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Combining different types of agents in uncrewed vehicle (UV) swarms has emerged as an approach to enhance mission resilience and operational capabilities across a wide range of applications. This study offers a systematic framework for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Abhishek Joshi , Abhishek Phadke , Tianxing Chu , F. Antonio Medrano

Autonomous aerial tracking with drones offers vast potential for surveillance, cinematography, and industrial inspection applications. While single-drone tracking systems have been extensively studied, swarm-based target tracking remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Longji Yin , Yunfan Ren , Fangcheng Zhu , Liuyu Shi , Fanze Kong , Benxu Tang , Wenyi Liu , Ximin Lyu , Fu Zhang

The combination of Federated Learning (FL), Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), and edge-cloud computing enables distributed and real-time data processing while preserving privacy across edge devices and cloud infrastructure. However,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Gaith Rjouba , Hanae Elmekki , Saidul Islam , Jamal Bentahar , Rachida Dssouli

With the ever-increasing range of applications of Internet in Things (IoT) and sensor networks, challenges are emerging in various categories of classification tasks. Applications such as vehicular networking, UAV swarm coordination and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Andrew Nash , Dirk Pesch , Krishnendu Guha

This paper investigates the semantic communication and cooperative tracking control for an UAV swarm comprising a leader UAV and a group of follower UAVs, all interconnected via unreliable wireless multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Minjie Tang , Chenyuan Feng , Tony Q. S. Quek

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have a great potential to support search tasks in unstructured environments. Small, lightweight, low speed and agile UAVs, such as multi-rotors platforms can incorporate many kinds of sensors that are…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-01-23 A. L. Alfeo , M. G. C. A. Cimino , N. De Francesco , A. Lazzeri , M. Lega , G. Vaglini

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 integration of agentic AI, powered by large language models (LLMs) with autonomous reasoning, planning, and execution, into unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms opens new operational possibilities and brings the vision of the Internet…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Thuan Minh Nguyen , Vu Tuan Truong , Long Bao Le

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network is a promising technology for assisting Internet-of-Things (IoT), where a UAV can use its limited service coverage to harvest and disseminate data from IoT devices with low transmission abilities. The…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Jiahui Li , Geng Sun , Lingjie Duan , Qingqing Wu

The smart metering infrastructure may become one of the key elements in efficiently managing energy in smart cities. At the same time, traditional measurement record collection is performed by manual methods, which raises cost, safety, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Mustafa Siham , Qutaiba I. Ali

Efficient traffic monitoring is crucial for managing urban transportation networks, especially under congested and dynamically changing traffic conditions. Drones offer a scalable and cost-effective alternative to fixed sensor networks.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-28 Marko Maljkovic , Nikolas Geroliminis

The design and development of swarms of micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs) has recently gained significant traction. Collaborative aerial swarms have potential applications in areas as diverse as surveillance and monitoring, inventory management,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Jorge Peña Queralta , Yu Xianjia , Li Qingqing , Tomi Westerlund

Coordinated flight of multiple drones allows to achieve tasks faster such as search and rescue and infrastructure inspection. Thus, pushing the state-of-the-art of aerial swarms in navigation speed and robustness is of tremendous benefit.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Charbel Toumieh , Dario Floreano

Inter-connected objects, either via public or private networks are the near future of modern societies. Such inter-connected objects are referred to as Internet-of-Things (IoT) and/or Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). One example of such a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Raja Naeem Akram , Konstantinos Markantonakis , Keith Mayes , Oussama Habachi , Damien Sauveron , Andreas Steyven , Serge Chaumette

Due to the sustainable power supply and environment-friendly features, self-powered IoT devices have been increasingly employed in various fields such as providing observation data in remote areas, especially in rural areas or post-disaster…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Wen Zhang , Wenlu Wang , Mehdi Sookhak , Chen Pan

Uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms are pivotal in the applications such as disaster relief, aerial base station (BS) and logistics transportation. These scenarios require the capabilities in accurate sensing, efficient communication and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Zhiqing Wei , Yucong Du , Zhiyong Feng , Haotian Liu , Yanpeng Cui , Tao Zhang , Ying Zhou , Huici Wu

A key requirement in robotics is the ability to simultaneously self-localize and map a previously unknown environment, relying primarily on onboard sensing and computation. Achieving fully onboard accurate simultaneous localization and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Vlad Niculescu , Tommaso Polonelli , Michele Magno , Luca Benini

Autonomous navigation of UAV swarms in perceptually-degraded environments, where GPS is unavailable and terrain is densely cluttered, presents a critical bottleneck for real-world deployment. Existing optimization-based planners lack the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Mathias Mankoe , Fuqiang Lu , Hualing Bi , Abdulsalam Sibidoo Mubashiru

Limited computing resources of internet-of-things (IoT) nodes incur prohibitive latency in processing input data. This triggers new research opportunities toward task offloading systems where edge servers handle intensive computations of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Sangwon Hwang , Hoon Lee , Juseong Park , Inkyu Lee

In this paper, the main aim is to exhibit swarm intelligence power in cloud based scenario. Heterogeneous environment has been configured at server-side network of the whole cloud network. In the proposed system, different types of servers…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-03-08 Anirban Kundu , Chunlin Ji