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  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,767 Views
15 Pages

A Modeling Method of Agents and SOA in Advanced Avionics System Based on AADL

  • Pingyu Deng,
  • Qing Zhou,
  • Dong An,
  • Shihai Wang and
  • Kui Li

15 August 2022

The modeling method of agents and service-oriented architecture (SOA) in avionics systems describes agents and SOA in avionics systems with models. To our knowledge, however, the current modeling methods cannot describe the behavior of agents and SOA...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,479 Views
9 Pages

26 December 2024

This paper introduces the development history and process of low altitude economy, explains the characteristics and advantages of low altitude economy, and further discusses the development direction and trend of commercial low-altitude aircraft. By...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,328 Views
20 Pages

4 October 2024

Single-Pilot Operations (SPO) mode is set to reshape the decision-making process between human-machine and air-ground operations. However, the limited on-board computing resources impose greater demands on the organization of performance parameters a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,224 Views
21 Pages

Avionics Cloud is a new multi-platform avionics system architecture that provides dynamic access, resource pooling, intelligent scheduling, on-demand service and other cloud computing features. Using Avionics Cloud to rationalize the order of multi-f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,134 Views
15 Pages

13 November 2022

Avionics systems, which determine the performance, stability, and safety of aircraft, are a crucial part of aircraft. With the rapid development of the aviation industry, there are many serious problems in the process of the traditional simulation an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,069 Views
15 Pages

As the synthesis, modularization, and integration of avionics systems increase, the interconnections between systems and equipment within subsystems become increasingly complex, posing risks to the safety and reliability of the integrated avionics sy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
723 Views
29 Pages

8 September 2025

The interconnectivity of avionics systems supports the need to incorporate functional safety and information security into airworthiness validation and maintenance protocols, which is critical. This necessity arises from the demanding operational env...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,427 Views
20 Pages

2 February 2021

The article presents selected results of analytical and design works undertaken at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) in the field of building a computer support and software lifecycle management system that is critical for flight safety. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,525 Views
16 Pages

A Design Concept of an Intelligent Onboard Computer Network

  • Alexander N. Pchelintsev,
  • Andrey M. Solovyov,
  • Mikhail E. Semenov,
  • Nikolay I. Selvesyuk,
  • Vladislav V. Kosyanchuck and
  • Evgeniy Yu. Zybin

The article suggests design principles of an advanced onboard computer network with an intelligent control system. It describes the main advantages of designing an onboard computer network based on fibre optics, which allows the implementation of an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,953 Views
20 Pages

3 April 2020

Multicore architecture is applied to contemporary avionics systems to deal with complex tasks. However, multicore architectures can cause interference by contention because the cores share hardware resources. This interference reduces the predictable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,804 Views
14 Pages

A Model of a Universal Neural Computer with Hysteresis Dynamics for Avionics Problems

  • Andrey M. Solovyov,
  • Nikolay I. Selvesyuk,
  • Vladislav V. Kosyanchuk and
  • Evgeniy Y. Zybin

7 July 2022

The paper proposes a method for implementing a universal neural network processor with hysteresis dynamics. This processor allows a wide range of heterogeneous tasks in real time to be performed without reprogramming and changing their internal struc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,449 Views
17 Pages

8 December 2022

The feasibility of the future more-electric, hybrid-electric, and all-electric aircraft configurations will depend on a good understanding of thermal aspects early in the design. However, thermal analysis of aircraft equipment bays is typically perfo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,181 Views
25 Pages

Uncertainty-Driven Ontology for Decision Support System in Air Transport

  • Carlos C. Insaurralde,
  • Erik P. Blasch,
  • Paulo C. G. Costa and
  • Krishna Sampigethaya

Recent electronics advances for air transport have increased aircraft density, volume, and frequency in the airspace. These advances come with control requirements for precise navigation, coordinated Air Traffic Management (ATM) or Unmanned aircraft...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,906 Views
37 Pages

Runway Safety Assistant Foreseeing Excursions: Calculating Means

  • Georgios Alogdianakis,
  • Ioannis Katsidimas,
  • Athanasios Kotzakolios,
  • Anastasios Plioutsias and
  • Vassilis Kostopoulos

