The increased number of severe weather events caused by global warming in recent years is a major turbulence factor for airport operation and results in more irregular flights. Quantifying the system response status towards turbulence is critical, in...
An airport’s terminal area is the bottleneck of the air transport system. Convective weather can seriously affect the normal flight status of arrival and departure flights. At present, pilots take different flight operation strategies to avoid...
The exponential growth of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones in recent years has raised concerns about their safe operation, especially in beyond-line-of-sight (BLOS) scenarios. Existing unmanned aircraft system traffic management (UTM) heavil...
How do the weather conditions typical of the polar maritime glaciers in the western Antarctic Peninsula region affect flight operations of fixed-wing drones and how should these be adapted for a successful flight? We tried to answer this research que...
This paper aims to analyze the causes of flight delays of a selected airline operating in Europe and identify potential risks and reasons for delays in air transport, which carry risk, especially in connection with passenger dissatisfaction and the r...
In flight operations, the workload settings refer to the shift work, duty time, flight time, number of sectors, rest periods, time of day, duty patterns, number of time-zone transitions, number of consecutive duty days, and changes in the schedule. W...
The Quick Access Recorder (QAR), as an onboard device used for monitoring and recording flight parameters, has been extensively installed on various types of aircraft. Recently, there has been a significant focus on studying the typical flight safety...
The development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has attracted much attention in the global community and aviation industry. As UAVs have the potential to be applied for multiple missions, the level of research into improving their design and fligh...
Low-altitude flight in mountainous terrains is a difficult flight task applied in both military and civilian fields. The helicopter has to maintain low altitude to realize search and rescue, reconnaissance, penetration, and strike operations. It cont...
Flight safety is a hot topic in the aviation industry. Statistics show that safety incidents during landing are closely related to the flare phase because this critical period requires extensive pilot operations. Many airlines require that pilots sho...
Conducting flight operations at the pace of air traffic relies on shift work, overtime work, work at night, work in different and numerous time zones, and unbalanced flight crew schedules. Such working hours and workload settings can cause disturbanc...
Flight operations data play a central role in ensuring flight safety, optimizing operations, and driving innovation. However, these data have become a key target for cyber-attacks, and are especially vulnerable to property inference attacks. Aiming a...
To cope with the environmental impact of aviation and pollution problems in the future, airlines need to assess environmental impacts and offer countermeasures in advance. In order to measure the influence of environment on the airlines’ operat...
Accurate flight training trajectory prediction is a key task in automatic flight maneuver evaluation and flight operations quality assurance (FOQA), which is crucial for pilot training and aviation safety management. The task is extremely challenging...
The article’s main provisions are the development and application of a neural network method for helicopter turboshaft engine thermogas-dynamic parameter integrating signals. This allows you to effectively correct sensor data in real time, ensu...
Wind has a significant influence on the operational flight safety. To quantify the influence of the wind characteristics, a wind series generator is required in simulations. This paper presents a method to model the stochastic wind based on operation...
Threshold-based flight data monitoring (FDM) identifies parameter exceedances but provides limited visibility into gradual operational deviation within nominal operating bounds. This study presents a three-layer framework for continuous operational d...
This paper introduces a parallelized approach to reconstruct Koopman computational graphs from the perspective of parallel computing to address the computational efficiency bottleneck in approximating Koopman operators within high-dimensional spaces....
Operational risk management (ORM) is crucial for every aviation organization. The assessment of operational risk (OR) is a critical area of study, as organizations must continuously evaluate and mitigate potential risks to maintain high levels of per...
Protection of the natural environment is a key activity driving development in the transport discipline today. The use of simulators to train civil aviation pilots provides an excellent opportunity to maintain the balance between efficiency and limit...
This paper outlines the collaborative efforts between the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center (JSC) for the Flight Dynamics (FD) operation of the Korea Pathfinder...
This study aims to promote the conventional solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to be used as a satellite known as a pseudo-satellite (pseudolite). The applications of UAV as a satellite are still in the initial stages because these proposed...
This paper presents a methodology for optimizing an aeronautical propeller to minimize power consumption. A multi-objective approach using blade element momentum (BEM) theory and evolutionary algorithms is employed to optimize propeller design by min...
The expansion of wind energy, while essential for the energy transition, poses serious collision risks to birds, particularly due to the rotating blades of wind turbines. When conducting environmental impact assessments, accurate quantification of th...
Korea’s first lunar mission, the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), aims to launch in mid-2022 via the Space-X Falcon-9 launch vehicle. For the successful flight operation of KPLO, the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) has designed and de...
