AerospaceThis study explores optimizing Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite constellation scheduling for multi-imaging missions in densely targeted areas using an in-house-developed Modified Dynamic Programming (MDP) algorithm.
Kimoon Lee +3 more
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Electrical Cable Design for Urban Air Mobility Aircraft [PDF]
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) describes a new type of aviation focused on efficient flight within urban areas for moving people and goods. There are many different configurations of UAM vehicles, but they generally use an electric motor driving a propeller or
Aretskin-Hariton, Eliot D. +3 more
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Experimental Results of Concurrent Learning Adaptive Controllers [PDF]
, 2012 Commonly used Proportional-Integral-Derivative based UAV flight controllers are often seen to provide adequate trajectory-tracking performance only after extensive tuning.
Borkar V. +9 more
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Towards Optimal Guidance of Autonomous Swarm Drones in Dynamic Constrained Environments
Expert Systems, Volume 42, Issue 6, June 2025.ABSTRACT As autonomous drone swarms become increasingly important for complex missions, there remains a critical need for integrated approaches that can simultaneously handle task allocation and safe navigation in dynamic environments. This paper addresses the challenge of optimally allocating tasks and generating collision‐free trajectories for drone ...
Yunes Alqudsi, Murat Makaraci
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Test Plan for the Technology Maturation of Supersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerators [PDF]
, 2009 Supersonic inflatable aerodynamic decelerators (IADs) are drag devices intended to be deployed at high Mach numbers. In the application considered here they assist in the descent and landing of spacecraft on Mars.
Cruz, Juan R., Kelly, Jenny R.
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A Hybrid Machine Learning Based Intrusion Detection System for MIL-STD-1553
Havacılık ve Uzay Teknolojileri DergisiMIL-STD-1553 is a communication standard developed by the US Department of Defense in 1975, primarily utilized in military aircraft, ground vehicles, and spacecraft.
Yunus Emre Çiloğlu, Şerif Bahtiyar
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Photogrammetry-Based Analysis of the On-Orbit Structural Dynamics of the Roll-Out Solar Array [PDF]
The Roll-Out Solar Array (ROSA) flight experiment was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on June 3rd, 2017. ROSA is an innovative, lightweight solar array with a flexible substrate that makes use of the stored strain energy in its ...
Banik, Jeremy A. +2 more
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Finite Element Simulation of Solid Rocket Booster Separation Motors During Motor Firing [PDF]
, 2007 One of the toughest challenges facing Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) engineers is to ensure that any design changes made to the Shuttle-Derived Booster Separation Motors (BSM) for future space exploration vehicles is able to withstand the increasingly ...
Crane, Debora J., Yu. Weiping
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Design and Development of an Air–Land Amphibious Inspection Drone for Fusion Reactor
DronesThis paper proposes a design method for a miniature air–land amphibious inspection drone (AAID) to be used in the latest compact fusion reactor discharge gap observation mission.
Guodong Qin +9 more
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Baseline Assumptions and Future Research Areas for Urban Air Mobility Vehicles [PDF]
NASA is developing Urban Air Mobility (UAM) concepts to (1) create first-generation reference vehicles that can be used for technology, system, and market studies, and (2) hypothesize second-generation UAM aircraft to determine high-payoff technology ...
Antcliff, Kevin +3 more
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