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We introduce a decentralized and online path planning technique for a network of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the presence of weather disturbances. In our problem setting, the group of UAVs are required to collaboratively visit a set…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Wei Zhao , Borzoo Bonakdarpour

To eliminate the effect of ocean currents when addressing the optimal path in the underwater environment, an intelligent algorithm designed for the unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) is proposed in this paper. The algorithm consists of two…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Danjie Zhu , Simon X. Yang

Unmanned aerial base stations (UABSs) can be deployed in vehicular wireless networks to support applications such as extended sensing via vehicle-to-everything (V2X) services. A key problem in such systems is designing algorithms that can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Riccardo Marini , Sangwoo Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Chiara Buratti

Reinforcement learning-based path planning for multi-agent systems of varying size constitutes a research topic with increasing significance as progress in domains such as urban air mobility and autonomous aerial vehicles continues.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Marc R. Schlichting , Stefan Notter , Walter Fichter

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based base stations offer a promising solution in emergencies where the rapid deployment of cutting-edge networks is crucial for maximizing life-saving potential. Optimizing the strategic positioning of these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Mario Rico Ibanez , Azim Akhtarshenas , David Lopez-Perez , Giovanni Geraci

Unmanned aircraft systems can perform some more dangerous and difficult missions than manned aircraft systems. In some highly complicated and changeable tasks, such as air combat, the maneuvering decision mechanism is required to sense the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Zhencai Hu , Peng Gao , Fei Wang

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

The emerging low-altitude economy has catalyzed the large-scale deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), driving a paradigm shift in environment monitoring, logistics, and emergency response. However, operating within these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Tianhao Liang , Nanchi Su , Yuqi Ping , Guangyu Lei , Xinglin Chen , Longyu Zhou , Tingting Zhang , Qinyu Zhang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Active target sensing is the task of discovering and classifying an unknown number of targets in an environment and is critical in search-and-rescue missions. This paper develops a deep reinforcement learning approach to plan informative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Harsh Goel , Laura Jarin Lipschitz , Saurav Agarwal , Sandeep Manjanna , Vijay Kumar

Online path planning for multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (multi-UAV) systems is considered a challenging task. It needs to ensure collision-free path planning in real-time, especially when the multi-UAV systems can become very crowded on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Huaxing Huang , Guijie Zhu , Zhun Fan , Hao Zhai , Yuwei Cai , Ze Shi , Zhaohui Dong , Zhifeng Hao

This paper presents a new reward function that can be used for deep reinforcement learning in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) control and navigation problems. The reward function is based on the construction and estimation of the time of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Mikhail S. Tovarnov , Nikita V. Bykov

This paper studies the adaptive trajectory design of a rotary-wing UAV serving as a relay between ground nodes dispersed in a circular cell and generating uplink data transmissions randomly according to a Poisson process, and a central base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Matthew Bliss , Nicolò Michelusi

Efficient trajectory generation in complex dynamic environments remains an open problem in the unmanned surface vehicle (USV). The perception of the USV is usually interfered with by the swing of the hull and the ambient weather, making it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Tao Huang , Zhe Chen , Wang Gao , Zhenfeng Xue , Yong Liu

This research presents an online path planner for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) that can handle dynamic obstacles and UAV motion constraints, including maximum curvature and desired orientations. Our proposed planner uses a NURBS path…

Traditional methods plan feasible paths for multiple agents in the stochastic environment. However, the methods' iterations with the changes in the environment result in computation complexities, especially for the decentralized agents…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Qizhen Wu , Kexin Liu , Lei Chen , Jinhu Lü

The high mobility of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enables them to be used in various civilian fields, such as rescue and cargo transport. Path-following is a crucial way to perform these tasks while sensing and collision avoidance are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Changheng Wang , Zhiqing Wei , Wangjun Jiang , Haoyue Jiang , Zhiyong Feng

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are poised to revolutionize communications. Utilizing their flexibility and fast deployment, we can deliver content in congested areas or provide services in areas without infrastructure. In this paper, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Emmanouil Fountoulakis , Georgios S. Paschos , Nikolaos Pappas

The large-scale and ever-growing use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a wide range of applications is foreseen to be a major part of beyond 5G and 6G wireless networks in the next decade. The effective support of such massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Mohammad Mozaffari , Xingqin Lin , Stephen Hayes

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communication technology is regarded as an efficient and effective solution for some special application scenarios where existing terrestrial infrastructures are overloaded to provide reliable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Jinjing Wang , Xindi Wang

Hybrid fuel Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), through their combination of multiple energy sources, offer several advantages over the standard single fuel source configuration, the primary one being increased range and efficiency. Multiple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Drew Scott , Satyanarayana G. Manyam , Isaac E. Weintraub , David W. Casbeer , Manish Kumar