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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 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Zero-Shot, Safe and Time-Efficient UAV Navigation via Potential-Based Reward Shaping, Control Lyapunov and Barrier Functions
Autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance remain a core challenge of modern Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). While traditional control methods struggle with the complexity and variability of the environment, reinforce…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Trajectory Optimization of Morphing Aerial Vehicles Based on Mid-Fidelity Aeroservoelastic Models
Morphing aerial vehicles offer enhanced maneuverability and fuel efficiency compared to fixed-wing configurations. However, the trade-off between performance gains and control cost in dynamic, unsteady maneuvers remains …
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2026 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Assessing the Mental Wellness of Professional Pilots and Their Willingness to Seek Professional Help
Professional pilots face distinct mental health challenges arising from irregular schedules, fatigue, high responsibility, and the need to maintain medical certification.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2026 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Digital Twin–Oriented Certification Architecture for Advanced Air Mobility
Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) systems introduce certification challenges associated with distributed propulsion, increasing software reliance, and tightly coupled architectures.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2026 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
An Exploration of Aviation Safety Culture in Nigeria
Despite sustained regulatory reforms, infrastructural development and capacity-building initiatives, Nigeria, one of Africa’s largest economies and a key regional aviation market, continues to experience significant safe…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2026 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Local Values, Global Standards: Understanding Aviation Safety Culture in the Middle East Region
This study examines the role of national cultural determinants in shaping aviation safety culture across the Middle East. Employing an exploratory research design that integrates a literature review and structured safety…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2026 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
From Reactive to Predictive: A hybrid Trust-Mediated Adoption Framework for Data-Driven Maintenance in Distributed-Authority Aviation Environments
Modern aviation maintenance operates within increasingly data-intensive technological environments, yet the operational integration of predictive maintenance into routine decision-making remains inconsistent across secto…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2026 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
The Decision of US Airlines to Diversify the Flight Deck: Perceptions of Collegiate Flight Students
The United States (US) airline industry is struggling to find enough commercial pilots and to diversify a profession that has the reputation of historically being male and white.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Separation Assurance between Heterogeneous Fleets of Small Unmanned Aerial Systems via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
In the envisioned future dense urban airspace, multiple companies will operate heterogeneous fleets of small unmanned aerial systems (sUASs), where each fleet includes several homogeneous aircraft with identical policies…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Asymmetric freezing of a sliding droplet on an inclined surface
We investigate the asymmetric freezing of a liquid droplet sliding on an inclined cold surface using numerical simulations based on the lubrication approximation.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Slot-hopping Enabled Loiter Guidance and Automation for Fixed-wing UAV Corridors
This paper addresses the problem of traffic congestion management in fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) corridors by further developing a recently introduced loiter-lane framework.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Miniaturized Broadband 1-Bit Coding Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for NLOS UE Localization and Uplink Communication
In this paper, a broadband 1-bit coding metasurface-based reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is presented. The unit cell of the metasurface consists of a wide dipole modified with interdigital capacitors and loaded…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Behaviour-aware Hybrid Architecture for Trust-driven Transmissions
Reliable and secure communication is essential for mission-critical aerospace and defence operations involving autonomous platforms such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), satellites, and ground control systems.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Sensitivity-Based Tube NMPC for Cooperative Aerial Structures Under Parametric Uncertainty
This paper presents a sensitivity-based tube Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) framework for cooperative aerial chains under bounded parametric uncertainty.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Toward Low-Altitude Embodied Intelligence: A Sensing-Communication-Computation-Control Closed-Loop Perspective
The rapid growth of the low-altitude economy drives increasingly autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations, giving rise to low-altitude embodied intelligence (LAEI), in which sensing, communication, computation…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
An Aircraft Upset Recovery System with Reinforcement Learning
This article explores the progress made in the creation of a pilot activated recovery system (PARS) for advanced jet trainers that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) in an effort to enhance operational efficiency.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Non-Oberbeck-Boussinesq effects in coldwater
