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The Intellectual Structure and the Future of Counter-Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) Research: A Bibliometric and A Scoping Review

With advancements in remote sensing technology and affordable design, uncrewed aerial systems (UAS), commonly known as drones, have become prevalent in civil and military applications, such as agriculture, public safety,…

Utilizing Cultural Dimensions Theory to Assess Singaporean Student Attitude Toward Online Course Assignments in an Aeronautical University

This research revealed Singaporean student perception regarding online learning content and assignments based on Hofstede’s Theory of Cultural Dimensions.

The Impact of Thunderstorms on Take-off Data in South Africa

Aviation and meteorology are entwined disciplines, as aviation occurs in the atmosphere. Prevailing weather conditions at take-off are of utmost importance to aviation.

Electronic on Planes: Security Measures and Avionics Disruption

Airlines have implemented various security measures to address the use of electronics on aircraft, focusing on telecommunication services, Bluetooth technology, and personal electronic devices (PEDs).

Non-Technical Skills Proficiency in Aviation Pilots: A Systematic Review

This systematic review aims to examine the role of non-technical competencies in pilot selection and flight operations, and explore the methods used for their assessment.

Passenger Preferences for Ultra Long Haul Flights vs. Connecting Flights: A Comparative Study between Asia and Europe

This study looks at passenger preferences in air travel, specifically ultra-long-haul and connecting flights, utilizing a comparative lens between Asia and Europe.

Exploring the atmospheric and weather conditions for hoar frost formation at OR Tambo International Airport: A case study of ground aircraft icing events for the period 2017-2023.

Ground aircraft icing has an adverse effect on the aerodynamic performance of aircrafts as well as the efficient operations of airlines and airports.

Fatigue Reporting in Hellenic Skies: Attitudes, Barriers and Insights from Military, Commercial and General Aviation Pilots

Fatigue has long been a concern in aviation, especially today, with the ever-increasing traffic volume, pilot shortage, and operations that often disrupt the body’s natural biological rhythms.

A Scale Development Study For Evaluating The Competency Perception of Air Traffic Controllers

Ensuring the competencies that influence the performance of air traffic controllers is a key priority for the aviation sector in terms of flight safety.

Risk Identification and Assessment in the Digital Transformation of Aerospace Enterprises: A Combined Qualitative and Quantitative Approach

With the rapid advancement of China's aerospace industry, aerospace enterprises are actively adopting next-generation digital intelligent technologies, facilitating a transition from traditional planned management to a c…

Delphi Panel for Establishing Land Use Compatibility Areas and Standards for Vertiports

This study aimed to determine land use compatibility guidelines for vertiports, which are locations where vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft operate.

Leveraging artificial intelligence to improve data configuration & accuracy in modern flight management systems

AI (Artificial intelligence) can automate the process of generating optimized flight routes using real-time data, such as AIRAC (Aeronautical Information Regulation and Control), significantly reducing the time needed fo…

Increasing Initial CFI Capacity Within Collegiate Flight Programs

According to the Government Accountability Office (2018), collegiate aviation schools face two primary challenges: flight instructor retention and the high cost of pilot training.

The impact of corporate social responsibility on airline reputation and passenger satisfaction and loyalty

Aviation is a driving force of economic and social progress but has negative externalities such as carbon emissions and noise. This paper investigates passenger perceptions of airline corporate social responsibility and …

Automatic detection of birds in images acquired with remotely piloted aircraft for managing wildlife strikes to civil aircraft

Wildlife strikes represent a significant threat to aviation safety and economics, as evidenced by notable incidents such as the emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in 2009.

Performance PRISM: A Comprehensive Framework For Performance Measurement In Aircraft Maintenance

Aircraft maintenance is governed by rigorous safety requirements and high operational complexity, demanding robust performance measurement frameworks to ensure optimal maintenance practices.

