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The movable antenna (MA) is a promising technology to exploit more spatial degrees of freedom for enhancing wireless system performance. However, the MA-aided system introduces the non-convex antenna distance constraints, which poses…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Yichen Jin , Qingfeng Lin , Yang Li , Yik-Chung Wu

The problem of cooperative localization for a small group of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in a GNSS denied environment is addressed in this paper. The presented approach contains two sequential steps: first, an algorithm called…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Chizhao Yang , Jared Strader , Yu Gu , Aaron Canciani , Kevin Brink

We address the localization of robots in a multi-MAV system where external infrastructure like GPS or motion capture systems may not be available. Our approach lends itself to implementation on platforms with several constraints on size,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Ty Nguyen , Kartik Mohta , Camillo J. Taylor , Vijay Kumar

A pioneering secure transmission scheme is proposed, which harnesses movable antennas (MAs) to optimize antenna positions for augmenting the physical layer security. Particularly, an MA-enabled secure wireless system is considered, where a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-22 Zhenqiao Cheng , Nanxi Li , Jianchi Zhu , Xiaoming She , Chongjun Ouyang , Peng Chen

We present an open-source system for Micro-Aerial Vehicle autonomous navigation from vision-based sensing. Our system focuses on dense mapping, safe local planning, and global trajectory generation, especially when using narrow field of…

Coverage path planning with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a core task for many services and applications including search and rescue, precision agriculture, infrastructure inspection and surveillance. This work proposes an integrated…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios , Theocharis Theocharides , Christos G. Panayiotou , Marios M. Polycarpou

We address a dynamic covering location problem of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Base Station (UAV-BS), where the location sequence of a single UAV-BS in a wireless communication network is determined to satisfy data demand arising from ground…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Cihan Tugrul Cicek , Zuo-Jun Max Shen , Hakan Gultekin , Bulent Tavli

This paper introduces a novel Multi-Agent Cooperative Learning (MACL) framework to address cross-modal alignment collapse in vision-language models when handling out-of-distribution (OOD) concepts. Four core agents, including image, text,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Philip Xu

In this paper, we present a novel approach to reconstruct a unique image of an observed scene with widely distributed radar sensors. The problem is posed as a constrained optimization problem in which the global image which represents the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Ahmed Murtada , Ruizhi Hu , Bhavani Shankar Mysore Rama Rao , Udo Schroeder

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when cellular networks go down. Prior studies on UAV-based wireless coverage typically consider downlink scenarios from an aerial base station to ground users. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Hazim Shakhatreh , Abdallah Khreishah

This work employs an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a jammer to aid a covert communication from a transmitter Alice to a receiver Bob, where the UAV transmits artificial noise (AN) with random power to deliberately create interference to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Hangmei Rao , Sa Xiao , Shihao Yan , Jianquan Wang , Wanbin Tang

Utilization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in military and civil operations is getting popular. One of the challenges in effectively tasking these expensive vehicles is planning the flight routes to monitor the targets. In this work, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-03-13 Murat Karakaya

This letter investigates the transmit power and trajectory optimization problem for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided networks. Different from majority of the existing studies with fixed communication infrastructure, a dynamic scenario is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-17 Haichao Wang , Guochun Ren , Jin Chen , Guoru Ding , Yijun Yang

Since the year 2000, adaptive optics (AO) has seen the emergence of a variety of new concepts addressing particular science needs; multiconjugate adaptive optics (MCAO) is one of them. By correcting the atmospheric turbulence in 3D using…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-09 Francois Rigaut , Benoit Neichel

This article considers a cooperative vehicle routing problem for an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance mission in the presence of communication constraints between the vehicles. The proposed framework uses a ground vehicle and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Satyanarayana G. Manyam , Kaarthik Sundar , David W. Casbeer

This paper investigates a multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system equipped with movable antenna (MA) arrays. To align with practical scenarios, we simulate the dynamic roaming of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Bin Li , Pengcheng Rao , Xuedong Zhang , Xinyi Wang

This paper addresses the sweep coverage problem of multi-agent systems in uncertain regions. A new formulation of distributed sweep coverage is proposed to cooperatively complete the workload in the uncertain region. Specifically, each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-30 Chao Zhai

Collaborative perception has recently gained significant attention in autonomous driving, improving perception quality by enabling the exchange of additional information among vehicles. However, deploying collaborative perception systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Senkang Hu , Zhengru Fang , Yiqin Deng , Xianhao Chen , Yuguang Fang , Sam Kwong

The recently emerged movable antenna (MA) and fluid antenna technologies offer promising solutions to enhance the spatial degrees of freedom in wireless systems by dynamically adjusting the positions of transmit or receive antennas within…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Yikun Wang , Yang Li , Zeyi Ren , Jingreng Lei , Yik-Chung Wu , Rui Zhang

Many problems can be viewed as forms of geospatial search aided by aerial imagery, with examples ranging from detecting poaching activity to human trafficking. We model this class of problems in a visual active search (VAS) framework, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Anindya Sarkar , Michael Lanier , Scott Alfeld , Jiarui Feng , Roman Garnett , Nathan Jacobs , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik