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Interactive trajectory planning in autonomous driving must balance safety, efficiency, and scalability under heterogeneous driving behaviors. Existing methods often face high computational cost or rely on external safety critics. To address…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Zhen Tian , Fujiang Yuan , Chunhong Yuan , Yanhong Peng

This paper presents a learning-augmented trajectory planning framework for cooperative unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) handover missions. While centralized trajectory optimization ensures dynamic feasibility…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jingshan Chen , Bochen Yu , Henrik Ebel , Peter Eberhard

We present a solution to the problem of fairly planning a fleet of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) that have different missions and operators, such that no one operator unfairly gets to finish its missions early at the expense of others -…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-24 Connor Kurtz , Houssam Abbas

This paper presents a novel control method for a group of UAVs in obstacle-laden environments while preserving sensing network connectivity without data transmission between the UAVs. By leveraging constraints rooted in control barrier…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Thiviyathinesvaran Palani , Hiroaki Fukushima , Shunsuke Izuhara

This paper proposes a novel centralized training and distributed execution (CTDE)-based multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL) method for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) control in autonomous mobile access applications.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Chanyoung Park , Haemin Lee , Won Joon Yun , Soyi Jung , Joongheon Kim

Fast moving unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are well suited for aerial surveillance, but are limited by their battery capacity. To increase their endurance UAVs can be refueled on slow moving unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). The cooperative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Md Safwan Mondal , Subramanian Ramasamy , Pranav Bhounsule

Optimal deployment and movement of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is studied. The considered scenario consists of several ground terminals (GTs) communicating with the UAVs using variable transmission power and fixed data rate.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Erdem Koyuncu , Maryam Shabanighazikelayeh , Hulya Seferoglu

Multi-agent reinforcement learning was performed in this study for indoor path planning of two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Each UAV performed the task of moving as fast as possible from a randomly paired initial position to a goal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Jongmin Park , Kwansik Park

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming a viable platform for sensing and estimation in a wide variety of applications including disaster response, search and rescue, and security monitoring. These sensing UAVs have limited battery and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Lorson Blair , Carlos A. Varela , Stacy Patterson

This paper addresses the problem of active collaborative localization in heterogeneous robot teams with unknown data association. It involves positioning a small number of identical unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) at desired positions so…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Igor Spasojevic , Xu Liu , Ankit Prabhu , Alejandro Ribeiro , George J. Pappas , Vijay Kumar

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are commonly used for missions in unknown environments, where an exact mathematical model of the environment may not be available. This paper provides a framework for using reinforcement learning to allow the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Huy X. Pham , Hung M. La , David Feil-Seifer , Luan V. Nguyen

In this paper, we consider a platform of flying mobile edge computing (F-MEC), where unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serve as equipment providing computation resource, and they enable task offloading from user equipment (UE). We aim to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Liang Wang , Kezhi Wang , Cunhua Pan , Wei Xu , Nauman Aslam , Arumugam Nallanathan

This paper addresses the joint optimization of trajectories and bandwidth allocation for multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to enhance energy efficiency in the cooperative data collection problem. We focus on an important yet…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Cuong Le , Symeon Chatzinotas , Thang X. Vu

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms play an effective role in timely data collection from ground sensors in remote and hostile areas. Optimizing the collective behavior of swarms can improve data collection performance. This paper puts…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Yousef Emami , Hao Gao , Kai Li , Luis Almeida , Eduardo Tovar , Zhu Han

Interest in unmanned aerial system (UAS) powered solutions for 6G communication networks has grown immensely with the widespread availability of machine learning based autonomy modules and embedded graphical processing units (GPUs). While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Nicholas Polosky , Tyler Gwin , Sean Furman , Parth Barhanpurkar , Jithin Jagannath

This paper addresses path planning of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with remote sensing capabilities (or wireless communication capabilities). The goal of the path planning is to find a minimum-flight-time closed tour of the UAV visiting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Dae-Sung Jang , Hyeok-Joo Chae , Han-Lim Choi

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer significant potential in dynamic, perception-intensive tasks such as search and rescue and environmental monitoring; however, their effectiveness is severely restricted by conventional pre-planned…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Yuhan Hu , Yirong Sun , Yanjun Chen , Xinghao Chen , Xiaoyu Shen , Wei Zhang

Optimal collision-free formation control of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a challenge. The state-of-the-art optimal control approaches often rely on numerical methods sensitive to initial guesses. This paper presents an innovative…

This paper studies the path design problem for cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which aims to minimize its mission completion time while maintaining good connectivity with the cellular network. We first argue that the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Yong Zeng , Xiaoli Xu

In multi UAV scenarios,the traditional Artificial Potential Field (APF) method often leads to redundant flight paths and frequent abrupt heading changes due to unreasonable obstacle avoidance path planning,and is highly prone to inter UAV…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Yendo Hu , Yiliang Wu , Weican Chen