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Analysis of VSTOL aircraft configurations for short haul air transportation systems
([Cambridge, Mass.] : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Flight Transportation Laboratory, [1966], 1966)
Introduction: The potential of air transportation as a means of filling the growing need for a mass short haul transportation system was investigated in Ref. 1 where all aspects of short haul air transportation systems ...
Hover, Transition, and Level Flight Control Design for a Single-Propeller Indoor Airplane
(2007-05-15)
This paper presents vehicle models and test flight results for an autonomous fixed-wing airplane that is designed to take-off, hover, transition to and from level-flight modes, and perch on a vertical landing platform in ...
On Approximate Dynamic Inversion
(2009-05-08)
Approximate Dynamic Inversion has been established as a method to control minimum-phase, nonaffine-in-control systems [1]. In this report, we re-state the main results of [1], clarify some minor notational errors, and prove ...
Potential Flow Calculations of Axisymmetric Ducted Wind Turbines
(2009-09-02)
An incompressible potential-flow vortex method has been constructed to analyze the flow field of a ducted
wind turbine following that outlined by Lewis (1991). Attention is paid to balancing the momentum change
in the ...
Human Supervisory Control Issues in Network Centric Warfare
(MIT Humans and Automation Laboratory, 2004)
Network centric warfare (NCW) is a concept of operations that seeks to increase combat power
by linking battlespace entities to effectively leverage information superiority. A network centric force
must be supported by ...
Multiple Alarms and Driving Situational Awareness
(MIT Humans and Automation Laboratory, 2005)
There is increasing interest in actively mitigating safety in vehicles beyond that of
improving crash worthiness. According to the National Highway Transportation Safety
Administration (NHTSA), there are more than 40,000 ...
Design Methodology for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Team Coordination
(MIT Humans and Automation Laboratory, 2007)
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems, despite having no onboard human pilots, currently
require extensive human involvement to accomplish successful mission operations. Further,
successful operations also require ...
Designing Decision and Collaboration Support Technology for Operators in Multi-UAV Operations Teams
(MIT Humans and Automation Laboratory, 2007)
Effective team collaboration and timely decision-making significantly influence the outcome of
time-sensitive military operations. The increasing complexity introduced by the recent move
towards network centric operations ...
Integrating Multiple Alarms & Driver Situation Awareness
(MIT Humans and Automation Laboratory, 2006)
This study addresses this gap in CAS and intelligent alarm research by examining whether or not a single master alarm warning versus multiple warnings for the different collision warning systems conveys adequate information ...
A UAV Mission Hierarchy
(MIT Humans and Automation Laboratory, 2006)
In the following sections, each of the primary missions are decomposed into mission planning, management, and replanning segments in order to identify
what the primary functions a human operator will need to perform. The ...