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- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2022 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Optimization of Lean and Agile Supply Chain Management Practices in the Aviation Industry
Organizations that provide products and/or services must be able to execute fast, adaptive supply and (fluctuating) demand practices. From producers to consumers, and every stakeholder involved throughout the supply chai…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2022 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Effectiveness of a Flight Simulation Training Visual Aid for Normal and Crosswind Approach and Landing
Flight simulators have a significant contribution to effective and efficient flight training across the globe. Significant literature has suggested the effectiveness of simulation tools in training pilots in different sc…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2022 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Fatigue in Aircraft Maintenance Technician Schools
Fatigue has long been identified as a human factor in aviation. Subsequently, a series of studies have highlighted fatigue-related elements within the context of the aviation industry, focusing on the flight deck – with …
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2022 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Stroboscopic Augmented Reality as an Approach to Mitigate Gravitational Transition Effects During Interplanetary Spaceflight
During interplanetary spaceflight, periods of extreme gravitational transitions will occur such as transitions between hypergravity, hypogravity, and microgravity.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2022 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
INTEGRATED RISK ASSESSMENT IN RAMP HANDLING OPERATIONS: RISK MAPPING FOR TURKISH AIRPORTS
Ramp handling acts a vital role in sustainable airport operations. The ramp related services provided to aircraft and their passengers at the airports are related to the landing, take-off, unloading and loading of the ai…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2022 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
GA Pilot Perceptions of Speech Systems to Transcribe and Submit PIREPs
Flying into hazardous weather can be a cause of aviation incidents and accidents. Accidents involving general aviation (GA) pilots who are not instrument rated who fly into instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) are …
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2022 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Native Language Effects on Flight Training Performance
Several high-profile commercial aviation accidents in the past that were caused in part by inadequate English language proficiency confirmed the importance of clear and concise communication between air traffic controlle…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2022 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Organizational Networks, and Management of Disruptions in the Airline Ground Operation Process During Seasonal Crises
This study focuses on informal relationships between airlines and suppliers in managing disruptions in the airline ground operation process during peak times in the summer seasons.
- Semantic Scholar 2022 Article (Uncertain Supply Chain Management)
The effect of safety risk management and airport personnel competency on aviation safety performance
Aviation safety performance at Wamena Indonesia airport is still relatively low, and this is shown by the high number of accidents that occurred at the airport in the 2013-2018 period, namely 20 accidents.
- Semantic Scholar 2022 Article (Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research)
Effectiveness of Virtual Reality Simulations for Civilian, Ab Initio Pilot Training
- Semantic Scholar 2022 Article (IEEE transactions on industry applications)
Effect of Endogenous Failure Events on the Survivability of Turboelectric Distributed Propulsion System
Recent advancements in aircraft electrification have led to the introduction of turboelectric distributed propulsion (TeDP). For instance, NASA's N3X airplane aims to curb jet fuel emissions with the aid of TeDP.
- Semantic Scholar 2022 Article (Safety Science)
Safety and security implications of crisis-driven austerity HRM practices in commercial aviation: A structural equation modelling approach
- Semantic Scholar 2022 Article
Automatic speech recognition in noise polluted cockpit environments for monitoring the approach briefing in commercial aviation
The language processing part of the overall system is described, which is a commercially available automatic speech recognition system trained on aviation specific vocabulary and strategies for dealing with cockpit noise…
- Semantic Scholar 2022 Article (Electronic Research Archive)
Fatigue detection method for UAV remote pilot based on multi feature fusion
In recent years, UAV industry is developing rapidly and vigorously. However, so far, there is no relevant research on the fatigue detection method for UAV remote pilot, which is the core technology to ensure the flight s…
- Semantic Scholar 2022 Article (Human Factors in Transportation)
Safety and Privacy in Urban Air Mobility (UAM) - A User Centric Design Approach Providing Insights into People´s Preferences for UAM Cabin Designs
For years, manufacturers and research institutions around the world have been working on various concepts to start a new era of urban and suburban transportation for people with so-called Air Taxis.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Energy-Efficient Trajectory Design for UAV-Aided Maritime Data Collection in Wind
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), especially fixed-wing ones that withstand strong winds, have great potential for oceanic exploration and research.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Wireless-Enabled Asynchronous Federated Fourier Neural Network for Turbulence Prediction in Urban Air Mobility (UAM)
To meet the growing mobility needs in intra-city transportation, the concept of urban air mobility (UAM) has been proposed in which vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft are used to provide a ride-hailing service.…
- Semantic Scholar 2021 Article (Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England)
Patient, Procedure, People (PPP): recognising and responding to intraoperative critical events.
