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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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- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A Unified Finite-Time Sliding Mode Quaternion-based Tracking Control for Quadrotor UAVs without Time Scale Separation
This paper presents a novel design for finite-time position control of quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). A robust, finite-time, nonlinear feedback controller is introduced to reject bounded disturbances in track…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Radio Map Assisted Routing and Predictive Resource Allocation over Dynamic Low Altitude Networks
Dynamic low altitude networks offer significant potential for efficient and reliable data transport via unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) relays which usually operate with predetermined trajectories.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Trusted Data Fusion, Multi-Agent Autonomy, Autonomous Vehicles
Multi-agent collaboration enhances situational awareness in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions. Ad hoc networks of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) allow for real-time data sharing, but they fac…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Constrained Control Allocation With Continuous-Time Rate Constraints: Three-Dimensional Case
This paper presents a novel quadratic programming (QP) approach for constrained control allocation that directly incorporates continuous-time actuator rate constraints without requiring slack variables.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Multi-Strategy Improved Snake Optimizer Accelerated CNN-LSTM-Attention-Adaboost for Trajectory Prediction
To address the limitations of medium- and long-term four-dimensional (4D) trajectory prediction models, this paper proposes a hybrid CNN-LSTM-attention-adaboost neural network model incorporating a multi-strategy improve…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
A numerical investigation of sweep effects on turbulent flow over iced wings
This study employs an improved delayed detached eddy simulation (AMD-IDDES) method to investigate the flow characteristics of an iced swept wing.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Breakup cascade in gas filament
Despite its importance in both geophysical and industrial contexts, the inertial fragmentation of gas filaments has received much less attention than their liquid counterparts.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Beyond Visual Line of Sight: UAVs with Edge AI, Connected LLMs, and VR for Autonomous Aerial Intelligence
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are reshaping Non-Terrestrial Networks by acting as agile, intelligent nodes capable of advanced analytics and instantaneous situational awareness.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
UAV-Enabled Wireless-Powered Underground Communication Networks: A Novel Time Allocation Approach
Wireless-powered underground communication networks (WPUCNs), which allow underground devices (UDs) to harvest energy from wireless signals for battery-free communication, offer a promising solution for sustainable under…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Real-Time Communication-Aware Ride-Sharing Route Planning for Urban Air Mobility: A Multi-Source Hybrid Attention Reinforcement Learning Approach
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) systems are rapidly emerging as promising solutions to alleviate urban congestion, with path planning becoming a key focus area.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
QTCAJOSA: Low-Complexity Joint Offloading and Subchannel Allocation for NTN-Enabled IoMT
In this work, we consider the resource allocation problem for task offloading from Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices, to a non-terrestrial network.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Impact of Forecast Stability on Navigational Contrail Avoidance
MMitigating contrail-induced warming by re-routing flights around contrail-forming regions requires accurate and stable forecasts of the state of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Computing Longitudinal Dynamic Derivatives of a VTOL Aircraft Using CFD Simulations and Forced-Oscillation Model
This study presents a comprehensive evaluation of dynamic aerodynamic derivatives during aircraft transition phases using advanced CFD simulations and forced oscillation testing.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
UavNetSim-v1: A Python-based Simulation Platform for UAV Communication Networks
In unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks, communication protocols and algorithms are essential for cooperation and collaboration between UAVs.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Data-Driven Modeling Software with Integrated 9-Axis IMUGPS Sensor Fusion and Data Filtering Algorithm
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have emerged as versatile platforms, driving the demand for accurate modeling to support developmental testing. This paper proposes data-driven modeling software for UAV.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
SkyVLN: Vision-and-Language Navigation and NMPC Control for UAVs in Urban Environments
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as versatile tools across various sectors, driven by their mobility and adaptability. This paper introduces SkyVLN, a novel framework integrating vision-and-language navigatio…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces-Aided eVTOL Delay Sensitive Communications
