Aviation research, sourced & cited.

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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Semantic Scholar 2018 Article (Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance)

Change Detection Flicker Task Effects on Simulator-Induced Spatial Disorientation Events.

INTRODUCTION A visual stimulus change detection is an extremely important pilot's cognitive process. This is especially true when pilot errors caused by perceptual failures have a negative effect on his/her spatial orien…
Semantic Scholar 2018 Article (SAFECOMP Workshops)

Considerations of Artificial Intelligence Safety Engineering for Unmanned Aircraft

This work presents the current certification practices in unmanned aviation in the context of autonomy and artificial intelligence and shows how the specific operation risk assessment might be used as an enabler for hard…
Semantic Scholar 2018 Article (Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology)

Development taxonomy of human risk factors for corporate sustainability in aviation sector

PurposeContemporary management and strategy mean optimization of ingredient factors such as human factors, systems, operations and equipment.
Semantic Scholar 2018 Article

The contributions of human factors on human error in Malaysia aviation maintenance industries

Aviation maintenance is a multitasking activity in which individuals perform varied tasks under constant pressure to meet deadlines as well as challenging work conditions.
Semantic Scholar 2018 Article (International Conference on Networking and Services)

Total system error performance of drones for an unmanned PBN concept
Semantic Scholar 2018 Article (Air & Space Law)

Is the World Ready for Drones?

Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) are revolutionizing the world. RPA, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) or ‘drones’ present many new opportunities for a diverse range of industries and practi…
Semantic Scholar 2018 Article (Journal of medical systems)

Optical Illusions and Spatial Disorientation in Aviation Pilots

To this knowledge, this is the first study to review exhaustively and describe the main factors involved in spatial disorientation and optical illusions affecting aviation pilots.
Semantic Scholar 2018 Article (Reliability Engineering & System Safety)

High risk occurrence chains in helicopter accidents

An approach to identify high-risk sequences of events (or occurrence chains) in General Aviation accidents using historical accident data is developed and recommended to improve the NTSB accident database and recording s…
Semantic Scholar 2018 Article (Advances in Aeronautical Informatics)

Towards Autonomy and Safety for Unmanned Aircraft Systems

The impact of new and upcoming regulations and standards for unmanned aircraft regarding a holistic approach to the assessment of risk and their impact on autonomy and safety will be discussed.
Semantic Scholar 2017 Article (2017 Workshop on Research, Education and Development of Unmanned Aerial Systems (RED-UAS))

Issues of safety and risk management for unmanned aircraft operations in urban airspace
Semantic Scholar 2017 Article (Symposium on Dependable Autonomic and Secure Computing)

C-band digital aeronautical communication for unmanned aircraft systems
Semantic Scholar 2017 Article (Symposium on Dependable Autonomic and Secure Computing)

Experience with objective measuring of the coriolis illusion influence on the pilot's spatial orientation
Semantic Scholar 2017 Article

A Bayesian approach to system safety assessment and compliance assessment for Unmanned Aircraft Systems

This paper is the first to describe the application of Bayesian techniques to the field of Aviation system safety analysis and would bring aviation system safety practitioners in line with more contemporary (and well est…
Semantic Scholar 2017 Article

Experimental Flight Testing for Assessing the Safety of Unmanned Aircraft System Safety-Critical Operations
Semantic Scholar 2017 Article

Making a Risk Informed Safety Case for Small Unmanned Aircraft System Operations
Semantic Scholar 2017 Article

The Effect of Automation on Human Factors in Aviation

This paper looks to examine the effect of modern day automation on the human machine by reviewing literature spanning over three decades.
Semantic Scholar 2017 Article

Evaluation of a Missed Approach/Go-Around Spatial Disorientation Demonstration Scenario for Commercial Pilot Training
Semantic Scholar 2017 Article

Risk Informed Safety Case Framework for Unmanned Aircraft System Flight Software Certification
Semantic Scholar 2017 Article

Evaluation of a Steep Turn Spatial Disorientation Demonstration Scenario for Commercial Pilot Training
Semantic Scholar 2017 Article (Ergonomics)

Ergonomics and Human Factors in Aviation
Semantic Scholar 2017 Article (IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology)

Air–Ground Channel Characterization for Unmanned Aircraft Systems—Part I: Methods, Measurements, and Models for Over-Water Settings
Semantic Scholar 2017 Article

Markov Decision Process-Based Distributed Conflict Resolution for Drone Air Traffic Management

A massively distributed architecture used to implement the conflict avoidance algorithm on a practical scale in which simultaneous conflicts can be solved in parallel in tens of milliseconds is presented.
Semantic Scholar 2017 Article

Managing uncertainty in the system safety assessment of unmanned aircraft systems

A Bayesian approach to the modelling of the average probability of failure conditions is adopted and the traditional assumption of a constant failure rate model is challenged; with a Weibull distribution proposed as a mo…
Semantic Scholar 2016 Article