Managing Uncertainty in the Airline Industry: The Interaction of Strategic Flexibility, Organizational Learning, and Dynamic Capabilities

The airline industry is one of the sectors characterized by being highly competitive, dynamic, and uncertain. In addition, the constantly renewed, growing structure and vulnerability to conjuncture of the sector usually …

A Bayesian approach on investigating Helicopter Emergency Medical Fatal Accidents

This paper analyzed the likelihood of a fatality based on various factors in Helicopter Emergency Medical Services and analyzing it through a Bayesian logistic regression.

A qualitative analysis of social and emotional perspectives of airline passengers during the COVID-19 pandemic

This paper investigated how willing participants were to fly during COVID-19, and found that their major concerns involved fear and trust issues with airlines, information, and other people.

Examining Aviation Navigation Display Symbology in Visual Search

This paper investigated whether the design of air traffic symbols affected users speed and accuracy in identification, and which features of the symbols were most effective.

Immunological and hematological outcomes following protracted low dose/low dose rate ionizing radiation and simulated microgravity

An original research article describing the adaptation of the immune and hematological systems of mice post-simulated spaceflight exposure.

Chinese hamster V79 cells’ dependence on background ionizing radiation for optimal growth

This paper shows how high-throughput RNA sequencing can explore minute changes in gene regulation, a technique now widely used in experiments designed to predict how we will respond to life in space.

Use of Augmented Reality by Older Adults

This paper discusses how proposed AR heuristics apply to the older adult population and how these heuristics can enhance the benefits of AR technology.

Using Escape Rooms for Conducting Team Research

This paper discusses how escape rooms can be used in team research and the hurdles such as standardization, creating the room, and issues in translating performance to real-world environments.

Understanding the Coupled Dynamics of Particles and Wall Turbulence

This work focuses on understanding the coupled interactions between large and heavy solid particles, on a particle bed, and a gaseous (air) carrier phase turbulent boundary layer developing over the bed.

Understanding the Coupled Interactions Between Hair-Like Micromechanoreceptors and Wall Turbulence

This research focuses on understanding the interactions between turbulent flows and long (high aspect ratio), flexible hair-like microstructures or micropillars inspired by those encountered in nature.

Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence (VLRCOE)

Ship airwakes are the unsteady turbulent flows that are generated by the earths atmospheric boundary layer (the wind colloquially) blowing over a ship.

Langrangian Wind Tunnel

Embry-Riddle is supporting industry (i.e. Global Aerospace Corp.) in the development of a novel hypersonic wind tunnel by using high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics.

Self-Sustained Flow-Acoustic Interactions in Airfoil Transitional Boundary Layers

This work carries out collaborative theoretical, experimental and numerical investigations of flow-acoustic resonant interactions in transitional airfoils which are responsible for sudden appearance of prominent acoustic…

Synthetic Jet-Based Robust MAV Flight Controller

This project conducts theoretical and high-fidelity numerical analyses of UAV robust flight controller employing synthetic-jet actuators (SJAs).

Wake Vortex Safety Analysis in the Context of UAS Integration in the NAS

This project is a collaboration with several research organizations under the supervision of FAA. The focus of the current research efforts is on developing and employing variable-fidelity prediction approaches to examin…

Jet-Airframe Interactions for Noise Suppression

The Embry-Riddle team developed a passive noise suppression technology utilizing the interactions of the airframe with the jet plume. In this technology, the flat surface of the airframe adjacent to the jet plume is modi…

Fundamental Experimental and Numerical Combustion Study of H2 Containing Fuels for Gas Turbines

This project is a University Turbine Systems research grant funded by the Department of Energy. In collaboration with the University of Central Florida, Purdue University and the University of New Mexico, Embry-Riddle wi…

Human Factors Awareness Training for FAA Aviation Safety Specialists Within Aircraft Certification and FAA Flight Standards

In this project, which is funded by the FAA, Embry-Riddle and Kent University will develop training for individuals within the FAA’s Aviation Safety Flight Standards Service who have expertise and job responsibilities re…

Modeling Plume Afterburning Shutdown With a Double-Conditioned CMC

This is an Army Sequential Phase II STTR program in collaboration with Reaction Systems Inc., University of Central Florida and Propulsion Systems Inc.

