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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
Model-free Motion Planning of Autonomous Agents for Complex Tasks in Partially Observable Environments
Motion planning of autonomous agents in partially known environments with incomplete information is a challenging problem, particularly for complex tasks.
- Semantic Scholar 2023 Article (Virtual Reality)
Designing augmented reality for future commercial aviation: a user-requirement analysis with commercial aviation pilots
Augmented reality (AR) capable head-mounted displays (HMDs) have been proposed as technological enablers of several complex future flight concepts, which will bring accompanying pilot situation awareness (SA) and operati…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Fault Tolerant Super Twisting Sliding Mode Control of a Quadrotor UAV Using Control Allocation
In this study, a fault-tolerant super-twisting sliding mode controller with a control allocation system for a quadrotor aircraft is proposed.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Quantum Computing Applications for Flight Trajectory Optimization
Major players in the global aerospace industry are shifting their focus toward achieving net carbon-neutral operations by 2050. A considerable portion of the overall carbon emission reduction is expected to come from new…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Green UAV-enabled Internet-of-Things Network with AI-assisted NOMA for Disaster Management
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted communication is becoming a streamlined technology in providing improved coverage to the internet-of-things (IoT) based devices.
- Semantic Scholar 2023 Article (Journal of Clinical Medicine)
Determining Factors of Alarm Fatigue among Nurses in Intensive Care Units—A Polish Pilot Study
Introduction: With the development of medical technology, clinical alarms from various medical devices, which are rapidly increasing, are becoming a new problem in intensive care units.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Large-scale multidisciplinary design optimization of the NASA lift-plus-cruise concept using a novel aircraft design framework
The conceptual design of eVTOL aircraft is a high-dimensional optimization problem that involves large numbers of continuous design parameters.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Fault-tolerant Control of an Over-actuated UAV Platform Built on Quadcopters and Passive Hinges
Propeller failure is a major cause of multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) crashes. While conventional multirotor systems struggle to address this issue due to underactuation, over-actuated platforms can continue f…
- Semantic Scholar 2023 Article (Pilot and Feasibility Studies)
Effect of transcutaneous auricular vagal nerve stimulation on the fatigue syndrome in patients with gastrointestinal cancers — FATIVA: a randomized, placebo-controlled pilot study protocol
Background Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) is defined as a “distressing, persistent, subjective sense of physical, emotional, and/or cognitive tiredness or exhaustion related to cancer or cancer treatment that is not propor…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
UAV-based Receding Horizon Control for 3D Inspection Planning
Nowadays, unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs are being used for a wide range of tasks, including infrastructure inspection, automated monitoring and coverage.
- NASA NTRS 2023 ARC Book Chapter
Sleep Issues in Aviation and Space
This article describes the factors that cause sleep issues in aviation and spaceflight. There are many causes of sleep disruption that are common to both domains, including, irregular schedules, circadian misalignment, a…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Energy-Efficient UAV Communications in the Presence of Wind: 3D Modeling and Trajectory Design
The rapid development of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology provides flexible communication services to terrestrial nodes. Energy efficiency is crucial to the deployment of UAVs, especially rotary-wing UAVs whose p…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Communications-Aware Robotics: Challenges and Opportunities
The use of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has seen significant growth in the research community, industry, and society.
- NASA NTRS 2023 ARC Presentation
Nasa Pilot Fatigue Research: Past, Present & Future
Pilot fatigue research at NASA Ames has a long history, initiated by a Congressional request to investigate the magnitude of fatigue, sleep loss and circadian disruption in flight operations, and how these factors impact…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Coverage analysis of Tethered UAV-assisted Large Scale Cellular Networks
One of the major challenges slowing down the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial base stations (ABSs) is the limited on-board power supply which reduces the UAV's flight time.
