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Aviation research, sourced & cited.
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 2018 JSC Conference Paper
Transition Flight Control Room Automation
The Workstation Prototype Laboratory is currently working on a number of projects which we feel can have a direct impact on ground operations automation.
- NASA NTRS 2018 KSC 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.
- NASA NTRS 2018 ARC Other
Improving Airline Safety
Under a NASA-Ames Space Act Agreement, Coryphaeus Software and Simauthor, Inc., developed an Aviation Performance Measuring System (APMS).
- NASA NTRS 2018 LaRC Other
Parachuting to Safety
NASA's Langley Research Center awarded Ballistic Recovery Systems, Inc., three Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts to research and develop a new, low cost, lightweight recovery system for aircraft in both…
- NASA NTRS 2018 JPL Conference Paper
Battlespace Forecasting of Aviation Icing Hazards
Aircraft icing endangers aviators, restricts surveillance opportunities, and reduces combat effectiveness.
- NASA NTRS 2018 JPL Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
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Adequate performance was achieved relatively early in the development of ion engines and most subsequent development programs have focussed on demonstrating adequate engine life.
- NASA NTRS 2018 JPL Conference Paper
JPL software training plan
The purpose of this document is to define the software training approach and plans for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
- NASA NTRS 2018 JPL Conference Paper
Single-event upset in advanced PowerPC microprocessors
Proton and heavy-ion single-event upset susceptibility has been measured for the MotorolaPowerPC7400. The results show that this advanced device has low upset susceptibility, despite the scaling and design advances.
- NASA NTRS 2018 JPL Conference Paper
Single-event upset in advanced commercial power PC microprocessors
Single-event upset from heavy ions in measured for advanced commercial microprocessors, comparing upset sensitivity in registers and d-cache for several generations of devices.
- NASA NTRS 2018 JPL Conference Paper
Single event upset susceptibility testing of the Xilinx Virtex II FPGA
Heavy ion testing of the Xilinx Virtex IZ was conducted on the configuration, block RAM and user flip flop cells to determine their single event upset susceptibility using LETs of 1.2 to 60 MeVcm^2/mg.
- arXiv 2018 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Secure and Decentralized Swarm Behavior with Autonomous Agents for Smart Cities
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), referenced as drones, have advanced to consumer adoption for hobby and business use. Drone applications, such as infrastructure technology, security mechanisms, and resource delivery, are…
- NASA NTRS 2018 GRC Conference Paper
Small Airframe Manufacturer's Icing Perspective
This viewgraph presentation describes the icing effects, risk mitigation practices, and icing certifications for various Cessna small aircraft models.
- NASA NTRS 2018 GRC Conference Paper
Materials on the International Space Station - Forward Technology Solar Cell Experiment
This paper describes a space solar cell experiment currently being built by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in collaboration with NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC), and the US Naval Academy (USNA).
- NASA NTRS 2018 GRC Conference Paper
NASA Airframe Icing Research Overview Past and Current
This slide presentation reviews the past and current research that NASA has done in the area of airframe icing. Both the history experimental efforts and model development to understand the process and problem of ice for…
- NASA NTRS 2018 GRC Other
Inflight and Preflight Detection of Pitot Tube Anomalies
The health and integrity of aircraft sensors play a critical role in aviation safety. Inaccurate or false readings from these sensors can lead to improper decision making, resulting in serious and sometimes fatal consequ…
- arXiv 2018 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Adaptive twisting sliding mode control for quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles
This work addresses the problem of robust attitude control of quadcopters. First, the mathematical model of the quadcopter is derived considering factors such as nonlinearity, external disturbances, uncertain dynamics an…
- NASA NTRS 2018 CDMS Other
Scale Model Icing Research Tunnel
NASA Lewis Research Center's Icing Research Tunnel (IRT) is the world's largest refrigerated wind tunnel and one of only three icing wind tunnel facilities in the United States.
- NASA NTRS 2018 GRC Other
Compressor Stall Recovery Through Tip Injection Assessed
Aerodynamic stability is a fundamental limit in the compressor design process. The development of robust techniques for increasing stability has several benefits: enabling higher loading and fewer blades, increasing safe…
- NASA NTRS 2018 LaRC Other
Characterizing the Hazard of a Wake Vortex Encounter
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is conducting research with the goal of enabling safe improvements in the capacity of the nation's air transportation system.
