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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 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Robust Translational Force Control of Multi-Rotor UAV for Precise Acceleration Tracking
In this paper, we introduce a translational force control method with disturbance observer (DOB)-based force disturbance cancellation for precise three-dimensional acceleration control of a multi-rotor UAV.
- NASA NTRS 2019 HQ Conference Paper
Fly-by-Wire Flight Control System Experience with a Free-Flight Lunar-Landing Research Vehicle
Ground and flight tests to evaluate lunar landing research vehicle fly-by-wire control system
- NASA NTRS 2019 HQ Other - NASA Technical Note (TN)
Investigation of Propeller-power-plant Autoprecession Boundaries for a Dynamic-aeroelastic Model of a Four-engine Turboprop Transport Airplane
A flexibly mounted aircraft engine may under certain conditions experience a self-excited whirling instability involving a coupling between the gyroscopic and aerodynamic forces acting on the propeller, and the inertial,…
- NASA NTRS 2019 HQ Contractor Report (CR)
Aircraft Engine Sump Fire Mitigation
An investigation was performed of the conditions in which fires can result and be controlled within the bearing sump simulating that of a gas turbine engine; Esso 4040 Turbo Oil, Mobil Jet 2, and Monsanto MCS-2931 lubric…
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Conference Paper
Clustering Days with Similar Airport Weather Conditions
On any given day, traffic flow managers must often rely on past experience and intuition when developing traffic flow management initiatives that mitigate imbalances between the aircraft demand and the weather impacted a…
- NASA NTRS 2019 AFRC Presentation
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration in the National Airspace System (NAS) Project KDP-C Review
The topics discussed are the UAS-NAS project life-cycle and ARMD thrust flow down, as well as the UAS environments and how we operate in those environments.
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Abstract
Enhanced/Synthetic Vision Systems for Advanced Flight Decks
One of the most challenging arenas for enhanced and synthetic vision systems is the flight deck. Here, pilots must perform active and supervisory control behaviors based on imagery generated in real time or transduced fr…
- NASA NTRS 2019 AFRC Presentation
Unmanned Aircraft Systems Demand and Economic Benefit Forecast Study
This presentation describes the need to calculate projections for the demands and benefits of operating commercial unmanned aircraft within the NAS.
- NASA NTRS 2019 AFRC Presentation
UAS Integration in the NAS Project UAS Commericalization Industry Conference
Description and Update of NASA UAS in the NAS Project
- NASA NTRS 2019 AFRC Presentation
NASA UAS Integration Efforts
This is a benefit to NASA because of all the networking opportunities as well as sharing information about UAS-NAS within the UAS community. NASA has developed, and is executing, a Cohesive Strategy for UAS Integration
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Presentation
Clustering Days with Similar Airport Weather Conditions
On any given day, traffic flow managers must often rely on past experience and intuition when developing traffic flow management initiatives that mitigate imbalances between the aircraft demand and the weather impacted a…
- NTSB Aircraft Accident Reports 2019 NTSB Accident report
Embraer ERJ 175 Runway Excursion at Charlotte Douglas
Republic Airline ERJ-175 runway excursion CLT, January 2018. Examines a low-energy runway excursion involving misuse of autobrakes + thrust reverser response after a high-crosswind landing on a contaminated runway.
- NASA NTRS 2019 CDMS Conference Paper
Aircraft wake turbulence minimization by aerodynamic means
The paper reviews NASA's efforts on wake vortex turbulence minimization by aerodynamic design or retrofit modifications to large transport aircraft.
- NASA NTRS 2019 LaRC Conference Paper
Symbolic Computation of Strongly Connected Components Using Saturation
Finding strongly connected components (SCCs) in the state-space of discrete-state models is a critical task in formal verification of LTL and fair CTL properties, but the potentially huge number of reachable states and S…
- NASA NTRS 2019 CDMS Other
Experimental flight test vibration measurements and nondestructive inspection on a USCG HC-130H aircraft
This paper presents results of experimental flight test vibration measurements and structural inspections performed by the Federal Aviation Administration's Airworthiness Assurance NDI Validation Center (AANC) at Sandia …
- NASA NTRS 2019 LaRC Conference Paper
Detection of Intergranular Corrosion in Cold Plate Face Sheets
Cold plates are critical for cooling electronic systems in the shuttle. As a result of the environmental conditions in which they operate, water can condense between them and a support shelf.