29 August 2024

Runway Safety Assistant Foreseeing Excursions (RUNSAFE) is a complete embedded system solution, that predicts a potential runway overrun of a civil aviation aircraft during takeoff and landing. This work examines the feasibility of such a system, thr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,022 Views
20 Pages

Digital avionic solutions enable advanced flight control systems to be available also on smaller aircraft. One of the safety-critical segments is the air data system. Innovative architectures allow the use of synthetic sensors that can introduce sign...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,814 Views
17 Pages

23 November 2019

Heterogeneity of the small aircraft category (e.g., small air transport (SAT), urban air mobility (UAM), unmanned aircraft system (UAS)), modern avionic solution (e.g., fly-by-wire (FBW)) and reduced aircraft (A/C) size require more compact, integrat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,019 Views
21 Pages

The architecture of Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) provides airborne software with a robust temporal partitioning mechanism, which achieves the reliable fault containment between avionics applications. However, the partition scheduling of an IMA s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,863 Views
22 Pages

A Survey of Optimal Hardware and Software Mapping for Distributed Integrated Modular Avionics Systems

  • Weiwen Zhang,
  • Jianqi Liu,
  • Lianglun Cheng,
  • Ricardo Shirota Filho and
  • Fei Gao

13 April 2020

With an increasing number of aircraft systems, a fully manual developmental approach is impractical for finding optimal hardware and software mapping from overwhelming configurations for Distributed Integrated Modular Avionics (DIMA) systems. The aut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,115 Views
16 Pages

This paper analyses a new half-bridge current–source inverter for avionic systems. In the circuit, two 28 V batteries are used as inputs. These voltage sources are connected to inductors which create a constant current source. Then only two hig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,435 Views
20 Pages

9 February 2020

Nowadays, technologies have a massive impact on the design of avionic systems, even for the conservative space industry. In this paper, the single event effect (SEE) characterization of a highly integrated and radio frequency (RF) agile transceiver i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,374 Views
18 Pages

22 October 2024

The increasing electrification and integration of advanced controls in modern aircraft designs have significantly raised the number and complexity of installed printed circuit boards (PCBs), posing new challenges for efficient maintenance and rapid f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
8,396 Views
30 Pages

Adaptive Human-Robot Interactions for Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

  • Yixiang Lim,
  • Nichakorn Pongsakornsathien,
  • Alessandro Gardi,
  • Roberto Sabatini,
  • Trevor Kistan,
  • Neta Ezer and
  • Daniel J. Bursch

7 January 2021

Advances in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) have paved the way for progressively higher levels of intelligence and autonomy, supporting new modes of operation, such as the one-to-many (OTM) concept, where a single human operator is responsible for mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,084 Views
18 Pages

1 November 2022

Issues of aviation flight safety conducted with an on-board information exchange system are discussed. The system information analysis method is used. An analysis of in-flight hazard sources and the means of their elimination from the information exc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,726 Views
27 Pages

Passive Electro-Optical Tracking of Resident Space Objects for Distributed Satellite Systems Autonomous Navigation

  • Khaja Faisal Hussain,
  • Kathiravan Thangavel,
  • Alessandro Gardi and
  • Roberto Sabatini

22 March 2023

Autonomous navigation (AN) and manoeuvring are increasingly important in distributed satellite systems (DSS) in order to avoid potential collisions with space debris and other resident space objects (RSO). In order to accomplish collision avoidance m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,695 Views
12 Pages

15 June 2017

Due to the direct influence of night vision equipment availability on the safety of night-time aerial reconnaissance, maintenance needs to be carried out regularly. Unfortunately, some defects are not easy to observe or are not even detectable by hum...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,315 Views
29 Pages

Housekeeping System for Suborbital Vehicles: VIRIATO Mock-Up Vehicle Integration and Testing

  • Geraldo Rodrigues,
  • Beltran Arribas,
  • Rui Melicio,
  • Paulo Gordo,
  • Duarte Valério,
  • João Casaleiro and
  • André Silva

The work presented in this paper regards the improvement of a housekeeping system for data acquisition of a suborbital vehicle (VIRIATO rocket or launcher). The specifications regarding the vehicle are presented and hardware is chosen accordingly, co...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,987 Views
10 Pages

The Transition to True North in Air Navigation from the Avionics Perspective

  • Octavian Thor Pleter and
  • Cristian Emil Constantinescu

In azimuth sensing, aviation relies on the magnetic compass or magnetic sensors (flux valve, magnetometer) because the azimuth reference is Magnetic North. Maritime navigation completed the transition to True North. In October 2023, ICAO established...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,605 Views
23 Pages

1 April 2021

This work deals with the safety analysis of an air data system (ADS) partially based on synthetic sensors. The ADS is designed for the small aircraft transportation (SAT) community and is suitable for future unmanned aerial vehicles and urban air mob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,208 Views
29 Pages

A Unified Airspace Risk Management Framework for UAS Operations

  • Suraj Bijjahalli,
  • Alessandro Gardi,
  • Nichakorn Pongsakornsathien,
  • Roberto Sabatini and
  • Trevor Kistan

21 July 2022

Collision risk modelling has a long history in the aviation industry, with mature models currently utilised for the strategic planning of airspace sectors and air routes. However, the progressive introduction of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and ot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,085 Views
11 Pages

19 February 2022

The new requirement of installing the flight stabilization system onboard the airplanes for performing the single-pilot flights in IFR rules was issued lately. It caused the necessity of developing such a system for small aircraft. The proposed syste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,268 Views
20 Pages

7 March 2023

Numerous attempts have been made to extend the endurance of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by improving their propulsion system. However, due to their non-linear setup, no study has been conducted on small electric UAVs’ architecture fra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
92 Citations
17,488 Views
21 Pages

Autonomous Satellite Wildfire Detection Using Hyperspectral Imagery and Neural Networks: A Case Study on Australian Wildfire

  • Kathiravan Thangavel,
  • Dario Spiller,
  • Roberto Sabatini,
  • Stefania Amici,
  • Sarathchandrakumar Thottuchirayil Sasidharan,
  • Haytham Fayek and
  • Pier Marzocca

26 January 2023

One of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals is climate action (SDG-13), and wildfire is among the catastrophic events that both impact climate change and are aggravated by it. In Australia and other countries, large-scale wildfires h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,350 Views
17 Pages

25 March 2010

This paper investigates the potential vertical guidance performance of global positioning system (GPS)/wide area augmentation system (WAAS) user avionics sensor when the modernized GPS and Galileo are available. This paper will first investigate the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,057 Views
30 Pages

13 January 2021

Modern avionics can account for around 30% of the total cost of the aircraft. Therefore, it is essential to reduce the operational cost of avionics during a lifetime. This article addresses the critical scientific problem of creating the appropriate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,868 Views
15 Pages

Channel Measurement and Feasibility Test for Wireless Avionics Intra-Communications

  • Inkyu Bang,
  • Hyunwoo Nam,
  • Woohyuk Chang,
  • Taehoon Kim,
  • Jong-Myung Woo,
  • Choul-Young Kim,
  • Tae-Won Ban,
  • Pangun Park and
  • Bang Chul Jung

14 March 2019

Wireless avionics intra-communication (WAIC) refers to a wireless communication system among electronic components (e.g., sensors and actuators) that are integrated or installed in an aircraft and it is proposed to replace heavy and expensive wired c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
877 Views
22 Pages

Fire Control Radar Fault Prediction with Real-Flight Data

  • Minyoung Kim,
  • Ikgyu Lee,
  • Seon-Ho Jeong,
  • Dawn An and
  • Byoungserb Shim

21 October 2025

Unexpected failures of avionics equipment critically affect flight safety, operational availability, and maintenance costs. To address these issues, Condition-Based Maintenance Plus (CBM+) has emerged as a strategy to optimize maintenance timing base...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,652 Views
24 Pages

3 February 2025

Advances in deep submicron semiconductor technology have increased the significance of studying soft errors caused by atmospheric radiation in avionics systems. Atmospheric radiation particles, such as protons and neutrons, can induce Single Event Up...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
8,555 Views
30 Pages

3 February 2018

The development of time-critical Distributed Avionics Applications (DAAs) pushes beyond the limit of existing modeling methodologies to design dependable systems. Aerospace and industrial automation entail high-integrity applications where execution...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,976 Views
18 Pages

An Event-Driven Link-Level Simulator for the Validation of AFDX and Ethernet Avionics Networks

