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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Flight Planning"”.
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Optimal Task Scheduling and Flight Planning for Multi-Task Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
… In this thesis, we study the optimal flight planning, control, and routing for the multi-task UAV. The main contributions of this thesis can be summarized as follows. • This thesis presents a novel energy-efficient UAV flight planning framework, which integrates UAVs into intelligent …
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Effects of Musical Ability on Flight Planning, Situational Awareness, and Flight Path Deviations
… and pilot performance, specifically related to flight planning, situational awareness, and flight path deviations. This study was a quasi-experimental design studying 20 pilots with musical training and 20 pilots without musical training. Participants were assessed through a series of tests. The …
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Investigation and Evaluation of a Computer Program to Minimize VFR Flight Planning Errors
… was to investigate the effect of computer aided flight planning on flight planning errors. Subjects were selected from the introductory flight courses at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. After the subjects completed a conventional VFR navigation log, they were asked to plan the return trip …
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Development and inflight validation of an automated flight planning system using multiple-sensor windfield estimation
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1993.
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Effectiveness of adaptive flight planning in the occurrence of total loss of thrust due to bird strike
… This dissertation hypothesizes that “an adaptive flight planner can significantly increase the odds of safe landing in the occurrence of total loss of thrust”. The objective is to test the research hypothesis through a designed experiment. To construct the experimental conditions, the FAA Wildlife …
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Airline schedule planning and operations : optimization-based approaches for delay mitigation
… possible future operational uncertainties at the planning stage, in order to generate solutions that when implemented, are less likely to be disrupted, or incur lower costs of recovery when disrupted. We complement strategic measures with operational measures of managing delays and disruptions by …
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FALCON: Fine-Time-Measurement to Approach, Localize, and Track RF Targets via Drone Networks
… navigation. In addition, we propose a new flight planning strategy to simultaneously approach and localize a target to enable higher resolution sensory measurements and to realize approaching-critical tasks in a mission in addition to localization and tracking. For that, we propose to …
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Behavioral Traps in Flight Crew-Related 14 CFR Part 121 Airline Accidents
… were: Loss of Situational Awareness; Neglect of Flight Planning, Preflight Inspections and Checklists; Peer Pressure; Get-There-Itis; and Unauthorized Descent Below an Instrument Flight Rule (IFR) Altitude. The purpose of this dissertation was to study the nature of their occurrence in the …
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Enhanced Air Transportation Modeling Techniques for Capacity Problems
… runway occupancy times (DROT); and 3) a flight planning model. This thesis will also offer an exploration of the uses of unmanned aerial vehicles for providing wireless communications services. For the predictive models of AROT and DROT, we fit hierarchical Bayesian regression models to …
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Advanced analysis and visualisation techniques for atmospheric data
… from measurement instruments on board aircraft. Flight planning for the numerous sorties is based on pre-determined goals with unpredictable influences, such as weather patterns, and the results of some limited analyses of data from previous sorties. There is little scope for adjusting the flight …
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Improving Aerial Package Delivery Through Simulation of Hazard Detection, Mapping, and Regulatory Compliance
… computer-generated animation, image processing, flight control, and airspace monitoring. Further, lightweight simulation environments were used to investigate flight planning, flight-plan execution strategy, remote drone control, nearby air traffic, and flight restriction monitoring. A more …
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Efficient Low-Speed Flight in a Wind Field
A new software tool was needed for flight planning of a high altitude, low speed unmanned aerial vehicle which would be flying in winds close to the actual airspeed of the vehicle. An energy modeled NLP formulation was used to obtain results for a variety of missions and wind profiles. The energy …
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Beyond Visual Line of Sight Drone Simulator with User-defined Risk Layers
… need for reliable tools to support safe mission planning and dynamic risk assessment is growing. This work introduces a web-based simulation framework for BVLOS flight planning and validation, developed as a full-stack Flask application. The system integrates FAA sectional charts, NOAA weather …
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The hermeneutics of airphoto interpretation
… politics. By examining the entire process, from flight planning to analysis to briefing of policymakers and finally, to the formation of policy, a different model of information exchange emerges. The science and politics of airphoto interpretation share a co-dependency where knowledge transfer is …
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Methods for Radioactive Source Localization via Uncrewed Aerial Systems
… of an unknown source to compare various flight parameters. In addition, significant work was conducted to characterize two radiation detectors available to the USL to provide metrics to assist in the UAS design and flight planning. Finally, the detectors were taken to Savannah River …
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A software architecture towards automated data-driven multi-resolution crop scouting with an unmanned aerial system
… thesis proposes a software architecture for UAS flight planning that can provide a two-stage flight mission consisting of a high altitude scout flight over a large area followed by a low altitude inspection flight at a limited number of places of interest deemed high priority according image …
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COCO-Bridge: Common Objects in Context Dataset and Benchmark for Structural Detail Detection of Bridges
… (UAS) to assist in GPS denied environments, flight-planning, and detail identification and contextualization, but has far-reaching applications such as augmented reality (AR) and other artificial intelligence (AI) platforms. COCO-Bridge is an annotated dataset which can be trained using a …
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Modeling Aerial Refueling Operations
… to another aircraft: the receiver) in mid flight. Meetings between tanker and receiver aircraft are referred to as AR events and are scheduled to: escort one or more receivers across a large body of water; refuel one or more receivers; or train receiver pilots, tanker pilots, and boom …
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An Industry Assessment: Are Aircraft Dispatchers in a Holding Pattern?
… procedures, weight and balance calculations, flight planning, and meteorological knowledge. This position is regulated by the Code of Federal Regulations that is administered by the Federal Aviation Administration. This paper examined programs that were offered to train aircraft dispatchers. …
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Transport and Distribution of the Short-Lived Halocarbons in the Tropical Tropopause Layer in the Pacific Ocean: the Role of Convection
… dispersion model NAME to (i) support the flight planning activities and achieve the multi aircraft coordination in CAST, CONTRAST, ATTREX 2014 campaigns, and (ii) quantify the amount and distribution of short-lived halocarbons in the TTL, and explain differences in these vertical …
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