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- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Transonic buffet and incompressible low-frequency oscillations at high Reynolds numbers
Coherent, self-sustained oscillations of the flow over aircraft wings can lead to unsteady loads that detrimentally affect aircraft safety and stability, thus limiting the flight envelope.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Adaptive Altitude Control of a Tethered Multirotor Autogyro under Varying Wind Speeds using Differential Rotor Braking
A tethered multirotor autogyro can function as an unmanned aerial vehicle for energy-efficient and prolonged deployment, as it uses the available wind energy to sustain flight.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Certified Learning-Enabled Noise-Aware Motion Planning for Urban Air Mobility
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has emerged as a promising solution to alleviate urban congestion and transportation challenges. Nevertheless, the noise generated by eVTOL aircrafts poses a significant barrier to public accepta…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
From Space to Time: Enabling Adaptive Safety with Learned Value Functions via Disturbance Recasting
The widespread deployment of autonomous systems in safety-critical environments such as urban air mobility hinges on ensuring reliable, performant, and safe operation under varying environmental conditions.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Methods for Multi-objective Optimization PID Controller for quadrotor UAVs
Integrating unmanned aerial vehicles into daily use requires controllers that ensure stable flight, efficient energy use, and reduced noise.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A zero-dimensional global conservation model to determine non-ideal nozzle conditions for gas injections
To reduce computation times of simulations involving gas fueled internal combustion engines (ICEs), a model is developed that determines non-ideal nozzle exit conditions to spare expensive simulations of internal injecto…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Compact representation of transonic airfoil buffet flows with observable-augmented machine learning
Transonic buffet presents time-dependent aerodynamic characteristics associated with shock, turbulent boundary layer, and their interactions.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Numerical Study on Jet-Like Outwash Induced by Multi-Rotor eVTOLs and Engineering Approaches for Outwash Mitigation
This study presents a comprehensive computational investigation of outwash phenomena generated by electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, with particular emphasis on how rotor geometry and alignment shape…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Non-Newtonian viscous fluid models with learned rheology accurately reproduce Lagrangian sea ice simulations
Polar sea ice is crucial to Earth's climate system. Its dynamics also affect coastal communities, wildlife, and global shipping. Sea ice is typically modeled as a continuum fluid using a model proposed almost 50 years ag…
- NASA NTRS 2025 ARC Presentation
Uncovering Resilient Behavior in the Aviation Safety Reporting System Using Large Language Models
Resiliency is present in everyday life, both in system design and exhibited by the operators that function within these systems. This includes the National Airspace System (NAS) where pilots and controllers make positive…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Active Inference Framework for Closed-Loop Sensing, Communication, and Control in UAV Systems
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a core technology for 6G, and its application to closed-loop sensing, communication, and control (SCC) enables various services.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Point-to-Point UAV Navigation
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used in automated inspection, delivery, and navigation tasks that require reliable autonomy.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Large Language Model-Empowered Decision Transformer for UAV-Enabled Data Collection
The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for reliable and energy-efficient data collection from spatially distributed devices holds great promise in supporting diverse Internet of Things (IoT) applications.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Low-Altitude UAV Tracking via Sensing-Assisted Predictive Beamforming
Sensing-assisted predictive beamforming shows significant promise for enhancing various future unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
AI-Driven Adaptive Air Transit Network with Modular Aerial Pods
This paper presents an adaptive air transit network leveraging modular aerial pods and artificial intelligence (AI) to address urban mobility challenges.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A perspective on transonic buffet over an unswept finite wing
Transonic buffet is a well-known aerodynamic instability of shock/boundary layer interaction in the transonic regime for aircraft. So far, this phenomenon has typically been investigated by modal and correlation analyses…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Neural 3D Object Reconstruction with Small-Scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) exhibit immense potential for navigating indoor and hard-to-reach areas, yet their significant constraints in payload and autonomy have largely prevented their use for complex tasks …
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
CORB-Planner: Corridor as Observations for RL Planning in High-Speed Flight
Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promise in a large number of robotic control tasks. Nevertheless, its deployment on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) remains challenging, mainly because of reliance on accurate dynami…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Uncertainty Quantification on State-Based Conflict Detection and Resolution Algorithms
This study investigates how navigation uncertainty affects conflict detection and resolution (CD&R) for uncrewed aircraft in U-space. Position and velocity errors are modelled as zero-mean Gaussian noise consistent with …
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Maximizing UAV Cellular Connectivity with Reinforcement Learning for BVLoS Path Planning
This paper presents a reinforcement learning (RL) based approach for path planning of cellular connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating beyond visual line of sight (BVLoS).
