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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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- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Evaluating the Reporting and Safety Culture of an Airline According to Patankar and Sabin's Safety Culture Pyramid
As a result of the literature review, it is seen that the safety management system in airline businesses is mostly evaluated with Reason's just culture model.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
The Role of Cognitive Flexibility and Psychological Resilience in Enhancing Operational Performance Among Air Traffic Controllers
The aim of the study was to examine the effect of cognitive flexibility on psychological resilience among air traffic controllers (ATCOs).
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Bibliometric Analysis with R Biblioshiny on Safety Behavior in Aviation
Safety behaviors in aviation are not limited to technical knowledge and skills in ensuring the safety of flight operations, but also include the attitudes, decision-making processes and collaborations of individuals and …
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Assessing the English Language Needs of Student Pilots: A Comprehensive Analysis for Effective Aviation English Training
This research aims to identify the English language material needs for pilot students at the Indonesian Civil Aviation Polytechnic in order to improve communication skills that are essential for flight safety and operati…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
sUAS Agricultural Aerial Application Operational Field Test
One of the most promising uses of aerial applications by a sUAS is on small farms where traditional crewed aerial applicators were not practical due to the limited size of the operations.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Aircraft Turnaround Bottlenecks: Addressing Ground Handling Delays for Operational Excellence
Ground handling delays at major airports pose significant challenges, impacting operational efficiency, airline schedules, and passenger satisfaction.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Integrated QFD-TRIZ Optimization Method for Satellite Solar Array Design in Cost-Sensitive Environment
With the rapid evolution of commercial space markets in the new space era, satellite design philosophy is transitioning from "performance supremacy" toward "cost-effectiveness priority." This research concentrates on sol…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Design, Implementation, and Testing of Spatial Disorientation Scenarios in a Modified Hexapod Motion Simulator
Abstract Investigations into aviation accidents aim to identify root causes and enhance safety. Despite advancements in safety measures, technology, and education, general aviation accident rates remain stable, with loss…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Consumer Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Vertiport Design, Amenities, and Services
The rise of urban air mobility (UAM) and electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft necessitates the development of well-designed vertiports that align with consumer expectations.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Mitigating Information Overload in Aviation Safety: AI-Driven Hierarchical Tagging and Summarization of NOTAM for Pre-flight Information Bulletin
To address the challenges of aviation safety information overload in Pre-flight Information Bulletin (PIB) systems, this study proposes an intelligent classification framework (ERNIE-DPCNN) that integrates knowledge-enha…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Innovative Bird Strike Mitigation Strategies: Integrating Drones and Cutting-Edge Technologies to Enhance Airport Safety
Notwithstanding significant efforts to reduce the risk of bird strikes at and around airports, as well as advancements in technology, aviation safety continues to be threatened by this hazard.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
The Reasons for the Silence of First Officers: A Qualitative Study
This study explores the reasons why first officers choose to remain silent in the cockpit or refrain from reporting errors after a flight.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Industry report (AQRR)
Airline Quality Rating 2024 & 2025
The Airline Quality Rating Report is a product of academic research from the previous co-authors Dr. Dean Headley and Dr. Brent Bowen. The research originated at the W.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Advances in UAV Avionics Systems Architecture, Classification and Integration: A Comprehensive Review and Future Perspectives
Avionics systems of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) or drone are the critical electronic components found onboard that regulate, navigate, and control UAV travel while ensuring public safety.
- NASA NTRS 2024 LaRC Accepted Manuscript (Version with final changes)
Optimal Mission Profile for Low-Boom Supersonic Aircraft
An optimal mission profile, called the low-boom mission profile, is proposed for low-boom supersonic aircraft. The low-boom mission profile uses a fixed AoA for the cruise segment until reaching the cruise ceiling.
- arXiv 2024 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Droplet Nucleation In a Rapid Expansion Aerosol Chamber
We present a new experimental facility to investigate the nucleation and growth of liquid droplets and ice particles under controlled conditions and characterize processes relevant to cloud microphysics: the rapid expans…
- arXiv 2024 ARXIV arXiv preprint
An Experimental Study of Passive UAV Tracking with Digital Arrays and Cellular Downlink Signals
Given the prospects of the low-altitude economy (LAE) and the popularity of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), there are increasing demands on monitoring flying objects at low altitude in wide urban areas.
