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- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Co-simulation Framework for Quadrotor Control System Design using ROS 2 and MATLAB/Simulink
Co-simulation is a critical approach for the design and analysis of complex cyber-physical systems. It will enhance development efficiency and reduce costs.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Design and Control of a Coaxial Dual-rotor Reconfigurable Tailsitter UAV Based on Swashplateless Mechanism
The tailsitter vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) UAV is widely used due to its lower dead weight, which eliminates the actuators and mechanisms for tilting.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Hysteresis in the freeze-thaw cycle of emulsions and suspensions
Freeze-thaw cycles can be regularly observed in nature in water and are essential in industry and science. Objects present in the medium will interact with either an advancing solidification front during freezing or a re…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Adjoint-based Hopf-bifurcation Instability Suppression via First Lyapunov Coefficient
Many physical systems exhibit limit cycle oscillations induced by Hopf bifurcations. In aerospace engineering, limit cycle oscillations arise from undesirable Hopf bifurcation phenomena such as aeroelastic flutter and tr…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
ISAC Empowered Air-Sea Collaborative System: A UAV-USV Joint Inspection Framework
In this paper, we construct an air-sea collaborative system framework based on the Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) techniques, where the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) jointl…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Simulation of a Non-Newtonian drop impact on a rigid surface: A mess-free approach
The present study explores the impact of a non-Newtonian fluid drop on a rigid surface using a mesh-free approach, Smoothed Particle Hydrodynam-ics.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Wave Attenuation in Drifting Sea Ice: A Mechanistic Model for Observed Decay Profiles
Wave-sea ice interactions shape the transition zone between open ocean and pack ice in the polar regions. Most theoretical paradigms, implemented in coupled wave-sea ice models, predict exponential decay of the wave ener…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Minimizing Maximum Latency of Task Offloading for Multi-UAV-assisted Maritime Search and Rescue
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play a crucial role in Maritime Search and Rescue (MSAR), contributing to the improvement of rescue efficiency and reduction of casualties.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Rotatable Antenna System Empowered Low-Altitude Economy: Opportunities and Challenges
Low-altitude economy (LAE) is an emerging technological paradigm that enables continuous airspace coverage at multiple altitudes by providing highly reliable data connectivity for numerous low-altitude applications.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
InvSim algorithm for pre-computing airplane flight controls in limited-range autonomous missions, and demonstration via double-roll maneuver of Mirage III fighters
In this work, we start with a generic mathematical framework for the equations of motion (EOM) in flight mechanics with six degrees of freedom (6-DOF) for a general (not necessarily symmetric) fixed-wing aircraft.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Pareto-Optimal Sampling and Resource Allocation for Timely Communication in Shared-Spectrum Low-Altitude Networks
Guaranteeing stringent data freshness for low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in shared spectrum forces a critical trade-off between two operational costs: the UAV's own energy consumption and the occupation of …
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Height-Dependent Rotor Noise and Thrust in Urban Air Mobility: An Experimental Study
The present study investigates the aerodynamic and aeroacoustic characteristics of a propeller operating under varying rotational speeds (RPM) and heights ("H" ), with a particular focus on the effects of upstream obstru…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
A Mathematical Model on the Temporal Dynamics of Aviation Competitive Pricing
This study investigates the competitive dynamics of airport pricing using U.S. airport data to validate the findings. It employs linear and nonlinear ordinary differential equation models to analyze the influence of comp…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
Political Turbulence and Aviation Safety: A Cross-National Analysis of Political Stability's Effects on Aviation Accidents
To what extent does political stability affect aviation safety? This research aims to link domestic political conditions and public safety through the consideration of aviation accident frequency.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)
A Scoping Review of Aviation Loss of Control Inflight Research
Loss of control – inflight (LOC-I) contributes to aircraft accidents at unacceptably high rates. Significant industry efforts and research have aimed to improve LOC-I prevention, detection, and recovery.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Quantum-Resilient Threat Modelling for Secure RIS-Assisted ISAC in 6G UAV Corridors
The rapid deployment of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) corridors in sixth-generation (6G) networks requires safe, intelligence-driven integrated sensing and communications (ISAC).
