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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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- NASA NTRS 2019 CDMS Other
THEORY AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PITOT-STATIC TECHNIQUE FOR UPPER ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENTS
Pitot-static technique for upper atmospheric measurements
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Massive Autonomous UAV Path Planning: A Neural Network Based Mean-Field Game Theoretic Approach
This paper investigates the autonomous control of massive unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for mission-critical applications (e.g., dispatching many UAVs from a source to a destination for firefighting).
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Impact of 3D Antenna Radiation Patterns on TDOA-Based Wireless Localization of UAVs
Next big commercial applications of drones require to fly the drone beyond the visual line of sight (BVLOS). This inevitable ability to fly BVLOS will also necessitate the ability to keep track of the drone's location, i…
- NASA NTRS 2019 CDMS Other
SOME MEASURED CHARACTERISTICS OF SEVERE STORM TURBULENCE
Severe storm turbulence
- NASA NTRS 2019 CDMS Other
AUTORADIOGRAPHY OF FATIGUE FRACTURE IN ALUMINUM
Autoradiography of fatigue fracture in aluminum
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Robust Cooperative Formation Control of Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Robust cooperative formation control is investigated in this paper for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles in close formation flight to save energy. A novel cooperative control method is developed.
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Autonomous Air Traffic Controller: A Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach
Air traffic control is a real-time safety-critical decision making process in highly dynamic and stochastic environments. In today's aviation practice, a human air traffic controller monitors and directs many aircraft fl…
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Resilient UAV Traffic Congestion Control using Fluid Queuing Models
In this paper, we address the issue of congestion in future Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAVs) traffic system in uncertain weather. We treat the traffic of UAVs as fluid queues, and introduce models for traffic dynamics at t…
- NASA NTRS 2019 ARC Technical Memorandum (TM)
Factors Affecting the Use of Emergency and Abnormal Checklists: Implications for Current and NextGen Operations
The purpose of the current study was two-fold: 1) identify current practices associated with the design and content of checklists used to guide pilot response to emergency and abnormal situations, particularly those know…
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Game Theoretical Framework for the Evaluation of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Airspace Integration Concepts
Predicting the outcomes of integrating Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) into the National Aerospace (NAS) is a complex problem which is required to be addressed by simulation studies before allowing the routine access of UA…
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Drones in Distress: A Game-Theoretic Countermeasure for Protecting UAVs Against GPS Spoofing
One prominent security threat that targets unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is the capture via GPS spoofing in which an attacker manipulates a UAV's global positioning system (GPS) signals in order to capture it.
- Semantic Scholar 2019 Article (Composite structures)
Impact damage assessment in polymer matrix composites using self-heating based vibrothermography
Abstract Low-velocity impact damage (LVID) is one of the most dangerous damage types appearing in polymeric composite structures during their operation, since they are invisible or barely visible on a surface, while insi…
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Indoor Testing and Simulation Platform for Close-distance Visual Inspection of Complex Structures using Micro Quadrotor UAV
In recent years, using drone, also known as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), in close-distance visual inspection has became an active area in many disciplines.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2019 ERAU Industry report (AQRR)
Airline Quality Rating 2019
To contribute to AQR 2020, we encourage you to take the Airline Passenger Survey. Please CLICK HERE. The results of the 29th annual national Airline Quality Rating (AQR).
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Hybrid Compositional Approach to Optimal Mission Planning for Multi-rotor UAVs using Metric Temporal Logic
This paper investigates a hybrid compositional approach to optimal mission planning for multi-rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). We consider a time critical search and rescue scenario with two quadrotors in a constra…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2019 ERAU Safety program report
Quality Analysis of United States Commercial Air Carriers: Airline Quality Rating 2019
Past research regarding major U.S. commercial air carriers and consumer perceptions of airline performance has provided little more than a descriptive “snapshot” of the average air traveler.
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
MAT-Fly: An Educational Platform for Simulating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Aimed to Detect and Track Moving Objects
The main motivation of this work is to propose a simulation approach for a specific task within the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) field, i.e., the visual detection and tracking of arbitrary moving objects.
