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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 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Dynamic one-time delivery of critical data by small and sparse UAV swarms: a model problem for MARL scaling studies
This work studies the application of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) to decentralized control of unmanned aerial vehicles to relay a critical data package to a known position.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Visual Heading Prediction for Autonomous Aerial Vehicles
The integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) is increasingly central to the development of intelligent autonomous systems for applications such as search and rescue, environmenta…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Development and Testing for Perception Based Autonomous Landing of a Long-Range QuadPlane
QuadPlanes combine the range efficiency of fixed-wing aircraft with the maneuverability of multi-rotor platforms for long-range autonomous missions.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Model Intercomparison Study of Mixed-Phase Clouds in a Laboratory Chamber
Mixed-phase clouds, composed of supercooled liquid droplets and ice crystals, play a critical role in weather and climate systems. Their complex microphysical interactions and coupling with turbulence at microscales gove…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Dynamic Coding Scheme to Prevent Covert Cyber-Attacks in Cyber-Physical Systems
In this paper, we address two main problems in the context of covert cyber-attacks in cyber-physical systems (CPS). First, we aim to investigate and develop necessary and sufficient conditions in terms of disruption reso…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Probabilistic Multi-Agent Aircraft Landing Time Prediction
Accurate and reliable aircraft landing time prediction is essential for effective resource allocation in air traffic management. However, the inherent uncertainty of aircraft trajectories and traffic flows poses signific…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Hybrid Neural Network-Finite Element Method for the Viscous-Plastic Sea-Ice Model
We present an efficient hybrid Neural Network-Finite Element Method (NN-FEM) for solving the viscous-plastic (VP) sea-ice model. The VP model is widely used in climate simulations to represent large-scale sea-ice dynamic…
- NASA NTRS 2025 ARC Conference Paper
Integration and Testing of a UAS Airspace Management System in the Wildland Firefighting Environment
NASA’s Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response Operations (ACERO) project explores the use of technology to provide additional aerial support in the wildland firefighting environment by extending the use of Uncrewed…
- NASA NTRS 2025 ARC Presentation
Integration and Testing of a UAS Airspace Management System in the Wildland Firefighting Environment
NASA’s Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response Operations (ACERO) project explores the use of technology to provide additional aerial support in the wildland firefighting environment by extending the use of Uncrewed…
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (Drones)
A Systematic Review of Urban Air Mobility Development: eVTOL Drones’ Technological Challenges and Low-Altitude Policies of Shenzhen
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is emerging as a transformative solution to urban traffic congestion and inefficient ground travel. This paper presents the UAM development of Shenzhen, a pioneering city of low-altitude economy …
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Obstacle Avoidance of UAV in Dynamic Environments Using Direction and Velocity-Adaptive Artificial Potential Field
The conventional Artificial Potential Field (APF) is fundamentally limited by the local minima issue and its inability to account for the kinematics of moving obstacles.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
AQUILA: A QUIC-Based Link Architecture for Resilient Long-Range UAV Communication
The proliferation of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) applications is critically dependent on resilient, high-bandwidth, and low-latency communication links.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
The macroscopic contact angle of water on ice
Wettability quantifies the affinity of a liquid over a substrate, and determines whether the surface is repellent or not. When both the liquid and the solid phases are made of the same chemical substance and are at therm…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Nonlinear Observer for Air-Velocity and Attitude Estimation Using Pitot and Barometric Measurements
This paper addresses the problem of estimating air velocity and full attitude for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in GNSS-denied environments using minimal onboard sensing-an interesting and practically relevant challeng…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
The Dynamic Prior: Understanding 3D Structures for Casual Dynamic Videos
Estimating accurate camera poses, 3D scene geometry, and object motion from in-the-wild videos is a long-standing challenge for classical structure from motion pipelines due to the presence of dynamic objects.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for UAV-Assisted 5G Network Slicing: A Comparative Study of MAPPO, MADDPG, and MADQN
The growing demand for robust, scalable wireless networks in the 5G-and-beyond era has led to the deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as mobile base stations to enhance coverage in dense urban and underserved r…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Evaluating Kansai Airport's PPP: Grounded Ambitions, Concession of Financial, Geotechnical, and Climate Risk