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
SPIRAL: Self-Play Incremental Racing Algorithm for Learning in Multi-Drone Competitions
This paper introduces SPIRAL (Self-Play Incremental Racing Algorithm for Learning), a novel approach for training autonomous drones in multi-agent racing competitions.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Numerical Investigation of Discontinuous Ice Effects on Swept Wings
This study investigates the aerodynamic performance and flow structures of infinite swept wings with artificially simulated discontinuous ice using an enhanced delayed detached-eddy simulation.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Unified Numerical Framework for Turbulent Convection and Phase-Change Dynamics in Coupled Fluid-Porous Systems
This work presents a unified numerical framework for simulating incompressible flows within the coupled fluid-porous-medium system and involving heat and solute transport and phase-changing process.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Aeroelastic Reduced-Order Model Differential Equations in Transonic Buffeting Flow
Numerical simulation of the transonic shock buffet phenomenon remains a formidable challenge due to its inherent nonlinear and unsteady characteristics.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Strategic Analysis of Digital Transformation Capabilities: A Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Evaluation of Low-Cost Airlines
This study comparatively assesses the digital transformation capabilities of low-cost carriers (LCCs) operating in Turkey through the lens of dynamic capabilities.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2025 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Invisible Aircraft in U.S. Airspace: Regulatory Gaps and Mid-Air Collision Risk for Part 121 Operators
Scheduled air carrier aircraft operate at large and small commercial airports across the U.S. National Airspace System. These turbine-powered aircraft fly at high speeds during departure and approach, yet many commercial…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Joint Computation Offloading and Resource Management for Cooperative Satellite-Aerial-Marine Internet of Things Networks
Devices within the marine Internet of Things (MIoT) can connect to low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to facilitate low-latency data transmission and execution, as well as enhanced-capac…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
An Experimental Study of Trojan Vulnerabilities in UAV Autonomous Landing
This study investigates the vulnerabilities of autonomous navigation and landing systems in Urban Air Mobility (UAM) vehicles. Specifically, it focuses on Trojan attacks that target deep learning models, such as Convolut…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Multi-UAV Flood Monitoring via CVT with Gaussian Mixture of Density Functions for Coverage Control
This study presents a control strategy for coordinating multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to monitor unknown flood regions and estimate the extent of inundation.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Urban Air Mobility: A Review of Recent Advances in Communication, Management, and Sustainability
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) offers a transformative approach to addressing urban congestion, improving accessibility, and advancing environmental sustainability.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
DRL-Based Resource Allocation for Energy-Efficient IRS-Assisted UAV Spectrum Sharing Systems
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems provide a new paradigm for reconfigurable and flexible wireless communications.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Valeo Near-Field: a novel dataset for pedestrian intent detection
This paper presents a novel dataset aimed at detecting pedestrians' intentions as they approach an ego-vehicle. The dataset comprises synchronized multi-modal data, including fisheye camera feeds, lidar laser scans, ultr…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A vertically integrated model with phase change for aquifers in cold firn
Surface meltwater from glaciers and ice sheets contributes significantly to sea-level rise, yet the processes governing its transport and retention within cold firn remain poorly constrained, particularly in multiple dim…
- NASA NTRS 2025 ARC Technical Memorandum (TM)
The Integration of eVTOL Aircraft and Infrastructure into San Jose Mineta International Airport
With the average American spending around 43 hours a year sitting in traffic1, and automobile emissions in the US accounting for 57% of all transportation emissions2, traditional transportation infrastructure can no long…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
DMTrack: Deformable State-Space Modeling for UAV Multi-Object Tracking with Kalman Fusion and Uncertainty-Aware Association
Multi-object tracking (MOT) from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) presents unique challenges due to unpredictable object motion, frequent occlusions, and limited appearance cues inherent to aerial viewpoints.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Learning Robust Agile Flight Control with Stability Guarantees
In the evolving landscape of high-speed agile quadrotor flight, achieving precise trajectory tracking at the platform's operational limits is paramount.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Sensing, Detection and Localization for Low Altitude UAV: A RF-Based Framework via Multiple BSs Collaboration
The rapid growth of the low-altitude economy has resulted in a significant increase in the number of Low, slow, and small (LLS) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), raising critical challenges for secure airspace management …
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Safety Analysis of eVTOL Operations based on STPA
Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft are expected to be quieter and more cost-effective than helicopters, offering major economic and social benefits through improved connectivity.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Anti-Jamming based on Beam-Steering Antennas and Intelligent UAV Swarm Behavior
In recent years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have brought a new true revolution to military tactics. While UAVs already constitute an advantage when operating alone, multi-UAV swarms expand the available possibilitie…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Three-dimensional Integrated Guidance and Control for Leader-Follower Flexible Formation of Fixed Wing UAVs
This paper presents a nonlinear integrated guidance and control (IGC) approach for flexible leader-follower formation flight of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) while accounting for high-fidelity aerodynamics a…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Mass Conservation on Rails -- Rethinking Physics-Informed Learning of Ice Flow Vector Fields
To reliably project future sea level rise, ice sheet models require inputs that respect physics. Embedding physical principles like mass conservation into models that interpolate Antarctic ice flow vector fields from spa…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
An Active Fault-Tolerant Online Control Allocation Scheme for a Dual-System UAV in Transition Flight
A novel active fault-tolerant control (AFTC) scheme for a dual-system vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) during transition flight is proposed in this paper.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
From Patchwork to Network: A Comprehensive Framework for Demand Analysis and Fleet Optimization of Urban Air Mobility
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) presents a transformative vision for metropolitan transportation, but its practical implementation is hindered by substantial infrastructure costs and operational complexities.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Machine Learning-Driven Prediction of Lithium-Ion Battery Power Capability for eVTOL Aircraft
Electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft have emerged as a promising solution to transform urban transportation. They present a few technical challenges for battery management, a prominent one of which is …
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A numerical stabilization scheme for the shallow shelf approximation
We present the Thickness Stabilization Scheme (TSS), a numerical stabilization scheme suitable for the Shallow Shelf Approximation (SSA), one of the most widely-used models for large-scale Antarctic and Greenland ice she…
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (Advanced Energy Materials)
Thermal Dynamics and Lithium Plating Detection in High‐Power Li‐Ion Batteries for eVTOL Applications
The rapid electrification of aerial transportation is driving the need for high‐performance Li‐ion batteries that can operate reliably under stringent thermal and safety constraints.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Next-Generation LLM for UAV: From Natural Language to Autonomous Flight
With the rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs), their capabilities in various automation domains, particularly Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) operations, have garnered increasing attention.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
ROSflight 2.0: Lean ROS 2-Based Autopilot for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
ROSflight is a lean, open-source autopilot ecosystem for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Designed by researchers for researchers, it is built to lower the barrier to entry to UAV research and accelerate the transition f…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
ROSplane 2.0: A Fixed-Wing Autopilot for Research
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) research requires the integration of cutting-edge technology into existing autopilot frameworks. This process can be arduous, requiring extensive resources, time, and detailed knowledge of t…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS)-Enabled UAV Delivery
A pinching-antenna systems (PASS)-enabled unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) delivery framework is proposed, which exploits the capability of PASS to establish a strong line-of-sight link and reduce free-space pathloss.Aiming…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Robust Attitude Control of Nonlinear UAV Dynamics with LFT Models and $\mathcal{H}_\infty$ Performance
Attitude stabilization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in uncertain environments presents significant challenges due to nonlinear dynamics, parameter variations, and sensor limitations.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Integrated Communication and Control for Energy-Efficient UAV Swarms: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach
The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm-assisted communication networks has become an increasingly vital approach for remediating coverage limitations in infrastructure-deficient environments, with especial…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Hybrid Powertrain Optimization for Regional Aircraft Integrating Hydrogen Fuel Cells and Aluminum Air Batteries
With the increasing demand for air travel and the urgency to reduce emissions, transitioning from fossil fuel-based propulsion systems is a critical step toward sustainable aviation.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Next-Generation Aerial Robots -- Omniorientational Strategies: Dynamic Modeling, Control, and Comparative Analysis
Conventional multi-rotors are under-actuated systems, hindering them from independently controlling attitude from position. In this study, we present several distinct configurations that incorporate additional control in…