- 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.
- arXiv 2024 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Probabilistic Mission Design for Neuro-Symbolic Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) is a growing field that demands accurate and trustworthy models of legal concepts and restrictions for navigating Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS).
- arXiv 2024 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Future pathways for eVTOLs: A design optimization perspective
The rapid development of advanced urban air mobility, particularly electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, requires interdisciplinary approaches involving the future urban air mobility ecosystem.
- arXiv 2024 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Aerial Assistive Payload Transportation Using Quadrotor UAVs with Nonsingular Fast Terminal SMC for Human Physical Interaction
This paper presents a novel approach to utilizing underactuated quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as assistive devices in cooperative payload transportation task through human guidance and physical interaction.
- arXiv 2024 ARXIV arXiv preprint
An energy-stable phase-field model for droplet icing simulations
A phase-field model for three-phase flows is established by combining the Navier-Stokes (NS) and the energy equations, with the Allen-Cahn (AC) and Cahn-Hilliard (CH) equations and is demonstrated analytically to satisfy…
- arXiv 2024 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Self-Propulsion of floating ice blocks caused by melting in water
We show that floating ice blocks with asymmetric shapes can self-propel with significant speeds due to buoyancy driven currents caused by melting.
- arXiv 2024 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Robust Optimal Safe and Stability Guaranteeing Reinforcement Learning Control for Quadcopter
Recent advances in deep learning have provided new data-driven ways of controller design to replace the traditional manual synthesis and certification approaches.
- arXiv 2024 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A MARL Based Multi-Target Tracking Algorithm Under Jamming Against Radar
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have played an increasingly important role in military operations and social life. Among all application scenarios, multi-target tracking tasks accomplished by UAV swarms have received ext…
- arXiv 2024 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Multi-UAV Collaborative Trajectory Planning for Seamless Data Collection and Transmission
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted plenty of attention due to their high flexibility and enhanced communication ability. However, the limited coverage and energy of UAVs make it difficult to provide timely wi…
- NASA NTRS 2024 LaRC Contractor Report (CR)
Humans to Mars, But How Many? A Historical Review of Crew Size Determinations for Mars Missions
Three-quarters of a century have passed since the first engineering study of a human mission to Mars in 1948. During that time, dozens of study teams at NASA, its contractors, and other organizations in the U.S.
- arXiv 2024 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Real-Time System for Scheduling and Managing UAV Delivery in Urban Areas
As urban logistics demand continues to grow, UAV delivery has become a key solution to improve delivery efficiency, reduce traffic congestion, and lower logistics costs.
- arXiv 2024 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Magnisketch Drone Control
The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for aerial tasks and environmental manipulation is increasingly desired. This can be demonstrated via art tasks.
- arXiv 2024 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Cluster-Based Multi-Agent Task Scheduling for Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks
The Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network (SAGIN) framework is a crucial foundation for future networks, where satellites and aerial nodes assist in computational task offloading.
- arXiv 2024 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Nonlinear control and stability analysis of a unified Tethered UAV-winder system
This paper presents the development of a comprehensive dynamics and stabilizing control architecture for Tethered Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (TUAV) systems.
- arXiv 2024 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Distributed Intelligent System Architecture for UAV-Assisted Monitoring of Wind Energy Infrastructure
With the rapid development of green energy, the efficiency and reliability of wind turbines are key to sustainable renewable energy production.
- arXiv 2024 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Multi-Aircraft Scheduling Optimization in Urban Environments
With the increasing development of intelligent transportation systems and advancements in aviation technology, the concept of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) is gaining attention.
- arXiv 2024 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Integrating Vision Systems and STPA for Robust Landing and Take-Off in VTOL Aircraft
Vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are versatile platforms widely used in applications such as surveillance, search and rescue, and urban air mobility.
