Machine Learning for Aeronautics (2nd Edition)

A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310). This special issue belongs to the section "Aeronautics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 1213

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Dear Colleagues,

From enhancing aircraft design and manufacturing to enabling virtual testing, accelerating the certification of novel concepts, optimizing flight and maintenance operations, revolutionizing air traffic management, and improving aviation safety, the integration of machine learning offers unparalleled opportunities for innovation.

This Special Issue aims to showcase the latest research, case studies, and innovative ML techniques that are pushing the boundaries of what is possible in aeronautics. We invite contributions from researchers, engineers, and practitioners who are working at the intersection of machine learning and aerospace technology. Whether through the development of advanced algorithms for flight control, the application of predictive maintenance for aircraft systems, or the use of machine learning to improve aerodynamic designs, your work is contributing to the smarter, safer, and more efficient operation of aircraft and air transport systems.

In this Special Issue, we look forward to sharing insights that will not only advance the state of the art in aeronautical engineering but also inspire further innovation in the application of machine learning within the industry. In particular, authors are invited to submit full research articles or review manuscripts that address (but are not limited to) the following topics:

  • Application of AI/ML to requirement engineering;
  • Application of AI/ML to design (e.g., generative design);
  • Application of AI/ML to aircraft development, modeling, and testing;
  • Application of AI/ML to manufacturing and factory automation;
  • Application of AI/ML in support of certification by analysis;
  • Optimization of flight profile/performance;
  • Real-time fault detection and predictive maintenance;
  • Application of AI/ML to pilot training;
  • Application of AI/ML to aviation safety;
  • Application of AI/ML to air traffic management;
  • Application of AI to environmental impact assessment in aviation;
  • Application of AI/ML to autonomous flight;
  • Application of AI/ML to flight control and navigation;
  • Cybersecurity in aviation systems;
  • Additional related areas.

We look forward to receiving your submissions. Please contact the Guest Editor for any further questions.

Dr. Olivia J. Pinon Fischer
Prof. Dr. Dimitri Mavris
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Keywords

  • application of AI/ML to requirement engineering
  • application of AI/ML to design (e.g., generative design)
  • application of AI/ML to aircraft development, modeling, and testing
  • application of AI/ML to manufacturing and factory automation
  • application of AI/ML in support of certification by analysis
  • optimization of flight profile/performance
  • real-time fault detection and predictive maintenance
  • application of AI/ML to pilot training
  • application of AI/ML to aviation safety
  • application of AI/ML to air traffic management
  • application of AI to environmental impact assessment in aviation
  • application of AI/ML to autonomous flight
  • application of AI/ML to flight control and navigation
  • cybersecurity in aviation systems
  • additional related areas

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AI-Based Anomaly Detection Techniques for Structural Fault Diagnosis Using Low-Sampling-Rate Vibration Data
by Yub Jung, Eun-Gyo Park, Seon-Ho Jeong and Jeong-Ho Kim
Aerospace 2024, 11(7), 509; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace11070509 - 24 Jun 2024
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Abstract
Rotorcrafts experience severe vibrations during operation. To ensure the safety of rotorcrafts, it is necessary to perform anomaly detection to detect small-scale structural faults in major components. To accurately detect small-scale faults before they grow to a fatal size, HR (high sampling rate) [...] Read more.
Rotorcrafts experience severe vibrations during operation. To ensure the safety of rotorcrafts, it is necessary to perform anomaly detection to detect small-scale structural faults in major components. To accurately detect small-scale faults before they grow to a fatal size, HR (high sampling rate) vibration data are required. However, to increase the efficiency of data storage media, only LR (low sampling rate) vibration data are generally collected during actual flight operation. Anomaly detection using only LR data can detect faults above a certain size, but may fail to detect small-scale faults. To address this problem, we propose an anomaly detection technique using the SR3 (Super-Resolution via Repeated Refinement) algorithm to upscale LR data to HR data, and then applying the LSTM-AE model. This technique is validated for two datasets (drone arm data, CWRU bearing data). First, the necessity for HR data is illustrated by showing that anomaly detection using LR data fails, and the upscaling performance of the SR3 algorithm is validated in the frequency and time domain. Finally, the anomaly detection for a structural fault diagnosis is performed for the upscaled data and the HR data using the LSTM-AE model. The quantitative evaluation of the Min–Max normalized reconstruction error distribution is performed through the MSE (Mean Square Error) value of the anomaly detection results. As a result, it is confirmed that the anomaly detection using upscaled test data can be performed as successfully as the anomaly detection using HR test data for both datasets by the proposed technique. Full article
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