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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 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Image-based Visual Servo Control for Aerial Manipulation Using a Fully-Actuated UAV
Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to perform high-altitude manipulation tasks beyond just passive visual application can reduce the time, cost, and risk of human workers.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Task-Oriented Semantics-Aware Communication for Wireless UAV Control and Command Transmission
To guarantee the safety and smooth control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) operation, the new control and command (C&C) data type imposes stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements on the cellular network.
- NASA NTRS 2023 GRC Conference Paper
Computational Icing Analysis on NASA’s SIDRM Geometry to Investigate Collection Efficiency
Computational icing analysis results were compared to experimental icing tunnel data including aerothermal (e.g. dry air) and supercooled water droplet rime-ice conditions from tests conducted in early 2022 at the NASA I…
- NASA NTRS 2023 LaRC Conference Paper
An In-time Aviation Safety Management System (IASMS) Concept of Operations for Vertiport Design and Operations
The National Airspace System is foreseen to undergo revolutionary change with Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and its use of vertiports to transport passengers and cargo.
- NASA NTRS 2023 GRC Presentation
NASA Icing Overview 2023
This presentation summarizes NASA icing research for an invited talk to be presented on June 22, 2023, at the SAE International Conference on Icing of Aircraft, Engines, and Structures.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Coverage Performance of UAV-powered Sensors for Energy-neutral Networks with Recharging Stations
The projected number of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors makes battery maintenance a challenging task. Although battery-less IoT is technologically viable, the sensors should be somehow energized, either locally or remot…
- NASA NTRS 2023 GRC Presentation
Icing Physics Studies Using the 3D SIDRM Test Article: Aerodynamic and Supercooled Liquid Icing Analysis
In-flight icing is an important safety issue and is a factor that affects aircraft design and performance. Newer regulations are driving a need for improvements in airframe and engine icing simulation capability.
- NASA NTRS 2023 GRC Conference Paper
Icing Physics Studies Using the 3D SIDRM Test Article: Aerodynamic and Supercooled Liquid Icing Analysis
In-flight icing is an important safety issue and is a factor that affects aircraft design and performance. Newer regulations are driving a need for improvements in airframe and engine icing simulation capability.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Safe and Scalable Real-Time Trajectory Planning Framework for Urban Air Mobility
This paper presents a real-time trajectory planning framework for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) that is both safe and scalable. The proposed framework employs a decentralized, free-flight concept of operation in which each ai…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Emergence of tip singularities in dissolution patterns
Chemical erosion, one of the two major erosion processes along with mechanical erosion, occurs when a soluble rock like salt, gypsum or limestone is dissolved in contact with a water flow.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Bearing-based Simultaneous Localization and Affine Formation Tracking for Fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
This paper studies the bearing-based simultaneous localization and affine formation tracking (SLAFT) control problem for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
- NASA NTRS 2023 GRC Conference Paper
Flight Simulator Demonstration and Certification Implications of Powertrain Failure Mitigation in a Partial Turboelectric Aircraft
The Single-aisle Turboelectric AiRCraft with Aft Boundary Layer propulsor (STARC ABL) is a concept aircraft with a partial turboelectric powertrain.
- NASA NTRS 2023 GRC Presentation
Flight Simulator Demonstration and Certification Implications of Powertrain Failure Mitigation in a Partial Turboelectric Aircraft
The Single-aisle Turboelectric AiRCraft with Aft Boundary Layer propulsor (STARC ABL) is a concept aircraft with a partial turboelectric powertrain.
- Semantic Scholar 2023 Article (Aerospace)
Unstable Approach Detection and Analysis Based on Energy Management and a Deep Neural Network
The study of managing risk in aviation is the key to improving flight safety. Compared to the other flight operation phases, the approach and landing phases are more critical and dangerous.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Signal Temporal Logic Planner for Ergonomic Human-Robot Collaboration
This paper proposes a method for designing human-robot collaboration tasks and generating corresponding trajectories. The method uses high-level specifications, expressed as a Signal Temporal Logic (STL) formula, to auto…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Joint Path planning and Power Allocation of a Cellular-Connected UAV using Apprenticeship Learning via Deep Inverse Reinforcement Learning
This paper investigates an interference-aware joint path planning and power allocation mechanism for a cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in a sparse suburban environment.
