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- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2023 ERAU Faculty research project
Bird Strike: The Effect of the Leading-Edge Radius on the behavior of the Bird Upon Impact
This project is in partnership with Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation under MMSE program. Birds pose a major threat to aviation. Bird impact can lead to significant damage of the aircraft and can be sometimes catastrophic…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2023 ERAU Faculty research project
Influence of Cold Expansion and Aggressive Environment on Crack Growth in Aluminum Alloy
This research aims to establish the effect of hole cold expansion on fatigue life of pre-cracked material under aggressive environment.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2023 ERAU Faculty research project
REU Site: Exploring Aerospace Research at the Intersection of Mechanics, Materials Science and Aerospace Physiology
This Project is founded by National Science Foundation, under REU site. This project aims to educate students and promote scientific research in materials and aerospace science that encompasses not only building lighter …
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2023 ERAU Faculty research project
Seaplane Design Analysis: Focus on Structure Factor Optimization
In this work, a design optimization is being investigated considering possible hydrodynamic and structural advantages aiming to reduce the structure weight factor, with a trade-off between fluid dynamics and structural a…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2023 ERAU Faculty research project
A Data Analytics Framework for the Application of Pedestrian Dynamics to Public Health
The central hypothesis of this NIH funded project is that combining location-based service (LBS) data with pedestrian dynamics modeling can uncover movement patterns of people in complex situations with many public healt…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2023 ERAU Faculty research project
Nanoscale Design of Interfacial Kinematics in Composite Manufacturing
This NSF-funded research will elucidate the role of interfacial kinematics and energetics in the evolution of inter-ply interfaces in composite structures during manufacturing.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2023 ERAU Faculty research project
Software Infrastructure For Analysis of Infection Propagation Through Air Travel
This NSF funded project seeks to develop a novel software that will provide a variety of pedestrian dynamics models, infection spread models, as well as data so that scientists can analyze the effect of different mechani…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Towards enabling reliable immersive teleoperation through Digital Twin: A UAV command and control use case
This paper addresses the challenging problem of enabling reliable immersive teleoperation in scenarios where an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is remotely controlled by an operator via a cellular network.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Insights to the Forensic Investigation of a Custom Built UAV
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have revolutionized numerous application fields since their introduction. Alongside this, advancements in mechanics and electronics have simplified and decreased the cost of system design.…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Label-free Deep Learning Driven Secure Access Selection in Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks
In Space-air-ground integrated networks (SAGIN), the inherent openness and extensive broadcast coverage expose these networks to significant eavesdropping threats.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
An affordable and customizable wave buoy for the study of wave-ice interactions: design concept and results from field deployments
In the polar regions, the interaction between waves and ice has a crucial impact on the seasonal change in the sea ice extent. However, our comprehension of this phenomenon is restricted by a lack of observations, which,…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Experimental Evaluation of Bird Strikes in Urban Air Mobility
Advanced mobility concepts such as Urban Air Mobility are emerging in full swing. In that concept, a safe and efficient aviation transportation system will use highly automated aircraft that will transport passengers or …
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Partially Observable Deep Multi-Agent Active Inference Framework for Resource Allocation in 6G and Beyond Wireless Communications Networks
Resource allocation is of crucial importance in wireless communications. However, it is extremely challenging to design efficient resource allocation schemes for future wireless communication networks since the formulate…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Attenuation and Loss of Spatial Coherence Modeling for Atmospheric Turbulence in Terahertz UAV MIMO Channels
Terahertz (THz) wireless communications have the potential to realize ultra-high-speed and secure data transfer with miniaturized devices for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Fault Separation Based on An Excitation Operator with Application to a Quadrotor UAV
This paper presents an excitation operator based fault separation architecture for a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) subject to loss of effectiveness (LoE) faults, actuator aging, and load uncertainty.