- Semantic Scholar 2023 Article (Brain Communications)
Transcranial direct current stimulation for post-COVID fatigue: a randomized, double-blind, controlled pilot study
Abstract Fatigue is one of the most frequent and disabling symptoms of the post-COVID syndrome. In this study, we aimed to assess the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on fatigue severity in a group of p…
- Semantic Scholar 2023 Article (International Journal of Aerospace Engineering)
Analysis of Single-Pilot Intention Modeling in Commercial Aviation
With the continual enhancement of the onboard avionics, the minimum flight crew has been downsized from five to two-person crew mode, and reduced crew operation has drawn extensive attention from aviation experts.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Visual anemometry: physics-informed inference of wind for renewable energy, urban sustainability, and environmental science
Accurate measurements of atmospheric flows at meter-scale resolution are essential for a broad range of sustainability applications, including optimal design of wind and solar farms, safe and efficient urban air mobility…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Bionic Collapsible Wings in Aquatic-aerial Robot
The concept of aerial-aquatic robots has emerged as an innovative solution that can operate both in the air and underwater. Previous research on the design of such robots has been mainly focused on mature technologies su…
- NASA NTRS 2023 GRC Conference Paper
An MBSE Framework to Identify Regulatory Gaps for Electrified Transport Aircraft
A typical aircraft certification process consists of obtaining a type, production, airworthiness, and continued airworthiness certificates.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Towards Automated 3D Search Planning for Emergency Response Missions
The ability to efficiently plan and execute automated and precise search missions using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) during emergency response situations is imperative.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Interference-Aware Deployment for Maximizing User Satisfaction in Multi-UAV Wireless Networks
In this letter, we study the deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle mounted Base Stations (UAV-BSs) in multi-UAV cellular networks. We model the multi-UAV deployment problem as a user satisfaction maximization problem, th…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
SwarmGear: Heterogeneous Swarm of Drones with Reconfigurable Leader Drone and Virtual Impedance Links for Multi-Robot Inspection
The continuous monitoring by drone swarms remains a challenging problem due to the lack of power supply and the inability of drones to land on uneven surfaces.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Coarse Grained FLS-based Processor with Prognostic Malfunction Feature for UAM Drones using FPGA
Many overall safety factors need to be considered in the next generation of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) systems and addressing these can become the anchor point for such technology to reach consent for worldwide application…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Prediction-Based Leader-Follower Rendezvous Model Predictive Control with Robustness to Communication Losses
In this paper we propose a novel distributed model predictive control (DMPC) based algorithm with a trajectory predictor for a scenario of landing of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on a moving unmanned surface vehicle (…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Investigation of risk-aware MDP and POMDP contingency management autonomy for UAS
Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are being increasingly adopted for various applications. The risk UAS poses to people and property must be kept to acceptable levels.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Seismic signals generated at a water-ice interface from smoothed particle hydrodynamic simulations
The field of ice sheet, ice shelf and glacier-related seismology, cryoseismology, has seen rapid development in recent years. As concern grows for the implications of change in the great ice sheets of Greenland and Antar…
- Semantic Scholar 2023 Article (EClinicalMedicine)
Efficacy and tolerability of an endogenous metabolic modulator (AXA1125) in fatigue-predominant long COVID: a single-centre, double-blind, randomised controlled phase 2a pilot study
Summary Background ‘Long COVID’ describes persistent symptoms, commonly fatigue, lasting beyond 12 weeks following SARS-CoV-2 infection.
- Semantic Scholar 2023 Article (IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems)
A Data-Driven Integrated Safety Risk Warning Model Based on Deep Learning for Civil Aircraft
With the extensive application of sensor technology, airlines accumulate a lot of flight data during fleet operations. Quick access recorder (QAR) is an important basis for aircraft state estimation and safety assessment…
- Semantic Scholar 2023 Article (IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems)
Minimum-Time Trajectory Generation of eVTOL in Low-Speed Phase: Application in Control Law Design
With the emergence of electric propulsive technologies in the past decades, electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft gain increasing interest, which paves the path for advanced air mobility.
- FAA-affiliated R&D (MITRE / Volpe / FAA Tech Center) 2023 MITRE MITRE concept of operations
Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Aerospace Corridor Concept of Operations
MITRE concept-of-operations document for Advanced Air Mobility corridors integrating eVTOL + traditional rotorcraft + UAS into existing TRACON / Class B airspace.
- AOPA Air Safety Institute 2023 AOPA-ASI Safety advisor
Safety Advisor: Fuel Awareness
AOPA Air Safety Institute safety advisor on preventing fuel-exhaustion and fuel-starvation accidents in general aviation. Covers pre-flight fuel planning, reserve requirements (14 CFR 91.151, 91.167), tank-management on …
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Relay-based identification of Aerodynamic and Delay Sensor Dynamics with applications for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
In this paper, we present a real-time system identification method based on relay feedback testing with applications to multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles.