- NASA NTRS 2018 LaRC Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
CFIT Prevention Using Synthetic Vision
In commercial aviation, over 30-percent of all fatal accidents worldwide are categorized as Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) accidents where a fully functioning airplane is inadvertently flown into the ground, water…
- NASA NTRS 2018 CDMS Other
NASA Lewis Helps Company With New Single-Engine Business Turbojet
Century Aerospace Corporation, a small company in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is developing a six-seat aircraft powered by a single turbofan engine for general aviation.
- NASA NTRS 2018 GRC Other
Aeronautical Satellite-Assisted Process for Information Exchange Through Network Technologies (Aero-SAPIENT) Conducted
Broadband satellite communications for aeronautics marries communication and network technologies to address NASA's goals in information technology base research and development, thereby serving the safety and capacity n…
- NASA NTRS 2018 GRC Other
Training Data Optimized and Conditioned to Learn Characteristic Patterns of Vibrating Blisks and Fan Blades
At the NASA Glenn Research Center, we have been training artificial neural networks to interpret the characteristic patterns (see the leftmost image) generated from electronic holograms of vibrating structures.
- NASA NTRS 2018 LaRC Other
Crew/Automation Interaction in Space Transportation Systems: Lessons Learned from the Glass Cockpit
The progressive integration of automation technologies in commercial transport aircraft flight decks - the 'glass cockpit' - has had a major, and generally positive, impact on flight crew operations.
- NASA NTRS 2018 GRC Other
Preliminary Integrated Safety Analysis of Synthetic Vision Conducted
The goal of the NASA Aviation Safety Program is to develop and demonstrate technologies that could help reduce the aviation fatal accident rate by a factor of 5 by the year 2007 and by a factor of 10 by the year 2022.
- NASA NTRS 2018 LaRC Other
A Numerical Simulation Study to Develop an Acceptable Wake Encounter Boundary for a B737-100 Airplane
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is conducting research with the goal of enabling safe improvements in the capacity of the nation's air transportation system.
- NASA NTRS 2018 LaRC Other
A Formal Methods Approach to the Analysis of Mode Confusion
The goal of the new NASA Aviation Safety Program (AvSP) is to reduce the civil aviation fatal accident rate by 80% in ten years and 90% in twenty years.
- NASA NTRS 2018 GRC Other
Piloted Flight Simulator Developed for Icing Effects Training
In an effort to expand pilot training methods to avoid icing-related accidents, the NASA Glenn Research Center and Bihrle Applied Research Inc.
- NASA NTRS 2018 GRC Other
Ceiling Fires Studied to Simulate Low-Gravity Fires
A unique new way to study low-gravity flames in normal gravity has been developed. To study flame structure and extinction characteristics in low-stretch environments, a normal gravity low-stretch diffusion flame was gen…
- NASA NTRS 2018 CDMS Other
National Transportation Safety Board Aircraft Accident Investigation Supported
The main purpose of this investigation was for NASA to help the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) gain better understanding of the events that led to the loss of Comair Flight 3272 over Monroe, Michigan, on Jan…
- arXiv 2018 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Cellular Controlled Cooperative Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Networks with Sense-and-Send Protocol
In this paper, we consider a cellular controlled unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) sensing network in which multiple UAVs cooperatively complete each sensing task.
- arXiv 2018 ARXIV arXiv preprint
On mass conservation for ice sheets
A new continuum-mechanical formulation is proposed which encompasses all material processes within and surrounding an ice sheet. Using this formulation, the balance of mass and free-surface relations for ice sheets are d…
- arXiv 2018 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Joint Configuration of Transmission Direction and Altitude in UAV-based Two-Way Communication
When considering unidirectional communication for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as flying Base Stations (BSs), either uplink or downlink, the system is limited through the co-channel interference that takes place over …
- arXiv 2018 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A novel unsteady aerodynamic Reduced-Order Modeling method for transonic aeroelastic optimization
In aircraft design, structural optimization and uncertainty quantification concerning transonic aeroelastic issues are computationally impractical, because the iterative process requires great number of aeroelastic analy…
- arXiv 2018 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Cellular-Enabled UAV Communication: A Connectivity-Constrained Trajectory Optimization Perspective
Integrating the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the cellular network is envisioned to be a promising technology to significantly enhance the communication performance of both UAVs and existing terrestrial users.