Investigation of Bio-Inspired Cylinders for Enhanced Heat Transfer

This project investigates a novel cylinder design inspired from the Harbor Seal whisker, with the goal of reducing coolant pumping power requirements while maintaining heat transfer rates in pin-fin arrays.

Mixing of a Supercritical Jet in a Supercritical Cross-Flow

This project is focused on the exploration and validation of numerical modeling techniques, for the simulation of supercritical jets in cross-flow.

Vision and Wireless-based Surveying for Intelligent OSAM Navigation (VISION)

In this project, which is a SpaceWERX Phase I STTR program with Orbital Prime, we are developing algorithms to increase autonomy of OSAM applications.

A Machine Learning Based Transfer to Predict Warhead In-Flight Behavior from Static Arena Test Data

Warhead fragmentation predictions are based on either numerical simulations or static arena tests where detonations occur in unrealistic conditions (not flying).

Novel Space Science Test via Adaptive Control and Integral Concurrent Learning Leveraging On-Orbit CubeSat Structural Identification

The objective of this work is to create the basic science underpinning the structural testing and evaluation framework and control for deployable large spacecraft.

GNC Efforts in Support of the University of Florida's Research for the NASA Instrument Incubator

The following tasks will be performed by 1 PhD student and Dr. Bevilacqua (PI at ERAU), in support of the University of Florida’s proposal for the NASA’s Instrument Incubator Program (IIP): Year 1: Drag-compensation and …

CubeSats Hosting Flexible Appendages for On-Orbit Testing of Advanced Control Algorithms

The objective of this work is to start the assembly of a CubeSat hosting specialized flexible appendages, taking inspiration from a previously designed spacecraft developed by the Advanced Autonomous Multiple Spacecraft …

Reconfigurable Guidance and Control Systems for Emerging On-Orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (OSAM) Space Vehicles

Dynamic response to emergent situations is a necessity in the on-orbit servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (OSAM) field, because traditional on-orbit guidance and control (G&C) cannot respond efficiently and effective…

Demonstration of an Electrostatic Dust Shield on the Lunar Surface

This project, which is funded by NASA Kennedy Space Center, will demonstrate the capability of an electrostatic dust shield, developed by NASA/KSC engineers, to remove dust from the lens of a camera after impact on the l…

Hazard Detection and Avoidance for Lunar Landing

This project, funded by Intuitive Machines, develops and demonstrates algorithms for detecting and avoiding areas of large rocks and high slopes for a lunar lander.

Improved Image Processing for Orbit Estimation

This project, funded by Air Force Research Laboratory, seeks to improve orbit estimation methods using advanced image processing techniques applied to images from ground and space-based telescopes.

Mitigating GPS and ADS-B Risks for UAS

This project is funded under the FAA ASSURE program. Unvalidated or unavailable GPS and “ADS-B In” data poses security and safety risks to automated UAS navigation and to Detect and Avoid operations.

Shielded UAS Operations Detect and Avoid

This project is funded under the FAA ASSURE program. Certain small UAS (sUAS) Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations, such as structural inspection, may be in close proximity to structures that are collision haza…

Development of an SE(3)-Based Rigid Body Pose Estimation Scheme for Unknown Moments of Inertia in a Spacecraft

This research project will continue the development of an special Euclidean (SE(3))- based rigid body pose estimation scheme for unknown moments of inertia in a spacecraft from the successful implementation of a Phase I …

Flexible Body Control Using Fiber Optic Sensors, Florida Space Grant Consortium

This project would build on previous research that developed the dynamics formulation and control of a rigid-flexible system. A cantilevered beam attached to a rotating central body is considered and analyzed through the…