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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 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Double-diffusive transport in multicomponent vertical convection
Motivated by the ablation of vertical ice faces in salt water, we use three-dimensional direct numerical simulations to investigate the heat and salt fluxes in two-scalar vertical convection.
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Proactive Distributed Emergency Response with Heterogeneous Tasks Allocation
Traditionally, traffic incident management (TIM) programs coordinate the deployment of emergency resources to immediate incident requests without accommodating the interdependencies on incident evolutions in the environm…
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Competition between Rayleigh--Bénard and horizontal convection
We investigate the dynamics of a fluid layer subject to an imposed bottom heat flux and a top monotonically-increasing temperature profile driving horizontal convection.
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Design of Dynamics Invariant LSTM for Touch Based Human-UAV Interaction Detection
The field of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has reached a high level of maturity in the last few years. Hence, bringing such platforms from closed labs, to day-to-day interactions with humans is important for commercial…
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Joint Ranging and Phase Offset Estimation for Multiple Drones using ADS-B Signatures
A new method for joint ranging and Phase Offset (PO) estimation of multiple drones/aircrafts is proposed in this paper. The proposed method employs the superimposed uncoordinated Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcas…
- NASA NTRS 2022 LaRC Poster
Transient Aircraft Soot Emissions Indicate That Steady-State Measurements Likely Underestimate Real-World, Take-Off Emissions: Time-Varying Aircraft Take-Off Emissions Indices Measured at Los Angeles International Airport
Aircraft engine emissions are unique among mobile pollution sources in that their impacts affect the local air quality near airports as well as upper tropospheric composition and climate over regional-to-hemispheric scal…
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
State Prediction of Human-in-the-Loop Multi-rotor System with Stochastic Human Behavior Model
Reachability analysis is a widely used method to analyze the safety of a Human-in-the-Loop Cyber Physical System (HiLCPS). This strategy allows the HiLCPS to respond against an imminent threat in advance by predicting re…
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
ISAC from the Sky: UAV Trajectory Design for Joint Communication and Target Localization
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial base stations (BSs) are able to provide not only the communication service to ground users, but also the sensing functionality to localize targets of interests.
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Nonlinear simulation of wave group attenuation due to scattering in broken floe fields
Direct phase-resolved simulations are performed to investigate the propagation and scattering of nonlinear ocean waves in fragmented sea ice.
- NASA NTRS 2022 ARC Conference Paper
Urban Air Mobility Airspace Dynamic Density
Airspace safety must be assured for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) to become reality. Emerging operations need to safely integrate with existing and future air traffic. UAM is anticipated to evolve in stages.
- NASA NTRS 2022 ARC Conference Paper
Preliminary Characterization of Unmanned Air Cargo Routes Using Current Cargo Operations Survey
The introduction of regional cargo unmanned aircraft systems into the National Airspace System is anticipated within the coming years.
- NASA NTRS 2022 ARC Presentation
Preliminary Characterization of Unmanned Air Cargo Routes Using Current Cargo Operations Survey
The introduction of regional cargo unmanned aircraft systems into the National Airspace System is anticipated within the coming years.
- NASA NTRS 2022 LaRC Presentation
Particle and Trace Gas Emissions Indices Measured During the 2021 Boeing ecoDemonstrator Emissions Ground Test
We present particle and trace gas emissions indices sampled on the ground at 30 meters behind the CFM LEAP-1B engines of the 2021 Boeing ecoDemonstrator, an Alaska Airlines 737-9 aircraft.
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Safe Schedule Verification for Urban Air Mobility Networks with Node Closures
In Urban Air Mobility (UAM) networks, takeoff and landing sites, called vertiports, are likely to experience intermittent closures due to, e.g., adverse weather.
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Event-triggered and distributed model predictive control for guaranteed collision avoidance in UAV swarms
Distributed model predictive control (DMPC) is often used to tackle path planning for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms. However, it requires considerable computations on-board the UAV, leading to increased weight and…
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Drone Delivery Systems and Energy Management: A Review and Future Trends
Advanced technological breakthroughs and exceptional levels of innovation are enhancing the capabilities and potential of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones), and in so doing attracting the interest of a…
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Multi-UAV Planning for Cooperative Wildfire Coverage and Tracking with Quality-of-Service Guarantees
In recent years, teams of robot and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been commissioned by researchers to enable accurate, online wildfire coverage and tracking.
