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This work describes the orchestration of a fleet of rotary-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for harvesting prioritized traffic from random distributions of heterogeneous users with Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) capabilities. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Bharath Keshavamurthy , Nicolo Michelusi

We introduce and study a new cooperative delivery problem inspired by drone-assisted package delivery. We consider a scenario where a drone, en route to deliver a package to a destination (a point on the plane), unexpectedly loses…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Jared Coleman , Danny Krizanc , Evangelos Kranakis , Oscar Morales-Ponce

This paper introduces the deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as lightweight wireless access points that leverage the fixed infrastructure in the context of the emerging open radio access network (O-RAN). More precisely, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Hossein Mohammadi , Vuk Marojevic , Bodong Shang

This work proposes a jointly optimized trajectory generation and camera control approach, enabling an autonomous agent, such as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operating in 3D environments, to plan and execute coverage trajectories that…

Providing connectivity to unmanned aerial vehicle-user equipments such as drones or flying taxis is a major challenge for tomorrow cellular systems. In this paper, the use of coordinated multi-point transmission for providing seamless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Ramy Amer , Walid Saad , Nicola Marchetti

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has the advantages of large coverage and flexibility, which could be applied in disaster management to provide wireless services to the rescuers and victims. When UAVs forms an aerial mesh network,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zhiqing Wei , Jialin Zhu , Zijun Guo , Fan Ning

Owing to the controlling flexibility and cost-effectiveness, fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to serve as flying base stations (BSs) in the air-ground integrated network. By exploiting the mobility of UAVs,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-29 Xuezhen Yan , Xuming Fang , Cailian Deng , Xianbin Wang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) represent a new frontier in a wide range of monitoring and research applications. To fully leverage their potential, a key challenge is planning missions for efficient data acquisition in complex…

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

We propose a novel service-oriented architecture for drone-based multi-package delivery in a skyway network. The proposed architecture provides a high-level design for deploying a skyway network in a city for the effective provisioning of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Babar Shahzaad , Athman Bouguettaya

This paper presents an innovative framework that synergistically enhances computing performance through ubiquitous computing power distribution and dynamic computing node accessibility control via adaptive unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yiqin Deng , Zhengru Fang , Senkang Hu , Yanan Ma , Haixia Zhang , Yuguang Fang

The use of multi-rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for search and rescue as well as remote sensing is rapidly increasing. Multi-rotor UAVs, however, have limited endurance. The range of UAV applications can be widened if teams of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Xiaolong Zhu , Fernando Vanegas , Felipe Gonzalez , Conrad Sanderson

Combining an energy-efficient drone with a high-capacity truck for last-mile package delivery can benefit operators and customers by reducing delivery times and environmental impact. However, directly integrating drone flight dynamics into…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Yineng Sun , Armin Fügenschuh , Vikrant Vaze

Collaboration between drones and trucks in a last-mile delivery system offers numerous benefits and reduces many challenges of the traditional delivery system. Here, we introduce Drone-Delivery Packing Problem, where a set of parcels,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Saswata Jana , Partha Sarathi Mandal

Drones have been considered as an alternative means of package delivery to reduce the delivery cost and time. Due to the battery limitations, the drones are best suited for last-mile delivery, i.e., the delivery from the package…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Behzad Khamidehi , Majid Raeis , Elvino S. Sousa

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in using networks of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) that collectively perform complex tasks for diverse applications. An important challenge in realizing UAV networks is the need for a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Abolfazl Razi , Fatemeh Afghah , Jacob Chakareski

The increasing demand for fast and cost effective last mile delivery solutions has catalyzed significant advancements in drone based logistics. This research describes the development of an AI integrated drone delivery system, focusing on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Maharshi Shastri , Ujjval Shrivastav

In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), particularly for small UAVs, due to their affordable prices, ease of availability, and ease of operability. Existing and future applications…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-08 Wahab Khawaja , Ismail Guvenc , David Matolak , Uwe-Carsten Fiebig , Nicolas Schneckenberger

There has been a rapid growth in the deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in various applications ranging from vital safety-of-life such as surveillance and reconnaissance at nuclear power plants to entertainment and hobby…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Alireza Famili , Angelos Stavrou , Haining Wang , Jung-Min , Park , Ryan Gerdes

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones are being introduced in a wide range of commercial applications. This has also made them prime targets of attackers who compromise their fundamental security properties, including confidentiality,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Sonali Rout , Vireshwar Kumar