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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 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Small UAVs-supported Autonomous Generation of Fine-grained 3D Indoor Radio Environmental Maps
Radio Environmental Maps (REMs) are a powerful tool for enhancing the performance of various communication and networked agents. However, generating REMs is a laborious undertaking, especially in complex 3-Dimensional (3…
- Semantic Scholar 2021 Article (International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics)
Evaluation of effectiveness of risk-based comprehensive safety training planning in the gas pipeline construction industry
Safety training programs play an effective role in reducing diseases and accidents during working. The purpose of this study was comprehensive safety training planning for the gas pipeline construction industry, and inve…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Clustering-based Multicast Scheme for UAV Networks
When an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network is utilized as an aerial small base station (BS), like a relay deployed far away from macro BSs, existing multicast methods based on acknowledgement (ACK) feedback and retran…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Differential Flatness and Flatness Inspired Control of Aerial Manipulators based on Lagrangian Reduction
This paper shows that the dynamics of a general class of aerial manipulators, consist of an underactuated multi-rotor base with an arbitrary k-linked articulated manipulator, are differentially flat.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Verifying Switched System Stability With Logic
Switched systems are known to exhibit subtle (in)stability behaviors requiring system designers to carefully analyze the stability of closed-loop systems that arise from their proposed switching control laws.
- Semantic Scholar 2021 Article (Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders)
A pilot RCT of virtual reality job interview training in transition-age youth on the autism spectrum
Background: Adolescents on the autism spectrum may have difficulty obtaining and maintaining employment. One particular obstacle for adolescents on the autism spectrum is the job interview.
- Semantic Scholar 2021 Article (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
Evaluation of a Fast Test Based on Biometric Signals to Assess Mental Fatigue at the Workplace—A Pilot Study
Non-pathological mental fatigue is a recurring, but undesirable condition among people in the fields of office work, industry, and education.
- Semantic Scholar 2021 Article (Data in Brief)
Cockpit voice recorder transcript data: Capturing safety voice and safety listening during historic aviation accidents
Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) transcripts capture audio data within cockpit environments. This aids the investigation of causal factors contributing to aviation accidents by revealing communication and other sounds prior …
- FAA CAMI 2021 CAMI CAMI technical report
Age and the General Aviation Pilot: A Review of the Accident and Medical Certification Data
Analyzes the relationship between pilot age, accident rates, and medical certification outcomes in U.S. general aviation. Identifies age cohorts with elevated risk for specific accident types (loss of control, controlled…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Geometric Control for Load Transportation with Quadrotor UAVs by Elastic Cables
Groups of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly utilized in transportation task as the combined strength allows to increase the maximum payload.
- NASA NTRS 2021 LaRC Technical Memorandum (TM)
Acoustic Flight Simulator Architecture, Noise Training Aid Manual, and Its Training Benefits
The Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology project at NASA is researching source noise and response to reduce the noise impact of vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Advanced Algorithms of Collision Free Navigation and Flocking for Autonomous UAVs
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become very popular for many military and civilian applications including in agriculture, construction, mining, environmental monitoring, etc.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
The drainage of glacier and ice sheet surface lakes
Supraglacial lakes play a central role in storing melt water, enhancing surface melt, and ultimately in driving ice flow and ice shelf melt through injecting water into the subglacial environment and facilitating fractur…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Be Lean -- How to Fit a Model-Based System Architecture Development Process Based on ARP4754 Into an Agile Environment
An emerging service is moving the known aviation sector in terms of technology, paradigms, and key players - the Urban Air Mobility. The reason: new developments in non-aviation industries are driving technological progr…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Contact Line Catch Up by Growing Ice Crystals
The effect of freezing on contact line motion is a scientific challenge in the understanding of the solidification of capillary flows.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Assuring Increasingly Autonomous Systems in Human-Machine Teams: An Urban Air Mobility Case Study
As aircraft systems become increasingly autonomous, the human-machine role allocation changes and opportunities for new failure modes arise.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Formal Guarantees of Timely Progress for Distributed Knowledge Propagation
Autonomous air traffic management (ATM) operations for urban air mobility (UAM) will necessitate the use of distributed protocols for decentralized coordination between aircraft.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Interactions between irregular wave fields and sea ice: A physical model for wave attenuation and ice breakup in an ice tank
Irregular, unidirectional surface water waves incident on model ice in an ice tank are used as a physical model of ocean surface wave interactions with sea ice.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Large Eddy Simulations and modal reconstruction of laminar transonic buffet
Transonic buffet refers to the self-sustained periodic motion of shock waves observed in transonic flows over wings and limits the flight envelope of aircraft.