Intraoperative critical events are rarely experienced by individual surgeons but are commonly experienced at a workforce level. Finding unfamiliar or unexpected pathology, anatomy, haemorrhage or an iatrogenic organ or s…
- Semantic Scholar 2021 Article (Aviation)
ANALYSIS OF GENERAL AVIATION FIXED-WING AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS INVOLVING INFLIGHT LOSS OF CONTROL USING A STATE-BASED APPROACH
Inflight loss of control (LOC-I) is a significant cause of General Aviation (GA) fixed-wing aircraft accidents. The United States National Transportation Safety Board’s database provides a rich source of accident data, b…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Aerial Base Station Positioning and Power Control for Securing Communications: A Deep Q-Network Approach
The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is one of the technological breakthroughs that supports a variety of services, including communications.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Optimization for Master-UAV-powered Auxiliary-Aerial-IRS-assisted IoT Networks: An Option-based Multi-agent Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
This paper investigates a master unmanned aerial vehicle (MUAV)-powered Internet of Things (IoT) network, in which we propose using a rechargeable auxiliary UAV (AUAV) equipped with an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Modulation property of flexural-gravity waves on a water surface covered by a compressed ice sheet
We study the nonlinear modulation property of flexural-gravity waves on a water surface covered by a compressed ice sheet of given thickness and density in a basin of a constant depth.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Spreading, pinching, and coalescence: the Ohnesorge units
Understanding the kinematics and dynamics of spreading, pinching, and coalescence of drops is critically important for a diverse range of applications involving spraying, printing, coating, dispensing, emulsification, an…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Multiagent Control of Airplane Wing Stability with "Feathers" under the Flexural Torsional Flutter
This paper proposes a novel method for the prevention of the unbounded oscillation of an aircraft wings under the flexural torsion flutter.
- NASA NTRS 2021 ARC Conference Paper
Adaptive Stress Testing of Collision Avoidance Systems for Small UASs with Deep Reinforcement Learning
The next-generation Airborne Collision Avoidance System for smaller UASs (ACAS sXu) is currently being developed and tested by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to provide detect-and-avoid capability for small un…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Dataset of Stationary, Fixed-wing Aircraft on a Collision Course for Vision-Based Sense and Avoid
The emerging global market for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) services is anticipated to reach USD 58.4 billion by 2026, spurring significant efforts to safely integrate routine UAV operations into the national airspace i…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Bounded Distance-control for Multi-UAV Formation Safety and Preservation in Target-tracking Applications
The notion of safety in multi-agent systems assumes great significance in many emerging collaborative multi-robot applications. In this paper, we present a multi-UAV collaborative target-tracking application by defining …
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Estimating the non-dimensional energy of vortex rings by modelling their roll-up
The non-dimensional energy of starting vortex rings typically converges to values around 0.33 when they are created by a cylinder piston or a bluff body translating at a constant speed.
- Semantic Scholar 2021 Article (IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence)
Machine Learning based Prediction of Situational Awareness in Pilots using ECG Signals
Reducing aviation fatalities requires a high level of reliable real-time monitoring so that events can be predicted and prevented before they can occur.
- FAA-affiliated R&D (MITRE / Volpe / FAA Tech Center) 2021 MITRE MITRE reference architecture
UAS BVLOS Airspace Integration Reference Architecture
MITRE technical reference architecture for BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line of Sight) UAS operations in the NAS. Defines detect-and-avoid + remote-ID + UTM integration patterns.
- FAA-affiliated R&D (MITRE / Volpe / FAA Tech Center) 2021 FAA-TC FAA Tech Center damage-tolerance study
Composite Damage Tolerance Inspection Methods for Aging Aircraft
Hughes Technical Center damage-tolerance research for composite structures — ultrasonic + thermography NDI methods for impact damage detection. Underpins FAA AC 20-107B composite-aircraft maintenance guidance.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Joint Cluster Head Selection and Trajectory Planning in UAV-Aided IoT Networks by Reinforcement Learning with Sequential Model
Employing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has attracted growing interests and emerged as the state-of-the-art technology for data collection in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks.
