Networked Tethered Flying Platforms (NTFPs) have gained growing interest in recent years
due to their versatility and cost-efficiency. These aerial platforms are linked to ground …

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the research and development of
high-altitude airships. These systems provide a suspended platform using buoyancy at 17 …

An analysis of the effect of wind gusts on the aerodynamic characteristics of an aerostat is
presented in this study. A three dimensional computational fluid dynamics based flow …

To address the limitations of two-dimensional digital image correlation (2D-DIC) in
measuring strain on the aerostat envelope, the more precise 3D-DIC has been introduced to …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are
innovative technologies that aim to enhance the quality of communication in next-generation …

Researchers are currently speculating about what the role of beyond fifth-generation (B5G)
or sixth generation (6G) wireless systems will be. Several use cases and applications are …

With the advantages of wide coverage, long endurance, rapid response, and high cost-
effectiveness, tethered aerostats have become an attractive elevated platform to carry …

View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-3900. vid This paper describes a
methodology for the conceptual sizing of a tethered aerostat, given the values of operational …

In order to solve the problems of real-time monitoring of the airbag shapes of a space
airship, three-dimensional (3D) deformation reconstruction method of airbag skins was …