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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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- Semantic Scholar 2020 Article (Chronobiology International)
An evaluation of fatigue factors in maritime pilot work scheduling
ABSTRACT Maritime piloting operations involve on-call work schedules that may lead to sleep loss and circadian misalignment. Our study documented pilot work scheduling practices (n = 61) over a one-year period.
- Semantic Scholar 2020 Article
Analysis of Thermal Runaway Incidents Involving Lithium Batteries in U.S. Commercial Aviation
Thermal runaway incidents involving lithium batteries as cargo, in luggage, or as personal property in the cabin have been associated with fatalities, the destruction of cargo, and even the loss of entire aircraft.
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Minimum Energy Filter for Localisation of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Accurate localisation of unmanned aerial vehicles is vital for the next generation of automation tasks. This paper proposes a minimum energy filter for velocity-aided pose estimation on the extended special Euclidean gro…
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Towards Reliable UAV-Enabled Positioning in Mountainous Environments: System Design and Preliminary Results
Reliable positioning services are extremely important for users and devices in mountainous environments as it enables a variety of location-based applications.
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
SkyTrakx: A Toolkit for Simulation and Verification of Unmanned Air-Traffic Management Systems (Extended Version)
The key concept for safe and efficient traffic management for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) is the notion of operation volume (OV). An OV is a 4-dimensional block of airspace and time, which can express an aircraft's i…
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Communications Standards for Unmanned Aircraft Systems: The 3GPP Perspective and Research Drivers
An unmanned aircraft system (UAS) consists of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and its controller which use radios to communicate. While the remote controller (RC) is traditionally operated by a person who is maintaining…
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Multi-Agent Collaboration for Building Construction
This paper details the algorithms involved and task planner for vehicle collaboration in building a structure. This is the problem defined in challenge 2 of Mohammed Bin Zayed International Robotic Challenge 2020 (MBZIRC…
- Semantic Scholar 2020 Article (European Journal of Cancer Care)
Patient-centred, self-administered acupressure for Chinese advanced cancer patients experiencing fatigue and co-occurring symptoms: A pilot randomised controlled trial.
OBJECTIVES To evaluate the feasibility and potential effects of patient-centred self-administered acupressure for alleviating fatigue and co-occurring symptoms among Chinese advanced cancer patients receiving treatment.
- Semantic Scholar 2020 Article (Tourism, Terrorism and Security)
Tourism and Terrorism: Terrorists' Threats to Commercial Aviation Safety and Security
If aeroplanes and passengers, as well as property and people on the ground are to be protected, potential perpetrators of aviation terrorism must be prevented from breaching security checkpoints and gaining access to ‘se…
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Freezing-damped impact of a water drop
We experimentally investigate the effect of freezing on the spreading of a water drop. Whenever a water drop impacts a cold surface, whose temperature is lower than 0°C, a thin layer of ice grows during the spreading.
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Evaluation of a Skill-based Control Architecture for a Visual Inspection-oriented Aerial Platform
The periodic inspection of vessels is a fundamental task to ensure their integrity and avoid maritime accidents. Currently, these inspections represent a high cost for the ship owner, in addition to the danger that this …
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Flame/flow dynamics at the piston surface of an IC engine measured by high-speed PLIF and PTV
Resolving fluid transport at engine surfaces is required to predict transient heat loss, which is becoming increasingly important for the development of high-efficiency internal combustion engines (ICE).
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
An experimental study of the detailed flame transport in a SI engine using simultaneous dual-plane OH-LIF and stereoscopic PIV
Understanding the detailed flame transport in IC engines is important to predict ignition, rate of heat release and assess engine performance.
- Semantic Scholar 2020 Article
Sleepiness on the flight deck: Reported rates of occurrence and predicted fatigue risk exposure associated with UK airline pilot work schedules
Abstract Survey and field studies conducted with commercial airline pilots suggest that in-flight sleepiness and related involuntary sleep phenomena are experienced by pilots during their duties.
- Semantic Scholar 2020 Article (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
Digital Training for Non-Specialist Health Workers to Deliver a Brief Psychological Treatment for Depression in Primary Care in India: Findings from a Randomized Pilot Study
Introduction: Task sharing holds promise for scaling up depression care in countries such as India, yet requires training large numbers of non-specialist health workers.