Water exhibits an anomalous nonlinear temperature-density ($ρ$-$T$) relation as it approaches freezing, along with an increase in viscosity, and a decrease in thermal conductivity.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
WSINDy for Model Predictive Control with Applications to Fusion, Drones, and Chaos
The control of complex dynamical systems remains a fundamental challenge in science and engineering, where strong nonlinearities, the presence of noise, and computational constraints often pose significant obstacles in t…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Lightweight Toggleable Adhesion Prototype for Multirotor UAV Landing on Tilting Platforms
Autonomous multirotor landings on uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) are critical for persistent maritime operations but remain challenging due to wave-induced tilt, wind disturbances, and limited landing area.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Adaptive Multi-UAV Relay Deployment Framework in Satellite Aerial Ground Integrated Systems
The sixth generation (6G) communication networks are expected to provide high data rates, ultra-reliable communication, and massive connectivity, especially in challenging environments such as dense urban areas and disas…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Model Predictive Communication for Timely Status Updates in Low-Altitude Networks
Timely information delivery in low-altitude networks is critical for many time-sensitive applications, such as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation, inspection, and surveillance.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Surfactant effect on collective bubble bursting and aerosol emission
Bubbles entrained by breaking waves rise to the ocean surface where they cluster and burst, emitting sea spray aerosols into the atmosphere.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Scheduling Analysis of UAV Flight Control Workloads on PREEMPT_RT Linux Using a Raspberry Pi 5
Modern UAV architectures increasingly aim to unify high-level autonomy and low-level flight control on a single General-Purpose Operating System (GPOS).
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Relative State Estimation using Event-Based Propeller Sensing
Autonomous swarms of multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) system requires an accurate and fast relative state estimation. Although monocular frame-based camera methods perform well in ideal conditions, they are slow, suff…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Geometric Trajectory Optimization for TRACON Arrivals: An NLP Approach with ATC Vectoring Maneuver Modeling
Terminal airspace congestion remains a major bottleneck in the global air traffic network. Although the Aircraft Sequencing and Scheduling Problem (ASSP) has been widely studied, many methods rely on simplified node-link…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Trajectory-Based Optimization for Air Traffic Control in the Terminal Maneuvering Area
We present a trajectory-based optimization framework for arrival sequencing and scheduling in the terminal maneuvering area (TMA). Unlike node-link scheduling models that reduce trajectories to time-delay variables, the …
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Reference Condensation for Model Predictive Control with Preview
In model predictive control (MPC), preview information can greatly improve tracking. Including preview information does, however, increase the parameter dimension linearly with the preview horizon, which increases online…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Multi-stage Planning for Multi-target Surveillance using Aircrafts Equipped with Synthetic Aperture Radars Aware of Target Visibility
Generating trajectories for synthetic aperture radar (SAR)-equipped aircraft poses significant challenges due to terrain constraints, and the need for straight-flight segments to ensure high-quality imaging.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Design Optimization of eVTOL Propellers using a Viscous-Extension Discrete Vortex Method
Potential flow theory remains a cornerstone of unsteady aerodynamics due to its computational efficiency in modeling complex flow phenomena.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Layered Control of Partially Observed Stochastic Systems
Layered control is essential for managing complexity in large-scale systems, employing progressively coarser models at higher layers. While significant advances have been made for fully observable systems, the theoretica…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
HydroFirn: A numerical model for large-scale multidimensional firn hydrology
Observations show the multidimensional dynamics of meltwater and distribution of ice layers in the firn on the Greenland Ice Sheet. However, state-of-the-art large-scale models for firn hydrology are essentially one-dime…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
eVTOL Aircraft Energy Overhead Estimation under Conflict Resolution in High-Density Airspaces
Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft operating in high-density urban airspace must maintain safe separation through tactical conflict resolution, yet the energy cost of such maneuvers has not been syste…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
MARS-Dragonfly: Agile and Robust Flight Control of Modular Aerial Robot Systems
Modular Aerial Robot Systems (MARS) comprise multiple drone units with reconfigurable connected formations, providing high adaptability to diverse mission scenarios, fault conditions, and payload capacities.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Orientation Matters: Learning Radiation Patterns of Multi-Rotor UAVs In-Flight to Enhance Communication Availability Modeling
The paper presents an approach for learning antenna Radiation Patterns (RPs) of a pair of heterogeneous quadrotor Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) by calibration flight data.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Cooperative Detour Planning for Dual-Task Drone Fleets
As Urban air mobility scales, commercial drone fleets offer a compelling, yet underexplored opportunity to function as mobile sensor networks for real-time urban traffic monitoring.