- Semantic Scholar 2021 Article (Mindfulness)
Building Compassionate Schools: Pilot Study of a Compassionate Mind Training Intervention to Promote Teachers’ Well-being
- Semantic Scholar 2021 Article (Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders)
Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of the WHO Caregiver Skills Training in Public Health Services in Italy
Parents of children with ASD (N = 86; mean age 44.8 months; 67 boys) were randomized to either WHO Caregiver Skills Training (CST) delivered in public health settings in Italy or enhanced treatment-as-usual.
- NASA NTRS 2021 ARC Presentation
Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS)
This overview of the NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) will describe the genesis of the program, report processing procedures, and safety products that are produced from the ASRS data.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
An Adaptive Digital Autopilot for Fixed-Wing Aircraft with Actuator Faults
This paper develops an adaptive digital autopilot for a fixed-wing aircraft and compares its performance with a fixed-gain autopilot. The adaptive digital autopilot is constructed by augmenting the autopilot architecture…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Navigation of a UAV Equipped with a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for LoS Wireless Communication with a Ground Vehicle
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been successfully adopted to enhance the flexibility and robustness of wireless communication networks.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Assessment of a porous viscoelastic model for wave attenuation in ice-covered seas
Chen et al. (Eur. J. Mech. B/Fluids 78, pp. 88-105, 2019) recently proposed a two-dimensional continuum model for linear gravity waves propagating in ice-covered seas.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Stable Marriage Matching for Traffic-Aware Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks: A Gale-Shapley Algorithmic Approach
In keeping with the rapid development of communication technology, a new communication structure is required in a next-generation communication system.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
eVTOL Communications and Networking in UAM: Requirements, Key Enablers, and Challenges
Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft have attracted great attention during the last years as the long-awaited enabler of urban air mobility (UAM), allowing a more sustainable method of transportation an…
- NASA NTRS 2021 LaRC Conference Paper
Towards a Cloud-Based Flight Management System
This paper summarizes the results of an initial concept exploration into the Cloud Flight Management System, or Cloud FMS, idea. Cloud FMS is a concept in which part of the aircraft’s FMS is on the aircraft itself, while…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
4D flight trajectory prediction using a hybrid Deep Learning prediction method based on ADS-B technology: a case study of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport(ATL)
The core of any flight schedule is the trajectories. In particular, 4D trajectories are the most crucial component for flight attribute prediction.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Parametric schedulability analysis of a launcher flight control system under reactivity constraints
The next generation of space systems will have to achieve more and more complex missions. In order to master the development cost and duration of such systems, an alternative to a manual design is to automatically synthe…
- Semantic Scholar 2021 Article (Aerospace)
Classification and Analysis of Go-Arounds in Commercial Aviation Using ADS-B Data
Go-arounds are a necessary aspect of commercial aviation and are conducted after a landing attempt has been aborted. It is necessary to conduct go-arounds in the safest possible manner, as go-arounds are the most safety-…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Autonomous Aerial Delivery Vehicles, a Survey of Techniques on how Aerial Package Delivery is Achieved
Autonomous aerial delivery vehicles have gained significant interest in the last decade. This has been enabled by technological advancements in aerial manipulators and novel grippers with enhanced force to weight ratios.…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
An Overview of the Drone Open-Source Ecosystem
Unmanned aerial systems capable of beyond visual line of sight operation can be organized into a top-down hierarchy of layers including flight supervision, command and control, simulation of systems, operating systems, a…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Sensitivity Study of Fiducial-Aided Navigation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
The possible applications and benefits of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) use in urban areas are gaining considerable attention.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Quadrotor Control on $SU(2)\times R^3$ with SLAM Integration
We present a trajectory tracking controller for a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) configured on $SU(2)\times R^3$, and relate this result to a family of geometric tracking controllers on $SO(3)\times R^3$.
