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Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted communication becomes a promising technique to realize the beyond fifth generation (5G) wireless networks, due to the high mobility and maneuverability of UAVs which can adapt to heterogeneous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-17 Chang Liu , Weijie Yuan , Zhiqiang Wei , Xuemeng Liu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Recent advances in multi-agent systems manipulation have demonstrated a rising demand for the implementation of multi-UAV systems in urban areas, which are always subjected to the presence of static and dynamic obstacles. Inspired by the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Reza Ahmadvand , Sarah Safura Sharif , Yaser Mike Banad

We propose a multi-robot control paradigm to solve point-to-point navigation tasks for a team of holonomic robots with access to the full environment information. The framework invokes two processes asynchronously at high frequency: (i) a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Ajay Shankar , Keisuke Okumura , Amanda Prorok

Efficient aerial data collection is important in many remote sensing applications. In large-scale monitoring scenarios, deploying a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offers improved spatial coverage and robustness against individual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Jonas Westheider , Julius Rückin , Marija Popović

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based communication networks (UCNs) are a key component in future mobile networking. To handle the dynamic environments in UCNs, reinforcement learning (RL) has been a promising solution attributed to its…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Ran Zhang , Bowei Li , Liyuan Zhang , Jiang , Xie , Miao Wang

Collision avoidance is a problem largely studied in robotics, particularly in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications. Among the main challenges in this area are hardware limitations, the need for rapid response, and the uncertainty…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Oscar F. Archila , Alain Vande Wouwer , Johannes Schiffer

There is an increasing demand for using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), known as drones, in different applications such as packages delivery, traffic monitoring, search and rescue operations, and military combat engagements. In all of these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Fadi AlMahamid , Katarina Grolinger

Coordination of local and global aerial traffic has become a legal and technological bottleneck as the number of unmanned vehicles in the common airspace continues to grow. To meet this challenge, automation and decentralization of control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Boldizsár Balázs , Tamás Vicsek , Gergő Somorjai , Tamás Nepusz , Gábor Vásárhelyi

Urban air mobility (UAM) is a concept for creating an airborne transportation system that operates in urban settings with an on-board pilot and/or remote pilot in command (RPIC), or with a fully autonomous architecture. Although the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 M. Cenk Erturk , Nozhan Hosseini , Hosseinali Jamal , Alphan Sahin , David Matolak , Jamal Haque

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted plenty of attention due to their high flexibility and enhanced communication ability. However, the limited coverage and energy of UAVs make it difficult to provide timely wireless service for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-18 Rui Wang , Kaitao Meng , Deshi Li

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been emerging as an effective solution for IoT data collection networks thanks to their outstanding flexibility, mobility, and low operation costs. However, due to the limited energy and uncertainty from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Nam H. Chu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Diep N. Nguyen , Nguyen Van Huynh , Eryk Dutkiewicz

Quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed in complex missions that demand reliable autonomous navigation and robust obstacle avoidance. However, traditional modular pipelines often incur cumulative latency, whereas…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jiarui Zhang , Chengyong Lei , Chengjiang Dai , Lijie Wang , Zhichao Han , Fei Gao

This paper presents a real-time trajectory planning framework for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) that is both safe and scalable. The proposed framework employs a decentralized, free-flight concept of operation in which each aircraft independently…

The development of the sixth generation (6G) of wireless networks is bound to streamline the transition of computation and learning towards the edge of the network. Hierarchical federated learning (HFL) becomes, therefore, a key paradigm to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Ruslan Zhagypar , Nour Kouzayha , Hesham ElSawy , Hayssam Dahrouj , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

Unmanned Aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used as network processors in mobile networks, but more recently, UAVs have been used in Mobile Edge Computing as mobile servers. However, there are significant challenges to use UAVs in complex…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Huan Chang , Yicheng Chen , Baochang Zhang , David Doermann

Federated learning (FL) has gained popularity as a privacy-preserving method of training machine learning models on decentralized networks. However to ensure reliable operation of UAV-assisted FL systems, issues like as excessive energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Md Bokhtiar Al Zami , Md Raihan Uddin , Dinh C. Nguyen

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs) are attaining more and more maneuverability and sensory ability as a promising teleoperation platform for intelligent interaction with the environments. This work presents a novel 5-degree-of-freedom (DoF)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Caiwu Ding , Hongwu Peng , Lu Lu , Caiwen Ding

Unlike traditional multi-agent coordination frameworks, which assume a fixed number of agents, UAS traffic management (UTM) requires a platform that enables Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) to freely enter or exit constrained low-altitude…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Muhammad Junayed Hasan Zahed , Hossein Rastgoftar

We study the multi-agent safe control problem where agents should avoid collisions to static obstacles and collisions with each other while reaching their goals. Our core idea is to learn the multi-agent control policy jointly with learning…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Zengyi Qin , Kaiqing Zhang , Yuxiao Chen , Jingkai Chen , Chuchu Fan

Ensuring safe separation between aircraft is a critical challenge in air traffic management, particularly in urban air mobility (UAM) environments where high traffic density and low altitudes require precise control. In these environments,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Surya Murthy , Tyler Ingebrand , Sophia Smith , Ufuk Topcu , Peng Wei , Natasha Neogi