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Radar Automated Target Recognition (RATR) for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) involves transmitting Electromagnetic Waves (EMWs) and performing target type recognition on the received radar echo, crucial for defense and aerospace…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-19 Michael Potter , Murat Akcakaya , Marius Necsoiu , Gunar Schirner , Deniz Erdogmus , Tales Imbiriba

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be users that support new applications, or be communication access points that serve terrestrial and/or aerial users. In this paper, we focus on the connectivity problem of aerial users when they are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-24 Nesrine Cherif , Wael Jaafar , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Abbas Yongacoglu

In this paper, we design a navigation policy for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) where mobile base stations (BSs) are deployed to improve the data freshness and connectivity to the Internet of Things (IoT) devices. First, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-11 Sarder Fakhrul Abedin , Md. Shirajum Munir , Nguyen H. Tran , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with flexible deployment contribute to enlarging the distance of information transmission to mobile users (MUs) in constrained environment. However, due to the high mobility of both UAVs and MUs, it is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Jing Zhang , Sheng Gao , Xin Feng , Hongwei Yang , Geng Sun

Recently, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have attracted the attention of researchers in academia and industry for providing wireless services to ground users in diverse scenarios like festivals, large sporting events, natural and man-made…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Marwan Dhuheir , Aiman Erbad , Ala Al-Fuqaha , Mohsen Guizani

Conventional autonomous Unmanned Air Vehicle (abbr. UAV) autopilot systems use Global Navigation Satellite System (abbr. GNSS) signal for navigation. However, autopilot systems fail to navigate due to lost or jammed GNSS signal. To solve…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Rokas Jurevičius , Virginijus Marcinkevičius , Justinas Šeibokas

Fast and reliable wireless communication has become a critical demand in human life. In the case of mission-critical (MC) scenarios, for instance, when natural disasters strike, providing ubiquitous connectivity becomes challenging by using…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Hongyi Zhang , Zhiqiang Qi , Jingya Li , Anders Aronsson , Jan Bosch , Helena Holmström Olsson

A novel near-field integrated sensing and communications framework for secure unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks with high time efficiency is proposed. A ground base station (GBS) with large aperture size communicates with one…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Jingjing Zhao , Songtao Xue , Kaiquan Cai , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Yanbo Zhu

Optimal deployment and movement of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is studied. The considered scenario consists of several ground terminals (GTs) communicating with the UAVs using variable transmission power and fixed data rate.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Erdem Koyuncu , Maryam Shabanighazikelayeh , Hulya Seferoglu

This paper presents a novel reinforcement learning framework for trajectory tracking of unmanned aerial vehicles in cluttered environments using a dual-agent architecture. Traditional optimization methods for trajectory tracking face…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Shaswat Garg , Houman Masnavi , Baris Fidan , Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi

We propose a fixed-lag smoother-based sensor fusion architecture to leverage the complementary benefits of range-based sensors and visual-inertial odometry (VIO) for localization. We use two fixed-lag smoothers (FLS) to decouple accurate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Abhishek Goudar , Wenda Zhao , Angela P. Schoellig

Localization of radio frequency (RF) sources has critical applications, including search and rescue, jammer detection, and monitoring of hostile activities. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer significant advantages for RF source…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Saad Masrur , Ismail Guvenc

Given the prospects of the low-altitude economy (LAE) and the popularity of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), there are increasing demands on monitoring flying objects at low altitude in wide urban areas. In this work, the widely deployed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Yifei Sun , Chao Yu , Yan Luo , Tony Xiao Han , Haisheng Tan , Rui Wang , Francis C. M. Lau

This letter considers an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled relay communication system for delivering latency-critical messages with ultra-high reliability, where the relay is operating under amplifier-and-forward (AF) mode. We aim to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Hong Ren , Cunhua Pan , Kezhi Wang , Wei Xu , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan

5G mmWave MIMO systems enable accurate estimation of the user position and mapping of the radio environment using a single snapshot when both the base station (BS) and user are equipped with large antenna arrays. However, massive arrays are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-30 Alessio Fascista , Angelo Coluccia , Henk Wymeersch , Gonzalo Seco-Granados

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is being integrated as an active element in 5G and beyond networks. Because of its flexibility and mobility, UAV base stations (UAV-BSs) can be deployed according to the ground user distributions and their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Xukai Zhong , Yiming Huo , Xiaodai Dong , Zhonghua Liang

The unmanned aerial vehicles base stations (UAV-BSs) have great potential in being widely used in many dynamic application scenarios. In those scenarios, the movements of served user equipments (UEs) are inevitable, so the UAV-BSs needs to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Haoran Peng , Chao Chen , Chuan-Chi Lai , Li-Chun Wang , Zhu Han

In this work, we consider a multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) cooperative sensing system where UAVs are deployed to sense multiple targets in terrain-aware line of sight (LoS) conditions in uneven terrain equipped with directional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Rushi Moliya , Dhaval K. Patel , Brijesh Soni , Miguel López-Benítez

Autonomous landing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in crowded scenarios is crucial for successful deployment of UAVs in populated areas, particularly in emergency landing situations where the highest priority is to avoid hurting people.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Javier González-Trejo , Diego Mercado-Ravell , Israel Becerra , Rafael Murrieta-Cid

Accurate outdoor localization in Non-Line-of-Sight (NLoS) environments remains a critical challenge for wireless communication and sensing systems. Existing methods, including positioning based on the Global Navigation Satellite System…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Jiajie Xu , Yifan Guo , Xiucheng Wang , Nan Cheng , Tingting Yang