This study critically examines the Kansai Airports Group’s 44-year Public-Private Partnership (PPP) monopoly-type concession encompassing Kansai International (KIX), Osaka Itami (ITM), and Kobe (UKB) airports.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Reverse Engineering and Control-Aware Security Analysis of the ArduPilot UAV Framework
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technologies are gaining high interest for many domains, which makes UAV security of utmost importance. ArduPilot is among the most widely used open-source autopilot UAV frameworks; yet, man…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Novel MDP Decomposition Framework for Scalable UAV Mission Planning in Complex and Uncertain Environments
This paper presents a scalable and fault-tolerant framework for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) mission management in complex and uncertain environments.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Semantic Communications for Vehicle-Based Mission-Critical Services: Challenges and Solutions
As mission-critical (MC) services such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) based emergency communication and Internet of Vehicles (IoVs) enabled autonomous driving emerge, the traditional communication framework can not m…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Distributionally Robust Acceleration Control Barrier Filter for Efficient UAV Obstacle Avoidance
Dynamic obstacle avoidance (DOA) for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) requires fast reaction under limited onboard resources. We introduce the distributionally robust acceleration control barrier function (DR-ACBF) as an …
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Discontinuity-aware physics-informed neural network for phase-field method in three-phase flow with phase change
Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have been applied to simulate multiphase flows, yet they are limited in modeling phase changes and sharp interfaces due to optimization conflicts in the strongly coupled Allen-Cah…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Exploring Urban Air Mobility Adoption Potential in San Francisco Bay Area Region: A Systems of Systems Level Case Study on Passenger Waiting Times and Travel Efficiency
Urban Air mobility has gained momentum with recent advancements in the electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles, offering faster point-to-point air taxi services that could help relieve traffic congestion …
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Probing superhydrophobic surface topography using droplet adhesion
Understanding contact line dynamics on superhydrophobic surfaces with microscopic structures is essential for designing materials with reduced drag, anti-icing, self-cleaning, and anti-fouling properties.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Multi-Agent gatekeeper: Safe Flight Planning and Formation Control for Urban Air Mobility
We present Multi-Agent gatekeeper, a framework that provides provable safety guarantees for leader-follower formation control in cluttered 3D environments.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
LAA3D: A Benchmark of Detecting and Tracking Low-Altitude Aircraft in 3D Space
Perception of Low-Altitude Aircraft (LAA) in 3D space enables precise 3D object localization and behavior understanding. However, datasets tailored for 3D LAA perception remain scarce.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Autonomous Docking of Multi-Rotor UAVs on Blimps under the Influence of Wind Gusts
Multi-rotor UAVs face limited flight time due to battery constraints. Autonomous docking on blimps with onboard battery recharging and data offloading offers a promising solution for extended UAV missions.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Anti-Jamming based on Null-Steering Antennas and Intelligent UAV Swarm Behavior
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms represent a key advancement in autonomous systems, enabling coordinated missions through inter-UAV communication.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Distributed Switching Model Predictive Control Meets Koopman Operator for Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance
This paper introduces a Koopman-enhanced distributed switched model predictive control (SMPC) framework for safe and scalable navigation of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in dynamic environments with moving ob…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Spatially Consistent Air-to-Ground Channel Modeling and Simulation via 3D Shadow Projections
We present an approach for spatially-consistent semi-deterministic Air-to-Ground (A2G) channel modeling in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-assisted networks.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Data-Driven Model Predictive Control Framework for Multi-Aircraft TMA Routing Under Travel Time Uncertainty
This paper presents a closed-loop framework for conflict-free routing and scheduling of multi-aircraft in Terminal Manoeuvring Areas (TMA), aimed at reducing congestion and enhancing landing efficiency.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Transformer-Guided Deep Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Takeoff Trajectory Design of an eVTOL Drone
The rapid advancement of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft offers a promising opportunity to alleviate urban traffic congestion but is still limited by excessive power demands, especially during the …
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Iterative Negotiation and Oversight: A Case Study in Decentralized Air Traffic Management