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Neural Moving Horizon Estimation for Robust Flight Control
Estimating and reacting to disturbances is crucial for robust flight control of quadrotors. Existing estimators typically require significant tuning for a specific flight scenario or training with extensive ground-truth …
- Semantic Scholar 2022 Article (AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum)
A Future In-time Aviation Safety Management System (IASMS) Perspective for Commercial Air Carriers
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Work-loop techniques for optimising nonlinear forced oscillators
Linear and nonlinear resonant states can be restrictive: they exist at particular discrete states in frequency and/or elasticity, under particular (e.g., simple-harmonic) waveforms.
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Analysis of Thompson Sampling for Controlling Unknown Linear Diffusion Processes
Linear diffusion processes serve as canonical continuous-time models for dynamic decision-making under uncertainty. These systems evolve according to drift matrices that specify the instantaneous rates of change in the e…
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Validation of two-wire power line UAV localization based on the magnetic field strength
In this paper we extend our previous work on UAV localization based on the magnetic field strength. The method is based on a magnetic flux density distribution in vicinity of two very long, thin and parallel transmission…
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
SwarmHawk: Self-Sustaining Multi-Agent System for Landing on a Moving Platform through an Agent Supervision
Heterogeneous teams of mobile robots and UAVs are offering a substantial benefit in an autonomous exploration of the environment. Nevertheless, although joint exploration scenarios for such systems are widely discussed, …
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Combined Plant and Controller Optimization of an Underwater Energy Harvesting Kite System
This paper presents the formulation and results for a control-aware optimization of the combined geometric and structural design of an energy-harvesting underwater kite.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2022 ERAU Conference paper
Andrew J. Coleman
- NASA NTRS 2022 ARC Poster
UASs in the VOG/Edge/FOG Sensor Web Environment
This paper will describe the evolution of information collection, derivation and delivery mechanisms in sensor webs utilizing Uninhabited Aerial Systems (UAS).We will discuss the movement to "Fog Computing", also known a…
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Robust Trajectory Tracking for Underactuated Quadrotors with Prescribed Performance
We propose a control protocol based on the prescribed performance control (PPC) methodology for a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Neural Network-based Flight Control Systems: Present and Future
As the first review in this field, this paper presents an in-depth mathematical view of Intelligent Flight Control Systems (IFCSs), particularly those based on artificial neural networks.
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
AAM-Gym: Artificial Intelligence Testbed for Advanced Air Mobility
We introduce AAM-Gym, a research and development testbed for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM). AAM has the potential to revolutionize travel by reducing ground traffic and emissions by leveraging new types of aircraft such as…
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Constrained Imitation Learning for a Flapping Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
This paper presents a data-driven optimal control policy for a micro flapping wing unmanned aerial vehicle. First, a set of optimal trajectories are computed off-line based on a geometric formulation of dynamics that cap…
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Model Predictive Loitering and Trajectory Tracking of Suspended Payloads in Cable-Driven Balloons Using UGVs
The feasibility of performing airborne and ground manipulation, perception, and reconnaissance using wheeled rovers, unmanned aerial vehicles, CubeSats, SmallSats and more have been evaluated before.
- NASA NTRS 2022 LaRC Presentation
Review of Noise Metric Sensitivities for Analysis of Quiet Supersonic Overflight
Six different noise metrics (PL, ASEL, BSEL, DSEL, ESEL, and ISBAP) are currently used to quantify sonic boom levels from overflight of supersonic aircraft.
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Optimal Control for Unmanned Systems with One-way Broadcast Communication
Unmanned systems (USs) including unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned underwater vehicles, and unmanned ground vehicles have great application prospects in military and civil fields, among which the process of finding feas…
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Ice friction at the nanoscale
The origin of ice slipperiness has been a matter of great controversy for more than a century, but an atomistic understanding of ice friction is still lacking.
