Institute of Aerospace Technologies

Publications

Publications

Camilleri, R., Meignen-Viaud, N., Prediction and measurement of the heat transfer coefficient in direct, oil-cooled batteries, MDPI Energies 2023, 16 (23), 7725, https://doi.org/10.3390/en16237725

Batra, A., Raute, R. and Camilleri, R., On the range equation for a hybrid-electric aircraft, MDPI Aerospace, 2023, 10(8), 687; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace10080687

Lian, X., Galea, M., Caruana, C., Camilleri, R., Design of a High Specific Power Permanent Magnet Electrical Machine for Flywheel Energy Storage, Int. Conf. Electr. Mach. & Syst. ICEMS2023, Nov. 5-8, 2023, Zhuhai, China

Batra, A., Raute, R. and Camilleri, R., Sensitivity analysis of the range equation for a hybrid-electric aircraft, 13th EASN Int. Conf. Sept. 5-8, 2023, Salerno, Italy.

Camilleri, R., Batra, A., Bugeja Bartolo, L., Delavault, A., Kinetic energy recovery from a landing aircraft: Evaluating Onboard Energy Storage Solutions, 13th EASN Int. Conf. Sept. 5-8, 2023, Salerno, Italy. 

Barilaro L., Gauci, J., Galea, M., Filipozzi, A., Vella, D., Camilleri, R., BEA: Overview of a multi-unmanned vehicle system for diver assistance, 2023 Int. Conf. on Unmanned aircraft syst. AIDAA 2023, Sept. 4-7, 2023, Padova, Italy.

Caruana, C., Manicolo, A., and Camilleri R., Investigating the power and energy flows for a kinetic energy recovery system from a landing aircraft, Aerospace Europe Conf., Joint 10th EUCASS-CEAS Conf., July 9-13, 2023, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Batra, A., Raute, R. and Camilleri, R., Hybrid-electric aircraft propulsion systems: Economic and Environmental Prospects, AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition 2023 (SciTech), 23-27 Jan. 2023, National Harbour, MD, USA. 

Jasra, S.K., Valentino, G., Muscat, A., Camilleri, R. Hybrid Machine Learning–Statistical Method for Anomaly Detection in Flight Data. Sci. 2022,12,10261. https:// doi.org/10.3390/app122010261

Koopman C., Gauci J., Muscat A., Dingli A. & Zammit-Mangion D., ‘Real-time Aerodrome Detection using Deep Learning Methods’, IEEE/AIAA 41st Digital Avionics Systems Conference, Portsmouth, VA, USA, 18-22 September 2022.

Zaninotto S., Gauci J. & Zammit B., ‘An Engineless Taxi Operations System using Battery-operated Autonomous Tow Trucks’, 33rd Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, 4-9 September 2022.

Batra, A., Raute, R. and Camilleri R., Series or parallel hybrid-electric propulsion systems? Case studies of the ATR42 and ATR72, 33rd Congress of the Int. Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS2020), 4-9 Sept 2022, Stockholm, Sweden.

Camilleri, R. and Batra, A., Kinetic energy recovery from a landing aircraft: Energy analysis, environmental & economic prospects, 33rd Congress of the Int. Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS2020, 4-9 Sept. 2022), Stockholm, Sweden.

Gauci J., Galea M. & Muscat A., ‘Human-in-the-loop Evaluation of an Active Sidestick Control System for Aircraft Taxiing’, AIAA Aviation Forum, Chicago, Illinois & Online, 27 June-1 July, 2022.

Rahman A., Zammit B. & Gauci J., ‘A Fuzzy-based Site Selection Framework for Emergency Landings of Commercial Aircraft’, AIAA Aviation Forum, Chicago, Illinois & Online, 27 June-1 July, 2022.

Theuma K., Chircop K., Gauci J., & Zammit-Mangion D., ‘Enhancing Sparse LiDAR Data Captured on an Airfield Using 3D Aircraft Models’, International conference on Target and Background Modeling & Simulation, Bagnères-de-Bigorre, France, 7-10 June, 2022.

Theuma, K. and Camilleri R., Satellite damage sensor supporting multiple impacts from space debris, 4S Symposium, 16-20 May 2022, Vilamoura, Portugal.

Zaninotto S., Gauci J. & Zammit B., ‘A Testbed for Performance Analysis of Algorithms for Engineless Taxiing with Autonomous Tow Trucks’, IEEE/AIAA 40th Digital Avionics Systems Conference, San Antonio, Texas, USA, 3-7 October 2021. (Best of session award).

Camilleri, R. and McCulloch, M.D., Integrating a heat sink into concentrated wound coils to improve the current density of an axial flux, direct liquid cooled electrical machine with segmented stator, Energies 2021, Vol. 14, Iss. 12, https://doi.org/10.3390/en14123619

Camilleri, R. and McCulloch, M.D., Assessing the temperature and current density of flat winding coils for concentrated windings within a segmented stator machine, IEEE Ind. Applications, 2021, Vol.57, Iss. 3, pp. 2440-2448, DOI: 1109/TIA.2021.3065897.

