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- 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
- Semantic Scholar 2022 Article (AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum)
Reachability based Online Safety Verification for High-Density Urban Air Mobility Trajectory Planning
This paper presents a safe and scalable real-time trajectory planning framework for high-density Urban Air Mobility (UAM). The framework extends our previously developed highly efficient Markov Decision Process (MDP) bas…
- 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…
- Semantic Scholar 2022 Article (Expert Syst. J. Knowl. Eng.)
Management and intelligent control of in‐flight fuel distribution in a commercial aircraft
Fuel management is an important issue in aviation for safety and efficiency reasons. This work develops an alternative solution based on an artificial intelligent technique to the fuel distribution management problem in …
- 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…
- Semantic Scholar 2022 Article (IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo)
Minimising the effect of degradation of fuel cell stacks on an integrated propulsion architecture for an electrified aircraft
Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC) are receiving interest as an electrical source of energy for aircraft propulsion electrification.
- 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 (Chinese Journal of Aeronautics)
Design of hybrid-electric aircraft with fault-tolerance considerations
The potential benefits of hybrid-electric or all-electric propulsion have led to a growing interest in this topic over the past decade.
- Semantic Scholar 2022 Article (Journal of Safety Research)
Go-around accidents and general aviation safety.
INTRODUCTION Changes in General Aviation (GA) accident rates, specifically in the go-around phase, are examined by comparing the number of accidents, the proportion of fatal accidents, and the proportion of certain cause…
- 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
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2022 ERAU Conference paper
Ellen Ebner
- NASA NTRS 2022 JSC Conference Paper
International Space Station Bipropellant Plume Contamination Model Update for Short Thruster Pulse Widths
The International Space Station (ISS) Bipropellant Plume Contamination Model has been a vital tool for characterizing the thruster plume-induced contamination environment at the ISS but was not intended to be used for ve…
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Exponentially Stable Observer-based Controller for VTOL-UAVs without Velocity Measurements
There is a great demand for vision-based robotics solutions that can operate using Global Positioning Systems (GPS), but are also robust against GPS signal loss and gyroscope failure.
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Neural-Fly Enables Rapid Learning for Agile Flight in Strong Winds
Executing safe and precise flight maneuvers in dynamic high-speed winds is important for the ongoing commoditization of uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs).
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication for Aerial Vehicles via Multi-Connectivity
Aerial vehicles (AVs) such as electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) make aerial passenger transportation a reality in urban environments.
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Design, Modeling and Control for a Tilt-rotor VTOL UAV in the Presence of Actuator Failure
Enabling vertical take-off and landing while providing the ability to fly long ranges opens the door to a wide range of new real-world aircraft applications while improving many existing tasks.
- Semantic Scholar 2022 Article (Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology)
Impact of human factors in aircraft accident mitigation and aircraft maintenance training needs in post COVID-19 aviation
Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of human factor training in aircraft maintenance accident mitigation and aircraft safety in post COVID-19 aviation scenarios.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2022 ERAU Industry report (AQRR)
Airline Quality Rating 2022
The Airline Quality Rating (AQR) was developed and first announced in early 1991 as an objective method for assessing airline quality on combined multiple performance criteria.
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Neural Network Optimal Feedback Control with Guaranteed Local Stability
Recent research shows that supervised learning can be an effective tool for designing near-optimal feedback controllers for high-dimensional nonlinear dynamic systems.
- AOPA Air Safety Institute 2022 AOPA-ASI Accident case study
Accident Case Study: Time Out
Long-form accident case study reconstructing a fatal VFR-into-IMC GA accident. Examines pilot decision-making during the deteriorating-weather phase, ATC interactions, and the cognitive triggers that override go/no-go di…
- arXiv 2022 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Collision Risk and Operational Impact of Speed Change Advisories as Aircraft Collision Avoidance Maneuvers
Aircraft collision avoidance systems have long been a key factor in keeping our airspace safe. Over the past decade, the FAA has supported the development of a new family of collision avoidance systems called the Airborn…
- NASA NTRS 2022 ARC Presentation
Future Operations
The principles and reasons for employing Human Autonomy Teaming is discussed. Application of these techniques to multi-vehicle control is described.