JACIC Status and Acknowledgments

Satellite Data Networks

Anomaly Detection in Aircraft Gas Turbine Engines

Evaluation of Improved Pushback Forecasts Derived from Airline Ground Operations Data

Accurate and timely predictions of airline pushbacks can potentially lead to improved performance of automated decision-support tools for airport surface traffic, thus reducing the variability and average duration of costly airline delays. One factor which affects the realization of these benefits is the level of uncertainty inherent in the turn processes. To characterize this inherent uncertai...

Autonomous Landing of Miniature Aerial Vehicles

This paper outlines a simple algorithm for automated landing of miniature aerial vehicles (MAVs). Utilizing estimates of height above ground from barometric pressure and optic flow measurements, repeated landings were performed with a 1.5 m wingspan MAV. With height above ground estimated from barometric pressure measurements alone, landing errors averaged 7.6 m. When optic flow and barometric ...

Planning Continuous Curvature Paths Using Constructive Polylines

Previous methods for planning clothoid based continuous curvature paths aim at minimizing path length. However, minimal length paths are not always smooth, natural, and drivable. A new method of generating clothoid-based trajectories is discussed using constructive polylines. The goal of the motion planner is to create a path for a large autonomous car-like vehicle in human driving environments...