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A novel approach for achieving fast evasion in self-localized swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) threatened by an intruding moving object is presented in this paper. Motivated by natural self-organizing systems, the presented…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Filip Novák , Viktor Walter , Pavel Petráček , Tomáš Báča , Martin Saska

We present a multi-robot system for GPS-denied search and rescue under the forest canopy. Forests are particularly challenging environments for collaborative exploration and mapping, in large part due to the existence of severe perceptual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Yulun Tian , Katherine Liu , Kyel Ok , Loc Tran , Danette Allen , Nicholas Roy , Jonathan P. How

A resilient multi-vehicle system cooperatively performs tasks by exchanging information, detecting, and removing cyber attacks that have the intent of hijacking or diminishing performance of the entire system. In this paper, we propose a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-06 Paul J Bonczek , Nicola Bezzo

With the rapid application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in urban areas, the identification and tracking of hovering UAVs have become critical challenges, significantly impacting the safety of aircraft take-off and landing operations.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-14 Jiachen Wei , Dingyou Ma , Feiyang He , Qixun Zhang , Zhiyong Feng , Zhengfeng Liu , Taohong Liang

Aerial scans with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming more widely adopted across industries, from smart farming to urban mapping. An application area that can leverage the strength of such systems is search and rescue (SAR)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Phuoc Nguyen Thuan , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

This paper aims to enhance the physical layer security against potential internal eavesdroppings by exploiting the maneuverability of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). We consider a scenario where two receivers with different security…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Xiaofang Sun , Chao Shen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Zhangdui Zhong

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

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are indispensable for infrastructure inspection, surveillance, and related tasks, yet they also introduce critical security challenges. This survey provides a wide-ranging examination of the anti-UAV domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yifei Dong , Fengyi Wu , Sanjian Zhang , Guangyu Chen , Yuzhi Hu , Masumi Yano , Jingdong Sun , Siyu Huang , Feng Liu , Qi Dai , Zhi-Qi Cheng

A reliable communication network is essential for multiple UAVs operating within obstacle-cluttered environments, where limited communication due to obstructions often occurs. A common solution is to deploy intermediate UAVs to relay…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Yuda Chen , Shuaikang Wang , Jie Li , Meng Guo

Autonomous robotics and artificial intelligence techniques can be used to support human personnel in the event of critical incidents. These incidents can pose great danger to human life. Some examples of such assistance include: multi-robot…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-29 David L. Smyth , Sai Abinesh , Nazli B. Karimi , Brett Drury , Ihsan Ullah , Frank G. Glavin , Michael G. Madden

The remarkable growth of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has also sparked concerns about safety measures during their missions. To advance towards safer autonomous aerial robots, this work presents a vision-based solution to ensuring safe…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Phuoc Nguyen Thuan , Tomi Westerlund , Jorge Peña Queralta

Autonomous exploration in unknown environments remains a fundamental challenge in robotics, particularly for applications such as search and rescue, industrial inspection, and planetary exploration. Multi-robot active SLAM presents a…

A reliable communication network is essential for multiple UAVs operating within obstacle-cluttered environments, where limited communication due to obstructions often occurs. A common solution is to deploy intermediate UAVs to relay…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Yuda Chen , Meng Guo

The performance and safety of autonomous vehicles (AVs) deteriorates under adverse environments and adversarial actors. The investment in multi-sensor, multi-agent (MSMA) AVs is meant to promote improved efficiency of travel and mitigate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-18 R. Spencer Hallyburton , David Hunt , Shaocheng Luo , Miroslav Pajic

Over the past few years, a plethora of advancements in Unmanned Areal Vehicle (UAV) technology has paved the way for UAV-based search and rescue operations with transformative impact to the outcome of critical life-saving missions. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Andreas Anastasiou , Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios , Christos G. Panayiotou

Online path planning for multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (multi-UAV) systems is considered a challenging task. It needs to ensure collision-free path planning in real-time, especially when the multi-UAV systems can become very crowded on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Huaxing Huang , Guijie Zhu , Zhun Fan , Hao Zhai , Yuwei Cai , Ze Shi , Zhaohui Dong , Zhifeng Hao

This paper proposes a systematic solution that uses an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to aggressively and safely track an agile target. The solution properly handles the challenging situations where the intent of the target and the dense…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Zhichao Han , Ruibin Zhang , Neng Pan , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

Selecting safe landing sites in non-cooperative environments is a key step towards the full autonomy of UAVs. However, the existing methods have the common problems of poor generalization ability and robustness. Their performance in unknown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Lyujie Chen , Xiaming Yuan , Yao Xiao , Yiding Zhang , Jihong Zhu

Multi-robot target tracking finds extensive applications in different scenarios, such as environmental surveillance and wildfire management, which require the robustness of the practical deployment of multi-robot systems in uncertain and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Jiazhen Liu , Peihan Li , Yuwei Wu , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Vijay Kumar , Lifeng Zhou

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based multi-access edge computing (MEC) appears as a popular paradigm to reduce task processing latency. However, the secure offloading is an important issue when occurring aerial eavesdropping. Besides,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Can Cui , Ziye Jia , Jiahao You , Chao Dong , Qihui Wu , Han Zhu