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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
Perch like a bird: bio-inspired optimal maneuvers and nonlinear control for Flapping-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
This research endeavors to design the perching maneuver and control in ornithopter robots. By analyzing the dynamic interplay between the robot's flight dynamics, feedback loops, and the environmental constraints, we aim…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Control Barrier Function-Based Quadratic Programming for SafeOperation of Tethered UAVs
Consider an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) physically connected to the ground station with a tether operating in a space, tasked with performing precise maneuvers while constrained by the physical limitation of its tether…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
AgilePilot: DRL-Based Drone Agent for Real-Time Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments by Leveraging Object Detection
Autonomous drone navigation in dynamic environments remains a critical challenge, especially when dealing with unpredictable scenarios including fast-moving objects with rapidly changing goal positions.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Motion Control in Multi-Rotor Aerial Robots Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
This paper investigates the application of Deep Reinforcement (DRL) Learning to address motion control challenges in drones for additive manufacturing (AM).
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Variational integrators for optimal control of foldable drones
Numerical methods that preserves geometric invariants of the system such as energy, momentum and symplectic form, are called geometric integrators.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Dimensionality Reduction with Koopman Generalized Eigenfunctions
This paper presents a methodology to achieve lower-dimensional Koopman quasi-linear representations of nonlinear system dynamics using Koopman generalized eigenfunctions.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Multidimensional Swarm Flight Approach For Chasing Unauthorized UAVs Leveraging Asynchronous Deep Learning
This paper introduces a novel unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) chasing system designed to track and chase unauthorized UAVs, significantly enhancing their neutralization effectiveness.
- NASA NTRS 2025 LaRC Technical Memorandum (TM)
Summary and Annotated Bibliography of Measurement Error Corrections with Potential Application in Future Quesst Mission Community Noise Studies
This document is motivated by likely needs of the Quesst mission community response tests, which will culminate in data collection and estimation of dose-response regression relationships for consideration by domestic an…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
DeepUKF-VIN: Adaptively-tuned Deep Unscented Kalman Filter for 3D Visual-Inertial Navigation based on IMU-Vision-Net
This paper addresses the challenge of estimating the orientation, position, and velocity of a vehicle operating in three-dimensional (3D) space with six degrees of freedom (6-DoF).
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Integrating Urban Air Mobility with Highway Infrastructure: A Strategic Approach for Vertiport Location Selection in the Seoul Metropolitan Area
This study focuses on identifying suitable locations for highway-transfer Vertiports to integrate Urban Air Mobility (UAM) with existing highway infrastructure.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Event-Based Adaptive Koopman Framework for Optic Flow-Guided Landing on Moving Platforms
This paper presents an optic flow-guided approach for achieving soft landings by resource-constrained unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on dynamic platforms.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Toward Safe Integration of UAM in Terminal Airspace: UAM Route Feasibility Assessment using Probabilistic Aircraft Trajectory Prediction
Integrating Urban Air Mobility (UAM) into airspace managed by Air Traffic Control (ATC) poses significant challenges, particularly in congested terminal environments.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Network Slice-based Low-Altitude Intelligent Network for Advanced Air Mobility
Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) is transforming transportation systems by extending them into near-ground airspace, offering innovative solutions to mobility challenges.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Error-State LQR Formulation for Quadrotor UAV Trajectory Tracking
This article presents an error-state Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) formulation for robust trajectory tracking in quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
UAV-Assisted MEC Architecture for Collaborative Task Offloading in Urban IoT Environment
Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technology to meet the increasing demands and computing limitations of complex Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Fly Away: Evaluating the Impact of Motion Fidelity on Optimized User Interface Design via Bayesian Optimization in Automated Urban Air Mobility Simulations
Automated Urban Air Mobility (UAM) can improve passenger transportation and reduce congestion, but its success depends on passenger trust.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Minimum-Time Sequential Traversal by a Team of Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in an Unknown Environment with Winds
We consider the problem of transporting multiple packages from an initial location to a destination location in a windy urban environment using a team of SUAVs. Each SUAV carries one package.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Path Planning for a UAV Swarm Using Formation Teaching-Learning-Based Optimization
This work addresses the path planning problem for a group of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to maintain a desired formation during operation.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Robust UAV Path Planning with Obstacle Avoidance for Emergency Rescue
The unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are efficient tools for diverse tasks such as electronic reconnaissance, agricultural operations and disaster relief.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Separation Assurance in Urban Air Mobility Systems using Shared Scheduling Protocols
Ensuring safe separation between aircraft is a critical challenge in air traffic management, particularly in urban air mobility (UAM) environments where high traffic density and low altitudes require precise control.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Quiet and Safe UAM Traffic Management
Urban air mobility (UAM) is a transformative system that operates various small aerial vehicles in urban environments to reshape urban transportation.
- NASA NTRS 2025 LaRC Conference Paper
Aero-Propulsive Damping Characterization for eVTOL Aircraft Using Free Motion Wind-Tunnel Testing
This paper describes an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft system identification method applied using three degree-of-freedom (3DOF) free motion wind-tunnel testing.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Koopman Meets Limited Bandwidth: Effect of Quantization on Data-Driven Linear Prediction and Control of Nonlinear Systems
Koopman-based lifted linear identification have been widely used for data-driven prediction and model predictive control (MPC) of nonlinear systems.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
The Reliability of Remotely Piloted Aircraft System Performance under Aeronautical Communication Uncertainties
Mission-critical operations of highly maneuverable Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) require reliable communication to ensure safe integration into existing airspace.