- arXiv 2024 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Rotating convection with a melting boundary: an application to the icy moons
A better understanding of the ice-ocean couplings is required to better characterise the hydrosphere of the icy moons. Using global numerical simulations in spherical geometry, we have investigated here the interplay bet…
- arXiv 2024 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Regional Air Mobility Flight Demand Modeling in Tennessee State
Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), encompassing Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and Regional Air Mobility (RAM), offers innovative solutions to mitigate the issues related to ground transportation like traffic congestion, environment…
- arXiv 2024 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Advancing Operational Efficiency: Airspace Users' Perspective on Trajectory-Based Operations
This work explores the evolution of the Flight Operations Center (FOC) and flight trajectory exchange tools within Trajectory-Based Operations (TBO), emphasizing the benefits of the ICAO's Flight and Flow Information for…
- NASA NTRS 2024 ARC Technical Memorandum (TM)
Safety Assessment of Conformance Monitoring for Situational Awareness in UTM Operations
This report presents a systematic approach to evaluating the safety benefit of utilizing strategic deconfliction and Conformance Monitoring for Situational Awareness to manage the traffic that is comprised of both confor…
- NASA NTRS 2024 JSC Poster
A Passive fuel-Cell Surface power System (PaCeSS)
This effort produces a fully-passive surface power generation capability for fuel cell technology. The concept replaces the actively pumped thermal management of a state of the art (SOA) fuel cell/electrolyzer stack with…
- arXiv 2024 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Model predictive control-based trajectory generation for agile landing of unmanned aerial vehicle on a moving boat
This paper proposes a novel trajectory generation method based on Model Predictive Control (MPC) for agile landing of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) onto an Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV)'s deck in harsh conditions.
- arXiv 2024 ARXIV arXiv preprint
On the shape of ice stalagmites
The growth of ice stalagmites obtained by the solidification of impacting droplets on a cooled substrate ($-50^{\circ}$C to $-140^{\circ}$C) is investigated experimentally.
- arXiv 2024 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Critical velocity for wake vortex generation behind a plate in a superflow
We study theoretically the critical velocity $U_c$ for quantum vortex generation by a thin plate-shaped obstacle moving through a uniform Bose-Einstein condensate.
- arXiv 2024 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Modeling, Planning, and Control for Hybrid UAV Transition Maneuvers
Small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become standard tools in reconnaissance and surveying for both civilian and defense applications.
- NASA NTRS 2024 ARC Poster
Training the Powered-Lift Evaluation Pilot
This poster describes a project to prepare pilots for a study assessing novel aircraft automation concepts for electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft using NASA’s Vertical Motion Simulator (VMS).
- NASA NTRS 2024 ARC Technical Memorandum (TM)
Survey of Methods for Assessing Safety Compliance of sUAS BVLOS Operations
To ensure the safety of small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) Beyond Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations in the National Airspace System (NAS), the FAA offers a guideline on how sUAS operators can demonstrate compliance wit…
- arXiv 2024 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Quaternion-based Unscented Kalman Filter for 6-DoF Vision-based Inertial Navigation in GPS-denied Regions
This paper investigates the orientation, position, and linear velocity estimation problem of a rigid-body moving in three-dimensional (3D) space with six degrees-of-freedom (6 DoF).
- arXiv 2024 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Real-time Traffic Simulation and Management for Large-scale Urban Air Mobility: Integrating Route Guidance and Collision Avoidance
Given the spatial heterogeneity of land use patterns in most cities, large-scale UAM deployments will likely focus on specific areas, such as intertransfer traffic between suburbs and city centers.
- arXiv 2024 ARXIV arXiv preprint
CAT-ORA: Collision-Aware Time-Optimal Formation Reshaping for Efficient Robot Coordination in 3D Environments
In this paper, we introduce an algorithm designed to address the problem of time-optimal formation reshaping in three-dimensional environments while preventing collisions between agents.
- arXiv 2024 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Formal Verification of Digital Twins with TLA and Information Leakage Control
Verifying the correctness of a digital twin provides a formal guarantee that the digital twin operates as intended. Digital twin verification is challenging due to the presence of uncertainties in the virtual representat…
- arXiv 2024 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Optimizing Coverage in Convex Quadrilateral Regions with a Single UAV
The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into next-generation wireless networks has emerged as a promising solution for providing flexible and efficient coverage.