- NASA NTRS 2019 AFRC Presentation
Where to Land: A Reachability Based Forced Landing Algorithm for Aircraft Engine Out Scenarios
No abstract available
- NASA NTRS 2019 JSC Abstract
Dynamic Visual Acuity and Landing Sickness in Crewmembers Returning from Long-Duration Spaceflight
Long-term exposure to microgravity causes sensorimotor adaptations that result in functional deficits upon returning to a gravitational environment.
- NASA NTRS 2019 LaRC Conference Paper
Quantifying Pilot Contribution to Flight Safety during Hydraulic Systems Failure
Accident statistics cite the flight crew as a causal factor in over 60% of large transport aircraft fatal accidents. Yet, a well-trained and well-qualified pilot is acknowledged as the critical center point of aircraft s…
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Presentation
NASA Airline Operations Research Center
This is a PowerPoint presentation NASA airline operations center (AOC) research. It includes information on using IBM Watson in the AOC.
- NASA NTRS 2019 LaRC Conference Publication (CP)
The 1991 International Conference on Aging Aircraft and Structural Airworthiness
Civil aviation serves a strategic interest to the United States. Thus, the need to maintain a high standard of aviation safety is axiomatic.
- NASA NTRS 2019 GRC Presentation
The Winter 2010 and 2011 FRONT/NIRSS In-Flight Icing Hazard Detection Project
The NASA Icing Remote Sensing System (NIRSS) deploys a vertically-pointing K-band radar, a lidar ceiliometer, and a profiling microwave radiometer to obtain measurements for diagnosing local inflight icing conditions.
- NASA NTRS 2019 KSC Presentation
Corrosion Preventive Compounds Lifetime Testing
Lifetime Testing of Corrosion Preventive Compounds (CPCs) was performed to quantify performance in the various environments to which the Space Shuttle Orbiter is exposed during a flight cycle.
- NASA NTRS 2019 MSFC Abstract
High Energy Failure Containment for Spacecraft
Objective: The objective of this paper will be to investigate advancements and any commonality between spacecraft debris containment and the improvements being made in ballistic protection.
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Abstract
Emergency Landing Planning for Damaged Aircraft
Considerable progress has been made over the last 15 years on building adaptive control systems to assist pilots in flying damaged aircraft.
- NASA NTRS 2019 JSC Conference Paper
International Space Station Powered Bolt Nut Anomaly and Failure Analysis Summary
A key mechanism used in the on-orbit assembly of the International Space Station (ISS) pressurized elements is the Common Berthing Mechanism (CBM).
- NASA NTRS 2019 LaRC Conference Proceedings
Synthetic Vision Workshop 2
The second NASA sponsored Workshop on Synthetic/Enhanced Vision (S/EV) Display Systems was conducted January 27-29, 1998 at the NASA Langley Research Center.
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Presentation
Tool-Enabled Changes in Terminal Air Traffic Controller Task and Workload Distribution
A human-in-the-loop simulation was conducted that examined an approach to adjusting airport arrivals in such a way as to enable higher departure throughput while maintaining arrival throughput.
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Presentation
Pre-Flight Training of Autonomic Responses for Mitigating the Effects of Spatial Disorientation During Spaceflight
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has identified a potential risk of spatial disorientation, motion sickness, and degraded performance to astronauts during re-entry and landing of the proposed Orio…
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Technical Memorandum (TM)
Current Safety Nets Within the U.S. National Airspace System
There are over 70,000 flights managed per day in the National Airspace System, with approximately 7,000 aircraft in the air over the United States at any given time.
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Presentation
Part 121 Taxi/Parked Ground Conflict Related Incidents
This presentation reviews voluntary safety reports received by NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System pertaining to Part 121 Taxi/Parked Ground Conflicts.
- NASA NTRS 2019 HQ Other
Crew Management Processes Revitalize Patient Care
In 2005, two physicians, former NASA astronauts, created LifeWings Partners LLC in Memphis, Tennessee and began using Crew Resource Management (CRM) techniques developed at Ames Research Center in the 1970s to help impro…
- Semantic Scholar 2019 Article (Sustainability)
Fuel Consumption Model of the Climbing Phase of Departure Aircraft Based on Flight Data Analysis
Accurate estimation of the fuel consumed during aircraft operation is key for determining the fuel load, reducing the airline operating cost, and mitigating environmental impacts.
