With the expected increase in drone operations, inter-operator fairness issues and congestion problems are expected to arise due to the strategic authorization approach mandated in European regulation. As an alternative, the proposed authorization me...
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport conducted a demonstration project targeting pilot areas to commercialize drone delivery services in urban areas and to present a standard model. In this study, flight data on drone delivery routes i...
Lift-plus-cruise electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft exhibit complex stability characteristics during transition flight, when rotor-borne and wing-borne regimes coexist. This work investigates the dynamic stability of a lift-plus-c...
The extension of aft-body fuselage has become an important trend in the design of Hybrid Wing Body (HWB) civil aircraft due to its improved effect on flight control authority of aircraft. However, it is still unclear how efficient the extension of af...
The studies carried out address an important problem for the concrete and asphalt industry, referring to the wear phenomena that affect the elements (flights) of rotary dryers used to dry mineral aggregates. In this article, the authors propose a lif...
Consumer drones are widely used for recreational aerial photography, while cross-border operations face inconsistent regulations, fragmented official information, and changing restricted-airspace requirements. This paper proposes LUCA, a localized re...
The flight data of a fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) can be evaluated by its designers in order to analyze its performance, to validate the project criteria and to make new decisions based on the data analyses. In this paper, the authors pro...
TOPIC: The task of the 21st century is the implementation of manned flights in Earth’s orbit with the view to building orbital and planetary bases. This requires addressing the impacts on people and small social groups in terms of psychological...
Due to safety concerns of integrating small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into non-segregated airspace, aviation authorities have required a set of detect and avoid (DAA) systems to be equipped on small UAS for beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) f...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, also known as UAVs, play an increasingly important part in daily life. However, the ever-increasing number of UAVs pose an ever-increasing threat to the transportation infrastructure. Despite their precision and general effi...
This study answers a primary question concerning how the temperature changes during the flight of a bullet. To answer the question, the authors performed unique research to measure the initial temperatures of bullet surfaces and applied it to four ki...
The pursuit for cleaner aviation pushes research in hybrid-electric aircraft, which are far more complex systems than conventional airplanes. In this respect, the ODE4HERA European project aims to accelerate the development of such systems with the i...
Recent advances in smart structures and multifunctional materials have facilitated many novel aerospace technologies such as morphing aircraft. A morphing aircraft, bio-inspired by natural fliers, has gained a lot of interest as a potential technolog...
Unless a segregated airspace and the corresponding clearances can be afforded, flight testing of remotely piloted aircraft is often done near the ground and within visual line-of-sight. In addition to the increased exposure to turbulence, this setup...
The asphalt industry, essential for the global transport infrastructure, requires substantial investments to increase the durability of production facilities. The quality of asphalt depends, essentially, on the degree of drying of mineral aggregates....
Testing of untethered subscale models, often referred to as subscale flight testing, has traditionally had a relatively minor, yet relevant use in aeronautical research and development. As recent advances in electronics, rapid prototyping and unmanne...
The authors discuss the Orthodox icon which Pavel Filonov (1883–1941) painted in 1908 or 1909 for his sister, Ekaterina, placing it within the broader context of his oeuvre, his family and his understanding of ‘religiosity’. Making reference to Filon...
Wingtip folding is a means by which an aircraft’s wingspan can be extended, allowing designers to take advantage of the associated reduction in induced drag. This type of device can provide other benefits if used in flight, such as flight contr...
The modern aeronautical scenario has welcomed the massive diffusion of new key elements, including the Remote Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS), initially used for military purposes only. The current decade has seen RPAS ready to become a new airspace...
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...
The authors have adjusted the DLR forecast model to evaluate the environmental benefits in terms of CO2 and NOx emissions of Clean Sky 2 technology innovations. The paper briefly describes the model employed: it consists of a passenger/flight volume...
This work presents a novel readout system for the Timepix3-based detector, designed specifically for large-scale facilities, such as particle accelerators. The authors begin by outlining the challenges associated with utilizing the Timepix3 detector...
It is widely recognized that airspace capacity must increase over the coming years. It is also commonly accepted that meeting this challenge while balancing concerns around safety, efficiency, and workforce issues will drive greater reliance on autom...
Characterizing the highly complex aero-propulsive interaction in distributed electric propulsion (DEP) aircraft may require automated flight-testing procedures with dedicated maneuvers, which introduce specific safety challenges. This paper investiga...
The robust stabilization of the attitude of quadrotors with respect to disturbance torques is a fundamental and crucial control problem in many unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications. For this problem, a control Lyapunov function (CLF)-based robu...