- NASA NTRS 2023 ARC Presentation
Advanced Air Mobility Operations & Automation Part II Technical Lecture
The Airborne Collision Avoidance System X (ACAS X) is a next-generation collision avoidance tool developed to support different aircraft types and operations.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A viscoelastic phase-field model for iceberg calving
Iceberg calving accounts for around half of the ice lost annually from Antarctica, but realistic representation of fracture and calving in large-scale ice sheet models remains a major unsolved problem in glaciology.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Set-based state estimation and fault diagnosis using constrained zonotopes and applications
This doctoral thesis develops new methods for set-based state estimation and active fault diagnosis (AFD) of (i) nonlinear discrete-time systems, (ii) discrete-time nonlinear systems whose trajectories satisfy nonlinear …
- NASA NTRS 2023 LaRC Technical Memorandum (TM)
Safety Case for Small Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (sUAS) Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) Operations at NASA Langley Research Center
This Technical Memorandum (TM) is written to provide for dissemination of the methods and safety considerations for operations of small Uncrewed Aerial Systems (sUAS) Beyond Visual Line-of-Sight (BVLOS)at NASA Langley Re…
- Semantic Scholar 2023 Article (AIAA AVIATION 2023 Forum)
An In-time Aviation Safety Management System (IASMS) Concept of Operations for Vertiport Design and Operations
The National Airspace System is foreseen to undergo revolutionary change with Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and its use of vertiports to transport passengers and cargo.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Risk-aware Urban Air Mobility Network Design with Overflow Redundancy
Urban air mobility (UAM), as envisioned by aviation professionals, will transport passengers and cargo at low altitudes within urban and suburban areas.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Cooperative Air Transportation Services in City-Wide Autonomous Urban Air Mobility
The development of urban-air-mobility (UAM) is rapidly progressing with spurs, and the demand for efficient transportation management systems is a rising need due to the multifaceted environmental uncertainties.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Segregated FLS Processing Cores for V/STOL Autonomous Landing Guidance Assistant System using FPGA
It is highly predicted that the roads and parking areas will be extremely congested with vehicles to the point that searching for a novel solution will not be an optional choice for conserving the sustainability rate of …
- Semantic Scholar 2023 Article (IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems)
Interpretable Tracking and Detection of Unstable Approaches Using Tunnel Gaussian Process
Approach and landing are phases of flight with the highest accident risk. Advanced instruments and procedures have been developed to provide precise navigation for a stabilized approach and landing.
- Flight Safety Foundation 2023 FSF FSF / AeroSafety World
Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) — A 2023 Industry Refresh
Foundation 2023 CFIT data refresh — three decades after the original CFIT Task Force eliminated >95% of air-carrier CFIT, the GA + Part 135 communities still account for most CFIT fatalities.
- NASA NTRS 2023 ARC Presentation
The Viability of See-and-Avoid for Midair Collision Avoidance for UAM
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is an emerging aviation concept that could supplement today’s ground and air transportation systems. For UAM, it is generally assumed that the private sector will manage separation and not rely o…
- NASA NTRS 2023 ARC Conference Paper
What Can We Learn From Resilient Pilot Behaviors? The Case of Energy Management While Flying a Star
Recently, there has been increased interest in documenting flightcrew behaviors that contribute to safe operations. Instead of only capturing errors, new efforts are attempting to understand how pilots manage complexity …
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
The Human Blockage Impact on ARIS Assisted D2D Communication Systems
Aerial reconfigurable intelligent surface (ARIS), is an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) mounted by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), represent a promising candidate for assisting device to device (D2D) millimeter wave …
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
ColibriUAV: An Ultra-Fast, Energy-Efficient Neuromorphic Edge Processing UAV-Platform with Event-Based and Frame-Based Cameras
The interest in dynamic vision sensor (DVS)-powered unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) is raising, especially due to the microsecond-level reaction time of the bio-inspired event sensor, which increases robustness and reduce…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Modelling, Analysis and Control of OmniMorph: an Omnidirectional Morphing Multi-rotor UAV
This paper introduces for the first time the design, modelling, and control of a novel morphing multi-rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that we call the OmniMorph.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Residual Dynamics Learning for Trajectory Tracking for Multi-rotor Aerial Vehicles
This paper presents a technique to cope with the gap between high-level planning, e.g., reference trajectory tracking, and low-level controlling using a learning-based method in the plan-based control paradigm.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Thin-Film-Mediated Deformation of Droplet during Cryopreservation
