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Planning for multi-robot coverage seeks to determine collision-free paths for a fleet of robots, enabling them to collectively observe points of interest in an environment. Persistent coverage is a variant of traditional coverage where…
We present a novel and first-of-its-kind information-theoretic framework for the key design consideration and implementation of a ground-to-UAV (G2U) communication network to minimize end-to-end transmission delay in the presence of…
In this letter, we study a buffer-aided Internet of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in which a UAV performs data sensing, stores the data, and sends it to the base station (BS) in cellular networks. To minimize the overall completion time…
This letter considers an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled relay communication system for delivering latency-critical messages with ultra-high reliability, where the relay is operating under amplifier-and-forward (AF) mode. We aim to…
Efficiently obtaining the up-to-date information in the disaster-stricken area is the key to successful disaster response. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), workers and cars can collaborate to accomplish sensing tasks, such as data…
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play an increasingly critical role in Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions such as border patrolling and criminal detection, thanks to their ability to access remote areas and…
High-speed obstacle avoidance of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) in cluttered environments is a significant challenge. Existing UAV planning and obstacle avoidance systems can only fly at moderate speeds or at high speeds over empty or…
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are a promising technology for fast, large scale survey operations such as maritime search and rescue (SAR). However, providing reliable communications over long distances remains a challenge. Cellular…
In this paper, the efficient deployment of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with directional antennas acting as wireless base stations that provide coverage for ground users is analyzed. First, the downlink coverage probability for…
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted significant interest recently in assisting wireless communication due to their high maneuverability, flexible deployment, and low cost. This paper considers a multi-UAV enabled wireless…
In this letter, we study the deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle mounted Base Stations (UAV-BSs) in multi-UAV cellular networks. We model the multi-UAV deployment problem as a user satisfaction maximization problem, that is, maximizing…
This paper presents a novel multi-tier UAV-assisted edge computing system designed for low-altitude networks. The system comprises vehicle users, lightweight Low-Tier UAVs (L-UAVs), and High-Tier UAV (H-UAV). L-UAVs function as small-scale…
This paper presents an integrated approach for efficient path planning and energy management in hybrid unmanned aerial vehicles (HUAVs) equipped with dual fuel-electric propulsion systems. These HUAVs operate in environments that include…
Recently, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have shown impressive performance in many critical applications, such as surveillance, search and rescue operations, environmental monitoring, etc. In many of these applications, the UAVs capture…
Scientists often search for phenomena of interest while exploring new environments. Autonomous vehicles are deployed to explore such areas where human-operated vehicles would be costly or dangerous. Online control of autonomous vehicles for…
This paper investigates the problem of traffic surveillance using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and proposes a domain-knowledge-aided airborne ground moving targets tracking algorithm. To improve the accuracy of multiple targets…
Autonomous navigation through unknown environments is a challenging task that entails real-time localization, perception, planning, and control. UAVs with this capability have begun to emerge in the literature with advances in lightweight…
THz band communication technology will be used in the 6G networks to enable high-speed and high-capacity data service demands. However, THz-communication losses arise owing to limitations, i.e., molecular absorption, rain attenuation, and…
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) assisted mobile edge computing systems have been exploited by researchers as a promising solution for providing computation services to mobile users outside of terrestrial infrastructure…
An important capability of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is autonomous landing while avoiding collision with obstacles in the process. Such capability requires real-time local trajectory planning. Although trajectory-planning…