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This paper addresses the problem of active collaborative localization in heterogeneous robot teams with unknown data association. It involves positioning a small number of identical unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) at desired positions so…

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This paper proposes a cooperative integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) scheme for the low-altitude sensing scenario, aiming at estimating the parameters of the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and enhancing the sensing performance via…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Jun Tang , Yiming Yu , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Dongming Wang , Jiangzhou Wang , Xiaohu You

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) enabled by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a promising technology to facilitate target tracking applications. In contrast to conventional UAV-based ISAC system designs that mainly focus on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-17 Yifan Jiang , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Kaitao Meng

This letter addresses the joint air corridor planning and base station (BS) deployment problem for low-altitude integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) networks. In the considered system, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operate within a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-15 Jiaxuan Li , Yilong Chen , Fan Liu , Jie Xu

This paper studies the UAV-enabled integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), in which UAVs are dispatched as aerial dual-functional access points (APs) for efficient ISAC. In particular, we consider a scenario with one UAV-AP equipped…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Zhonghao Lyu , Guangxu Zhu , Jie Xu

Recently, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is emerging as a promising technique for achieving robust and rapid emergency response capabilities. Such a novel framework offers high-quality and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Binghan Yao , Ruoguang Li , Yingyang Chen , Li Wang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can enhance the performance of cellular networks, due to their high mobility and efficient deployment. In this paper, we present a first study on how the user mobility affects the UAVs' trajectories of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Yao Tang , Man Hon Cheung , Tat-Ming Lok

The integration of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) and fluid antenna systems (FAS) has attracted considerable attention due to its tremendous potential in enhancing wireless communication performance. However, under fast-fading…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Kaining Wang , Bo Yang , Yusheng Lei , Zhiwen Yu , Xuelin Cao , Liang Wang , Bin Guo , George C. Alexandropoulos , Mérouane Debbah , Zhu Han

In this paper, we construct an air-sea collaborative system framework based on the Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) techniques, where the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) jointly inspect targets of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Rui Zhang , Fuwang Dong , Wei Wang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained considerable attention as a platform for establishing aerial wireless networks and communications. However, the line-of-sight dominance in air-to-ground communications often leads to significant…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Hongjuan Li , Hui Kang , Geng Sun , Jiahui Li , Jiacheng Wang , Xue Wang , Dusit Niyato , Victor C. M. Leung

This paper studies a heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) cooperative search approach suitable for complex environments. In the application, a fixed-wing UAV drops rotor UAVs to deploy the cluster rapidly. Meanwhile, the fixed-wing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Zhenchang Liu , Mingrui Hao

In post-disaster scenarios, the rapid deployment of adequate communication infrastructure is essential to support disaster search, rescue, and recovery operations. To achieve this, uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) has emerged as a promising…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-23 Jikang Deng , Hui Zhou , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Multiple fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (multi-UAVs) encounter significant challenges in cooperative path following over complex Digital Elevation Model (DEM) low-altitude airspace, including wind field disturbances, sudden obstacles,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Zimao Sheng , Zirui Yu , Hong'an Yang

When an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network is utilized as an aerial small base station (BS), like a relay deployed far away from macro BSs, existing multicast methods based on acknowledgement (ACK) feedback and retransmissions may…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-05 Hao Song , Lingjia Liu , Bodong Shang , Scott Pudlewski , Elizabeth Serena Bentley

This letter considers a beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS) aided integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where the BD-RIS can help a multi-antenna base station (BS) serve multiple user equipments (UEs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Xiaoqi Zhang , Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Weifeng Zhu , Haijun Zhang

Reliable real-time 3D localization is essential for multi-UAV navigation, collision avoidance, and coordinated flight, yet onboard estimates can degrade under GNSS multipath, non-line-of-sight reception, vertical drift, and intentional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Hosam Alamleh , Damir Pulatov

In this paper, we investigate the robust resource allocation design for secure communication in an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. A multi-antenna dual-functional radar-communication (DFRC) base station (BS) serves…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Dongfang Xu , Xianghao Yu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Anke Schmeink , Robert Schober

This paper investigates a multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) joint base station-assisted Internet of Vehicles (IoV) task offloading system in dense urban environments. To minimize system delay and energy consumption under strict coupling…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Maoxin Ji , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan , Cui Zhang , Nan Cheng , Wen Chen , Khaled B. Letaief

This paper proposes a solution for energy-efficient communication in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks. The limited battery life of UAVs is a major concern for their sustainable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Mohammad Javad-Kalbasi , Mohammed S Al-Abiad , Shahrokh Valaee

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)-aided device-todevice (D2D) networks have attracted great interests with the development of 5G/6G communications, while there are several challenges about resource scheduling in UAVs-aided D2D networks. In…

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