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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be deployed to monitor very large areas without the need for network infrastructure. UAVs communicate with each other during flight and exchange information with each other. However, such communication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Maryam Faraji-Biregani , Reza Fotohi

This article presents a novel time-coordination algorithm based on event-triggered communication to ensure multiple UAVs progress along their desired paths in coordination with one another. In the proposed algorithm, a UAV transmits its…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Hyungsoo Kang , Isaac Kaminer , Venanzio Cichella , Naira Hovakimyan

In this work, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where a UAV serves as an aerial base station (BS) to simultaneously perform communication with a user and detect a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jianping Yao , Zeyu Yang , Zai Yang , Jie Xu , Tony Q. S. Quek

From prehistoric encirclement for hunting to GPS orbiting the earth for positioning, target encirclement has numerous real world applications. However, encircling multiple non-cooperative targets in GPS-denied environments remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Fen Liu , Shenghai Yuan , Wei Meng , Rong Su , Lihua Xie

This paper studies the bearing-based simultaneous localization and affine formation tracking (SLAFT) control problem for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In the considered problem, only a small set of UAVs, named leaders, can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Li Huiming , Sun Zhiyong , Chen Hao , Wang Xiangke , Shen Lincheng

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…

This paper addresses the challenge of navigating unmanned aerial vehicles in contested environments by introducing a cooperative multi-agent framework that increases the likelihood of safe UAV traversal. The approach involves two types of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Grant Stagg , Cameron K. Peterson

This work investigates the problem of simultaneous tracking and jamming of a rogue drone in 3D space with a team of cooperative unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). We propose a decentralized estimation, decision and control framework in which…

Landing safely in crowded urban environments remains an essential yet challenging endeavor for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), especially in emergency situations. In this work, we propose a risk-aware approach that harnesses semantic…

In intelligent low-altitude networks, integrating monitoring tasks into communication unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can consume resources and increase handoff latency for communication links. To address this challenge, we propose a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Jiahui Liang , Wenlihan Lu , Tianyi Liu , Kang Kang , Guixin Pan , Liuqing Yang , Xinhu Zheng , Shijian Gao

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

To enhance both the sensing and covert communication performance, a dual-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided scheme is proposed for integrated sensing and communication networks, in which one UAV maneuvers as the aerial dual-functional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jingke Sun , Liang Yang , Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Hongwu Liu

In this paper, we consider a scenario where an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) collects data from a set of sensors on a straight line. The UAV can either cruise or hover while communicating with the sensors. The objective is to minimize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Jie Gong , Tsung-Hui Chang , Chao Shen , Xiang Chen

As an autonomous vehicles, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are subjected to several challenges. One of the challenges is for UAV to be able to avoid collision. Many collision avoidance methods have been proposed to address this issue.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Ahmad H. Sawalmeh , Noor Shamsiah Othman

Cooperative control of multi-UAV systems has attracted substantial research attention due to its significance in various application sectors such as emergency response, search and rescue missions, and critical infrastructure inspection.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Angelos Zacharia , Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios , Christos Panayiotou

Coordinated control of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) emerges as a promising technology to improve traffic safety, efficiency, and sustainability. Meanwhile, mixed traffic, where CAVs coexist with conventional human-driven vehicles…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Tong Zhao , Nikolce Murgovski , Baigen Cai , Wei ShangGuan

This paper systematically studies the cooperative area coverage and target tracking problem of multiple-unmanned aerial vehicles (multi-UAVs). The problem is solved by decomposing into three sub-problems: information fusion, task…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Mengge Zhang , Jie Li , Xiangke Wang

A control system verification framework is presented for unmanned aerial vehicles using theorem proving. The framework's aim is to set out a procedure for proving that the mathematically designed control system of the aircraft satisfies…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-22 Omar A. Jasim , Sandor M. Veres

Safe operation of multi-robot systems is critical, especially in communication-degraded environments such as underwater for seabed mapping, underground caves for navigation, and in extraterrestrial missions for assembly and construction. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Luca Ballotta , Rajat Talak

Consider an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) physically connected to the ground station with a tether operating in a space, tasked with performing precise maneuvers while constrained by the physical limitation of its tether, which prevents it…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-13 Samuel O. Folorunsho , Maggi Ni , William R. Norris