- Semantic Scholar 2022 Article (Asia-Pacific Journal of Oncology Nursing)
Effects of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on fatigue interference and health-related quality of life among patients with advanced lung cancer: A pilot randomized controlled trial
Objective The present study aimed to examine the feasibility and preliminary effects of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on fatigue interference and health-related quality of life in patients with advanced lung ca…
- FAA CAMI 2022 CAMI CAMI technical report
Pilot Fatigue and Sleep Patterns in Long-Range and Ultra-Long-Range Operations
Field study of crew sleep and alertness during ultra-long-range commercial operations. Combines actigraphy, sleep diaries, and PVT-B reaction tests.
- FAA-affiliated R&D (MITRE / Volpe / FAA Tech Center) 2022 VOLPE Volpe Center technical report
Runway Surface Friction Measurement and Aircraft Stopping Performance
Volpe runway friction research — relates surface friction-coefficient measurements (Mu-meter, runway-friction tester) to actual aircraft stopping performance on contaminated surfaces.
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
VTOL Failure Detection and Recovery by Utilizing Redundancy
Offering vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capabilities and the ability to travel great distances are crucial for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) vehicles.
- Semantic Scholar 2022 Article (International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation)
Knowledge Graph - Deep Learning: A Case Study in Question Answering in Aviation Safety Domain
In the commercial aviation domain, there are a large number of documents, like accident reports of NTSB and ASRS, and regulatory directives ADs.
- NASA NTRS 2022 LaRC Thesis/Dissertation
Framework for Estimating Performance and Associated Uncertainty for Modified Aircraft Configurations
Flight testing has been the historical standard for determining aircraft airworthiness - however, increases in the cost of flight testing and the accuracy of inexpensive CFD promote certification by analysis to reduce or…
- Semantic Scholar 2022 Article (Journal of Integrative Oncology)
Time-restricted Eating to Address Cancer-related Fatigue among Cancer Survivors: A Single-arm Pilot Study
Purpose: Cancer-related fatigue is a prevalent, debilitating condition that can persist for months or years after treatment. In a single-arm clinical trial, the feasibility and safety of a time-restricted eating (TRE) in…
- Semantic Scholar 2022 Article (Palliative Medicine)
Acceptance and commitment therapy for patient fatigue interference and caregiver burden in advanced gastrointestinal cancer: Results of a pilot randomized trial
Background: Fatigue often interferes with functioning in patients with advanced cancer, resulting in increased family caregiver burden.
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Path Planning and Energy Management of Hybrid Air Vehicles for Urban Air Mobility
A novel coupled path planning and energy management problem for a hybrid unmanned air vehicle is considered, where the hybrid vehicle is powered by a dual gas/electric system.
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Hybrid Offline-Online Design for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided UAV Communication
This letter considers the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication systems in urban areas under the general Rician fading channel.
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of Indoor Exploration Algorithms for Autonomous UAVs
Indoor exploration is an important task in disaster relief, emergency response scenarios, and Search And Rescue (SAR) missions. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems can aid first responders by maneuvering autonomously i…
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
VPAIR -- Aerial Visual Place Recognition and Localization in Large-scale Outdoor Environments
Visual Place Recognition and Visual Localization are essential components in navigation and mapping for autonomous vehicles especially in GNSS-denied navigation scenarios.
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Data-Efficient Modeling for Precise Power Consumption Estimation of Quadrotor Operations Using Ensemble Learning
Electric Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft is considered as the major aircraft type in the emerging urban air mobility. Accurate power consumption estimation is crucial to eVTOL, supporting advanced power management …
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Neural Lyapunov Differentiable Predictive Control
We present a learning-based predictive control methodology using the differentiable programming framework with probabilistic Lyapunov-based stability guarantees.
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Data-driven prediction of Air Traffic Controllers reactions to resolving conflicts
With the aim to enhance automation in conflict detection and resolution (CD&R) tasks in the Air Traffic Management domain, in this paper we propose deep learning techniques (DL) that can learn models of Air Traffic Contr…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2022 ERAU Conference paper
Joanne "Jo" Damato