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The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in many different settings has provided various solutions and strategies for networking paradigms. Therefore, it reduces the complexity of the developments for the existing problems, which…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Baris Yamansavascilar , Atay Ozgovde , Cem Ersoy

With the expanding application scope of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the demand for stable UAV control has significantly increased. However, in complex environments, GPS signals are prone to interference, resulting in ineffective UAV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Mingkun Li , Ziming Wang , Guang Huo , Wei Chen , Xiaoning Zhao

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have been standing out due to the wide range of applications in which they can be used autonomously. However, they need intelligent systems capable of providing a greater understanding of what they perceive to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Matheus G. Mateus , Ricardo B. Grando , Paulo L. J. Drews-Jr

Deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial base stations can deliver a fast and flexible solution for serving varying traffic demand. In order to adequately benefit of UAVs deployment, their efficient placement is of utmost…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-06 Atefeh Hajijamali Arani , M. Mahdi Azari , William Melek , Safieddin Safavi-Naeini

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), equipped with camera sensors can facilitate enhanced situational awareness for many emergency response and disaster management applications since they are capable of operating in remote and difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Christos Kyrkou , Theocharis Theocharides

This paper addresses the problem of developing an algorithm for autonomous ship landing of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), using only a monocular camera in the UAV for tracking and localization.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Vishnu Saj , Bochan Lee , Dileep Kalathil , Moble Benedict

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) technique has been recognized as a promising solution in future wireless connectivity from the sky, and UAV navigation is one of the most significant open research problems, which has attracted wide interest…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-28 Hongji Huang , Yuchun Yang , Hong Wang , Zhiguo Ding , Hikmet Sari , Fumiyuki Adachi

This paper presents a novel deep reinforcement learning-based system for 3D mapless navigation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Instead of using a image-based sensing approach, we propose a simple learning system that uses only a few…

In this paper, we present an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) landing system based on visual navigation. We design the landmark as a topological pattern in order to enable the UAV to distinguish the landmark from the environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Zhixin Wu , Peng Han , Ruiwen Yao , Lei Qiao , Weidong Zhang , Tielong Shen , Min Sun , Yilong Zhu , Ming Liu , Rui Fan

We consider the problem of designing scalable and portable controllers for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to reach time-varying formations as quickly as possible. This brief confirms that deep reinforcement learning can be used in a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Ronny Conde , José Ramón Llata , Carlos Torre-Ferrero

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are often used for navigating dangerous terrains, however they are difficult to pilot. Due to complex input-output mapping schemes, limited perception, the complex system dynamics and the need to maintain a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Kal Backman , Dana Kulić , Hoam Chung

Autonomous deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) supporting next-generation communication networks requires efficient trajectory planning methods. We propose a new end-to-end reinforcement learning (RL) approach to UAV-enabled data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Harald Bayerlein , Mirco Theile , Marco Caccamo , David Gesbert

Autonomous docking between Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and ground robots is essential for heterogeneous systems, yet most existing approaches target wheeled platforms whose limited mobility constrains exploration in complex terrains.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Haozhe Xu , Cheng Cheng , Hongrui Sang , Zhipeng Wang , Qiyong He , Xiuxian Li , Bin He

Autonomous landing systems for Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAV) have been proposed using various combinations of GPS-based, vision, and fiducial tag-based schemes. Landing is a critical activity that a MAV performs and poor resolution of GPS,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Pranay Mathur , Yash Jangir , Neena Goveas

Unmanned Surface Vehicles technology (USVs) is an exciting topic that essentially deploys an algorithm to safely and efficiently performs a mission. Although reinforcement learning is a well-known approach to modeling such a task,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Mohammad Etemad , Nader Zare , Mahtab Sarvmaili , Amilcar Soares , Bruno Brandoli Machado , Stan Matwin

This research proposes a new integrated framework for identifying safe landing locations and planning in-flight divert maneuvers. The state-of-the-art algorithms for landing zone selection utilize local terrain features such as slopes and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Keidai Iiyama , Kento Tomita , Bhavi A. Jagatia , Tatsuwaki Nakagawa , Koki Ho

Autonomous navigation in unknown complex environment is still a hard problem, especially for small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with limited computation resources. In this paper, a neural network-based reactive controller is proposed for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Lei He , Aouf Nabil , Bifeng Song

Autonomous tracking of flying aerial objects has important civilian and defense applications, ranging from search and rescue to counter-unmanned aerial systems (counter-UAS). Ground based tracking requires setting up infrastructure, could…

In this paper, we present a deep reinforcement learning method for quadcopter bypassing the obstacle on the flying path. In the past study, the algorithm only controls the forward direction about quadcopter. In this letter, we use two…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Tung-Cheng Wu , Shau-Yin Tseng , Chin-Feng Lai , Chia-Yu Ho , Ying-Hsun Lai

In this paper, we propose an autonomous UAV path planning framework using deep reinforcement learning approach. The objective is to employ a self-trained UAV as a flying mobile unit to reach spatially distributed moving or static targets in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Omar Bouhamed , Hakim Ghazzai , Hichem Besbes , Yehia Massoud