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- NASA NTRS 2021 LaRC Contractor Report (CR)
Bell Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration and Operationalization (SIO) Demonstration: Final Report, Summary of Research
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) initiated the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration and Operationalization (SIO) demonstration as a partnership between NASA and Industry with the goal of accelerating…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A computational fluid dynamics model for the small-scale dynamics of wave, ice floe and interstitial grease ice interaction
The marginal ice zone is a highly dynamical region where sea ice and ocean waves interact. Large-scale sea ice models only compute domain-averaged responses.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
An Integrated Mechanical Intelligence and Control Approach Towards Flight Control of Aerobat
Our goal in this work is to expand the theory and practice of robot locomotion by addressing critical challenges associated with the robotic biomimicry of bat aerial locomotion.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Predicting Demand for Air Taxi Urban Aviation Services using Machine Learning Algorithms
This research focuses on predicting the demand for air taxi urban air mobility (UAM) services during different times of the day in various geographic regions of New York City using machine learning algorithms (MLAs).
- Semantic Scholar 2021 Article (Pilot and Feasibility Studies)
Feasibility of using a biofeedback device in mindfulness training - a pilot randomized controlled trial
Background Stress can negatively impact an individual’s health and well-being and high levels of stress are noted to exist among college students today.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A High-Gain Observer Approach to Robust Trajectory Estimation and Tracking for a Multi-rotor UAV
Using the context of trajectory estimation and tracking for multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), we explore the challenges in applying high-gain observers to highly dynamic systems.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Resolvent analysis on the origin of two-dimensional transonic buffet
Resolvent analysis is performed to identify the origin of two-dimensional transonic buffet over an airfoil. The base flow for the resolvent analysis is the time-averaged flow over a NACA 0012 airfoil at a chord-based Rey…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Model Based Control of Commercial-Off-TheShelf (COTS) Unmanned Rotorcraft for BrickWall Construction
This work proposes a systematic framework for modelling and controller design of a Commercial-Off-The Shelf (COTS) unmanned rotorcraft using control theory and principles, for brick wall construction.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Autonomous Flight in Unknown GNSS-denied Environments for Disaster Examination
Micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) have high potential for information gathering tasks to support situation awareness in search and rescue scenarios.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Fully Onboard AI-powered Human-Drone Pose Estimation on Ultra-low Power Autonomous Flying Nano-UAVs
Artificial intelligence-powered pocket-sized air robots have the potential to revolutionize the Internet-of-Things ecosystem, acting as autonomous, unobtrusive, and ubiquitous smart sensors.
- Semantic Scholar 2021 Article (Safety Science)
Examining the most accident-prone sector within commercial aviation: Why do accidents with light inland helicopters occur, and how can we improve safety?
Abstract Light inland helicopter has for several years been the most accident-prone sector within commercial aviation, with a more than 10 times higher accident risk than offshore helicopters.
- Semantic Scholar 2021 Article (Neurodegenerative Disease Management)
Understanding the influence of pain and fatigue on physical performance, fear of falling and falls in people with Parkinson's disease: a pilot study.
Objective: Pain and fatigue are highly prevalent debilitating symptoms in Parkinson's disease (PD), however, their relationship with physical performance, fear of falling (FOF) and falls is not clear.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Passenger-Centric Urban Air Mobility: Fairness Trade-Offs and Operational Efficiency
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has the potential to revolutionize transportation. It will exploit the third dimension to help smooth ground traffic in densely populated areas.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Onset of glacier tables
A glacier table consists of a rock supported by a slender column of ice and form naturally on glaciers. We investigate the onset of their formation at a smaller scale in a controlled environment.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Formation Control for UAVs Using a Flux Guided Approach
Existing studies on formation control for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have not considered encircling targets where an optimum coverage of the target is required at all times.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Asymptotic Analysis of Subglacial Plumes in Stratified Environments
Accurate predictions of basal melt rates on ice shelves are necessary for precise projections of the future behaviour of ice sheets. The computational expense associated with completely resolving the cavity circulation u…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Robotics During a Pandemic: The 2020 NSF CPS Virtual Challenge -- SoilScope, Mars Edition
Remote sample recovery is a rapidly evolving application of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) for planetary sciences and space exploration.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Predictive energy management for hybrid electric aircraft propulsion systems
We present a Model Predictive Control (MPC) algorithm for energy management in aircraft with hybrid electric propulsion systems consisting of gas turbine and electric motor components.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Convection in a mushy-layer along a heated wall
Motivated by the mushy zones of sea ice, volcanoes, and icy moons of the outer solar system, we perform a theoretical and numerical study of boundary-layer convection along a vertical heated wall in a bounded ideal mushy…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Turbulent Convection in Subglacial Lakes
Subglacial lakes are isolated, cold-temperature and high-pressure water environments hidden under ice sheets, which might host extreme microorganisms.