In this paper, the authors analyze an important but overlooked area, the aerodynamics of the variable camber morphing wing in transition, where 6% camber changes from 2% to 8% using the two airfoil configurations: NACA2410 and NACA8410. Many morphing...
A morphing wing concept allowing for coupled twist-camber shape adaptation is proposed. The design is based on an optimized thickness distribution both spanwise and chordwise to be able to morph the wing sections into targeted airfoil shapes. Simulta...
In an area where unmanned aerial system (UAS) traffic is high, a conflict detection system is one of the important components for the safety of UAS operations. A novel UAS traffic management (UTM) monitoring application was developed, including a con...
One of the top long-term threats to airport resilience is extreme climate-induced conditions, which negatively affect the airport and flight operations. Recent examples, including hurricanes, storms, extreme temperatures (cold/hot), and heavy rains,...
Crossing time zones can disrupt our body clock and lead to jet lag. Some studies reported that jet lag affects human physical and cognitive functions. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, none of these studies examined the effects of jet lag on pos...
This study tests the impact of drone transportation on the quality of a medicine. Modelling the critical process parameters of drone flight, the effects of temperature and vibration on insulin were investigated using the pharmacopoeia methods. The me...
The integration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) into the current airspace poses significant challenges in terms of safety, security, and operability. As an example, in 2019, the European Union defined a set of rules to support the digitalization...
The most common filters used to determine the angular position of quadrotors are the Kalman filter and the complementary filter. The problem of angular position estimation consist is a result of the absence of direct data. The most common sensors on...
In this article, the authors conducted electromagnetic radiation research on telecommunication base stations using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Until now, UAVs have only been capable of performing visual inspections, without investigating electri...
In the past year, the author has been using the OpenSky ressources for teaching purposes in the context of Software-Engineering courses for undergraduates at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (Germany). Challenges in using the OpenSky-Onli...
This study presents the application of an in-house developed safety assessment method on the scaled flight demonstrator e-Genius-Mod, which is equipped with distributed electric propulsion. Thereby, simplified aerodynamic and propulsive models are de...
The time-of-flight elastic recoil detection analysis (TOF-ERDA) method is one of the ion beam analysis methods that is capable of analyzing light elements in a sample with excellent depth resolution. In this method, simultaneous measurements of recoi...
In this paper, the authors propose an UAV-based automatic inspection method for photovoltaic plants analyzing and testing a vision-based guidance method developed to this purpose. The maintenance of PV plants represents a key aspect for the profitabi...
In many unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications, achieving stable flight despite actuator failures is crucial. Among the many existing fault-tolerant control (FTC) methods, adaptive control is a practical approach. In this article, we present expe...
This paper discloses a new algorithm, called sustainable supersonic fuel flow method, to complement the conceptual design of future supersonic aircraft with pollutant and greenhouse gases emissions estimation. Starting from already existing algorithm...
Planning and executing missions in terms of trajectory generation are challenging problems in the operational phase of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) lifecycle. The growing adoption of UAVs in several civil applications requires the definition of pr...
The growth of air transportation volume and increasing requirements for efficiency require the improvement of algorithms for planning optimal aircraft flight routes. Traditional methods, such as the A*, B*, D* and Dijkstra algorithms, are widely used...
Non-linear phenomena are particularly important in -flight dynamics of micro-class unmanned aerial vehicles. Susceptibility to atmospheric turbulence and high manoeuvrability of such aircraft under critical flight conditions cover non-linear aerodyna...
This paper covers a new actuation and deflection controller configuration for high-aspect-ratio wings used on subsonic drones, missiles, and munitions. Current approaches to the flight control of these aircraft have unearthed challenges with friction...
The bighorn sheep in Mexico is classified as at-risk by the Mexican federal government. In the state of Baja California, wild sheep can be observed throughout the length of the state from the USA–Mexico border south to the Agua de Soda mountain...
The article presents a method of designing a selected unmanned aerial platform flight scenario based on the principles of designing a reliable (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) UAV architecture operating in an environment in which other platforms operate. Th...
Unmanned aerial vehicle technology is the most advanced and helpful in almost every area of interest in human work. These devices become autonomous and can fulfil a variety of tasks, from simple imaging and obtaining data to search and rescue operati...
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused very serious problems almost to the whole world, so every opportunity must be considered to improve the situation. One such improvement strategy is decontamination carried out from the air. This technique can be consi...
The release of captive-raised parrots to create or supplement wild populations has been critiqued due to variable survival rates and unreliable flocking behavior. Private bird owners free-fly their parrots in outdoor environments and utilize techniqu...
Research on endangered British butterflies has found that butterfly populations in small refuges evolve to allocate more mass to the thorax (flight muscle) and less to the abdomen than populations in large refuges. The observed change in mass allocat...
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