- NASA NTRS 2023 ARC Conference Paper
The Potential of Medical Drones: An Analysis of Current and Future Use Cases
Modern Application of Medical-Based Drone Delivery Drones have been used advantageously by militaries for nearly a century, but their uses in civilian life are still mostly cutting-edge, if not theoretical.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Reliability and Delay Analysis of 3-Dimensional Networks with Multi-Connectivity: Satellite, HAPs, and Cellular Communications
Aerial vehicles (AVs) such as electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft make aerial passenger transportation a reality in urban environments.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Fast Decision Support for Air Traffic Management at Urban Air Mobility Vertiports using Graph Learning
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) promises a new dimension to decongested, safe, and fast travel in urban and suburban hubs. These UAM aircraft are conceived to operate from small airports called vertiports each comprising multip…
- Semantic Scholar 2023 Article (Journal of Airline Operations and Aviation Management)
Challenges to the Operational Safety and Security of eVTOL Aircraft in Metropolitan Regions: A Literature Review
The start of urban air mobility operations using helicopters began in 1940s in Los Angeles to transport passengers and mail between various locations.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Immersive Human-Machine Teleoperation Framework for Precision Agriculture: Integrating UAV-based Digital Mapping and Virtual Reality Control
In agricultural settings, the unstructured nature of certain production environments, along with the high complexity and inherent risks of production tasks, poses significant challenges to achieving full automation and e…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Joint Data Collection and Sensor Positioning in Multi-UAV-Assisted Wireless Sensor Network
Due to the high mobility and easy deployment, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted much attention in the field of wireless communication and positioning.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
UD-MAC: Delay Tolerant Multiple Access Control Protocol for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Networks
In unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks, high-capacity data transmission is of utmost importance for applications such as intelligent transportation, smart cities, and forest monitoring, which rely on the mobility of U…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
On Correcting Errors in Existing Mathematical Approaches for UAV Trajectory Design Considering No-Fly-Zones
Motivated by the fact that current mathematical methods for the trajectory design of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) considering no-fly-zones (NFZs) cannot perfectly avoid NFZs throughout the entire continuous trajector…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Osmosis drives explosions and methane release in Siberian permafrost
Mysterious craters, with anomalously high concentrations of methane, have formed in the Yamal and Taymyr peninsulas of Siberia since 2014.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Aviation Safety Risk Analysis and Flight Technology Assessment Issues
This text highlights the significance of flight safety in China's civil aviation industry and emphasizes the need for comprehensive research.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
E$^3$-UAV: An Edge-based Energy-Efficient Object Detection System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Motivated by the advances in deep learning techniques, the application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-based object detection has proliferated across a range of fields, including vehicle counting, fire detection, and ci…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Data-driven robust MPC of tiltwing VTOL aircraft
This paper investigates robust tube-based Model Predictive Control (MPC) of a tiltwing Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft subject to wind disturbances and model uncertainty.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Immersion freezing in particle-based aerosol-cloud microphysics: a probabilistic perspective on singular and time-dependent models
Cloud droplets containing ice-nucleating particles (INPs) may freeze at temperatures above the homogeneous freezing threshold temperature.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Novel Online-Offline MA2C-DDPG for Efficient Spectrum Allocation and Trajectory Optimization in Dynamic Spectrum Sharing UAV Networks
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication is of crucial importance for diverse practical applications. However, it is susceptible to the severe spectrum scarcity problem and interference since it operates in the unlice…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
BEAVIS: Balloon Enabled Aerial Vehicle for IoT and Sensing
UAVs are becoming versatile and valuable platforms for various applications. However, the main limitation is their flying time. We present BEAVIS, a novel aerial robotic platform striking an unparalleled trade-off betwee…
- Semantic Scholar 2023 Article (Psychology of Sport And Exercise)
The influence of an esports-adapted coping effectiveness training (E-CET) on resilience, mental health, and subjective performance among elite league of Legends players: A pilot study.
OBJECTIVE This study aimed to develop, and pilot esports-adapted coping effectiveness training (E-CET) and measure its influence on coping effectiveness (global and specific), subjective performance, mental health (psych…
- Semantic Scholar 2023 Article (Neuromodulation (Malden, Mass.))
An Educational Program for Remote Training and Supervision of Home-Based Transcranial Electrical Stimulation: Feasibility and Preliminary Effectiveness.
