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In unseen and complex outdoor environments, collision avoidance navigation for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms presents a challenging problem. It requires UAVs to navigate through various obstacles and complex backgrounds. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jiafan Zhuang , Gaofei Han , Zihao Xia , Boxi Wang , Wenji Li , Dongliang Wang , Zhifeng Hao , Ruichu Cai , Zhun Fan

Due to the inability to receive signals from the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) in extreme conditions, achieving accurate and robust navigation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is a challenging task. Recently emerged,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Yuxin Wang , Zunlei Feng , Haofei Zhang , Yang Gao , Jie Lei , Li Sun , Mingli Song

Marker-based landing is widely used in drone delivery and return-to-base systems for its simplicity and reliability. However, most approaches assume idealized landing site visibility and sensor performance, limiting robustness in complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Jiaohong Yao , Linfeng Liang , Yao Deng , Xi Zheng , Richard Han , Yuankai Qi

This paper introduces a high-performance artificial intelligence operating system tailored for low-altitude aviation, designed to address key challenges such as real-time task execution, computational efficiency, and seamless modular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Minzhe Tan , Xinlin Fan , Jian He , Yi Hou , Zhan Liu , Yaopeng Jiang , Y. M. Jiang

This paper investigates the three-dimensional (3D) deployment of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial base stations in heterogeneous communication networks under constraints imposed by diverse ground obstacles. Given the diverse data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Senning Wan , Bin Li , Hongbin Chen , Lei Liu

In this paper, a combat Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) is modeled in the simulation environment. The rotary wing UAV is successfully performed various tasks such as locking on the targets, tracking, and sharing the relevant data with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-28 A. Huzeyfe Demir , Berke Yavas , Mehmet Yazici , Dogukan Aksu , M. Ali Aydin

In this paper the problem of guidance formulation for autonomous soft landing of unmanned aerial vehicles on stationary, moving, or accelerating / maneuvering ground vehicles at desired approach angles in both azimuth and elevation is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Sashank Modali , Satadal Ghosh , Sujit P. B

Autonomous drone racing has risen as a challenging robotic benchmark for testing the limits of learning, perception, planning, and control. Expert human pilots are able to fly a drone through a race track by mapping pixels from a single…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Angel Romero , Ashwin Shenai , Ismail Geles , Elie Aljalbout , Davide Scaramuzza

An important capability of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is autonomous landing while avoiding collision with obstacles in the process. Such capability requires real-time local trajectory planning. Although trajectory-planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Yossi Magrisso , Ehud Rivlin , Hector Rotstein

Automating the navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in diverse scenarios has gained much attention in recent years. However, teaching UAVs to fly in challenging environments remains an unsolved problem, mainly due to the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Matthias Müller , Vincent Casser , Neil Smith , Dominik L. Michels , Bernard Ghanem

Unmanned aerial vehicles combined with computer vision systems, such as convolutional neural networks, offer a flexible and affordable solution for terrain monitoring, mapping, and detection tasks. However, a key challenge remains the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Hermann Blum , Silvan Rohrbach , Marija Popovic , Luca Bartolomei , Roland Siegwart

This paper focuses on the continuous control of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based on a deep reinforcement learning method for a large-scale 3D complex environment. The purpose is to make the UAV reach any target point from a certain…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Xuyang Li , Jianwu Fang , Kai Du , Kuizhi Mei , Jianru Xue

Autonomous tracking of flying aerial objects has important civilian and defense applications, ranging from search and rescue to counter-unmanned aerial systems (counter-UAS). Ground based tracking requires setting up infrastructure, could…

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles grow more popular by the day and applications for them are crossing boundaries of science and industry, with everything from aerial photography to package delivery to disaster management benefiting from the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Adarsh Salagame , Sushant Govindraj , S. N. Omkar

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are emerging as key enablers for low-altitude wireless network (LAWN), particularly when terrestrial networks are unavailable. In such scenarios, the environmental topology is typically unknown; hence,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Jihao Luo , Zesong Fei , Xinyi Wang , Le Zhao , Yuanhao Cui , Guangxu Zhu , Dusit Niyato

Selecting safe landing sites in non-cooperative environments is a key step towards the full autonomy of UAVs. However, the existing methods have the common problems of poor generalization ability and robustness. Their performance in unknown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Lyujie Chen , Xiaming Yuan , Yao Xiao , Yiding Zhang , Jihong Zhu

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are used for numerous inspection and video capture tasks. Manually controlling UAVs in the vicinity of obstacles is challenging, however, and poses a high risk of collisions. Even for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Daniel Schleich , Sven Behnke

Learning to control robots without requiring engineered models has been a long-term goal, promising diverse and novel applications. Yet, reinforcement learning has only achieved limited impact on real-time robot control due to its high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Philip Becker-Ehmck , Maximilian Karl , Jan Peters , Patrick van der Smagt

The success of surveillance applications involving small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) depends on how long the limited on-board power would persist. To cope with this challenge, alternative renewable sources of lift are sought. One…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Houssem Eddine Mohamadi , Nadjia Kara

Online path planning for multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (multi-UAV) systems is considered a challenging task. It needs to ensure collision-free path planning in real-time, especially when the multi-UAV systems can become very crowded on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Huaxing Huang , Guijie Zhu , Zhun Fan , Hao Zhai , Yuwei Cai , Ze Shi , Zhaohui Dong , Zhifeng Hao