With rapid urbanization and increasing population density, urban traffic congestion has become a critical issue, and traditional ground transportation methods are no longer sufficient to address it effectively.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Free-Space Optical Communication-Driven NMPC Framework for Multi-Rotor Aerial Vehicles in Structured Inspection Scenarios
This paper introduces a Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) framework for communication-aware motion planning of Multi-Rotor Aerial Vehicles (MRAVs) using Free-Space Optical (FSO) links.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Temporally smoothed incremental model-based heuristic dynamic programming for command-filtered cascaded online learning flight control
Approximate Dynamic Programming (ADP) enables online adaptation of control laws through adaptive critic methods. However, its application to online learning Angle-of-Attack (AoA) tracking control remains challenging due …
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Optimizing Age of Trust and Throughput in Multi-Hop UAV-Aided IoT Networks
Devices operating in Internet of Things (IoT) networks may be deployed across vast geographical areas and interconnected via multi-hop communications. Further, they may be unguarded.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Airspeed estimation for UAVs using only propeller feedback
This work introduces a novel analytical model for estimating the airspeed of fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) using solely propeller power and rotational speed measurements.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Sphereabout: A Spherical Intersection Design for Networked Urban Air Mobility
Urban aerial mobility is rapidly expanding, specifically on-demand Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) delivery services in urban environments.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Structure and flow of low-dimensional water
Water, a subject of human fascination for millennia, is likely the most studied substance on Earth, with an entire scientific field -- hydrodynamics -- dedicated to understanding water in motion.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Sea ice aging by diffusion-driven desalination
Sea ice is a key component of the Earth's climate system, making its aging process an essential focus of current research. The age of sea ice is closely linked to its thermal and mechanical properties, which govern its i…
- NASA NTRS 2025 ARC Conference Paper
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
On beam characterization of ground-based CMB radio telescopes using UAV-mounted sources: application to the QUIJOTE TFGI and plans for LSPE-Strip
The Large Scale Polarization Explorer (LSPE) project, funded by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), includes the development of LSPE-Strip, a ground-based radio telescope for observing Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) aniso…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Spherical Pendulum with Quad-Rotor Thrust Vectoring Actuation -- A Novel Mechatronics and Control Benchmark Platform
Motor-actuated pendulums have been established as arguably the most common laboratory prototypes used in control system education because of the relevance to robot manipulator control in industry.
- NASA NTRS 2025 ARC Presentation
Lessons Learned: m:N Operations in the Application of UTM for Hurricane Rescue
The Human Autonomy Teaming (HAT) Lab at NASA Ames Research Center conducted a study using small uncrewed aircraft systems (sUAS, or drones) in a post-hurricane rescue mission, utilizing an uncrewed aircraft system traffi…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Task Allocation of UAVs for Monitoring Missions via Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation and Experimental Validation
This study addresses the optimisation of task allocation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) within industrial monitoring missions. The proposed methodology integrates a Genetic Algorithms (GA) with a 2-Opt local search …
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Cooperative Sensing and Communication Beamforming Design for Low-Altitude Economy
To empower the low-altitude economy with high-accuracy sensing and high-rate communication, this paper proposes a cooperative integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) framework for aerial-ground networks.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance Algorithms for Unmanned Aerial and Ground Vehicles
The growing use of mobile robots in sectors such as automotive, agriculture, and rescue operations reflects progress in robotics and autonomy.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Flutter Suppression Enhancement in Coupled Nonlinear Airfoils with Intermittent Mixed Interactions
Flutter suppression facilitates the improvement of structural reliability to ensure the flight safety of an aircraft. In this study, we propose a novel strategy for enlarging amplitude death (AD) regime to enhance flutte…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Comparing the dynamics of idealized squall lines between NWP and LES models
Both Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models and Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) models are used to simulate convective systems, such as squall lines, but with different purposes.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Low-Cost Infrastructure-Free 3D Relative Localization with Sub-Meter Accuracy in Near Field
Relative localization in the near-field scenario is critically important for unmanned vehicle (UxV) applications. Although related works addressing 2D relative localization problem have been widely studied for unmanned g…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