- Semantic Scholar 2026 Article (IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine)
Safety Assessment and Fault Tolerance in eVTOL Aircraft Flight Control System: Current Status and Challenges
With the integration and development of technologies in the fields of electric aviation, uncrewed driving, artificial intelligence, and information communication, electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircrafts h…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Optimistic Online LQR via Intrinsic Rewards
Optimism in the face of uncertainty is a popular approach to balance exploration and exploitation in reinforcement learning. Here, we consider the online linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problem, i.e., to learn the LQR c…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Small UAS Separation Assurance under GPS Degradation and Spoofing
We address robust separation assurance for small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) under GPS degradation and spoofing via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL).
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Communications-Aware NMPC for Multi-Rotor Aerial Relay Networks Under Jamming Interference
Multi-Rotor Aerial Vehicles (MRAVs) are increasingly used in communication-dependent missions where connectivity loss directly compromises task execution.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Velocity-Free Horizontal Position Control of Quadrotor Aircraft via Nonlinear Negative Imaginary Systems Theory
This paper presents a velocity-free position control strategy for quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles based on nonlinear negative imaginary (NNI) systems theory.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
LLM-Enabled Low-Altitude UAV Natural Language Navigation via Signal Temporal Logic Specification Translation and Repair
Natural language (NL) navigation for low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offers an intelligent and convenient solution for low-altitude aerial services by enabling an intuitive interface for non-expert operators…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Path-Following Guidance for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with Bounded Lateral Acceleration
This paper addresses the three-dimensional path-following guidance problem for unmanned aerial vehicles under explicit actuator constraints.
- NASA NTRS 2026 ARC Presentation
Low Altitude RA Virtual Pilot Tabletop: Preliminary Results Summary
A virtual tabletop activity was conducted in support of NASA Airspace Operations and Safety Program’s (AOSP) Air Traffic Management and Safety (ATMS) project.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A coupled Aeroelastic-Flight Dynamic Framework for Free-Flying Flexible Aircraft with Gust Interactions
A complete, self-contained mathematical framework for modelling the coupled aeroelastic and flight dynamic behaviour of free-flying flexible aircraft subject to atmospheric gust encounters is presented.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
The effects of salinity and inclination on the morphology of melting ice
The salinity of water and the slope of ice significantly influence the melt rate and surface morphology of ice, both highly relevant in the context of glacier and iceberg melting in oceanic environments.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Effects of fuel and soot concentrations on the inception and development of contrails
Fundamental questions related to the roles of fuel type, combustion parameters, and turbulence transport interactions in the inception and growth of contrails have remained intractable in remote sensing and in-flight mea…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Direct Numerical Simulations of Ice-Ocean Boundary Turbulence
Turbulent heat and freshwater transport at ice-ocean interfaces controls glacier and iceberg melt rates, yet the underlying physics remains poorly constrained.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Nonlinear Flexibility Effects on Flight Dynamics of High-Aspect-Ratio Wings
This paper investigates the effects of geometric nonlinearity and structural flexibility on the flight dynamics of high-aspect-ratio wings representative of high-altitude long endurance aircraft configurations.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
String stable platoons of all-electric aircraft with operating costs and airspace complexity trade-off
This paper formulates an optimal control framework for computing cruise airspeeds in predecessor-follower platoons of all-electric aircraft that balance operational cost and airspace complexity.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Model Reference Adaptive Control For Gust Load Allevation of Nonlinear Aeroelastic
Model Reference Adaptive Control based on Lyapunov stability theory is developed for gust load alleviation of nonlinear aeroelastic systems.