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In disaster scenarios, establishing robust emergency communication networks is critical, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer a promising solution to rapidly restore connectivity. However, organizing UAVs to form multi-hop networks in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yanggang Xu , Jirong Zha , Weijie Hong , Xiangmin Yi , Geng Chen , Jianfeng Zheng , Chen-Chun Hsia , Xinlei Chen

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are now beginning to be deployed for enhancing the network performance and coverage in wireless communication. However, due to the limitation of their on-board power and flight time, it is challenging to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Khoi Khac Nguyen , Trung Q. Duong , Tan Do-Duy , Holger Claussen , and Lajos Hanzo

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are envisioned to complement the 5G communication infrastructure in future smart cities. Hot spots easily appear in road intersections, where effective communication among vehicles is challenging. UAVs may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Ming Zhu , Xiao-Yang Liu , Anwar Walid

This work studies the application of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) to decentralized control of unmanned aerial vehicles to relay a critical data package to a known position. For this purpose, a family of deterministic games is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Mika Persson , Jonas Lidman , Jacob Ljungberg , Samuel Sandelius , Adam Andersson

Aerial robots are increasingly being utilized for environmental monitoring and exploration. However, a key challenge is efficiently planning paths to maximize the information value of acquired data as an initially unknown environment is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Julius Rückin , Liren Jin , Marija Popović

The low-altitude Internet of Things (IoT), supported by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), provides ground sensing networks with advanced real-time monitoring and data collection. To maximize data collection volume from distributed IoT nodes,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zhenjia Xu , Xiaoling Zhang , Nan Qi , Guangxu Zhu , Xiaojie Li , Luliang Jia

Effective solutions for intelligent data collection in terrestrial cellular networks are crucial, especially in the context of Internet of Things applications. The limited spectrum and coverage area of terrestrial base stations pose…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Abhishek Mondal , Deepak Mishra , Ganesh Prasad , George C. Alexandropoulos , Azzam Alnahari , Riku Jantti

Internet of Things (IoT) technologies have enabled numerous data-driven mobile applications and have the potential to significantly improve environmental monitoring and hazard warnings through the deployment of a network of IoT sensors.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Yi Hu , Jinhang Zuo , Bob Iannucci , Carlee Joe-Wong

Employing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has attracted growing interests and emerged as the state-of-the-art technology for data collection in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. In this paper, with the objective of minimizing the total…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-02 Botao Zhu , Ebrahim Bedeer , Ha H. Nguyen , Robert Barton , Jerome Henry

In the current unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) for sensing services, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) transmit their sensory data to terrestrial mobile devices over the unlicensed spectrum. However, the interference from surrounding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-13 F. Wu , H. Zhang , J. Wu , L. Song

The exploration of unknown, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) denied environments by an autonomous communication-aware and collaborative group of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) presents significant challenges in coordination,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Tiago Leite , Maria Conceição , António Grilo

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is gaining attention as a potential approach to design trajectories for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) used as flying access points in the context of cellular or Internet of Things (IoT)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Omid Esrafilian , Harald Bayerlein , David Gesbert

Air traffic control is an example of a highly challenging operational problem that is readily amenable to human expertise augmentation via decision support technologies. In this paper, we propose a new intelligent decision making framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Supriyo Ghosh , Sean Laguna , Shiau Hong Lim , Laura Wynter , Hasan Poonawala

Path planning methods for the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in goods delivery have drawn great attention from industry and academics because of its flexibility which is suitable for many situations in the "Last Kilometer" between customer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Linfei Feng

In this paper, we study a joint detection, mapping and navigation problem for a single unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with a low complexity radar and flying in an unknown environment. The goal is to optimize its trajectory with the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Anna Guerra , Francesco Guidi , Davide Dardari , Petar M. Djuric

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enabled Internet of things (IoT) systems have become an important part of future wireless communications. To achieve higher communication rate, the joint design of UAV trajectory and resource allocation is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Yingchao Jiao , Xuhui Zhang , Wenchao Liu , Yinyu Wu , Jinke Ren , Yanyan Shen , Bo Yang , Xinping Guan

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

This paper investigates a master unmanned aerial vehicle (MUAV)-powered Internet of Things (IoT) network, in which we propose using a rechargeable auxiliary UAV (AUAV) equipped with an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to enhance the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 Jingren Xu , Xin Kang , Ronghaixiang Zhang , Ying-Chang Liang , Sumei Sun

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communication technology is regarded as an efficient and effective solution for some special application scenarios where existing terrestrial infrastructures are overloaded to provide reliable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Jinjing Wang , Xindi Wang

Advances in the Internet of Things are revolutionizing data acquisition, enhancing artificial intelligence and quality of service. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) provide an efficient data-gathering solution across varied environments. This…

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