- Semantic Scholar 2021 Article (Journal of Aerospace Information Systems)
Multi-Class Multiple Instance Learning for Predicting Precursors to Aviation Safety Events
In recent years, there has been a rapid growth in the application of machine learning techniques that leverage aviation data collected from commercial airline operations to improve safety.
- NASA NTRS 2021 ARC Contractor or Grantee Report
Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Vertiport Automation Trade Study
The NASA Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Vertiport Automation Trade Study seeks to understand the barriers to scaling AAM takeoff and landing facilities, described in this study as vertiplaces.
- NASA NTRS 2021 LaRC Other - NASA Fact Sheet
Fit2Fly Project
NASA’s Fit2Fly project wants to make future commercial drone fleet operations routine, safe, and boring. How can future operators of commercial drone fleets know without a doubt that their aircraft are fit to fly? It is …
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Nested Vehicle Routing Problem: Optimizing Drone-Truck Surveillance Operations
Unmanned aerial vehicles or drones are becoming increasingly popular due to their low cost and high mobility. In this paper we address the routing and coordination of a drone-truck pairing where the drone travels to mult…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Meta-Learning-Based Robust Adaptive Flight Control Under Uncertain Wind Conditions
Realtime model learning proves challenging for complex dynamical systems, such as drones flying in variable wind conditions. Machine learning technique such as deep neural networks have high representation power but is o…
- FAA-affiliated R&D (MITRE / Volpe / FAA Tech Center) 2021 VOLPE Volpe Center model documentation
Aircraft Noise Modeling — AEDT Version 3 Verification & Validation
Volpe documentation of Aviation Environmental Design Tool (AEDT) version 3 — the FAA-mandated aircraft noise and emissions modeling tool for NEPA environmental analyses. Used in every Part 150 airport noise study.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Yoneda Hacking: The Algebra of Attacker Actions
Our work focuses on modeling the security of systems from their component-level designs. Towards this goal, we develop a categorical formalism to model attacker actions.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Multi-Agent Path Planning based on MPC and DDPG
The problem of mixed static and dynamic obstacle avoidance is essential for path planning in highly dynamic environment. However, the paths formed by grid edges can be longer than the true shortest paths in the terrain s…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Air taxi service for urban mobility: A critical review of recent developments, future challenges, and opportunities
Expected to operate in the imminent future, air taxi service (ATS) is an aerial on-demand transport for a single passenger or a small group of riders, which seeks to transform the method of everyday commute.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
The Black-Box Simplex Architecture for Runtime Assurance of Autonomous CPS
The Simplex Architecture is a runtime assurance framework where control authority may switch from an unverified and potentially unsafe advanced controller to a backup baseline controller in order to maintain the safety o…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Design, Integration and Sea Trials of 3D Printed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and Unmanned Surface Vehicle for Cooperative Missions
In recent years, Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV) have been extensively deployed for maritime applications. However, USV has a limited detection range with sensor installed at the same elevation with the targets.