- NASA NTRS 2021 JSC Technical Memorandum (TM)
Orion Meteoroid and Debris Analysis with a Single Kevlar® Layer Enhancement to the Propulsion Tank Multi-Layer Insulation: Comparison of the Observed Data and the Adjusted Ballistic Models
In a continual mass optimization effort for the Orion vehicle by NASA and its prime contractor Lockheed Martin Space, along with the European Space Agency (ESA) and its contractors Airbus and Thales Alenia Space-Italy (T…
- NASA NTRS 2021 LaRC Conference Paper
Progressive Damage Failure Analysis of Post-Buckled Composite Single-Stringer Panel with Teflon Inserts
The high strength-to-weight and stiffness-to-weight ratio materials, such as laminated composites, are advantageous for modern aircraft.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Fast optimal trajectory generation for a tiltwing VTOL aircraft with application to urban air mobility
We solve the minimum-thrust optimal trajectory generation problem for the transition of a tiltwing Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft using convex optimisation.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A thermomechanical model for frost heave and subglacial frozen fringe
Ice-infiltrated sediment, known as a frozen fringe, leads to phenomena such as frost heave, ice lenses, and meters of debris-rich ice under glaciers.
- Semantic Scholar 2021 Article (Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders)
Methylphenidate may improve mental fatigue in individuals with multiple sclerosis: A pilot clinical trial.
BACKGROUND Fatigue is the most common symptom in multiple sclerosis (MS), previously attributed to dopamine imbalance. Evidence suggests that methylphenidate, a psychostimulant that increases striatal and prefrontal dopa…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Data-driven turbulence modeling in separated flows considering physical mechanism analysis
Accurate simulation of turbulent flow with separation is an important but challenging problem. In this paper, a data-driven Reynolds-averaged turbulence modeling approach, field inversion and machine learning is implemen…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Reinforcement Learning Policies in Continuous-Time Linear Systems
Linear dynamical systems that obey stochastic differential equations are canonical models. While optimal control of known systems has a rich literature, the problem is technically hard under model uncertainty and there a…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Column Streaming-Based Convolution Engine and Mapping Algorithm for CNN-based Edge AI accelerators
Edge AI accelerators have been emerging as a solution for near customers' applications in areas such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), image recognition sensors, wearable devices, robotics, and remote sensing satellite…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Image-Based Multi-UAV Tracking System in a Cluttered Environment
A tracking controller for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is developed to track moving targets undergoing unknown translational and rotational motions.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Globally-Attractive Logarithmic Geometric Control of a Quadrotor for Aggressive Trajectory Tracking
We present a new quadrotor geometric control scheme that is capable of tracking highly aggressive trajectories. Our geometric controller uses the logarithmic map of SO(3) to express rotational error in the Lie algebra, a…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Safe Nonlinear Control Using Robust Neural Lyapunov-Barrier Functions
Safety and stability are common requirements for robotic control systems; however, designing safe, stable controllers remains difficult for nonlinear and uncertain models.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Probabilistic Guaranteed Path Planning for Safe Urban Air Mobility Using Chance Constrained RRT
Safety is a critical concern for the success of urban air mobility, especially in dynamic and uncertain environments. This paper proposes a path planning algorithm based on RRT in conjunction with chance constraints in t…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Multi-label Classification of Aircraft Heading Changes Using Neural Network to Resolve Conflicts
An aircraft conflict occurs when two or more aircraft cross at a certain distance at the same time. Specific air traffic controllers are assigned to solve such conflicts.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Integrated and Adaptive Guidance and Control for Endoatmospheric Missiles via Reinforcement Learning
We apply a reinforcement meta-learning framework to optimize an integrated and adaptive guidance and flight control system for an air-to-air missile.
- Semantic Scholar 2021 Article
The dynamics between voluntary safety reporting and commercial aviation accidents