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The problem of robotic synchronisation and coordination is a long-standing one. Combining autonomous, computerised systems with unpredictable real-world conditions can have consequences ranging from poor performance to collisions and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Kevin Quinn , Cormac Molloy , Harun Šiljak

The increasing adoption of UAVs with advanced sensors and GPU-accelerated edge computing has enabled real-time AI-driven applications in fields such as precision agriculture, wildfire monitoring, and environmental conservation. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Suman Raj , Rajdeep Singh , Kautuk Astu , Yogesh Simmhan

Formation flight has a vast potential for aerial robot swarms in various applications. However, existing methods lack the capability to achieve fully autonomous large-scale formation flight in dense environments. To bridge the gap, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Lun Quan , Longji Yin , Tingrui Zhang , Mingyang Wang , Ruilin Wang , Sheng Zhong , Zhou Xin , Yanjun Cao , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

We propose a novel Energy-Predictive Drone Service (EPDS) framework for efficient package delivery within a skyway network. The EPDS framework incorporates a formal modeling of an EPDS and an adaptive bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Guanting Ren , Babar Shahzaad , Balsam Alkouz , Abdallah Lakhdari , Athman Bouguettaya

The deployment of autonomous drone swarms in disaster response missions necessitates the development of flexible, scalable, and robust coordination systems. Traditional fixed architectures struggle to cope with dynamic and unpredictable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Ahmed R. Sadik , Muhammad Ashfaq , Niko Mäkitalo , Tommi Mikkonen

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms are often required in off-grid scenarios, such as disaster-struck, war-torn or rural areas, where the UAVs have no access to the power grid and instead rely on renewable energy. Considering a main…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Igor Donevski , Marco Virgili , Nithin Babu , Jimmy Jessen Nielsen , Andrew J. Forsyth , Constantinos B. Papadias , Petar Popovski

Drones are becoming a novel means for delivery services. We present a demonstration of drone delivery services in a skyway network that uses the service paradigm. A set of experiments is conducted using Crazyflie drones to collect the data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Jermaine Janszen , Babar Shahzaad , Balsam Alkouz , Athman Bouguettaya

This paper presents a novel framework to accelerate route prediction in Drone-as-a-Service operations through weather-aware deep learning models. While classical path-planning algorithms, such as A* and Dijkstra, provide optimal solutions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Kamal Mohamed , Lillian Wassim , Ali Hamdi , Khaled Shaban

Drones are also known as UAVs are originally designed for military purposes. With the technological advances, they can be seen in most of the aspects of life from filming to logistics. The increased use of drones made it sometimes essential…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Angelos Dimakos , Daniel Woodhall , Seemal Asif

We propose a novel failure-aware reactive UAV delivery service composition framework. A skyway network infrastructure is presented for the effective provisioning of services in urban areas. We present a formal drone delivery service model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Woojin Lee , Babar Shahzaad , Balsam Alkouz , Athman Bouguettaya

Drones are becoming popular as a complementary system for \ac{ems}. Although several pilot studies and flight trials have shown the feasibility of drone-assisted \ac{aed} delivery, running a full-scale operational network remains…

Swarms of aerial drones have recently been considered for last-mile deliveries in urban logistics or automated construction. At the same time, collaborative transportation of payloads by multiple drones is another important area of recent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Akash Kopparam Sreedhara , Deepesh Padala , Shashank Mahesh , Kai Cui , Mengguang Li , Heinz Koeppl

Recently, swarms or formations of drones have received increased interest both in the literature and in applications. To dynamically adapt to their operating environment, swarm members need to communicate wirelessly for control and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Samuel Pell , Andreas Willig

Smart City applications, such as traffic monitoring and disaster response, often use swarms of intelligent and cooperative drones to efficiently collect sensor data over different areas of interest and time spans. However, when the required…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Chuhao Qin , Evangelos Pournaras

This research paper addresses the challenges of exploration and navigation in unknown environments from an evolutionary swarm robotics perspective. Path formation plays a crucial role in enabling cooperative swarm robots to accomplish these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Lavanya Ratnabala , Robinroy Peter , E. Y. A. Charles

This paper addresses the problem of autonomous task allocation by a swarm of autonomous, interactive drones in large-scale, dynamic spatio-temporal environments. When each drone independently determines navigation, sensing, and recharging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Chuhao Qin , Evangelos Pournaras

Route planning for multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is a series of translation and rotational steps from a given start location to the destination goal location. The goal of the route planning problem is to determine the most…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Priyansh Saxena , Ram Kishan Dewangan

Autonomous drone swarms are a burgeoning technology with significant applications in the field of mapping, inspection, transportation and monitoring. To complete a task, each drone has to accomplish a sub-goal within the context of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Rohith Gandhi Ganesan , Samantha Kappagoda , Giuseppe Loianno , David K. A. Mordecai

Research in multi-robot and swarm systems has seen significant interest in cooperation of agents in complex and dynamic environments. To effectively adapt to unknown environments and maximize the utility of the group, robots need to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Qin Yang , Ramviyas Parasuraman

Traditional unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm missions rely heavily on expensive custom-made drones with onboard perception or external positioning systems, limiting their widespread adoption in research and education. To address this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xiaowei Li , Kuan Xu , Fen Liu , Ruofei Bai , Shenghai Yuan , Lihua Xie