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5,883 papers · NASA NTRS, NTSB, FAA CAMI
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- NASA NTRS 2023 ARC Presentation
The Viability of See-and-Avoid for Midair Collision Avoidance for Urban Air Mobility (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 Presentation
Human Performance and Fatigue
This presentation summarizes some of the work completed by the Fatigue Countermeasures Lab work for the System-wide Safety Technical Challenge 1.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Joint Estimation and Control for Multi-Target Passive Monitoring with an Autonomous UAV Agent
This work considers the problem of passively monitoring multiple moving targets with a single unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) agent equipped with a direction-finding radar.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Pegasus Simulator: An Isaac Sim Framework for Multiple Aerial Vehicles Simulation
Developing and testing novel control and motion planning algorithms for aerial vehicles can be a challenging task, with the robotics community relying more than ever on 3D simulation technologies to evaluate the performa…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Variation of Critical Crystallization Pressure for the Formation of Square Ice in Graphene Nanocapillaries
Two-dimensional square ice in graphene nanocapillaries at room temperature is a fascinating phenomenon and has been confirmed experimentally.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Physics-Infused Machine Learning Based Prediction of VTOL Aerodynamics with Sparse Datasets
Complex optimal design and control processes often require repeated evaluations of expensive objective functions and consist of large design spaces.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Energy optimization for Full-Duplex Wireless-Powered IoT Networks using Rotary-Wing UAV with Multiple Antennas
In this paper, we propose a novel design for the rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled full-duplex (FD) wireless-powered Internet of Things (IoT) networks.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Interpretable and Secure Trajectory Optimization for UAV-Assisted Communication
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained popularity due to their flexible mobility, on-demand deployment, and the ability to establish high probability line-of-sight wireless communication.
- Semantic Scholar 2023 Article (The International Journal of Aerospace Psychology)
Qualitative Analysis of General Aviation Pilots’ Aviation Safety Reporting System Incident Narratives Using the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System
ABSTRACT NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) gathers data from voluntary aviation safety reports for nonfatal accidents and incidents.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Perch a quadrotor on planes by the ceiling effect
Perching is a promising solution for a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to save energy and extend operation time. This paper proposes a quadrotor that can perch on planar structures using the ceiling effect.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
5G Wings: Investigating 5G-Connected Drones Performance in Non-Urban Areas
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become extremely popular for both military and civilian applications due to their ease of deployment, cost-effectiveness, high maneuverability, and availability.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Contextual Beamforming: Exploiting Location and AI for Enhanced Wireless Telecommunication Performance
The pervasive nature of wireless telecommunication has made it the foundation for mainstream technologies like automation, smart vehicles, virtual reality, and unmanned aerial vehicles.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Progress Towards Untethered Autonomous Flight of Northeastern University Aerobat
State estimation and control is a well-studied problem in conventional aerial vehicles such as multi-rotors. But multi-rotors, while versatile, are not suitable for all applications.
- NASA NTRS 2023 ARC Conference Paper
Vibration Anomaly Detection by Clustering in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
One of the critical factors affecting flight safety of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is the amount of vibration they are exposed to during a flight.
- NASA NTRS 2023 LaRC Presentation
An Overview of the NASA Lift+Cruise eVTOL Crash Test
Introduction – NASA RVLT Project Impact Dynamics / Crash Safety Task - Task Objective: “To improve the crashworthiness and impact safety of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) vehicle and provide data to simplify the certification …
- Semantic Scholar 2023 Article (Aerospace)
Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Aviation Safety: Systematic Review of Research and Outlook into the Future
Advanced digital data-driven applications have evolved and significantly impacted the transportation sector in recent years. This systematic review examines natural language processing (NLP) approaches applied to aviatio…
- Semantic Scholar 2023 Article (Aerospace)
A Layered Structure Approach to Assure Urban Air Mobility Safety and Efficiency
The demand for air mobility services will depend on the safety of these operations but also on the transportation time savings in congested urban areas.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Unscented Optimal Control for 3D Coverage Planning with an Autonomous UAV Agent
We propose a novel probabilistically robust controller for the guidance of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in coverage planning missions, which can simultaneously optimize both the UAV's motion, and camera control input…
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Single condensation droplet self-ejection from divergent structures with uniform wettability
Coalescence-jumping of condensation droplets is widely studied for anti-icing, condensation heat transfer, water harvesting and self-cleaning.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Estimating See and Be Seen Performance with an Airborne Visual Acquisition Model
Separation provision and collision avoidance to avoid other air traffic are fundamental components of the layered conflict management system to ensure safe and efficient operations.
- arXiv 2023 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Dynamic UAV Swarm Collaboration for Multi-Targets Tracking under Malicious Jamming: Joint Power, Path and Target Association Optimization
In this paper, the multi-target tracking (MTT) with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm is investigated in the presence of jammers, where UAVs in the swarm communicate with each other to exchange information of target…
- 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.
- 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)
Sequential Classification of Aviation Safety Occurrences with Natural Language Processing
Safety is a critical aspect of the air transport system given even slight operational anomalies can result in serious consequences. To reduce the chances of aviation safety occurrences, accidents and incidents are report…
- 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 (Journal of Physics: Conference Series)
Functional and Safety Challenges of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Systems for Application in Electrified Regional Aircraft
This paper identifies potential weaknesses and challenges of hydrogen fuel cell systems as main energy provider for electrified aircraft propulsion and presents potential solutions.
- 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 …