- Semantic Scholar 2020 Article (IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine)
An Assessment of GPS Spoofing Detection Via Radio Power and Signal Quality Monitoring for Aviation Safety Operations
Due to the ever-growing threat of GPS spoofing, it has become necessary for the aviation sector to develop an effective means of detection.
- Semantic Scholar 2020 Article (Nutrients)
Cooking for Vitality: Pilot Study of an Innovative Culinary Nutrition Intervention for Cancer-Related Fatigue in Cancer Survivors
(1) Background: Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) is one of the most prevalent and distressing side effects experienced by patients with cancer during and after treatment, and this negatively impacts all aspects of quality of…
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Dynamics of Laser-Charged UAVs: A Battery Perspective
In this paper, we aim to sustain unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based missions for longer periods of times through different techniques.
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Data-driven Outer-Loop Control Using Deep Reinforcement Learning for Trajectory Tracking
Reference tracking systems involve a plant that is stabilized by a local feedback controller and a command center that indicates the reference set-point the plant should follow.
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Link Budget Analysis for Reconfigurable Smart Surfaces in Aerial Platforms
Non-terrestrial networks, including Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) and Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellites, are expected to have a pivotal role in the sixth generation wireless net…
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
On the Optimal 3D Placement of a UAV Base Station for Maximal Coverage of UAV Users
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be users that support new applications, or be communication access points that serve terrestrial and/or aerial users.
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
FairFly: A Fair Motion Planner for Fleets of Autonomous UAVs in Urban Airspace
We present a solution to the problem of fairly planning a fleet of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) that have different missions and operators, such that no one operator unfairly gets to finish its missions early at the e…
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Joint Channel Assignment and Power Allocation for Multi-UAV Communication
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm has emerged as a promising novel paradigm to achieve better coverage and higher capacity for future wireless network by exploiting the more favorable line-of-sight (LoS) propagation.
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
The MRS UAV System: Pushing the Frontiers of Reproducible Research, Real-world Deployment, and Education with Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
We present a multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle control (UAV) and estimation system for supporting replicable research through realistic simulations and real-world experiments.
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Vision-Based Control Method for Autonomous Landing of Vertical Flight Aircraft On a Moving Platform Without Using GPS
The paper discusses a novel vision-based estimation and control approach to enable fully autonomous tracking and landing of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on moving platforms…
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Scalable FastMDP for Pre-departure Airspace Reservation and Strategic De-conflict
Pre-departure flight plan scheduling for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and cargo delivery drones will require on-demand scheduling of large numbers of aircraft.
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Analysis of Fleet Management and Network Design for On-Demand Urban Air Mobility Operations
A significant challenge in estimating operational feasibility of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) missions lies in understanding how choices in design impact the performance of a complex system-of-systems.
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A nudged hybrid analysis and modeling approach for realtime wake-vortex transport and decay prediction
We put forth a long short-term memory (LSTM) nudging framework for the enhancement of reduced order models (ROMs) of fluid flows utilizing noisy measurements for air traffic improvements.
- Semantic Scholar 2020 Article (Sustainability)
Environmental Degradation and the Implementation of the Circular Economy in Commercial Aviation
Commercial aviation has made noteworthy contributions to society and the world economy over the past century. As growth in air traffic and the demand for commercial aircraft increase, the industry must grapple with conce…
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Byzantine-Resilient Distributed Hypothesis Testing With Time-Varying Network Topology
We study the problem of distributed hypothesis testing over a network of mobile agents with limited communication and sensing ranges to infer the true hypothesis collaboratively.
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Near-Optimal Reactive Synthesis Incorporating Runtime Information
We consider the problem of optimal reactive synthesis - compute a strategy that satisfies a mission specification in a dynamic environment, and optimizes a performance metric.
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Kinetics of lithium electrodeposition and stripping
Electrodeposition and stripping are fundamental electrochemical processes for metals and have gained importance in rechargeable Li-ion batteries due to lithium metal electrodes.
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Energy-Efficient UAV-Assisted Mobile Edge Computing: Resource Allocation and Trajectory Optimization
In this paper, we study unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) with the objective to optimize computation offloading with minimum UAV energy consumption.