Human factors in transportation: Social and technological evolution across maritime, road, rail, and aviation domains
Semantic Scholar 2016 Article

Contemporary Issues in Human Factors and Aviation Safety
Semantic Scholar 2016 Article

A study of how unmanned aircraft systems can support the Kansas Department of Transportation's efforts to improve efficiency, safety, and cost reduction : technical summary.
Semantic Scholar 2016 Article

The Time Dependent Traveling Salesman Planning Problem in Controlled Airspace

This paper optimize the route planning of a drone mission that consists of departing from an airport, flying over a set of mission way points and coming back to the initial airport.
Semantic Scholar 2016 Article (Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium)

A design study for the safe integration of Unmanned Aerial Systems into the National Airspace System
Semantic Scholar 2016 Article

Delivery Drones: Will Amazon Air See the National Airspace?
Semantic Scholar 2016 Article (IEEE Aerospace Conference)

Simulation and modelling tools for quantitative safety assessments of unmanned aircraft systems and operations
Semantic Scholar 2016 Article

Cost-Effective Bridge Safety Inspections Using Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)
Semantic Scholar 2016 Article

Development of Spatial Disorientation Demonstration Scenarios for Commercial Pilot Training
Semantic Scholar 2016 Article (Journal of Aerospace Information Systems)

Real-Time Safety Assessment of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Against Stealthy Cyber Attacks

A controls domain approach extending beyond the computing resources of the unmanned aircraft system to include the underlying physical behavior of the compromised system, successfully complementing the traditional comput…
Semantic Scholar 2016 Article

FLIGHTS WITH THE RISK OF SPATIAL DISORIENTATION IN THE MEASUREMENTS OF OCULOMOTOR ACTIVITY OF PILOTS

The developed testing method that facilitates the assessment of oculomotor activity upon spatial disorientation caused by visual or vestibular illusions is described.
Semantic Scholar 2015 Article

Structuring the safety case for unmanned aircraft system operations in non-segregated airspace
Semantic Scholar 2015 Article

Development of a template safety case for unmanned aircraft operations over populous areas
Semantic Scholar 2015 Article

Synthesis of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Safety Reports

The proliferation and extension of unmanned aircraft systems from military to civil and public use applications has rapidly outpaced the safety analysis that is normally associated with the introduction of a new and nove…
Semantic Scholar 2015 Article (International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology)

Design and implementation of vision-based structural safety inspection system using small unmanned aircraft
Semantic Scholar 2015 Article (Proceedings of the Vertical Flight Society 71st Annual Forum)

Audiotactile Displays for Improving Situation Awareness and Mitigating Spatial Disorientation

Spatial disorientation (SD) from loss of situation awareness (SA) is a significant safety hazard for helicopter pilots. The focus of the present research is to highlight the potential utility of multimodal displays for i…
Semantic Scholar 2015 Article

Human Factors Models for Aviation Accident Analysis and Prevention
Semantic Scholar 2015 Article

Integrating human factors training into safety management and risk management: A case study from aviation maintenance
Semantic Scholar 2015 Article

Safety risk management of unmanned aircraft systems
Semantic Scholar 2015 Article

Operator's Manual for Human Factors in Aviation Maintenance
Semantic Scholar 2015 Article

A Socio-technical Model for Analyzing Safety Risk of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS): An Application to Precision Agriculture☆

Abstract There are a number of concerns about the introduction of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into the National Airspace System (NAS) of which safety risk is of paramount importance.
Semantic Scholar 2015 Article

Unmanned Aircraft System Handbook and Accident / Incident Investigation Guidelines “ Air Safety through Investigation
Semantic Scholar 2014 Article

Lost in Debate: The Safety of Domestic Unmanned Aircraft Systems

The United States is poised to integrate commercial unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into the national airspace and enable government entities to use UAS in a more expedient manner.
Semantic Scholar 2014 Article (Risk Analysis)

Sense and Avoid Requirements for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Using a Target Level of Safety Approach

A framework to develop effectiveness requirements for any SAA system by linking UAS characteristics and operating environments to midair collision risk quantified by a fatality rate is proposed using afatality rate metri…
Semantic Scholar 2014 Article (Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine)

Spatial disorientation mishap trends in the U.S. Air force 1993-2013.

Results indicate that future SD research should be focused on fighter/attack and helicopter platforms, and class A mishaps involving spatial disorientation had a higher rate as a function of hours flown for helicopter an…
Semantic Scholar 2014 Article

Drones in the U.S. National Airspace System
Semantic Scholar 2014 Article

An integrated graphic–taxonomic–associative approach to analyze human factors in aviation accidents

Abstract Human factors are critical causes of modern aviation accidents. However, existing accident analysis methods encounter limitations in addressing aviation human factors, especially in complex accident scenarios.

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