- NASA NTRS 2021 ARC Contribution to a larger work
Advanced Air Mobility and Safety Management Systems
Our current air transportation system has underserved markets, including local, regional, intraregional, and urban transportation of both people and cargo.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Dynamic flows create potentially habitable conditions in Antarctic subglacial lakes
Trapped beneath the Antarctic ice sheet lie over 400 subglacial lakes, which are considered to be extreme, isolated, yet viable habitats for microbial life.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Consistent Right-Invariant Fixed-Lag Smoother with Application to Visual Inertial SLAM
State estimation problems without absolute position measurements routinely arise in navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous ground vehicles, etc., whose proper operation relies on accurate state estimates and …
- NASA NTRS 2021 LaRC Accepted Manuscript (Version with final changes)
Decentralized Control Synthesis for Air Traffic Management in Urban Air Mobility
Urban air mobility (UAM) refers to air transportation services within an urban area, often in an on-demand fashion. We study air traffic management (ATM) for vehicles in a UAM fleet, while guaranteeing system safety requ…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Dynamics and Control of a Flapping Wing UAV with Abdomen Undulation Inspired by Monarch Butterfly
This paper presents a dynamic model and a control system for a flapping-wing unmanned aerial vehicle. Inspired by flight characteristics captured from live Monarch butterflies, a new dynamic model is presented to account…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Aperiodic Communication for MPC in Autonomous Cooperative Landing
This paper investigates the rendezvous problem for the autonomous cooperative landing of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on an unmanned surface vehicle (USV).
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Urban Metric Maps for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Motion Planning
Low-altitude urban flight planning for small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) requires accurate vehicle, environment maps, and risk models to assure flight plans consider the urban landscape as well as airspace constraint…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Data-Driven Retrospective Cost Adaptive Control for Flight Control Application
Unlike fixed-gain robust control, which trades off performance with modeling uncertainty, direct adaptive control uses partial modeling information for online tuning.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Synergism of the dynamics of tetrahedral hydrogen bonds of liquid water
We used modified Arrhenius approximations to analyze the known temperature dependences (TDs) of water microstructure parameters and its dynamic characteristics.
- Semantic Scholar 2021 Article (Journal of Surgical Education)
Surgeons Are Not Pilots: Is the Aviation Safety Paradigm Relevant to Modern Surgical Practice?
Error in surgery is common, although not always consequential. Surgical outcomes are often compared to safety data from commercial aviation.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Lifshitz theory of wetting films at three phase coexistence: The case of ice nucleation on Silver Iodide (AgI)
Hypothesis: As a fluid approaches three phase coexistence, adsorption may take place by the successive formation of two intervening wetting films.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Energy Optimization in Massive MIMO UAV-Aided MEC-Enabled Vehicular Networks
This paper presents a novel unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided mobile edge computing (MEC) architecture for vehicular networks. It is considered that the vehicles should complete latency critical computation intensive t…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Two-dimensionally stable self-organization arises in simple schooling swimmers through hydrodynamic interactions
We present new constrained and free-swimming experiments and simulations of a pair of pitching hydrofoils interacting in a minimal school.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
BAXTER: Bi-modal Aerial-Terrestrial Hybrid Vehicle for Long-endurance Versatile Mobility: Preprint Version
Unmanned aerial vehicles are rapidly evolving within the field of robotics. However, their performance is often limited by payload capacity, operational time, and robustness to impact and collision.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Key parameters for droplet evaporation and mixing at the cloud edge
The distribution of liquid water in ice-free clouds determines their radiative properties, a significant source of uncertainty in weather and climate models.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Vision Based Autonomous UAV Plane Estimation And Following for Building Inspection
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has already demonstrated its potential in many civilian applications, and the façade inspection is among the most promising ones.
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Roughness on liquid-infused surfaces induced by capillary waves
Liquid-infused surfaces (LIS) are a promising technique for reducing friction, fouling and icing in both laminar and turbulent flows. Previous work has demonstrated that these surfaces are susceptible to shear-driven dra…
- arXiv 2021 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Investigation of flow field of clap & fling motion using immersed boundary coupled lattice Boltzmann method
This paper deals with the investigation of flow field due to clap and fling mechanism using immersed boundary coupled with lattice Boltzmann method.
- NASA NTRS 2021 LaRC Conference Paper
Loss of Control Detection for Commercial Transport Aircraft Using Conditional Variational Autoencoders
This work describes a detector for the loss of control condition of a commercial transport in flight. The detector has a belief state defined by the latent variable stochastic modeling of a conditional variational autoen…