- Semantic Scholar 2021 Article (Heliyon)
Aviation safety training methodology
Safety management systems (SMS) are widely accepted as a way of improving safety and are currently required by the aviation regulations.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Multi-UAV Conflict Resolution with Graph Convolutional Reinforcement Learning
Safety is the primary concern when it comes to air traffic. In-flight safety between Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles (UAVs) is ensured through pairwise separation minima, utilizing conflict detection and resolution methods.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
UAV-based Crowd Surveillance in Post COVID-19 Era
To cope with the current pandemic situation and reinstate pseudo-normal daily life, several measures have been deployed and maintained, such as mask wearing, social distancing, hands sanitizing, etc.
- NASA NTRS 2021 ARC Technical Memorandum (TM)
Development of Near-term Urban Air Mobility Routes and Airspace Integration
Growing interest in Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has been demonstrated by a great deal of investment in related research made by industry, government, and academia.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Software Tool for Evaluating Unmanned Autonomous Systems
The North Carolina Agriculture and Technical State University (NC A&T) in collaboration with Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) has developed methodologies for creating simulation-based technology tools that are capa…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Flight Control System Design for Autonomous Aerial Surveys of Volcanoes
The controller for a quadrotor working in severe environment is developed in this study. Here, the severe environment indicates the temperature-varying air near the volcano.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Location-aware Beamforming for MIMO-enabled UAV Communications: An Unknown Input Observer Approach
Numerous communications and networking challenges prevent deploying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in extreme environments where the existing wireless technologies are mainly ground-focused; and, as a consequence, the a…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Anomalous convective flows carve pinnacles and scallops in melting ice
We report on the shape dynamics of ice suspended in cold fresh water and subject to the natural convective flows generated during melting.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Prediction of nonlinear interface dynamics in the unidirectional freezing of particle suspensions with rigid compacted layer
Water freezing in particle suspensions widely exists in nature. As a typical physical system of free boundary problem, the spatiotemporal evolution of the solid/liquid interface not only origins from phase transformation…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Drone delivery: Reliable Cellular UAV Communication Using Multi-Operator Diversity
The market size of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs, a.k.a drones) can reach up to 10% of the global market value. In particular, drone delivery is one of the most attractive applications.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Spatio-Temporal Split Learning for Autonomous Aerial Surveillance using Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Networks
Autonomous surveillance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are deployed to observe the streets of the city for any suspicious activities.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Obstacle Avoidance for UAS in Continuous Action Space Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Obstacle avoidance for small unmanned aircraft is vital for the safety of future urban air mobility (UAM) and Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM).
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Adaptive and quasi-sliding control of shimmy in landing gears
Shimmy is a dangerous phenomenon that occurs when aircraft's nose landing gears oscillate in a rapid and uncontrollable fashion. In this paper, we propose the use of two nonlinear control approaches (zero average control…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
High Spots for the Ice-Fishing Problem with Surface Tension
In the ice-fishing problem, a half-space of fluid lies below an infinite rigid plate (``the ice'') with a hole. In this paper, we investigate the ice-fishing problem including the effects of surface tension on the free s…
- Semantic Scholar 2021 Article (Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention)
Kernel Principal Component Analysis for Structural Health Monitoring and Damage Detection of an Engineering Structure Under Operational Loading Variations
This paper highlights kernel principal component analysis (KPCA) in distinguishing damage-sensitive features from the effects of liquid loading on frequency response.
- NASA NTRS 2021 GSFC Presentation
Psyche Hardware Abstraction Simulation Environment (PHASE): Development of High-Fidelity Downlink Model for Flight Software Performance Testing
NASA’s Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Independent Test Capability (ITC) Team develops high fidelity software-only simulations (or “digital-twins”) of NASA’s most critical missions that a…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Salt-fingering in seasonally ice-covered lakes
When ice forms on lakes, dissolved salts are rejected, which can lead to under-ice salt-finger formation. We performed a series of laboratory experiments to visualize these fingers.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Framework for eVTOL Performance Evaluation in Urban Air Mobility Realm
In this paper, we developed a generalized simulation framework for the evaluation of electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (eVTOLs) in the context of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) and …