Achieving consensus among self-interested agents remains challenging in decentralized multi-agent systems, where agents often have conflicting preferences.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Comprehensive Review of Advancements in Powering and Charging Systems for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones have witnessed a spectacular surge in applications for military, commercial, and civilian purposes.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Handover-Aware URLLC UAV Trajectory Planning: A Continuous-Time Trajectory Optimization via Graphs of Convex Sets
In this paper, we study a cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which aims to fly between two predetermined locations while maintaining ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) for command-and-control…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Consensus-Based Stability Analysis of Multi-Agent Networks
The emergence of large-scale multi-agent systems has led to controller synthesis methods for sparse communication between agents. However, most sparse controller synthesis algorithms remain centralized, requiring informa…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Dissipativity-Based Distributed Stability Analysis for Networks with Heterogeneous Nonlinear Agents
Stabilizing large networks of nonlinear agents is challenging; decomposition and distributed analysis of these networks are crucial for computational tractability and information security.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Cooperative ISAC for LAE: Joint Trajectory Planning, Power allocation, and Dynamic Time Division
To enhance the performance of aerial-ground networks, this paper proposes an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) framework for multi-UAV systems.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Green Emergency Communications in RIS- and MA-Assisted Multi-UAV SAGINs: A Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning Approach
In post-disaster space-air-ground integrated networks (SAGINs), terrestrial infrastructure is often impaired, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) must rapidly restore connectivity for mission-critical ground terminals in…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Hydrodynamic Instability Induces Spontaneous Motion of Floating Ice Discs
Spinning ice discs in nature have been reported for more than a century, yet laboratory experiments have yielded diverse observations and contradictory explanations, leaving the mechanism behind the disc motion elusive.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Density-Driven Multi-Agent Coordination for Efficient Farm Coverage and Management in Smart Agriculture
The growing scale of modern farms has increased the need for efficient and adaptive multi-agent coverage strategies for pest, weed, and disease management.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Conflict-Free Flight Scheduling Using Strategic Demand Capacity Balancing for Urban Air Mobility Operations
In this paper, we propose a conflict-free multi- agent flight scheduling that ensures robust separation in con- strained airspace for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) operations application.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Game-theoretic Regulated Decentralized Coordination for Airspace Sector Overload Mitigation
Decentralized air traffic management systems offer a scalable alternative to centralized control, but often assume high levels of cooperation.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Learning parameter-dependent shear viscosity from data, with application to sea and land ice
Complex physical systems which exhibit fluid-like behavior are often modeled as non-Newtonian fluids. A crucial element of a non-Newtonian model is the rheology, which relates inner stresses with strain-rates.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
RIS-based Communication Enhancement and Location Privacy Protection in UAV Networks
With the explosive advancement of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the security of efficient UAV networks has become increasingly critical.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Beyond Gaussian Assumptions: A General Fractional HJB Control Framework for Lévy-Driven Heavy-Tailed Channels in 6G
Emerging 6G wireless systems suffer severe performance degradation in challenging environments like high-speed trains traversing dense urban corridors and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) links over mountainous terrain.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Aerial Image Stitching Using IMU Data from a UAV
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are widely used for aerial photography and remote sensing applications. One of the main challenges is to stitch together multiple images into a single high-resolution image that covers a l…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Robust Linear Design for Flight Control Systems with Operational Constraints
This paper presents a systematic approach for designing robust linear proportional-integral (PI) servo-controllers that effectively manage control input and output constraints in flight control systems.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Freezing and ice aging dynamics in saline water under natural convection
Understanding the coupled dynamics of liquid-solid phase change and fluid flows is crucial in a wide range of geophysical and industrial applications.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Log-linear Backstepping control on $SE_2(3)$
Most of the rigid-body systems which evolve on nonlinear Lie groups where Euclidean control designs lose geometric meaning. In this paper, we introduce a log-linear backstepping control law on SE2(3) that preserves full …