Singh D. S., Gauci J., Dingli A., Muscat A., & Zammit-Mangion D., ‘Automated Aircraft Stall Recovery using Reinforcement Learning and Supervised Learning Techniques’, IEEE/AIAA 40th Digital Avionics Systems Conference, San Antonio, Texas, USA, 3-7 October 2021.

Batra, A. and Camilleri R., Assessing the environmental impact of aircraft taxiing technologies, 32nd Congress of the Int. Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS2020) Shanghai, China, Sept. 7, 2021.

Barilaro, L., Falsetti, C., Olivieri, L., Giacomuzzo, C., Francesconi, A., Beard, P., Camilleri, R., A Conceptual study to characterize properties of space debris from hypervelocity impact through Thin Film Heat Flux Gauges, IEEE Int. Workshop on Metrology for Aerospace 2021, 23-25 June, 2021.

Gauci J., De Carlo J., Golfetti A., Tomasello P., Napoletano L., Turhan U., Uslu S., Yörük B., Güngören M., Gomes-Mota J., Matton N., Romano E., Feletig S., Geraldes D., Manaia F., Macedo M., Ribeiro A. & Drogoul F., ‘From education and training to the workplace: Gaps and challenges in aviation’, Ergonomics & Human Factors 2021, Online, 19-21 April 2021.

Galea M., Zammit Mangion D., Muscat A., Thornton I. & Gauci J., ‘An Active Side Stick Controller for Aircraft Ground Operations’, AIAA SciTech Forum, Online, 11-15 & 19-21 January 2021, doi: 2514/6.2021-0760.

Batra A. & Gauci J., ‘Aerodrome Taxiway Line Detection and Cross-Track Error Estimation Using Computer Vision Techniques’, IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, USA, 7-14 March 2020, doi: 10.1109/AERO47225.2020.9172787.

Camilleri, R., Experimental investigation of the thermal parameters for modelling, Int. Conf. on Power Electron., Machines and Drives PEMD2020, 27-29 April 2020, Nottingham, UK.

Theuma, K., Gauci, J., Chircop, K. & Zammit-Mangion, D., Fusion of Point Clouds for Obstacle Tracking during Airport Ground Operations, AIAA SciTech Forum, Orlando, Florida, 6-10 January 2020.  

Kumar Jasra, S., Valentino, G., Muscat, A. & Camilleri, R., Evaluation of Flight Parameters During Approach Phase by Applying Principal Component Analysis, AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition 2020 (SciTech), 6-10 Jan. 2020, Orlando, Florida, USA.

Camilleri, R., CFD Modelling and experimental calibration of concentrated windings in a direct oil cooled segmented stator, 16th UK Heat Transfer Conference (UKHTC2019), 8-10 Sept. 2019, Nottingham, UK.

Sawani, M. & Camilleri, R., Investigating the temperature profile of lithium-ion battery cells under various cooling technologies, 16th UK Heat Transfer Conference (UKHTC2019), 8-10 Sept. 2019, Nottingham, UK.

Theuma, K., Zammit-Mangion, D., Gauci, J. & Chircop, K., Implementation and Evaluation of a Multi-Model Filter for Aircraft Ground Operations. Journal of Air Transportation, 2019, pp. 1-11. doi: 10.2514/1.D0144.

Zaninotto, S., Gauci, J., Farrugia, G. & Debattista, J., Design of a Human-in-the-Loop Aircraft Taxi Optimisation System Using Autonomous Tow Trucks, AIAA Aviation Forum, 17-21 June 2019, Dallas, Texas, USA.

Theuma, K., Zammit-Mangion, D., Gauci, J. & Chircop, K., A Particle Filter for Ground Obstacle Tracking in the Airfield, AIAA SciTech Forum, 7-11 January 2019, San Diego, California, USA.

Camilleri, R., Sawani, M., Predicting the heat transfer coefficient in direct oil cooled lithium ion batteries, 5th Int. Symp. on Environment-Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA 2018), 24-26 Sept. 2018, Rome, Italy.

Gauci J., Theuma K., Muscat A., Zammit-Mangion D., 'Evaluation of a Multimodal Interface for Pilot Interaction with Avionic Systems'. 37th AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), London, England, UK, 23-27 September 2018.

Gauci, J., Theuma, K., Archer, R., Grech, R., Zammit-Mangion, D., ‘Ground and Flight Testing of a Multi-Sensor Obstacle Detection and Tracking System for RPAS Situation Awareness’. 31st Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 9-14 September 2018.