- Semantic Scholar 2025 Article (International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences)
Seasonal and Segmental Variations and Peaks in Aircraft Engine Exhaust Gas Temperature
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Enhancing Low-Altitude Airspace Security: MLLM-Enabled UAV Intent Recognition
The rapid development of the low-altitude economy emphasizes the critical need for effective perception and intent recognition of non-cooperative unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
An Adaptive Coverage Control Approach for Multiple Autonomous Off-road Vehicles in Dynamic Agricultural Fields
This paper presents an adaptive coverage control method for a fleet of off-road and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) operating in dynamic (time-varying) agricultural environments.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Semantic-Aware Edge Intelligence for UAV Handover in 6G Networks
6G wireless networks aim to exploit semantic awareness to optimize radio resources. By optimizing the transmission through the lens of the desired goal, the energy consumption of transmissions can also be reduced, and th…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Relative Localization of UAV Swarms in GNSS-Denied Conditions
Relative localization of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms in global navigation satellite system (GNSS) denied environments is essential for emergency rescue and battlefield reconnaissance.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
UAV-Based Intelligent Traffic Surveillance System: Real-Time Vehicle Detection, Classification, Tracking, and Behavioral Analysis
Traffic congestion and violations pose significant challenges for urban mobility and road safety. Traditional traffic monitoring systems, such as fixed cameras and sensor-based methods, are often constrained by limited c…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Quantum Machine Learning for UAV Swarm Intrusion Detection
Intrusion detection in unmanned-aerial-vehicle (UAV) swarms is complicated by high mobility, non-stationary traffic, and severe class imbalance.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Wave erosion of ice cliffs: melt rate due to reflection of non-breaking surface waves
Wave erosion of ice cliffs is one of the main mechanisms for waterline ice melt for icebergs, glacier fronts, and ice-shelf fronts. Despite its importance, this process is fundamentally not well understood or extensively…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Cooperative Sensing Enhanced UAV Path-Following and Obstacle Avoidance with Variable Formation
The high mobility of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enables them to be used in various civilian fields, such as rescue and cargo transport.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
DMPC-Swarm: Distributed Model Predictive Control on Nano UAV Swarms
Swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly becoming vital to our society, undertaking tasks such as search and rescue, surveillance and delivery.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
AERO-LQG: Aerial-Enabled Robust Optimization for LQG-Based Quadrotor Flight Controller
Quadrotors are indispensable in civilian, industrial, and military domains, undertaking complex, high-precision tasks once reserved for specialized systems.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Bistatic Target Detection by Exploiting Both Deterministic Pilots and Unknown Random Data Payloads
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) plays a crucial role in 6G, to enable innovative applications such as drone surveillance, urban air mobility, and low-altitude logistics.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Real World Assets on-Chain Assistance Low-Altitude Computility Networks: Architecture, Methodology, and Challenges
Low-altitude airspace is becoming a new frontier for smart city services and commerce. Networks of drones, electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) vehicles, and other aircraft, termed Low-Altitude Economic Networks…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Validating Terrain Models in Digital Twins for Trustworthy sUAS Operations
With the increasing deployment of small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) in unfamiliar and complex environments, Environmental Digital Twins (EDT) that comprise weather, airspace, and terrain data are critical for safe f…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Integrated Noise and Safety Management in UAM via A Unified Reinforcement Learning Framework
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) envisions the widespread use of small aerial vehicles to transform transportation in dense urban environments.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Scalable Framework for the Management of STPA Requirements: a Case Study on eVTOL Operations
System-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) is a recommended method for analysing complex systems, capable of identifying thousands of safety requirements often missed by traditional techniques such as Failure Mode and Effe…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Integrated Take-off Management and Trajectory Optimization for Merging Control in Urban Air Mobility Corridors
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has the potential to revolutionize daily transportation, offering rapid and efficient aerial mobility services.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Fair-CoPlan: Negotiated Flight Planning with Fair Deconfliction for Urban Air Mobility
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is an emerging transportation paradigm in which Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) autonomously transport passengers and goods in cities.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Towards Fully Onboard State Estimation and Trajectory Tracking for UAVs with Suspended Payloads
This paper addresses the problem of tracking the position of a cable-suspended payload carried by an unmanned aerial vehicle, with a focus on real-world deployment and minimal hardware requirements.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Structured Framework for Prioritizing Unsafe Control Actions in STPA: Case Study on eVTOL Operations
Systems Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) is a widely recommended method for analysing complex system safety. STPA can identify numerous Unsafe Control Actions (UCAs) and requirements depending on the level of granularit…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Shepherd Grid Strategy: Towards Reliable SWARM Interception
Modern unmanned aerial vehicle threats require sophisticated interception strategies that can overcome advanced evasion capabilities and operate effectively in contested environments.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Autonomous Air-Ground Vehicle Operations Optimization in Hazardous Environments: A Multi-Armed Bandit Approach
Hazardous environments such as chemical spills, radiological zones, and bio-contaminated sites pose significant threats to human safety and public infrastructure.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
On the attenuation of waves through broken ice of randomly-varying thickness on water of finite depth
The recent work of Dafydd and Porter [2024] on the attenuation of waves propagating through floating broken ice of random thickness is extended to consider water of non-shallow depth.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Slantwise convection and heat transport in icy moon oceans
Ocean heat transport on icy moons shapes the ice shell topography, a primary observable of these moons. Two key processes control the heat transport: baroclinic instability driven by surface buoyancy contrasts and convec…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Numerical study of freezing efficiency for a moving droplet in the microchannel
In microfluidic devices, droplets serving as carriers for chemical reactors or biomass can form stably encapsulated particles during the freezing process, holding significant importance in pharmaceuticals and microchemic…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Variational mode decomposition analysis of the relationship between low-frequency shock-wave oscillations and buffet cells
This study investigates the relationship between low-frequency shock-wave oscillations and buffet cells on the main wing of the NASA common research model.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
CASH: Context-Aware Smart Handover for Reliable UAV Connectivity on Aerial Corridors
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) envisions aerial corridors for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to reduce ground traffic congestion by supporting 3D mobility, such as air taxis.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Aerobatic maneuvers in insect-scale flapping-wing aerial robots via deep-learned robust tube model predictive control
Aerial insects exhibit highly agile maneuvers such as sharp braking, saccades, and body flips under disturbance. In contrast, insect-scale aerial robots are limited to tracking non-aggressive trajectories with small body…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Trusted Routing for Blockchain-Empowered UAV Networks via Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning
Due to the high flexibility and versatility, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are leveraged in various fields including surveillance and disaster rescue.However, in UAV networks, routing is vulnerable to malicious damage …
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Numerical investigation of engine position effects on contrail formation and evolution in the near-field of a realistic aircraft configuration
The present study investigates the impact of engine position on contrail formation and near-field evolution in a realistic three-dimensional aircraft configuration.