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This paper investigates federated multimodal learning (FML) assisted by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with a focus on minimizing system latency and providing convergence analysis. In this framework, UAVs are distributed throughout the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Shaba Shaon , Dinh C. Nguyen

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

The high mobility of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enables them to be used in various civilian fields, such as rescue and cargo transport. Path-following is a crucial way to perform these tasks while sensing and collision avoidance are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Changheng Wang , Zhiqing Wei , Wangjun Jiang , Haoyue Jiang , Zhiyong Feng

This paper addresses the motion planning problem for a team of aerial agents under high level goals. We propose a hybrid control strategy that guarantees the accomplishment of each agent's local goal specification, which is given as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Christos K. Verginis , Ziwei Xu , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

There is a risk of collision when multiple UAVs land simultaneously without communication on the same platform. This work accomplishes vision-based autonomous landing and uses a deep-learning-based method to realize collision avoidance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Tianpei Liao , Amal Haridevan , Yibo Liu , Jinjun Shan

We present a hierarchical safe auto-taxiing framework to enhance the automated ground operations of multiple unmanned aircraft systems (multi-UAS). The auto-taxiing problem becomes particularly challenging due to (i) unknown disturbances,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Kartik A. Pant , Li-Yu Lin , Worawis Sribunma , Sabine Brunswicker , James M. Goppert , Inseok Hwang

The proliferation of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) has caused airspace regulation authorities to examine the interoperability of these aircraft with collision avoidance systems initially designed for large transport category aircraft.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Cooper Cone , Michael Owen , Luis Alvarez , Marc Brittain

The consumer UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) market has grown significantly over the past few years. Despite its huge potential in spurring economic growth by supporting various applications, the increase of consumer UAVs poses potential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Amir Alipour-Fanid , Monireh Dabaghchian , Ning Wang , Pu Wang , Liang Zhao , Kai Zeng

Recently, the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used in real-time sensing applications over cellular networks, which sense the conditions of the tasks and transmit the real-time sensory data to the base station (BS). The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-11 Jingzhi Hu , Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or drones play many roles in a modern smart city such as the delivery of goods, mapping real-time road traffic and monitoring pollution. The ability of drones to perform these functions often requires the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Deng Pan , Mohammad Ali Khoshkholghi , Toktam Mahmoodi

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

The usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in civil and military applications continues to increase due to the numerous advantages that they provide over conventional approaches. Despite the abundance of such advantages, it is imperative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Ilyes Mrad , Lutfi Samara , Alaa Awad Abdellatif , Abubakr Al-Abbasi , Ridha Hamila , Aiman Erbad

Integration of reinforcement learning with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to achieve autonomous flight has been an active research area in recent years. An important part focuses on obstacle detection and avoidance for UAVs navigating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Jeremy Roghair , Kyungtae Ko , Amir Ehsan Niaraki Asli , Ali Jannesari

For many multiagent control problems, neural networks (NNs) have enabled promising new capabilities. However, many of these systems lack formal guarantees (e.g., collision avoidance, robustness), which prevents leveraging these advances in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-29 Zihao Dong , Shayegan Omidshafiei , Michael Everett

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) poses unprecedented traffic coordination challenges, especially with increasing UAV densities in dense urban corridors. This paper introduces a mathematical model using a control algorithm to optimize an Edge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Rishit Agnihotri , Sandeep Kumar Sharma

Assessing collision risk is a critical challenge to effective traffic safety management. The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to address this issue has shown much promise, given their wide visual field and movement flexibility.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Shuya Zong , Sikai Chen , Majed Alinizzi , Yujie Li , Samuel Labi

Developing the flocking behavior for a dynamic squad of fixed-wing UAVs is still a challenge due to kinematic complexity and environmental uncertainty. In this paper, we deal with the decentralized flocking and collision avoidance problem…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-26 Chao Yan , Xiaojia Xiang , Chang Wang , Zhen Lan

To meet the growing mobility needs in intra-city transportation, the concept of urban air mobility (UAM) has been proposed in which vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft are used to provide a ride-hailing service. In UAM, aircraft…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-04 Tengchan Zeng , Omid Semiari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis

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

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provide a novel means of extracting road and traffic information from video data. In particular, by analyzing objects in a video frame, UAVs can detect traffic characteristics and road incidents. Leveraging…

Applications · Statistics 2021-10-06 Cesar N. Yahia , Shannon E. Scott , Stephen D. Boyles , Christian G. Claudel