Camilleri, R., McCulloch M.D., A new flat winding construction for direct liquid cooled axial flux machine with segmented stators, Int. Conf. on Electr. Mach. (ICEM 2018), 3-6 Sept, Alexandruopoli, Greece.

Kumar Jasra, S., Gauci, J., Muscat, A., Guillaumier, K., Zammit-Mangion D., and Camilleri, R., A literature review of machine learning techniques to analyse flight data, Advanced aircraft efficiency in a Global Air Transport System, AEGATS'18, 23-25 Oct., Toulouse, France.

Galea M., Zammit B. and Gauci J., 'A Multi-Level Path Planner for Small Unmanned Air Systems (UAS)'. 2018 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems ICUAS 2018, Dallas, USA, 12-15 June 2018.

Theuma K., Chircop K., Gauci J. & Zammit-Mangion D., 'Implementation and Evaluation of a Multi-Model Filter for Aircraft Ground Operations'. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Florida, USA, 8-12 January 2018.

Gauci J., Xuereb X., Muscat A. & Zammit-Mangion D., 'Multi-modal Interaction between Pilots and Avionic Systems on-board Large Commercial Aircraft'. 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Vancouver, Canada, 9-14 July 2017.

Theuma K., Archer R., Chircop K., Zammit-Mangion D. & Gauci J., 'Multi-Sensor Obstacle Detection and Tracking for RPAS Situation Awareness and Guidance'. Euro GNC - 4th CEAS Specialist Conference on Guidance, Navigation & Control, Warsaw, Poland, 25-27 April 2017.

Spiteri A., Chircop K., Zammit-Mangion D., Muscat A., Falzon K., Degiorgio J. & Bezzina F., 'Concept of Operations of an ATC Tool for Trajectory Optimisation'. 30th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Daejeon, South Korea, 25-30 September 2016.

Gauci J., Theuma K. & Zammit-Mangion D., 'Pilot Evaluation of a Decision Support Tool for Weather and Terrain Avoidance during Departure'. AIAA AVIATION 2016, Washington, D.C., 13-17 June 2016.

Camilleri, R., Howey, D.A. & McCulloch, M.D., "Predicting the temperature and flow distribution in a direct oil-cooled electrical machine with segmented stator", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 82-91, 2016.

Camilleri, R., Beard, P., Howey, D.A. & McCulloch, M.D. 2015, "Measuring the Heat Transfer Coefficient in a Direct Oil-Cooled Electrical Machine using Thin Film Heat Flux Gauges", The 14th UK Heat Transfer Conference, UKHTC2015, Edinburgh, Scotland., 7-8 September.

Cauchi N., Theuma K., Gauci J., Jedruszek M., Muscat A. & Zammit-Mangion D., 'Design and Evaluation of a Touchscreen Concept for Pilot Interaction with Avionic Systems'. 34th Digital Avionics Systems Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 13-17 September 2015.

Cauchi N., Theuma K., Gauci J., Zammit C., Zammit-Mangion D., 'A Decision Support Tool for Weather and Terrain Avoidance during Departure'. 34th Digital Avionics Systems Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 13-17 September 2015 (Best Paper of Session).

Filippone E., Di Vito V., Taurino D., Dokic J., Zammit-Mangion D. & Gauci J., ‘RPAS – ATM Integration Demonstration – Real-Time Simulation Results’. 15th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference, Dallas, Texas, USA, 22-26 June 2015.

Camilleri, R., Howey, D.A. & and McCulloch, M.D. 2015, "Predicting the flow distribution in compact parallel flow heat exchangers", Journal of Applied Thermal Engineering, vol. 90, pp. 551-558.

Camilleri, R. & McCulloch, M.D., 2015, "Investigation of an Integrated Evaporative Cooling Mechanism for an Outer-Rotor Permanent Magnet Machine", Heat Transfer Engineering, vol. 36, no. 14-15.

Micallef, M., Chircop, K., Zammit-Mangion, D. and Sammut, A., 2014. 'Revised approach procedures to support optimal descents into Malta International Airport'. CEAS Aeronautical Journal, 5(4), pp. 461-475.  

Camilleri, R., Howey, D.A. & McCulloch, M.D. 2014, "Experimental investigation of the thermal contact resistance in shrink fit assemblies with relevance to electrical machines", The 7th IET International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives PEMD2014, Manchester, UK., 8-10 April.

Jedruszek M., Gauci J., Muscat A. & Zammit-Mangion D., ‘A new HMI for Aircraft Guidance using Touch Technologies’. In 31st EAAP Conference on Aviation Psychology: Facilitating Change(s), Valletta, Malta, 22-26 September 2014.

Micallef, M., Chircop, K., Zammit-Mangion, D., Sammut, A., Xuereb, M. and Muscat, A., 'A Quasi-Real-Time Ground-Based Trajectory Optimization Tool for Greener Operations', 29th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, 7-12 September 2014.


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