G-SEED: A Spatio-temporal Encoding Framework for Forest and Grassland Data Based on GeoSOT
In recent years, the rapid development of remote sensing, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, and IoT technologies has led to an explosive growth in spatio-temporal forest and grassland data, which are increasingly multimodal, het…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Collective effects of neighbouring melting ice objects
We present a study on the melting dynamics of neighbouring ice bodies by means of idealised simulations, focusing on collective effects, with the goal of obtaining fundamental insight into how collective interactions inf…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Autonomous Trajectory Optimization for UAVs in Disaster Zone Using Henry Gas Optimization Scheme
The unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a disaster-prone environment plays important role in assisting the rescue services and providing the internet connectivity with the outside world.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Bistability in radiatively heated melt ponds
Melting and solidification processes, intertwined with convective flows, play a fundamental role in geophysical contexts. One of these processes is the formation of melt ponds on glaciers, ice shelves, and sea ice.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Toward Low-Altitude Airspace Management and UAV Operations: Requirements, Architecture and Enabling Technologies
The low-altitude economy (LAE) is rapidly advancing toward intelligence, connectivity, and coordination, bringing new challenges in dynamic airspace management, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operation, and security manag…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Large eddy simulations of conjugate heat transfer in boundary layers over laser-scanned ice roughness
Accurate modeling of ice accretion is important for safe and efficient design of aircraft and wind turbine systems. Heat transfer predictions obtained from fluid flow solvers are used as input in ice accretion codes.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Delay Optimization in Remote ID-Based UAV Communication via BLE and Wi-Fi Switching
The remote identification (Remote ID) broadcast capability allows unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to exchange messages, which is a pivotal technology for inter-UAV communications.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Trajectory Optimization for UAV-Based Medical Delivery with Temporal Logic Constraints and Convex Feasible Set Collision Avoidance
This paper addresses the problem of trajectory optimization for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) performing time-sensitive medical deliveries in urban environments.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Hierarchical and Collaborative LLM-Based Control for Multi-UAV Motion and Communication in Integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely adopted in various real-world applications. However, the control and optimization of multi-UAV systems remain a significant challenge, particularly in dynamic and constrai…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Dynamics and Control of Vision-Aided Multi-UAV-tethered Netted System Capturing Non-Cooperative Target
As the number of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) operating in low-altitude airspace continues to increase, non-cooperative targets pose growing challenges to low-altitude operations.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Adaptive Traffic-Following Scheme for Orderly Distributed Control of Multi-Vehicle Systems
We present an adaptive control scheme to enable the emergence of order within distributed, autonomous multi-agent systems. Past studies showed that under high-density conditions, order generated from traffic-following be…
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Long Duration Inspection of GNSS-Denied Environments with a Tethered UAV-UGV Marsupial System
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become essential tools in inspection and emergency response operations due to their high maneuverability and ability to access hard-to-reach areas.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
VLM-RRT: Vision Language Model Guided RRT Search for Autonomous UAV Navigation
Path planning is a fundamental capability of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), enabling them to efficiently navigate toward a target region or explore complex environments while avoiding obstacles.
- arXiv 2025 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Monolithic framework to simulate fluid-structure interaction problems using geometric volume-of-fluid method
We develop a three-dimensional Eulerian framework to simulate fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems on a fixed Cartesian grid using the geometric volume-of-fluid (VOF) method.
- NASA NTRS 2025 ARC Presentation
What Would You Have Done? Learning From Others' Aviation Safety Events
The capacity to learn from both expected and unexpected events has been identified as a critical component of resilient performance. One’s own experiences, however, are not the only opportunities to learn from these type…
- NASA NTRS 2025 ARC Conference Paper
What Would You Have Done? Learning From Others' Aviation Safety Events
The capacity to learn from both expected and unexpected events has been identified as a critical component of resilient performance. One’s own experiences, however, are not the only opportunities to learn from these type…