Freezing of dispersions is omnipresent in science and technology. While the passing of a freezing front over a solid particle is reasonably understood, this is not so for soft particles.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Time-Fuel-Optimal Navigation of a Commercial Aircraft in Cruise with Heading and Throttle Controls using Pontryagin's Maximum Principle
In this research, we consider the commercial aircraft trajectory optimization problem for a general cruise model with arbitrary spatial wind fields to be solved using the Pontryagin maximum principle.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Physics-Assisted Reduced-Order Modeling for Identifying Dominant Features of Transonic Buffet
Transonic buffet is a flow instability phenomenon that arises from the interaction between the shock wave and the separated boundary layer.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Integrated Guidance and Gimbal Control for Coverage Planning With Visibility Constraints
Coverage path planning with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a core task for many services and applications including search and rescue, precision agriculture, infrastructure inspection and surveillance.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
One-Shot Strategically Deconflicted Route and Operational Volume Generation for Urban Air Mobility Operations
In the UAM space, strategic deconfliction provides an all-essential layer to airspace automation by providing safe, pre-emptive deconfliction or assignment of airspace resources to airspace users pre-flight.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Robust Supervisory Control of UAVs Under Disturbances
In this work, we present an approach to supervisory reinforcement learning control for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). UAVs are dynamic systems where control decisions in response to disturbances in the environment have…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Integrated Conflict Management for UAM with Strategic Demand Capacity Balancing and Learning-based Tactical Deconfliction
Urban air mobility (UAM) has the potential to revolutionize our daily transportation, offering rapid and efficient deliveries of passengers and cargo between dedicated locations within and around the urban environment.
- Semantic Scholar 2023 Article (Drones)
Advanced Air Mobility Operation and Infrastructure for Sustainable Connected eVTOL Vehicle
Advanced air mobility (AAM) is an emerging sector in aviation aiming to offer secure, efficient, and eco-friendly transportation utilizing electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Design and Implementation of Emergency Simulated Lighting System Based on Tello UAV
In recent years, with the increasing maturity of UAV technology, the application of UAV in the civilian field has seen explosive growth due to their low cost, high flexibility, and wide adaptability.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Stochastic Compound Failure Model for Testing Resilience of Autonomous Fixed-Wing Aircraft I: Formulation and Simulation
This paper presents a Markov chain model to dynamically emulate the effects of adverse (failure) flight conditions on fixed-wing, autonomous aircraft system actuators.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Cooperative Search Approach for Complex Environments
This paper studies a heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) cooperative search approach suitable for complex environments. In the application, a fixed-wing UAV drops rotor UAVs to deploy the cluster rapidly.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Simulator for Fully-Actuated UAVs
This workshop paper presents the challenges we encountered when simulating fully-actuated Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for our research and the solutions we developed to overcome the challenges.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Dynamic Routing in Stochastic Urban Air Mobility Networks: A Markov Decision Process Approach
Urban air mobility (UAM) is an emerging concept in short-range aviation transportation, where the aircraft will take off, land, and charge their batteries at a set of vertistops, and travel only through a set of flight c…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Robust Power Allocation for UAV-aided ISAC Systems with Uncertain Location Sensing Errors
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) holds immense potential in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems for the Internet of Things (IoT).
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Proxy-based Super Twisting Control Algorithm for Aerial Manipulators
Aerial manipulators are composed of an aerial multi-rotor that is equipped with a 6-DOF servo robot arm. To achieve precise position and attitude control during the arm's motion, it is critical for the system to have hig…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Digital Twin Empowered Lightweight Model Sharing Scheme for Multi-Robot Systems
Multi-robot system for manufacturing is an Industry Internet of Things (IIoT) paradigm with significant operational cost savings and productivity improvement, where Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are employed to control…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Infrastructural Requirements and Regulatory Challenges of a Sustainable Urban Air Mobility Ecosystem
The United Nations has long put on the discussion agenda the sustainability challenges of ur- banization, which have both direct and indirect effects on future regulation strategies.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2023 ERAU Industry report (AQRR)
Airline Quality Rating 2023
The Airline Quality Rating (AQR) was developed and first announced in early 1991 as an objective method for assessing airline quality on combined multiple performance criteria.