Thesis

  • A. Weinert, "An Information Theoretic Approach for Generating an Aircraft Avoidance Markov Decision Process," Boston University, 2015. [OpenBU Libraries] [Slides]

Journal Articles (Peer reviewed)

  • A. Weinert and N. Underhill, “Applicability and Surrogacy of Uncorrelated Airspace Encounter Models at Low Altitudes,” Journal of Air Transportation, Vol. 29, No. 3 (2021), pp. 137-141. doi: 10.2514/1.D0254. [AIAA ARC]

  • A. Weinert, “Method to Characterize Potential UAS Encounters Using Open Source Data,” Aerospace, Vol. 7, No. 11, pp. 158. doi: 10.3390/aerospace7110158. [MDPI]

  • C. Budny, L. Liu, and A. Weinert, “Video Testing at the FirstNet Innovation and Test Lab using a Public Safety Dataset,” IEEE Networking Letters. doi: 10.1109/LNET.2019.2955833 [IEEE Xplore]

  • A. Weinert, S. Campbell, A. Vela, D. Schuldt, and J. Kurucar. "Well-Clear Recommendation for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Based on Unmitigated Collision Risk", Journal of Air Transportation, Vol. 26, No. 3 (2018), pp. 113-122. [AIAA ARC]

  • A. Lee, M. Dahan, A. Weinert, and S. Amin, "Leveraging sUAS for Infrastructure Network Exploration and Failure Isolation," Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, pp. 1-29, April 2018. [Springer Link]

  • C. W. Heisey, A. G. Hendrickson, B. J. Chludzinski, R. E. Cole, M. Ford, L. Herbek, M. Ljungberg, Z. Magdum, D. Marquis, A. Mezhirov, J. L. Pennell, T. A. Roe, and A. J. Weinert, “A Reference Software Architecture to Support Unmanned Aircraft Integration in the National Airspace System,” Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, vol. 69, no. 1–4, pp. 41–55, Aug. 2012. [Springer Link]

  • A. Weinert, “Commercial and Civil Implementation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles within the United States,” AIAA Student Journal, vol. 46, 2008.  

Conference Papers (Peer reviewed)

  • A. Weinert, M. Brittain, N. Underhill, and C. Serres, “Benchmarking the Processing of Aircraft Tracks with Triples Mode and Self-Scheduling,” 2021 IEEE High Performance extreme Computing Conference (HPEC), Waltham, MA, 2021. [arXiv] [Slides]

  • L. Alvarez, J. Jones, A. Bryan, and A. Weinert, “Demand and Capacity Modeling for Advanced Air Mobility,” AIAA Aviation Forum, Virtual, 2021. doi: 10.2514/6.2021-2381. [AIAA ARC]

  • A. Weinert, N. Underhill, B. Gill, and A. Wicks, “Processing of Crowdsourced Observations of Aircraft in a High Performance Computing Environment,” 2020 IEEE High Performance extreme Computing Conference (HPEC), Waltham, MA, 2020. doi: 10.1109/HPEC43674.2020.9286229. [IEEE Xplore]

  • A. Weinert, M. Brittain, and R. Guendel, “Frequency of ADS-B Equipped Manned Aircraft Observed by the OpenSky Network,” 8th OpenSky Symposium, Virtual, 2020. doi: 10.3390/proceedings2020059015, [MDPI] [Slides]

  • A. Weinert, M. Edwards, L. Alvarez, and S. Katz, “Representative Small UAS Trajectories for Encounter Modeling,” 2020 AIAA SciTech Forum and Exposition, Orlando, FL. doi: 10.2514/6.2020-0741 [AIAA ARC]

  • J. Liu, D. Strohschein, S. Samsi, and A. Weinert, “Large Scale Organization and Inference of an Imagery Dataset for Public Safety,” 2019 IEEE High Performance extreme Computing Conference (HPEC), Waltham, MA, 2019. doi: 10.1109/HPEC.2019.8916437 [IEEE Xplore]

