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There is an increasing demand for using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), known as drones, in different applications such as packages delivery, traffic monitoring, search and rescue operations, and military combat engagements. In all of these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Fadi AlMahamid , Katarina Grolinger

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) will be critical infrastructural components of future smart cities. In order to operate efficiently, UAV reliability must be ensured by constant monitoring for faults and failures. To this end, the work…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Alexandre Gemayel , Dimitrios Michael Manias , Abdallah Shami

While Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant traction across various fields, path planning in 3D environments remains a critical challenge, particularly under size, weight, and power (SWAP) constraints. Traditional modular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yufei Jiang , Yuanzhu Zhan , Harsh Vardhan Gupta , Chinmay Borde , Junyi Geng

Combining deep neural networks with reinforcement learning has shown great potential in the next-generation intelligent control. However, there are challenges in terms of safety and cost in practical applications. In this paper, we propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Fan Wang , Bo Zhou , Ke Chen , Tingxiang Fan , Xi Zhang , Jiangyong Li , Hao Tian , Jia Pan

Model-based reinforcement learning is an effective approach for controlling an unknown system. It is based on a longstanding pipeline familiar to the control community in which one performs experiments on the environment to collect a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-14 Bruce D. Lee , Ingvar Ziemann , George J. Pappas , Nikolai Matni

This work addresses object identification under known dynamics in unmanned aerial vehicle applications, where learning and classification are combined through a physics-informed residual neural network. The proposed framework leverages…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Nyi Nyi Aung , Neil Muralles , Adrian Stein

Learning for model based control can be sample-efficient and generalize well, however successfully learning models and controllers that represent the problem at hand can be challenging for complex tasks. Using inaccurate models for learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Sarah Bechtle , Bilal Hammoud , Akshara Rai , Franziska Meier , Ludovic Righetti

The usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in civil and military applications continues to increase due to the numerous advantages that they provide over conventional approaches. Despite the abundance of such advantages, it is imperative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Ilyes Mrad , Lutfi Samara , Alaa Awad Abdellatif , Abubakr Al-Abbasi , Ridha Hamila , Aiman Erbad

The proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in controlled airspace presents significant risks, including potential collisions, disruptions to air traffic, and security threats. Ensuring the safe and efficient operation of airspace,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Francisco Giral , Ignacio Gómez , Soledad Le Clainche

Aerial robots can enhance their safe and agile navigation in complex and cluttered environments by efficiently exploiting the information collected during a given task. In this paper, we address the learning model predictive control problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Guanrui Li , Alex Tunchez , Giuseppe Loianno

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are capable of serving as flying base stations (BSs) for supporting data collection, artificial intelligence (AI) model training, and wireless communications. However, due to the privacy concerns of devices…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Helin Yang , Jun Zhao , Zehui Xiong , Kwok-Yan Lam , Sumei Sun , Liang Xiao

It is often necessary for drones to complete delivery, photography, and rescue in the shortest time to increase efficiency. Many autonomous drone races provide platforms to pursue algorithms to finish races as quickly as possible for the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Shuli Lv , Yan Gao , Jiaxing Che , Quan Quan

Precisely detection of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs) plays a critical role in UAV defense systems. Deep learning is widely adopted for UAV object detection whereas researches on this topic are limited by the amount of dataset and small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Chen Rui , Guo Youwei , Zheng Huafei , Jiang Hongyu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an integral part of wireless networks, and determining collision-free trajectories for multiple UAVs while satisfying requirements of connectivity with ground base stations (GBSs) is a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy

This paper introduces a learning-based visual planner for agile drone flight in cluttered environments. The proposed planner generates collision-free waypoints in milliseconds, enabling drones to perform agile maneuvers in complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Minwoo Kim , Geunsik Bae , Jinwoo Lee , Woojae Shin , Changseung Kim , Myong-Yol Choi , Heejung Shin , Hyondong Oh

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in dynamic wind fields must generate safe and energy-efficient trajectories under physical and environmental constraints. Traditional planners, such as A* and kinodynamic RRT*, often yield…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Shuning Zhang

Reinforcement learning is of increasing importance in the field of robot control and simulation plays a~key role in this process. In the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, drones), there is also an increase in the number of published…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Pawel Miera , Hubert Szolc , Tomasz Kryjak

To autonomously navigate in real-world environments, special in search and rescue operations, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) necessitate comprehensive maps to ensure safety. However, the prevalent metric map often lacks semantic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Thanh Nguyen Canh , Armagan Elibol , Nak Young Chong , Xiem HoangVan

In this paper, we employ multiple UAVs coordinated by a base station (BS) to help the ground users (GUs) to offload their sensing data. Different UAVs can adapt their trajectories and network formation to expedite data transmissions via…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Shimin Gong , Meng Wang , Bo Gu , Wenjie Zhang , Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato

With the increase in use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)/drones, it is important to detect and identify causes of failure in real time for proper recovery from a potential crash-like scenario or post incident forensics analysis. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-08 Vidyasagar Sadhu , Saman Zonouz , Dario Pompili