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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

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming increasingly useful for tasks which require the acquisition of data over large areas. The coverage problem, i.e., the problem of periodically visiting all subregions of an area at a desired…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Floriana Benedetti , Alessio Capitanelli , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni , Gianni Vercelli

Autonomous drone swarms deployed for surveillance, environmental monitoring, and infrastructure inspection must maintain reliable coverage of critical assets despite robot failures. This requires multicoverage: each asset must be observed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Mariem Guitouni , Aaron T. Becker

Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) play a pivotal role in ensuring seamless connectivity for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, particularly in scenarios where conventional terrestrial networks are constrained or temporarily unavailable.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Xiao Fan , Wenkun Wen , Peiran Wu , Junhui Zhao , Minghua Xia

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network can serve as an aerial relay to periodically receive packets from macro base stations (BSs). Severe packet loss may happen especially when UAVs have bad wireless connections to a BS. In this paper, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Hao Song , Lingjia Liu , Ananth Balasubramanian

Providing ubiquitous connectivity to diverse device types is the key challenge for 5G and beyond 5G (B5G). Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an important component of the upcoming wireless networks that can potentially…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Bin Li , Zesong Fei , Yan Zhang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play an increasingly critical role in Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions such as border patrolling and criminal detection, thanks to their ability to access remote areas and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Niloufar Mehrabi , Sayed Pedram Haeri Boroujeni , Jenna Hofseth , Abolfazl Razi , Long Cheng , Manveen Kaur , James Martin , Rahul Amin

Cooperative communication using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a promising technology for infrastructureless wireless networks. One of the key challenges in UAV based communications is the backhaul throughput. In this paper, we propose…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-07 Samer Hanna , Han Yan , Danijela Cabric

This paper addresses the problem of target detection and localisation in a limited area using multiple coordinated agents. The swarm of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) determines the position of the dispersion of stack effluents to a gas…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Daniele Facinelli , Matteo Larcher , Davide Brunelli , Daniele Fontanelli

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are recognized as promising technologies for area coverage due to the flexibility and adaptability. However, the ability of a single UAV is limited, and as for the large-scale three-dimensional (3D) scenario,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-22 Jia He , Ziye Jia , Chao Dong , Junyu Liu , Qihui Wu , Jingxian Liu

In unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks, high-capacity data transmission is of utmost importance for applications such as intelligent transportation, smart cities, and forest monitoring, which rely on the mobility of UAVs to collect and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Yingying Zou , Zhiqing Wei , Yanpeng Cui , Xinyi Liu , Zhiyong Feng

In the present paper we develop a distributed method to reconnect a multi-robot team after connectivity failures, caused by unpredictable environment changes, i.e. appearance of new obstacles. After the changes, the team is divided into…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yaroslav Marchukov , Luis Montano

This paper presents a novel planning method that achieves navigation of multi-robot formations in cluttered environments, while maintaining the formation throughout the robots motion. The method utilises a decentralised approach to find…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Jeppe Heini Mikkelsen , Matteo Fumagalli

While autonomous multi-robots can achieve safe and coordinated navigation, they often struggle to adapt to unforeseen conditions and to capture operator-driven objectives in unstructured environments. We present a Virtual Reality (VR)-based…

Autonomous aerial-surface robot teams offer a scalable solution for maritime monitoring, but deployment remains difficult due to water-induced visual artifacts and bandwidth-limited coordination. This paper presents a decentralized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Muhammad Farhan Ahmed , Vincent Frémont

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), as a recently emerging technology, enabled a new breed of unprecedented applications in different domains. This technology's ongoing trend is departing from large remotely-controlled drones to networks of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Arnau Rovira-Sugranes , Abolfazl Razi , Fatemeh Afghah , Jacob Chakareski

Driven by the demands of 5G/Beyond 5G and 6G networks, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have surfaced in critical roles for aerial communications. In the present survey, we explore the multi-mode roles of UAVs as relays, User Equipment (UE),…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Riddhi Apte , Shubhada Gadgil , Gaurav Kasbekar , Rushikesh Patil , Prasanna Chaporkar

Modern day wireless networks have tremendously evolved driven by a sharp increase in user demands, continuously requesting more data and services. This puts significant strain on infrastructure based macro cellular networks due to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Vishal Sharma , Mehdi Bennis , Rajesh Kumar

The coordination problem of multi-vehicle systems is of great interests in the area of autonomous driving and multi-vehicle control. This work mainly focuses on multi-task coordination problem of a group of vehicles with a bicycle model and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Dongkun Han , Yijun Huang , Hejun Huang , Tianrui Fang

Consensus formation tracking of multiple autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) subject to nonlinear and uncertain dynamics is a challenging problem in robotics. To tackle this challenge, a distributed bioinspired sliding mode controller is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-20 Tao Yan , Zhe Xu , Simon X. Yang