- NASA NTRS 2023 LaRC Presentation
The In-time Aviation Safety Management System Concept for Part 135 Passenger and Cargo Operators
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Polycrystallinity enhances stress build-up around ice
Damage caused by freezing wet, porous materials is a widespread problem, but is hard to predict or control. Here, we show that polycrystallinity makes a great difference to the stress build-up process that underpins this…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
HAPS-UAV-Enabled Heterogeneous Networks: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
The integrated use of non-terrestrial network (NTN) entities such as the high-altitude platform station (HAPS) and low-altitude platform station (LAPS) has become essential elements in the space-air-ground integrated net…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Adaptive Super-Twisting Controller Design for Accurate Trajectory Tracking Performance of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
In this paper, an adaptive super-twisting controller is designed for an agile maneuvering quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle to achieve accurate trajectory tracking in the presence of external disturbances.
- NASA NTRS 2023 JSC Conference Paper
Evolution of Hardware and Philosophy of Emergency Response Actions on the International Space Station and Future Spacecrafts
Human spaceflight is dangerous for numerous reasons. This ranges from the dynamic environment of launching on a rocket, flying in space among the thousands and thousands pieces of space debris, to the hazards of re-entry…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Adaptive Modified RISE Control for Quadrotors: Enhancing Trajectory Tracking Through Uncertainty Compensation
This paper presents an adaptive modified Robust Inverse of Signum Error (AM-RISE) control method, which achieves reliable trajectory tracking control for a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Data-Driven Model-Reference Adaptive Control Approach Based on Reinforcement Learning
Model-reference adaptive systems refer to a consortium of techniques that guide plants to track desired reference trajectories. Approaches based on theories like Lyapunov, sliding surfaces, and backstepping are typically…
- Semantic Scholar 2023 Article (BMC Nursing)
Effectiveness of a critical reflection competency program for clinical nurse educators: a pilot study
Background Critical reflection is an effective learning strategy that enhances clinical nurses’ reflective practice and professionalism.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Contact Angle Hysteresis on Rough Surfaces Part II: Energy Dissipation via Microscale Interface Dynamics
The wetting behaviour of surfaces is important for various applications like super-hydrophobic surfaces, enhanced oil recovery, mining of metal ores and anti-icing surfaces etc.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
WIP: Federated Learning for Routing in Swarm Based Distributed Multi-Hop Networks
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are a rapidly emerging technology offering fast and cost-effective solutions for many areas, including public safety, surveillance, and wireless networks.
- Semantic Scholar 2023 Article (Safety)
Commercial Aircraft-Assisted Suicide Accident Investigations Re-Visited—Agreeing to Disagree?
Background: The number of aircraft-assisted suicides can only be considered a rough estimate because it is difficult and, at times, impossible to identify all cases of suicide.
- Semantic Scholar 2023 Article (Pilot and Feasibility Studies)
Exploring feasibility, perceptions of acceptability, and potential benefits of an 8-week yoga intervention delivered by videoconference for young adults affected by cancer: a single-arm hybrid effectiveness-implementation pilot study
Background Young adults affected by cancer face physical and psychological challenges and desire online supportive care. Yoga can be delivered online and may improve physical and psychological outcomes.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Inertia induces strong orientation fluctuations of non-spherical atmospheric particles
The orientation of non-spherical particles in the atmosphere, such as volcanic ash and ice crystals, influences their residence times, and the radiative properties of the atmosphere.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Connecting finite-time Lyapunov exponents with supersaturation and droplet dynamics in the bulk of a turbulent cloud
The impact of turbulent mixing on the droplet size distribution is studied deep inside a warm ice-free cloud. A simplified cloud mixing model was implemented therefore which summarizes the balance equations of water vapo…
- NASA NTRS 2023 ARC Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Fatigue, Schedules, Sleep, and Sleepiness in U.S. Commercial Pilots During COVID-19
Introduction: COVID-19 has had a significant impact on the aviation industry. While reduced flying capacity may intuitively translate to reduced fatigue risk by way of fewer flights and duty hours, the actual impact of t…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Solving Vehicle Routing Problem for unmanned heterogeneous vehicle systems using Asynchronous Multi-Agent Architecture (A-teams)
Fast moving but power hungry unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can recharge on slow-moving unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) to survey large areas in an effective and efficient manner.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Large-Scale Exploration of Cave Environments by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
This paper presents a self-contained system for the robust utilization of aerial robots in the autonomous exploration of cave environments to help human explorers, first responders, and speleologists.