JAERS / Aircraft Emergency Recovery System

A controlled aircraft safety technology development program.

JAERS explores how sensing, state logic, and staged decision-making could support an aircraft emergency-recovery architecture. Traceable bench evidence comes first.

Current phase: Phase 1 bench validation
The research question

Can abnormal descent be identified with enough discipline to support a bounded recovery decision?

The program investigates independent sensing, expected-versus-abnormal behavior, control and system feedback, state transitions, fault handling, and traceable test evidence.

SensePressure and bench inputs
ConvertAltitude and descent rate
FilterNoise-reduced signals
EvaluateThresholds and state logic
RecordInputs, decisions, faults
ReviewCriteria and gate decision
What exists today

Hardware, logic, and a growing evidence baseline.

  • Raspberry Pi based bench platform and BMP581 pressure-sensor integration work.
  • Software state machine, decision logic, electrical and I/O definitions, and preliminary component selection.
  • Bench integration, HIL interfaces, test-scenario planning, logging, filtering, and fault-handling documentation.
  • A technical record intended to support review, collaboration, funding, and later development decisions.
Next measurable gate

Repeatable Phase 1 evidence.

Complete controlled sensing, altitude conversion, filtering, descent-rate, state-transition, fault-handling, and logging scenarios with reviewable results.

Current limitation

Bench only.

JAERS is not certified, flight ready, connected to deployment hardware, or approved for safety actuation. The current prototype does not claim to prevent crashes, deploy recovery hardware, or satisfy certification requirements.

Qualified participation

Jentia welcomes focused discussions with researchers, safety specialists, qualified aviation engineers, test partners, universities, grant programs, and strategic funders when tied to a defined work package or review milestone.

Discuss a JAERS milestone