- NASA NTRS 2025 GRC Conference Paper
Reduction of Aircraft Noise Uncertainty for a Notional Supersonic Business Jet
NASA supported a study by the International Civil Aviation Organization on the environmental impact of adding supersonic aircraft to the existing global fleet by designing a notional 55-tonne supersonic business jet.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Cluster & Disperse: a general air conflict resolution heuristic using unsupervised learning
We provide a general and malleable heuristic for the air conflict resolution problem. This heuristic is based on a new neighborhood structure for searching the solution space of trajectories and flight-levels.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Wave induced fracture of a sea ice analog
We study at the laboratory scale the rupture of thin floating sheets made of a brittle material under a wave-induced mechanical forcing.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Resonance of an object floating within a surface wavefield
We examine the interaction between floating cylindrical objects and surface waves in the gravity regime. Since the impact of resonance phenomena associated with floating bodies, particularly at laboratory scales, remains…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Physics-Constrained Generative Artificial Intelligence for Rapid Takeoff Trajectory Design
To aid urban air mobility (UAM), electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft are being targeted. Conventional multidisciplinary analysis and optimization (MDAO) can be expensive, while surrogate-based optimiza…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A comparative study of uncertainty quantification methods in gust response analysis of a Lift-Plus-Cruise eVTOL aircraft wing
Wind gusts, being inherently stochastic, can significantly influence the safety and performance of aircraft. This study investigates a three-dimensional uncertainty quantification (UQ) problem to explore how uncertaintie…
- NASA NTRS 2025 ARC Conference Paper
A Queuing Theory Approach to Pilot-Controller Coordination for m:N Operations
In recent years, attention and interest by industry and researchers has grown in a control paradigm for remotely piloted aircraft termed “m:N operations.” In an m:N operation, a team of m remote pilots in command (RIPCs)…
- NASA NTRS 2025 ARC Conference Paper
Confidence-Based Buffer for Strategic Deconfliction with Probabilistic Operational Intent
This paper presents a methodology to expand the 95% confidence level of the elliptical geometry given by Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) operators planning to fly Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) to any confidence leve…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Enhancing Multirotor Drone Efficiency: Exploring Minimum Energy Consumption Rate of Forward Flight under Varying Payload
Multirotor unmanned aerial vehicle is a prevailing type of aircraft with wide real-world applications. Energy efficiency is a critical aspect of its performance, determining the range and duration of the missions that ca…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Joint Secrecy Rate Achieving and Authentication Enhancement via Tag-based Encoding in Chaotic UAV Communication Environment
Secure communication is crucial in many emerging systems enabled by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication networks. To protect legitimate communication in a chaotic UAV environment, where both eavesdropping and jam…
- 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.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Digital Twin-based SIM Communication and Flight Control for Advanced Air Mobility
Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing vehicles (eVTOLs) are driving Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) toward transforming urban transportation by extending travel from congested ground networks to low-altitude airspace.
- 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…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Empowering Precision Forecasting: Self-Supervised LSTM for Hourly Pressure and Temperature Prediction
The most important parts of any flight are landing and takeoff, and an aircraft's takeoff configuration must balance the regulated takeoff weight, runway length, and weather conditions to ensure a safe departure and arri…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
The Influence of Social Achievement Goals on Grit in Aviation Education
Aviation students have multiple ways of persisting and persevering in their aviation education, and they do not learn in a vacuum. Their social goals may help explain why some aviation students show more grit than others…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Analysis of Public Acceptance of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Based on Air Travel Frequency
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is an innovative air transportation system designed for efficient travel in urban and suburban areas, offering significant time saving compared to traditional ground transportation.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Retention Rate of the Human Performance Course in Flight Training
Pilots are obliged to accurately assess a situation that poses a risk to flight safety and take the necessary corrective action. The theoretical knowledge in flight training is essential to accomplish this.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
The State of UAS Operations at Airports, A Perspective from Airport Managers
As the number of Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) operating in our National Airspace System (NAS) increases, so do UAS operations near or at an airport.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Quantifying the Transfer Effectiveness of an Artificial Intelligence-Based Simulator Pre-Training Program for Student Pilots
Since the airline pilot shortage was initially studied in 2016, the pilot hiring model has been significantly impacted, with airlines hiring qualified pilots at unprecedented rates.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Editor's Note: Celebrating 35 Years of Scholarly Excellence
A letter from the editor, Dr. Dahai Liu, on the JAAER's 35th anniversary.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Towards the Wearable Cardiorespiratory Sensors for Aerospace Applications
In safety-critical aviation operations, adaptive Human-Machine Interfaces (HMI) rely on accurate physiological monitoring to mitigate cognitive overload.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Identifying Individual Factors Which Impact Student Learning in a Desktop Flight Training Simulator
With expected global growth in air transport demand and forecasted shortage of pilots, there is a need for faster and cheaper flight training.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
The Emotional Landscape of Aviation Pilots: Analysis of Online Professional Forums Using Natural Language Processing
This study investigated burnout related to emotions in three categories of pilots: commercial passenger, commercial cargo, and military.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Analysis of Health Promoting Lifestyle and Associated Factors on Collegiate Aviation Pilots
A health-promoting lifestyle is an important determinant of physical and mental health status. Collegiate aviation pilots face unique challenges in balancing a healthy lifestyle with academic and physical demands.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
A Systemic Analysis of Helicopter Instructional Accidents in the United States from 2010 to 2022
A high number of accidents during helicopter training in the United States (U.S.) highlights the need for research to investigate their causal and contributing factors.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Generalizing Classification of Pilot Workload: Transfer Learning versus a JEPA-Inspired Transformer Architecture
Within the context of learning, there poses difficulty when objectively measuring human performance. In this work, we investigate the evaluation of human performance via its relation to the individual's mental capacity b…