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The robotics community is increasingly interested in autonomous aerial transportation. Unmanned aerial vehicles with suspended payloads have advantages over other systems, including mechanical simplicity and agility, but pose great…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Haojia Li , Haokun Wang , Chen Feng , Fei Gao , Boyu Zhou , Shaojie Shen

This paper studies collective motion optimization of a fleet of UAVs flying over a populated and geometrically constrained area. The paper treats UAVs as particles of a deformable body, thus, UAV coordination is defined by a homeomorphic…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Hossein Rastgoftar , Ella Atkins

Coordination of local and global aerial traffic has become a legal and technological bottleneck as the number of unmanned vehicles in the common airspace continues to grow. To meet this challenge, automation and decentralization of control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Boldizsár Balázs , Tamás Vicsek , Gergő Somorjai , Tamás Nepusz , Gábor Vásárhelyi

Infrastructure assistance has been proposed as a viable solution to improve the capabilities of commercial Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), especially toward fully autonomous operations. The airborne nature of these devices imposes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Sabur Baidya , Marco Levorato

Leading proposals for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) recognize the need for strategic and tactical airspace deconfliction, where the need for coordination appears in different forms and nuances. One recurring element is the use of pre-defined…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-26 Ítalo Romani de Oliveira , Euclides Carlos Pinto Neto , Thiago Toshio Matsumoto , Huafeng Yu

The emerging low-altitude economy has catalyzed the large-scale deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), driving a paradigm shift in environment monitoring, logistics, and emergency response. However, operating within these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Tianhao Liang , Nanchi Su , Yuqi Ping , Guangyu Lei , Xinglin Chen , Longyu Zhou , Tingting Zhang , Qinyu Zhang , Tony Q. S. Quek

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

We investigated different dense multirotor UAV traffic simulation scenarios in open 2D and 3D space, under realistic environments with the presence of sensor noise, communication delay, limited communication range, limited sensor update…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-11-28 Csaba Virágh , Máté Nagy , Carlos Gershenson , Gábor Vásárhelyi

This paper investigates traffic flow modeling issue in multi-services oriented unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless networks, which is critical for supporting future various applications of such networks. We propose a general…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-07 A. Abada , Y. Bin , T. Taleb

Recently, there has been immense interest in using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for civilian operations. As a result, unmanned aerial systems traffic management is needed to ensure the safety and goal satisfaction of potentially…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Mo Chen , Qie Hu , Jaime Fisac , Kene Akametalu , Casey Mackin , Claire Tomlin

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have enormous potential in the public and civil domains. These are particularly useful in applications where human lives would otherwise be endangered. Multi-UAV systems can collaboratively complete missions…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Lav Gupta , Raj Jain , Gabor Vaszkun

In recent years, consumer Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have become very popular, everyone can buy and fly a drone without previous experience, which raises concern in regards to regulations and public safety. In this paper, we present a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-02-29 Thomas Castelli , Aidean Sharghi , Don Harper , Alain Tremeau , Mubarak Shah

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are characterized by frequent routing path failures due to the high mobility caused by the sudden changes of the direction of vehicles. The routing paths between two different vehicles should be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Omar Sami Oubbati , Noureddine Chaib , Abderrahmane Lakas , Salim Bitam

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm enabled edge computing is envisioned to be promising in the sixth generation wireless communication networks due to their wide application sensories and flexible deployment. However, most of the existing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Wei Wu , Fuhui Zhou , Baoyun Wang , Qihui Wu , Chao Dong , Rose Qingyang Hu

Drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become a reliable and efficient tool for road traffic monitoring. Compared to loop detectors and bluetooth receivers (with high capital and operational expenditure), drones are a low-cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Chrystalleni Christodoulou , Panayiotis Kolios

This article presents a three-dimensional nonlinear trajectory tracking control strategy for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the presence of spatial constraints. As opposed to many existing control strategies, which do not consider…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Saurabh Kumar , Shashi Ranjan Kumar , Abhinav Sinha

The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is proliferating as they are effective, flexible and cost-efficient devices for a variety of applications ranging from natural disaster recovery to delivery of goods. We investigate a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-30 Ali Rahmati , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Yavuz Yapici , Xiaofan He , Ismail Guvenc , Huaiyu Dai , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become very popular for many military and civilian applications including in agriculture, construction, mining, environmental monitoring, etc. A desirable feature for UAVs is the ability to navigate and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Taha Elmokadem

Air transportation is essential for society, and it is increasing gradually due to its importance. To improve the airspace operation, new technologies are under development, such as Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). In fact, in the past few…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Euclides Carlos Pinto Neto , Derick Moreira Baum , Jorge Rady de Almeida , Joao Batista Camargo , Paulo Sergio Cugnasca

Wildland fire fighting is a very dangerous job, and the lack of information of the fire front is one of main reasons that causes many accidents. Using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to cover wildfire is promising because it can replace human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Huy X. Pham , Hung M. La , David Feil-Seifer , Matthew Deans