  • L. Liu, X. Zhang, Q. ZHang, A. Weinert, Y. Wang, and W. Shi, “AutoVAPS: an IoT-enabled public safety service on vehicles,” Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on International Science of Smart City Operations and Platforms Engineering (SCOPE19), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2019 pp. 41-47. doi: 10.1145/3313237.3313303 [ACM DL]

  • E. T. Lester and A. Weinert, "Three Quantitative Means to Remain Well Clear for Small UAS in the Terminal Area," 2019 Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance Conference (ICNS), Herndon, VA, USA, 2019, pp. 1-17. doi: 10.1109/ICNSURV.2019.8735171 [IEEE Xplore]

  • A. Weinert, N. Underhill and A. Wicks, "Developing a Low Altitude Manned Encounter Model Using ADS-B Observations," 2019 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, USA, 2019, pp. 1-8. doi: 10.1109/AERO.2019.8741848 [IEEE Xplore] [Slides]

  • J. Liu, A. Weinert and S. Amin, "Semantic Topic Analysis of Traffic Camera Images," 2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Maui, HI, 2018, pp. 568-574. doi: 10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569449 [IEEE Xplore]

  • A. Weinert and C. Budny, "Outreach to Define a Public Safety Communications Model For Broadband Cellular Video," 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST), Woburn, MA, 2018, pp. 1-4. doi: 10.1109/THS.2018.8574193 [IEEE Xplore]

  • J. Hanford and A. Weinert, "New Computing Frontiers Enabled via Photovoltaic Fiber Energy Generation," 2018 IEEE High Performance extreme Computing Conference (HPEC), Waltham, MA, 2018, pp. 1-7. doi: 10.1109/HPEC.2018.8547573 [IEEE Xplore]

  • A. Weinert and N. Underhill, "Generating Representative Small UAS Trajectories using Open Source Data," 2018 IEEE/AIAA 37th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), London, 2018, pp. 1-10. doi: 10.1109/DASC.2018.8569745 [IEEE Xplore]

  • W. Smith, G. Kuperman, M. Chan, E. Morgan, H. Nguyen, N. Schear, B. Vu, and A. Weinert, "Cloud computing in tactical environments," MILCOM 2017 - 2017 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), Baltimore, MD, USA, 2017, pp. 882-887. doi: 10.1109/MILCOM.2017.8170823 [IEEE Xplore]

  • A. Weinert, M. Dahan, and S. Amin, "Optimizing the Strategic Allocation of Small Unmanned Aerial Systems for Distributed Sensing," in2017 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST), 2017.

  • A. Weinert, H. Hu, C. Spensky and B. Bullough, "Using open-source hardware to support disadvantaged communications," 2015 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), Seattle, WA, 2015, pp. 79-86. doi: 10.1109/GHTC.2015.7343958
    [IEEE Xplore] [Engineering Village]

  • A. Weinert, "A signals processing and big data framework for Monte Carlo aircraft encounters," 2015 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC), Waltham, MA, 2015, pp. 1-6. doi: 10.1109/HPEC.2015.7322486
    [IEEE Xplore] [Engineering Village] [Poster]

  • A. Weinert, P. Erickson, H. Reis, P. Breimyer, T. Hackett, M. Samperi, J. Huff, C. Parra, E. Stoekl, P. Zundritsch, R. Morris, I. Iakimenko, E. Petschauer, and S. Bilen, "Enabling communications in disadvantage environments: An airborne remote communication (ARC) platform," 2013 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST), Waltham, MA, 2013, pp. 797-803.
    doi: 10.1109/THS.2013.6699069 [IEEE Xplore] [Slides]