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Preliminary Study on A Physical Model Oriented Learning Algorithm with Application to UAVs
This paper provides a preliminary study for an efficient learning algorithm by reasoning the error from first principle physics to generate learning signals in near real time.
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Presentation
Using a Crew Resource Management Framework to Develop Human-Autonomy Teaming Measures
Recent developments in technology have permitted an increased use of autonomy. To work best with humans, autonomy should have the qualities of a good team member.
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
UAV Surveillance Under Visibility and Dwell-Time Constraints: A Sampling-Based Approach
A framework is introduced for planning unmanned aerial vehicle flight paths for visual surveillance of ground targets, each having particular viewing requirements.
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Presentation
Terminal Sequencing and Spacing (TSS)
The Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Next Generation Air Transportation System (or NextGen) is being designed to support the predicted increases in traffic volume and to increase the capacity, efficiency and safet…
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Control of Cooperative Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Review of Applications, Challenges, and Algorithms
A system of cooperative unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a group of agents interacting with each other and the surrounding environment to achieve a specific task.
- Semantic Scholar 2019 Article (IEEE Access)
sEMG-Based Detection of Compensation Caused by Fatigue During Rehabilitation Therapy: A Pilot Study
To stimulate neuroplasticity, the stroke patient often receives repetitive and high load robotic rehabilitation therapy. Given their impaired motor function, the patients are prone to muscle fatigue.
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
On Flying Backwards: Preventing Run-away of Small, Low-speed, Fixed-wing UAVs in Strong Winds
Small, low-speed fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) operating autonomously, beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) will inevitably encounter winds rising to levels near or exceeding the vehicles' nominal airspeed.
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Presentation
Analysis of Interactions Between Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Operations and Conventional Traffic in Urban Areas: Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) Study for UAM Operations
This paper presents results on potential interaction effects from UAM (Urban Air Mobility) operations integrated into current operational scenarios by evaluating if/where/how Traffic alert and Collision Avoidance System …
- Semantic Scholar 2019 Article (2019 AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium (EATS))
Challenges in Vehicle Safety and Occupant Protection for Autonomous electric Vertical Take-off and Landing (eVTOL) Vehicles
The burgeoning electric Vertical Take-off and Landing (eVTOL) vehicle industry has generated a significant level of enthusiasm amongst aviation designers, manufacturers and researchers.
- Semantic Scholar 2019 Article (International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering)
Enabling Technologies and Platforms to Aid Digitalization of Commercial Aviation Support, Maintenance and Health Management
Due to advancement of electronic hardware and software, big leaps in computational power and resurging of several enabling technologies such as AI, big data and cloud is continue happening.
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Aerial Robot Control in Close Proximity to Ceiling: A Force Estimation-based Nonlinear MPC
Being motivated by ceiling inspection applications via unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) which require close proximity flight to surfaces, a systematic control approach enabling safe and accurate close proximity flight is …
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Conference Paper
Human Factors Assessment of Disturbances to Scheduled Performance-Based Navigation Arrival Operations
The introduction of Performance-Based Navigation (PBN) specifications to air traffic management has resulted in many benefits during nominal operations, including shorter flight paths, reduced fuel costs, and improved te…
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Effects of numerical implementations of the impenetrability condition on non-linear Stokes flow: applications to ice dynamics
The basal sliding of glaciers and ice sheets can constitute a large part of the total observed ice velocity, in particular in dynamically active areas.
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Adaptive Flight Control in the Presence of Limits on Magnitude and Rate
Input constraints as well as parametric uncertainties must be accounted for in the design of safe control systems. This paper presents an adaptive controller for multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) plants with input ma…
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Ice Spiral Patterns on the Ocean Surface
We investigate a new two-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes hydrodynamic model design to explain and study large scale ice swirls formation at the surface of the ocean.
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Attitude Control of a Novel Tailsitter: Swiveling Biplane-Quadrotor
This paper proposes a solution to the attitude tracking problem for a novel quadrotor tailsitter unmanned aerial vehicle called swiveling biplane quadrotor.
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Joint Coverage and Power Control in Highly Dynamic and Massive UAV Networks: An Aggregative Game-theoretic Learning Approach
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) ad-hoc network is a significant contingency plan for communication after a natural disaster, such as typhoon and earthquake.