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Theory for the effect of fluid inertia on the orientation of a small particle settling in turbulence
Ice crystals settling through a turbulent cloud are rotated by turbulent velocity gradients. In the same way, turbulence affects the orientation of aggregates of organic matter settling in the ocean.
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Multi-agent estimation and filtering for minimizing team mean-squared error
Motivated by estimation problems arising in autonomous vehicles and decentralized control of unmanned aerial vehicles, we consider multi-agent estimation and filtering problems in which multiple agents generate state est…
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Priority Maps for Surveillance and Intervention of Wildfires and other Spreading Processes
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) path planning algorithms often assume a knowledge reward function or priority map, indicating the most important areas to visit.
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Attitude- and Cruise Control of a VTOL Tiltwing UAV
This paper presents the mathematical modeling, controller design, and flight-testing of an over-actuated Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) tiltwing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV).
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Physics-Based Freely Scalable Continuum Deformation for UAS Traffic Coordination
This paper develops a novel physics-inspired traffic coordination approach and applies it to Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) traffic management.
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A magnetically driven equatorial jet in Europa's ocean
During recent decades, data from space missions have provided strong evidence of deep liquid oceans underneath a thin outer icy crust on several moons of Jupiter, particularly Europa.
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Object recognition and tracking using Haar-like Features Cascade Classifiers: Application to a quad-rotor UAV
In this paper, we develop a functional Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), capable of tracking an object using a Machine Learning-like vision system called Haar feature-based cascade classifier.
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Realtime Rooftop Landing Site Identification and Selection in Urban City Simulation
Safe autonomous landing in urban cities is a necessity for the growing Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) industry. In urgent situations, building rooftops, particularly flat rooftops, can provide local safe landing zones f…
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Novel Technique for Rejecting Non-Aircraft Artefacts in Above Horizon Vision-Based Aircraft Detection
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations are steadily expanding into many important applications. A key technology for better enabling their commercial use is an onboard sense and avoid (SAA) technology which can detect …
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Below Horizon Aircraft Detection Using Deep Learning for Vision-Based Sense and Avoid
Commercial operation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) would benefit from an onboard ability to sense and avoid (SAA) potential mid-air collision threats.
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Geometric Adaptive Control with Neural Networks for a Quadrotor UAV in Wind fields
This paper proposes a geometric adaptive controller for a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle with artificial neural networks. It is assumed that the dynamics of a quadrotor is disturbed by arbitrary, unstructured forces a…
- FAA CAMI 2019 CAMI CAMI technical report
Cabin Safety Research: Evacuation in Smoke and Reduced Visibility
CAMI cabin-evacuation laboratory studies on passenger flow rates, exit-row selection, and crew commands under low-visibility (smoke) conditions.
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Learning Extreme Hummingbird Maneuvers on Flapping Wing Robots
Biological studies show that hummingbirds can perform extreme aerobatic maneuvers during fast escape. Given a sudden looming visual stimulus at hover, a hummingbird initiates a fast backward translation coupled with a 18…
- Semantic Scholar 2019 Article (Structural Health Monitoring)
Real world application of angular scan pulse-echo ultrasonic propagation imager for damage tolerance evaluation of full-scale composite fuselage
Composite structures are assertively used for new airframe designs and manufacturing in military aircrafts because of superior strength-to-weight ratios and fatigue resistance.