OBJECTIVES There has been recent interest in the administration of transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) by a caregiver, family member, or patient themselves while in their own homes (HB-tES).
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Black-Box System Identification for Low-Cost Quadrotor Attitude at Hovering
The accuracy of dynamic modelling of unmanned aerial vehicles, specifically quadrotors, is gaining importance since strict conditionalities are imposed on rotorcraft control.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Note: Stokes-Einstein relation without hydrodynamic diameter in the TIP4P/Ice water model
It is demonstrated that self-diffusion and shear viscosity data for the TIP4P/Ice water model reported recently [L. Baran, W. Rzysko and L. MacDowell, J. Chem. Phys.
- NASA NTRS 2023 ARC Presentation
Short-Haul Fatigue: Pilot Perspectives & Current Research
Introduction: There are few studies investigating the impact of fatigue in short-haul flight operations conducted under United States (U.S.) Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) Part 117 flight and duty limitations and res…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Thermo-mechanical level-set topology optimization of a load carrying battery pack for electric aircraft
A persistent challenge with the development of electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles (eVTOL) to meet flight power and energy demands is the mass of the load and thermal management systems for batteries.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Hovering Control of Flapping Wings in Tandem with Multi-Rotors
This work briefly covers our efforts to stabilize the flight dynamics of Northeastern's tailless bat-inspired micro aerial vehicle, Aerobat. Flapping robots are not new.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Through-chip microchannels for three-dimensional integrated circuits cooling
Cooling high-power electronics in multilayer integrated circuits (ICs) is challenging for existing cooling methods. In this work, we designed through-chip microchannels (TCMCs) that cross the entire chip perpendicularly …
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Formation Control for Moving Target Enclosing via Relative Localization
In this paper, we investigate the problem of controlling multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to enclose a moving target in a distributed fashion based on a relative distance and self-displacement measurements.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Bi-level Network Design for UAM Vertiport Allocation Using Activity-Based Transport Simulations
The design or the optimization of transport systems is a difficult task. This is especially true in the case of the introduction of new transport modes in an existing system.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Stochastic Flight Plan Optimization
Airline operations are subject to many uncertainties, such as weather, varying demand, maintenance events, congestion, etc. Large amounts of information are currently ignored due to difficulties in processing big data se…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Comprehensive Review of Recent Research Trends on UAVs
The growing interest in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from both scientific and industrial sectors has attracted a wave of new researchers and substantial investments in this expansive field.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Survey of Human Models for Verification of Human-Machine Systems
We survey the landscape of human operator modeling ranging from the early cognitive models developed in artificial intelligence to more recent formal task models developed for model-checking of human machine interactions…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Outage Performance of Multi-tier UAV Communication with Random Beam Misalignment
By exploiting the degree of freedom on the altitude, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication can provide ubiquitous communication for future wireless networks.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Pilot Performance modeling via observer-based inverse reinforcement learning
The focus of this paper is behavior modeling for pilots of unmanned aerial vehicles. The pilot is assumed to make decisions that optimize an unknown cost functional, which is estimated from observed trajectories using a …
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Impact of 3D Antenna Radiation Pattern in UAV Air-to-Ground Path Loss Modeling and RSRP-based Localization in Rural Area
Ensuring reliable and seamless wireless connectivity for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has emerged as a critical requirement for a wide range of applications.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Ice-bridging frustration by self-ejection of single droplets results in superior anti-frosting surfaces
Surfaces capable of delaying the frosting passively and facilitating its removal are highly desirable in fields where ice introduces inefficiencies and risks.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Residual stresses couple microscopic and macroscopic scales
We show how residual stresses emerge in a visco-elastic material as a signature of its past flow history, through an interplay between flow-modified microscopic relaxation and macroscopic features of the flow.
- NASA NTRS 2023 GRC Technical Memorandum (TM)
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 ARC Conference Paper
Cognitive Engineering in Training: Monitoring and Pilot-Automation Coordination in Complex Environments
This paper reports our investigation of flight path monitoring in aviation. We interviewed experienced pilots to understand the knowledge and skills underlying effective monitoring and we developed an example learning en…