- arXiv 2018 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Sample-based SMPC for tracking control of fixed-wing UAV: multi-scenario mapping
In this paper, a guidance and tracking control strategy for fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) autopilots is presented. The proposed control exploits recent results on sample-based stochastic Model Predictive Contr…
- arXiv 2018 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Multi-Layer Feedback System Approach to Resilient Connectivity of Remotely Deployed Mobile Internet of Things
Enabling the Internet of things in remote environments without traditional communication infrastructure requires a multi-layer network architecture.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2018 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
US Regional Airline Pay Scale Changes
The United States regional air carrier industry has recently undergone a substantial transformation in pilot salaries and hiring practices.
- arXiv 2018 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Tube-based Robust MPC for a Fixed-wing UAV: an Application for Precision Farming
The techniques of precision agriculture include the possibility to execute crop monitoring tasks through the application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).
- arXiv 2018 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Collision-Free Path Planning Algorithm for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Delivery
Path planning is important for the autonomy of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), especially for scheduling UAV delivery. However, the operating environment of UAVs is usually uncertain and dynamic.
- arXiv 2018 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Numerical Bifurcation Analysis of Marine Ice Sheet Models
The climate variability associated with the Pleistocene Ice Ages is one of the most fascinating puzzles in the Earth Sciences still awaiting a satisfactory explanation.
- Semantic Scholar 2018 Article
The contributions of human factors on human error in Malaysia aviation maintenance industries
Aviation maintenance is a multitasking activity in which individuals perform varied tasks under constant pressure to meet deadlines as well as challenging work conditions.
- FAA-affiliated R&D (MITRE / Volpe / FAA Tech Center) 2018 FAA-TC FAA Tech Center aging-aircraft report
Continued Operational Safety Assessment for Aging Transport Aircraft
Hughes Technical Center Continued Operational Safety methodology for aging fleets — fatigue testing, corrosion management, supplemental inspection documents. Reference for the FAA Aging Aircraft program.
- arXiv 2018 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Design of Ad Hoc Wireless Mesh Networks Formed by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with Advanced Mechanical Automation
Ad hoc wireless mesh networks formed by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with wireless transceivers (access points (APs)) are increasingly being touted as being able to provide a flexible "on-the-fly" communicati…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2018 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Ranking of Human Senses in Relation to Different In-flight Activities Contributing to the Comfort Experience of Airplane Passengers
Bubb, Bengler, Grünen, and Vollrath (2015) identified six environmental comfort factors and ordered them from most important to least important (smell, light, vibrations, sound, climate and anthropometry).
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2018 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Exploring Commercial Counter-UAS Operations: A Case Study of the 2017 Dominican Republic Festival Presidente
The proliferation of commercial off-the-shelf unmanned aircraft technology has resulted in a growing number of illicit or hazardous UAS activities, highlighting the growing need for effective counter-UAS mitigations.
- arXiv 2018 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Mobility Support for Cellular Connected Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Performance and Analysis
Beyond visual line-of-sight connectivity is key for use cases of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) such as package delivery, infrastructure inspection, and rescue missions.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2018 ERAU Industry report (AQRR)
Airline Quality Rating 2018
The results of the 28th annual national Airline Quality Rating (AQR). The most comprehensive study of the performance quality of the 12 largest airlines in the United States, the AQR is conducted by researchers at the W.…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2018 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Improving airplane boarding time: a review, a field study and an experiment with a new way of hand luggage stowing
The airplane (de)boarding process is not organized optimally. The goal of this paper is to search for improvement possibilities. In this paper literature is reviewed, boarding characteristics are studied in a field study…
- AOPA Air Safety Institute 2018 AOPA-ASI ASI report
GA Fatal Accidents — A Closer Look at Personal Flying
ASI report on fatal accidents in the personal-use category. Personal flying accounts for the overwhelming majority of fatal GA accidents — this report analyzes the demographic, operational, and equipment differences betw…