for Quadrotor UAVs
This study introduces a novel methodology for controlling Quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, focusing on Hierarchical Sliding Mode Control strategies and an Extended Kalman Filter.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
NMPC-based Unified Posture Manipulation and Thrust Vectoring for Fault Recovery
Multi-rotors face significant risks, as actuator failures at high altitudes can easily result in a crash and the robot's destruction. Therefore, rapid fault recovery in the event of an actuator failure is necessary for t…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Joint State-Parameter Observer-Based Robust Control of a UAV for Heavy Load Transportation
This paper proposes a joint state-parameter observer-based controller for trajectory tracking of an octocopter unmanned aerial vehicle (OUAV), for transportation of a heavy load with unknown mass and size.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Throughput Maximizing Takeoff Scheduling for eVTOL Vehicles in On-Demand Urban Air Mobility Systems
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) offers a solution to current traffic congestion by using electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) vehicles to provide on-demand air mobility in urban areas.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Flying in Highly Dynamic Environments with End-to-end Learning Approach
Obstacle avoidance for unmanned aerial vehicles like quadrotors is a popular research topic. Most existing research focuses only on static environments, and obstacle avoidance in environments with multiple dynamic obstac…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Variable Time-Step MPC for Agile Multi-Rotor UAV Interception of Dynamic Targets
Agile trajectory planning can improve the efficiency of multi-rotor Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in scenarios with combined task-oriented and kinematic trajectory planning, such as monitoring spatio-temporal phenomena…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Convex Formulation of Game-theoretic Hierarchical Routing
Hierarchical decision-making is a natural paradigm for coordinating multi-agent systems in complex environments such as air traffic management.
- 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…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
On the modeling of nonlinear wind-induced ice-drift ocean currents at the North Pole
Starting from the governing equations for geophysical flows, by means of a thin-shell approximation and a tangent plane approximation, we derive the equations describing, at leading order, the nonlinear ice-drift flow fo…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Vectorable Thrust Control for Multimodal Locomotion of Quadruped Robot SPIDAR
In this paper, I present vectorable thrust control for different locomotion modes by a novel quadruped robot, SPIDAR, equipped with vectoring rotor in each link.
- NASA NTRS 2025 LaRC Technical Memorandum (TM)
Considerations for Airspace Integration Enabling Early Multi-Aircraft (m:N) Operations
The aviation community is planning to deploy new aircraft types, with new missions, and advanced operational concepts that are collectively referred to as Advanced Air Mobility (AAM).
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Predictor-Based Time Delay Control of A Hex-Jet Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Turbojet-powered VTOL UAVs have garnered increased attention in heavy-load transport and emergency services, due to their superior power density and thrust-to-weight ratio compared to existing electronic propulsion syste…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Learned Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion for Quadrotors with and without Slung Payloads
The increasing complexity of multirotor applications demands flight controllers that can accurately account for all forces acting on the vehicle.
- 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 …
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Accelerating Development in UAV Network Digital Twins with a Flexible Simulation Framework
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enhance coverage and provide flexible deployment in 5G and next-generation wireless networks. The performance of such wireless networks can be improved by developing new navigation and wir…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Sum-of-Squares Data-driven Robustly Stabilizing and Contracting Controller Synthesis for Polynomial Nonlinear Systems
This work presents a computationally efficient approach to data-driven robust contracting controller synthesis for polynomial control-affine systems based on a sum-of-squares program.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Evaluation of 3D Terrestrial and Aerial Spectrum Sharing with Massive MIMO Systems
Connecting aerial and terrestrial users with a single base station (BS) is increasingly challenging due to the rising number of aerial users like unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Damping Identification Sensitivity in Flutter Speed Estimation
Predicting flutter remains a key challenge in aeroelastic research, with certain models relying on modal parameters, such as natural frequencies and damping ratios.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
SAFE-TAXI: A Hierarchical Multi-UAS Safe Auto-Taxiing Framework with Runtime Safety Assurance and Conflict Resolution
We present a hierarchical safe auto-taxiing framework to enhance the automated ground operations of multiple unmanned aircraft systems (multi-UAS).
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
DA-STGCN: 4D Trajectory Prediction Based on Spatiotemporal Feature Extraction
The importance of four-dimensional (4D) trajectory prediction within air traffic management systems is on the rise. Key operations such as conflict detection and resolution, aircraft anomaly monitoring, and the managemen…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Generative Modeling of Microweather Wind Velocities for Urban Air Mobility
Motivated by the pursuit of safe, reliable, and weather-tolerant urban air mobility (UAM) solutions, this work proposes a generative modeling approach for characterizing microweather wind velocities.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Towards Quantum SAGINs Harnessing Optical RISs: Applications, Advances, and the Road Ahead
The space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN) concept is vital for the development of seamless next-generation (NG) wireless coverage, integrating satellites, unmanned aerial vehicles, and manned aircraft along with th…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Feasible Force Set Shaping for a Payload-Carrying Platform Consisting of Tiltable Multiple UAVs Connected Via Passive Hinge Joints
This paper presents a method for shaping the feasible force set of a payload-carrying platform composed of multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and proposes a control law that leverages the advantages of this shaped …
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Explainable LiDAR 3D Point Cloud Segmentation and Clustering for Detecting Airplane-Generated Wind Turbulence
Wake vortices - strong, coherent air turbulences created by aircraft - pose a significant risk to aviation safety and therefore require accurate and reliable detection methods.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
On Adversarial Attacks In Acoustic Drone Localization
Multi-rotor aerial autonomous vehicles (MAVs, more widely known as "drones") have been generating increased interest in recent years due to their growing applicability in a vast and diverse range of fields (e.g., agricul…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Handover-Aware Trajectory Optimization for Cellular-Connected UAV
In this letter, we study a cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which aims to complete a mission of flying between two pre-determined locations while maintaining satisfactory communication quality with the gr…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Experimental validation of UAV search and detection system in real wilderness environment
Search and rescue (SAR) missions require reliable search methods to locate survivors, especially in challenging or inaccessible environments.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Direct Numerical Simulation of Hydrogen Combustion in a Real-Size IC Engine
This study presents the first Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) of hydrogen combustion in a real-size internal combustion engine, investigating the complex dynamics of ignition, flame propagation, and flame-wall interact…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Network Resource Optimization for ML-Based UAV Condition Monitoring with Vibration Analysis
As smart cities begin to materialize, the role of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and their reliability becomes increasingly important.
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (Applied Sciences)
Automated Anomaly Detection and Causal Analysis for Civil Aviation Using QAR Data
Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) is an internationally recognized solution to ensure the safety of civil aircraft flights based on Quick Access Recorder (QAR) data.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Reducing Computational Complexity of Rigidity-Based UAV Trajectory Optimization for Real-Time Cooperative Target Localization
Accurate and swift localization of the target is crucial in emergencies. However, accurate position data of a target mobile device, typically obtained from global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), cellular networks, o…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Analysis and Prediction of Coverage and Channel Rank for UAV Networks in Rural Scenarios with Foliage
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to play a key role in 6G-enabled vehicular-to-everything (V2X) communications requiring high data rates, low latency, and reliable connectivity for mission-critical applicatio…