  • P. Erickson, A. Weinert, P. Breimyer, M. Samperi, J. Huff, C. Parra, and S. Miller, "Designing public safety mobile applications for disconnected, interrupted, and low bandwidth communication environments," 2013 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST), Waltham, MA, 2013, pp. 790-796. doi: 10.1109/THS.2013.6699028 [IEEE Xplore]

  • A. J. Weinert, E. Harkleroad, J. Griffith, M. W. Edwards, and C. C. Chen, “Extended Airspace Encounter Models for Unmanned Aircraft Sense and Avoid Safety Evaluation,” presented at the AIAA Infotech@Aerospace (I@A) Conference, Boston, MA, 2013. [AIAA ARC]

  • A. J. Weinert, P. Breimyer, S. M. Devore, J. M. Miller, G. S. Brulo, R. S. Teal, D. Zhang, A. T. Kummer, and S. G. Bilen, "Providing communication capabilities during disaster response: Airborne remote communication (ARC) platform," 2012 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST), Waltham, MA, 2012, pp. 395-400. doi: 10.1109/THS.2012.6459881
    [IEEE Xplore] [Slides]

  • E. Maki, A. Weinert, and M. Kochenderfer, “Efficiently Estimating Ambient Near Mid-Air Collision Risk for Unmanned Aircraft*,” in 10th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference, 2010. [AIAA ARC]

Technical Reports

  • Underhill, N., Harkleroad, E., Guendel, R., Maki, D., & Edwards, M. (2018). Correlated Encounter Model for Cooperative Aircraft in the National Airspace System; Version 2.0. Massachusetts Institute Technology Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, Project Report ATC-440, May 2018. [DTIC Link]

  • J. Garofolo, J. Contestabile, J. Powell, J. Corso, G. Friedland, P. Tu, S. Pankanti, L. Brush, E. Frost, D. Zoufal, B. Luke, S. Surfaro, A. Hoogs, J. Audia, S. Garfinkel, R. Schwartz, and A. Weinert, "First Workshop on Video Analytics in Public Safety," NISTIR 8164, Jan. 2017 [Link]

  • K. C. Chang, M. . Kozar, C. E. Rose, A. J. Weinert, P. W. Breimyer, R. Di Ciaccio, T. . Roe, C. S. Timmerman, and S. M.A, “A Review of Satellite Communications and Complementary Approaches to Support Distributed Disaster Relief,” DHS First Responders Group, Technical Report, Dec. 2013. [Link]

  • J.D. Griffith, M.P Owen, and A.J. Weinert, "An Approach to Develop Surveillance Accuracy Requirements for Sense and Avoid," MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, Project Report ATC-407, Dec. 2013. [NTIS] [Engineering Village]

  • A. J. Weinert, E. P. Harkleroad, J. D. Griffith, M. W. Edwards, and M. J. Kochenderfer, “Uncorrelated Encounter Model of the National Airspace System Version 2.0,” MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, Project Report ATC-404, Aug. 2013. [DTIC Link]

  • J. D. Griffith, M. W. Edwards, R. M. Miraflor, and A. J. Weinert, “Due Regard Encounter Model Version 1.0,” MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, Project Report ATC-397, Aug. 2013. [Engineering Village]

Panels and breakouts

  • “Airworthiness Evaluation Leading to Standards Development,” AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2019, Chicago, IL, 04-30-19. [Agenda]

  • “UAS Reliability Data and Its Effect on Waivers and Other Expanded Operations,” AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2019, Chicago, IL, 04-29-19. [Agenda]

  • "UAS Research & Development: What Does the Research Tell Us Thus Far?", UTM Convention 2016, Syracuse, NY , 10-11-16. [Slides]

  • Breakout Leader, Organizing Committee at "First Workshop on Video Analytics in Public Safety (VAPS) , San Diego, CA, 06-06-2016. [Website]

  • A. Weinert and P. Breimyer, "Updates on UAV Technology & Sensors," presented at the UAViators Expert Meeting, Cambridge, MA, 09-10-2015. [Recap]

  • A. Weinert, "Integrating Response and Preparedness," presented at the 2015 PSCR Stakeholder Conference, Public Safety Analytics Panel, San Diego, 06-04-2015. [Slides]

  • A. Weinert, "Big Data in Public Safety," presented at the 2014 National Emergency Number Association (NENA) Conference and Expo, 06-18-2014. [Schedule]

  • A. Weinert, A. Norige, E. Schlicht, A. Wang, N. Crabtree, and T. Dasey, “Gaming in Support of National Security,” presented at PAX East 2013, Boston, MA, 04-Apr-2013.