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Cooperative Internet of UAVs: Distributed Trajectory Design by Multi-agent Deep Reinforcement Learning
Due to the advantages of flexible deployment and extensive coverage, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have great potential for sensing applications in the next generation of cellular networks, which will give rise to a ce…
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
How the growth of ice depends on the fluid dynamics underneath
Convective flows coupled with solidification or melting in water bodies play a major role in shaping geophysical landscapes. Particularly in relation to the global climate warming scenario, it is essential to be able to …
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Intelligent Trajectory Planning in UAV-mounted Wireless Networks: A Quantum-Inspired Reinforcement Learning Perspective
In this paper, we consider a wireless uplink transmission scenario in which an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) serves as an aerial base station collecting data from ground users.
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
An Extensive Survey on the Internet of Drones
The Internet of Drones (IoD) recently gained momentum due to its high adaptability to a wide variety of complex scenarios. Indeed, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can successfully be employed in different applications, t…
- Semantic Scholar 2020 Article (Biological Research for Nursing)
A Pilot Study of Metabolomic Pathways Associated With Fatigue in Survivors of Colorectal Cancer
Background: Over 30% of cancer survivors experience chronic fatigue. An alteration in energy metabolism is one of the hypothesized mechanisms for cancer-related fatigue (CRF).
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Effect of particle inertia on the alignment of small ice crystals in turbulent clouds
Small non-spherical particles settling in a quiescent fluid tend to orient so that their broad side faces down, because this is a stable fixed point of their angular dynamics at small particle Reynolds number.
- NASA NTRS 2020 ARC Technical Memorandum (TM)
Deep Space Human-Systems Research Recommendations for Future Human-Automation/Robotic Integration
Appropriate integration between automation and robotics systems and their human operators is essential for future space exploration. The Human Factors and Behavioral Performance Element of NASA’s Human Research Program r…
- NASA NTRS 2020 LaRC Conference Paper
Alert Timing Assessment for Unmanned Aircraft System Terminal Area Operations
A Detect and Avoid (DAA) system is an essential enabler for integrating Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into the U.S. National Airspace System.
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
SAR image wave spectra to retrieve the thickness of grease-pancake sea ice using viscous wave models
Young sea ice composed of grease and pancake ice (GPI), as well as thin floes, considered to be the most common form of sea ice fringing Antarctica, is now becoming the 'new normal' also in the Arctic.
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Developmental Reinforcement Learning of Control Policy of a Quadcopter UAV with Thrust Vectoring Rotors
In this paper, we present a novel developmental reinforcement learning-based controller for a quadcopter with thrust vectoring capabilities. This multirotor UAV design has tilt-enabled rotors.
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Dynamics of collision of a spherical ice crystal particle with a perfectly rigid substrate
Impact of single particle onto a rigid substrate leads to its deformation and fragmentation. The flow associated with the particle spreading on a solid substrate after impact is extremely complicated.
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A pole-to-equator ocean overturning circulation on Enceladus
Enceladus is believed to have a saltwater global ocean with a mean depth of at least 30~km, heated from below at the ocean-core interface and cooled at the top, where the ocean loses heat to the icy lithosphere above.
- Semantic Scholar 2020 Article (Western Journal of Nursing Research)
Brief Workplace Interventions Addressing Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, and Teamwork: A Pilot Study
Burnout and compassion fatigue are problematic for nurses, patients, and organizations. Identifying brief interventions nurses can engage in while at work to address compassion fatigue, burnout, and teamwork, as burnout …
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Universal Battery Performance and Degradation Model for Electric Aircraft
Development of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) concepts has been primarily focused on electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOLs), small aircraft which can land and takeoff vertically, and which are powered by recha…
- NASA NTRS 2020 JSC Accepted Manuscript (Version with final changes)
International Space Station (ISS) Thruster Plume Contamination and Erosion Control for Visiting Spacecraft
The ISS is the largest and most complex platform for space science utilization in low Earth orbit. Multiple sites for external payloads, with exposure to the associated natural and induced environments, are available to …
- arXiv 2020 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Virtual Testbed for Monocular Visual Navigation of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Monocular visual navigation methods have seen significant advances in the last decade, recently producing several real-time solutions for autonomously navigating small unmanned aircraft systems without relying on GPS.
- Semantic Scholar 2020 Article (Journal of Intellectual Disability Research)
A randomised clinical pilot trial to test the effectiveness of parent training with video modelling to improve functioning and symptoms in children with autism spectrum disorders and intellectual disability.
BACKGROUND Poor eye contact and joint attention are early signs of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and important prerequisites for developing other socio-communicative skills.