  • Pablo Vera-Soto,
  • Javier Villegas,
  • Sergio Fortes,
  • José Pulido,
  • Vicente Escaño,
  • Rafael Ortiz and
  • Raquel Barco

Aircraft are composed of many electronic systems: sensors, displays, navigation equipment, and communication elements. These elements require a reliable interconnection, which is a major challenge for communication networks since high reliability and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,502 Views
14 Pages

Availability Assessment of IMA System Based on Model-Based Safety Analysis Using AltaRica 3.0

  • Haiyong Dong,
  • Qingfan Gu,
  • Guoqing Wang,
  • Zhengjun Zhai,
  • Yanhong Lu and
  • Miao Wang

25 February 2019

The integrated modular avionics (IMA) system is widely used in all classes of aircraft as a result of its high functional integration and resource utilization in developing advanced avionics systems. However, a series of challenges related to safety...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,035 Views
16 Pages

Wearable Cardiorespiratory Sensors for Aerospace Applications

  • Nichakorn Pongsakornsathien,
  • Alessandro Gardi,
  • Yixiang Lim,
  • Roberto Sabatini and
  • Trevor Kistan

21 June 2022

Emerging Air Traffic Management (ATM) and avionics human–machine system concepts require the real-time monitoring of the human operator to support novel task assessment and system adaptation features. To realise these advanced concepts, it is essenti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,828 Views
17 Pages

22 August 2019

Sustainable development is of great significance. The emerging research on data-driven computational sustainability has become an effective way to solve this problem. This paper presents a fault diagnosis and prediction framework for complex systems...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
8,216 Views
19 Pages

Experimental Evaluation of SAFEPOWER Architecture for Safe and Power-Efficient Mixed-Criticality Systems

  • Maher Fakih,
  • Kim Grüttner,
  • Sören Schreiner,
  • Razi Seyyedi,
  • Mikel Azkarate-Askasua,
  • Peio Onaindia,
  • Tomaso Poggi,
  • Nera González Romero,
  • Elena Quesada Gonzalez and
  • Duncan Graham
  • + 9 authors

With the ever-increasing industrial demand for bigger, faster and more efficient systems, a growing number of cores is integrated on a single chip. Additionally, their performance is further maximized by simultaneously executing as many processes as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,008 Views
18 Pages

A Multimode Fusion-Based Aviation Communication System

  • Jingyi Qian,
  • Min Liu,
  • Feng Xia,
  • Yunfeng Bai,
  • Dongxiu Ou and
  • Jinsong Kang

3 September 2024

This paper presents a new design for a multimode fusion communication system, aimed at tackling the complexities of modern aeronautical communication. The system integrates multiple communication technologies, such as ad hoc networking, 5G, BeiDou sa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,748 Views
14 Pages

Study on Heat Transfer Performance of Antifreeze-R134a Heat Exchanger (ARHEx)

  • Liping Pang,
  • Kun Luo,
  • Shizhao Yu,
  • Desheng Ma,
  • Miao Zhao and
  • Xiaodong Mao

23 November 2020

In this paper, the liquid cooling and vapor compression refrigeration system based on an Antifreeze-R134a Heat Exchanger (ARHEx) was applied to the thermal management system for high-power avionics in helicopters. The heat transfer performance of the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
17,106 Views
42 Pages

11 May 2024

The evolving technologies regarding Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have led to their extended applicability in diverse domains, including surveillance, commerce, military, and smart electric grid monitoring. Modern UAV avionics enable precise aircra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,426 Views
33 Pages

15 November 2024

Air Traffic Management (ATM) has become complicated mainly due to the increase and variety of input information from Communication, Navigation, and Surveillance (CNS) systems as well as the proliferation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) requiring U...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,276 Views
21 Pages

Securing Real-Time Internet-of-Things

  • Chien-Ying Chen,
  • Monowar Hasan and
  • Sibin Mohan

10 December 2018

Modern embedded and cyber-physical systems are ubiquitous. Many critical cyber-physical systems have real-time requirements (e.g., avionics, automobiles, power grids, manufacturing systems, industrial control systems, etc.). Recent developments and n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,138 Views
28 Pages

10 November 2018

The complexity and costs of the avionics communication architecture are increasing exponentially with the increasing number of embedded computers over the last few decades. To limit the cabling complexity and the deployment costs of such a communicat...

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