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Technical Note for "A Geodesic Approach for the Control of Tethered Quadrotors"
This technical note focuses on the control of a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tethered to the ground. The control objective is to stabilize the UAV to the desired position while ensuring that the cable remains …
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Heat and water vapor transfer in the wake of a falling ice sphere and its implication for secondary ice formation in clouds
We perform direct numerical simulations of the settling of an ice sphere in an ambient fluid accounting for heat and mass transfer with the aim of studying in a meteorological context the case of falling graupel in humid…
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Security-Aware Synthesis Using Delayed-Action Games
Stochastic multiplayer games (SMGs) have gained attention in the field of strategy synthesis for multi-agent reactive systems. However, standard SMGs are limited to modeling systems where all agents have full knowledge o…
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Hierarchical non-linear control for multi-rotor asymptotic stabilization based on zero-moment direction
We consider the hovering control problem for a class of multi-rotor aerial platforms with generically oriented propellers. Given the intrinsically coupled translational and rotational dynamics of such vehicles, we first …
- Semantic Scholar 2019 Article (Ergonomics)
Editorial: Ergonomics and Human Factors in Aviation
Ergonomics and Human Factors (E/HF) in Aviation is essential for the safety and efficiency of commercial airlines, passenger, cargo and military operations, and for the well-being of their passenge...
- NASA NTRS 2019 CDMS Conference Paper
Transition flight control room automation
The Workstation Prototype Laboratory is currently working on a number of projects which can have a direct impact on ground operations automation.
- NASA NTRS 2019 CDMS Conference Paper
Improving situation awareness displays for air traffic controllers
Situation awareness displays play a critical role in the performance of air traffic controllers, but present versions are far from ideal.
- NASA NTRS 2019 CDMS Conference Paper
EMS helicopter incidents reported to the NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System
The objectives of this evaluation were to: Identify the types of safety-related incidents reported to the Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) in Emergency Medical Service (EMS) helicopter operations; Describe the ope…
- arXiv 2019 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Trajectory Design for Cellular-Connected UAV Under Outage Duration Constraint
In this paper, we study the trajectory design for a cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with given initial and final locations, while communicating with the ground base stations (GBSs) along its flight.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2019 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Development of a Statistical Model to Predict Australian Flight Students’ Valuation of Aviation Safety
This study was a quantitative approach to explore whether certain demographic factors, exposure to safety training, flight experience, and engagement could be used to develop a predictive model for how Australian flight …
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2019 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
The Effect of Experiential Education on Pilots' VFR into IMC Decision-Making
In aviation, safety is always a primary consideration, and this is especially true during a pilot’s flight training to instill that safety mentality.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2019 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Aircraft Interior Design And Satisfaction For Different Activities; A New Approach Toward Understanding Passenger Experience
Among airlines and aircraft manufacturers there is much attention for passenger experience. However, there is not much literature on how the activities of passengers can be supported by the aircraft interior.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2019 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
3D TEXTILE PREFORMS AND COMPOSITES FOR AIRCRAFT STRCUTURES: A REVIEW
Over the last decades, the development of 3D textile composites has been driven the structures developed to overcome disadvantages of 2D laminates such as the needs of reducing fabrication cost, increasing through-thickn…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2019 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
FE Modeling Methodology for Load Analysis and Preliminary Sizing of Aircraft Wing Structure
It is a critical part at the basic design phase of aircraft structural design to build a finite element model and it will have a direct impact on time and cost for airframe structure development.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2019 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Low Level Turbulence Detection For Airports
Abstract—— Low level wind shear and turbulence present a serious safety risk to aircraft during the approach, landing and take-off phases. Despite many advances in on-board and ground based warning systems.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2019 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Crew Resource Management for Large Unmanned Aircraft Systems Operations
Abstract The author explored the application of crew resource management (CRM) principles to commercial flight operations conducted by large unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2019 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Speech Interfaces and Pilot Performance: A Meta-Analysis
As the aviation industry modernizes, new technology and interfaces must support growing aircraft complexity without increasing pilot workload.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2019 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Computational Study of Flow Interactions over a Close Coupled Canard-Wing on Fighter
There have been many attempts to improve the flying performance of a fighter. By modifying the flow that occurs along the fuselage is expected to improve the performance of the aircraft.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2019 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Design and Simulation of Regional Navigation Constellation with Optimized Mean DOP based on Hybrid GEO and IGSO Satellites
In this article, achieving an optimal layout of satellite constellation has been investigated with the aim of navigation (positioning) and with the least amount of error in a region coverage.