Flight delays during extreme weather events exhibit spatio-temporal propagation and cascading effects, posing serious challenges to the resilience of aviation systems. Existing prediction approaches often neglect dynamic dependencies across flight ch...
Certified flight simulation training devices support pilot training and standardized instruction. However, high acquisition costs and vendor constraints on high-resolution operational/flight data can hinder academic research. This paper describes a l...
Helicopters are used for offshore wind farms for maintenance and support flights. The number of helicopter operations is increasing with the expansion of offshore wind energy, which stresses the point that the current German regulations have not yet...
Including incident light sensors (ILS) with multispectral sensors is an important development for agricultural remote sensing because spectral reflectances are necessary for accurate determination of plant biophysical variables such as leaf area inde...
The rapid proliferation of small satellite missions demands flight software that combines reliability, reusability, and rapid development cycles. NASA’s Core Flight System (cFS), with its layered architecture and component-based design, offers...
Flight delays represent a significant challenge for airlines, airports, and passengers, impacting operational costs and customer satisfaction. Traditional prediction methods often rely on complex statistical analysis and mathematical models that may...
This paper presents an active flow control of ship airwake over the deck to improve the safety of helicopter shipboard operations in various angles of wind over deck (WOD). Firstly, an integrated flight dynamics method coupled with ship airwake was d...
This paper develops an algebraic framework for operator matrix polynomials and demonstrates its application to control-design problems in aeroservoelastic systems. We present constructive spectral-factorization and linearization tools (block spectral...
To address challenges in hybrid rice seed production—specifically labor dependence, low uniformity of pollen distribution, and low operational efficiency—which collectively drive up large-scale production costs, technological innovations...
Real-time flight controllers are becoming dependent on general-purpose operating systems, as the modularity and complexity of guidance, navigation, and control systems and algorithms increases. The non-deterministic nature of operating systems create...
Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) is a traffic management system enabling drones to safely and efficiently fly in low-altitude airspace below 120~150m (400~500ft). UTM provides services such as communication, flight route management,...
Landing a helicopter to the ship flight deck is most demanding even for the most experienced pilots and modeling and simulation of the ship-helicopter dynamic interface is a substantially challenging technical problem. In this paper, a coupling numer...
Extant literature suggests minimal research on the reliability of Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components used in fabricating non-military Unmanned Aerial System (UAS). Stochastic failures of components during operational cycles over time poses a...
With the significant potential of Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles (UAVs) extending throughout various fields and industries, their proliferation raises concerns regarding potential risks within the national airspace system (NAS). To enhance the safe and e...
This study focuses on the feasibility of electric aircraft operations between the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao. It explores the technical characteristics of two different future electric aircraft types (i.e., Alice and ES-1...
A low bypass ratio turbofan engine operates in a hostile environment, resulting in performance degradation. This seriously affects the security and reliability of the engine. Therefore, a performance degradation evaluation method for engines based on...
Aviation significantly contributes to anthropogenic radiative forcing with both CO
In a waste heat recovery rotary drum with flights (RDF), particle lifting enhances gas–solid contact but also increases the complexity of particle motion in both radial and axial directions. In this study, a long rotary drum model applicable to...
This paper aims to build a Self-supervised Fault Detection Model for UAVs combined with an Auto-Encoder. With the development of data science, it is imperative to detect UAV faults and improve their safety. Many factors affect the fault of a UAV, suc...
As populations become concentrated in cities, traffic congestion increases, and urban air mobility (UAM) is being considered to face this problem. Accordingly, many institutions and companies around the world are developing UAM vehicles, building inf...
Long landing hazardous events (long landings) are regarded as the most common unsafe events during an aircraft’s landing phase and are significantly influenced by pilots’ leveling operations. This paper proposes a pre-warning method for l...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are regarded as a novel mode for urban air mobility, earning increasing attention on many commercial and civil applications. The risk of UAVs to people on the ground is heightened by airspace range and operational risk...
Air transportation is a huge, complex system with emergence and self-organization, which makes it important for it to be modelled. In this paper, to model the air transportation system with more accuracy, from physical facilities to traffic applicati...
This article investigates the causes of occasional flight instability observed in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The issue manifests as unexpected oscillations that can lead to emergency landings. The analysis focuses on delays in the Extended Kalm...
In support of Canadian industrial and defence ship design and offshore helicopter operations, a series of Ship–Helicopter Operational Limits Analysis and Simulation (SHOLAS) projects are being conducted at the National Research Council Canada (...
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