SeminarS, Courses, Posters, presentations

  • A. Weinert, “Use of Open Source Data to Support UAS Safety and Concept Modeling,” MIT Lincoln Laboratory Air Traffic Control Workshop, Washington, DC, November 2019. [Slides]

  • "Video and Imagery Dataset to Drive Public Safety Capabilities,” PSCR Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Meeting, Chicago, IL, July 2019 [Video]

  • “Public Safety Video Communications Demand Model, PSCR Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Meeting, San Diego, CA, June 2018 [Video]

  • "Photovoltaic (PV) Fiber: Developing Energy and Shelter Dual-Use Applications," Defense Fabric Discovery Center Grand Opening, Lexington, MA, October 2017.

  • "UAS Allocation for Critical Infrastructure Assessment–Beaverworks," MIT Lincoln Laboratory Homeland Protection Workshop Series, Lexington, MA, June 2017.

  • "Representative Public Safety Video Dataset," PSCR Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Meeting, San Antonio, TX, June 2017.

  • A. Weinert, "Small UAS Well Clear," MIT Lincoln Laboratory Air Traffic Control Workshop, Washington, DC, December 2016.

  • A. Weinert "Strategic Allocation of Drones: Constraining from Airspace to Mission Needs ," TechCon 2016, Cambridge, MA November 2016. [Poster]

  • A. Weinert, "Communication Assistance Technology over Ad Hoc Networks (CATAN)," MIT Lincoln Laboratory Homeland Protection Workshop Series, Lexington, MA, June 2016. [Poster]

  • "CATAN-NICS: Enabling Information Sharing for Responders and Survivors in Disasters," MCIP Pacific Endeavor 2015 Pacific Senior Communicators Meeting, Manilla, Philippines, September 2015. [Poster]

  • R. Weibel and A. Weinert, "Evolving Role of UAS in Humanitarian Assistance Disaster Relief (HADR) Operations," UAS West Symposium, San Diego, CA, August 2015. [Slides]

  • A. Weinert, "Communications in Disadvantaged Environments," MIT Lincoln Laboratory Homeland Protection Course, Lexington, MA, May 2015. [Slides]

  • A. Weinert "Communications in Disadvantaged Environment," MIT Lincoln Laboratory Homeland Protection Course, Lexington, MA, May 2014.

Standards WORKING GROUPS SUPPORT

  • ASTM Committee F38 on Unmanned Aircraft Systems [Link]

  • RTCA SC-147, Traffic Alert & Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) [Link]

  • RTCA SC-228, Minimum Performance Standardsfor Unmanned Aircraft Systems [Link]

  • "Broadband Deployable Systems in the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network," National Public Safety Telecommunications Council and the Defence Research and Development Canada’s Centre for Security Science, April 2017 [Link]

  • "Guidelines for Creating an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Program," National Public Safety Telecommunications Council, April 2017 [Link]

  • "Public Safety Analytics R&D Roadmap," NIST Technical Note 1917, April 2016, DOI:10.6028/NIST.TN.1917 [Link]

  • "2015 Location-Based Services R&D Summit," NIST Technical Note 1914, April 2016, DOI:10.6028/NIST.TN.1914 [Link]

  • "Location-Based Services R&D Roadmap," NIST Technical Note 1883, May 2015, DOI:10.6028/NIST.TN.1883. [Link]