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Open-Source Validation and Verification Framework for AI-Controlled Aerial Vehicles

  • PI M. Ilhan Akbas

  • The goal of this project is to develop a simulation framework to streamline the testing and validation of AI-controlled aerial vehicles. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) design and verification flow consists of the digital environment creation process, an open-source AI-controlled autopilot, access to multiple open-source simulators, symbolic test generation engine, example test scenarios, and native design-for-experiment layer for each of the major subsystem of an AI-controlled aerial vehicle.
OPTIMIS: Optimizing Human Performance in the Air Transportation Sector by Integrating Human Factors into Homeland Security Deterrence and Detection Procedures and Training: System Interfaces and Behavioral Screening at Security Checkpoints (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Undergraduate Research Collaborative Grants Program 2023)
  • This project addresses human performance optimization in commercial air transportation by integrating human factors principles into homeland security deterrence and detection tasks, procedures, training, and technology interfaces at airport security checkpoints.
Optimizing Countermeasures for Spaceflight-Induced Deconditioning

  • PI Christine Walck

  • This research focuses on understanding space deconditioning and developing comprehensive systems to mitigate the adverse physiological effects of microgravity on astronauts.
Organizational Design of Secondary Aviation/Aerospace/Engineering Career Education Programs

  • PI Susan Archer

    CO-I David Esser

  • Modern nations operate within a global economy, relying heavily on the aviation industry for efficient and effective transportation of passengers and goods. The Boeing 2018 Pilot and Technical Outlook Report indicated that over the next 20 years, the aviation industry will need almost two and a half million new aircrew and maintenance employees to meet anticipated global demand. The industry will also need engineers, aviation managers, and workers in other aviation and aerospace disciplines. Aviation and aerospace jobs require solid backgrounds in mathematics, science, and technology; the development of pre-college aviation / aerospace / engineering career education programs would presumably enhance student preparation in these areas and increase the workforce pipeline for the industry. The goal of this study was to identify and evaluate the underlying organizational factors of successful secondary aviation / aerospace / engineering career education programs, through application of measures traditionally associated with organizational theory.

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PI of the project Coalition for Undergraduate Comp, Science & Eng. Education (TUES 1244967) 2014-2016,
  • ​The project creates a cluster of collaborating institutions that combine students into common Computational Sciences and Engineering (CSE) classes and uses cyberlearning technologies to deliver instruction. Students also conduct projects that begin in a summer workshop in Embry-Riddle's Nonlinear Wave Lab and complete them at their home institution using remote lab access. Because few small colleges have the resources to provide undergraduate CSE courses, the project significantly increases student participation in computational science. The project intends to scale-up by establishing a network of clusters. The project advances the learning of CSE by using an R&D process to provide a coherent framework for designing instruction and assessing learning in which the instructional and assessment methods are aligned with a common idea: Model-based learning and reasoning. In addition, the educational infrastructure is improved by establishing a state of the art cyberlearning network that includes a virtual conferencing system; video communication between multiple endpoints such as PCs & iPads; automatic recording and archiving of sessions; and remote lab access in which all operations and measurements in the Nonlinear Wave Lab are remotely operational and streamed online.
Pilot Acceptance of Personal, Wearable Fatigue Monitoring Technology: An Application of the Extended Technology Acceptance Model

  • PI Rachelle Strong

    CO-I Dahai Liu

  • The research problem of pilot fatigue has been referenced as a causal factor for aircraft accidents in many United States National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) accident reports; however, the United States Code of Federal Regulations 14 CFR Part 117, Flight and Duty Limitations and Rest Requirements for Flight Crew Members, does not provide a tangible means of measuring fatigue for aircraft crew members. This problem is relevant to the airline industry and the travelling public because pilot fatigue is preventable as a causal factor in aviation accidents, and pilots need an accurate way to measure it. Adoption of a technology-based solution has been recommended by the NTSB.

Pilot Response to Cybersecurity Events
  • ​The first research uses the pilot cybersecurity event and risk assessment station located in the Cybersecurity Engineering Lab (LB 131).
Pilot’s Willingness to Operate in Unmanned Aircraft System Integrated Airspace

  • PI Lakshmi Vempati

    PI Scott Winter

  • The interest in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) use for private, civil, and commercial purposes such as package delivery, inspection, surveillance, and passenger and cargo transport has gained considerable momentum. As UAS infiltrate the National Airspace System (NAS), there is a need to not only develop viable, safe, and secure solutions for the co-existence of manned and unmanned aircraft, but also determine public acceptance and pilot’s willingness to operate an aircraft in such an integrated environment. Currently there is little or no research on pilot’s perceptions on their willingness to operate an aircraft in UAS integrated airspace and airports.

Pilot-in-the-Loop UAS Mobile Research Test-Bed

  • PI Hever Moncayo

    CO-I May Chan

    CO-I Ashwini Agrawal

    CO-I Agustin Giovagnoli

  • This project aims to develop and implement a Mobile UAV Ground Control Station (GCS) supporting aviation safety research with pilot-in-the-loop capabilities using unmanned aerial systems platforms, in which flight conditions, such as systems failures, could be simulated in real-time to characterize pilot response, control laws performance, and human-machine and control laws interactions.
Platform for Investigating Concept Networks on the Instrumentality of Knowledge (PICNIK)

  • PI Matthew Verleger

  • This engineering education research project seeks to develop a concept network for engineering and a platform for helping students identify how concepts are connected across a curriculum.  The goal is to better understand and improve how students value the concepts being taught throughout their education.

PLD Space Suborbital Microgravity Research

  • PI Pedro LLanos

  • This project involves the design, development, integration, testing, validation, and verification of various payloads to be flown aboard PLD Space’s MIURA-1 suborbital rocket. 
    1. Magnetic Active Propellant Management Device (MAPMD) experiment (student involvement) 
    2. In-vitro experiment comprised of both T-cells and Cancer cells 
    3. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunt experiment (student involvement) 
    4. Environment characterization of the suborbital vehicle experiment (student involvement)
PolyVerif: Open-Source Environment for Autonomous Vehicle Validation and Verification

  • PI M. Ilhan Akbas

  • ​Validation and Verification (V&V) of Artificial Intelligence (AI) based cyber physical systems such as Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) is currently a vexing and unsolved problem.