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Urban air mobility is the new mode of transportation aiming to provide a fast and secure way of travel by utilizing the low-altitude airspace. This goal cannot be achieved without the implementation of new flight regulations which can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Asal Mehditabrizi , Mahdi Samadzad , Sina Sabzekar

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) related technology has expanded knowledge in the area, bringing to light new problems and challenges that require solutions. Furthermore, because the technology allows processes usually carried…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Cristian Millán-Arias , Ruben Contreras , Francisco Cruz , Bruno Fernandes

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network is popular these years due to its various applications. In the UAV network, routing is significantly affected by the distributed network topology, leading to the issue that UAVs are vulnerable to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Sijie He , Ziye Jia , Chao Dong , Wei Wang , Yilu Cao , Yang Yang , Qihui Wu

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communication technology is regarded as an efficient and effective solution for some special application scenarios where existing terrestrial infrastructures are overloaded to provide reliable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Jinjing Wang , Xindi Wang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are being employed in many areas such as photography, emergency, entertainment, defence, agriculture, forestry, mining and construction. Over the last decade, UAV technology has found applications in numerous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-30 L. V. Nguyen , I. Torres Herrera , T. H. Le , M. D. Phung , R. P. Aguilera , Q. P. Ha

In this paper, we tackle the problem of Unmanned Aerial (UA V) path planning in complex and uncertain environments by designing a Model Predictive Control (MPC), based on a Long-Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network integrated into the Deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Mahya Ramezani , Hamed Habibi , Jose luis Sanchez Lopez , Holger Voos

Multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play a vital role in monitoring and data collection in wide area environments with harsh conditions. In most scenarios, issues such as real-time data retrieval and real-time UAV positioning are often…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Ming He , Peizhao Wang , Haihua Chen , Bin Sun , Hongpeng Wang

Aerial robots are increasingly being utilized for environmental monitoring and exploration. However, a key challenge is efficiently planning paths to maximize the information value of acquired data as an initially unknown environment is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Julius Rückin , Liren Jin , Marija Popović

This paper introduces the deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as lightweight wireless access points that leverage the fixed infrastructure in the context of the emerging open radio access network (O-RAN). More precisely, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Hossein Mohammadi , Vuk Marojevic , Bodong Shang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly essential in various fields such as surveillance, reconnaissance, and telecommunications. This study aims to develop a learning algorithm for the path planning of UAV wireless communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Joseanne Viana , Boris Galkin , Lester Ho , Holger Claussen

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become increasingly popular in various fields, including precision agriculture, search and rescue, and remote sensing. However, exploring unknown environments remains a significant challenge. This study…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Ali Moltajaei Farid , Jafar Roshanian , Malek Mouhoub

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided mobile edge computing (MEC) framework is proposed, where several UAVs having different trajectories fly over the target area and support the user equipments (UEs) on the ground. We aim to jointly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-24 Liang Wang , Kezhi Wang , Cunhua Pan , Wei Xu , Nauman Aslam , Lajos Hanzo

Traditional methods plan feasible paths for multiple agents in the stochastic environment. However, the methods' iterations with the changes in the environment result in computation complexities, especially for the decentralized agents…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Qizhen Wu , Kexin Liu , Lei Chen , Jinhu Lü

Over the past few years, the use of swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in monitoring and remote area surveillance applications has become widespread thanks to the price reduction and the increased capabilities of drones. The drones…

Reinforcement learning (RL) has been a promising essence in future 5G-beyond and 6G systems. Its main advantage lies in its robust model-free decision-making in complex and large-dimension wireless environments. However, most existing RL…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Eslam Eldeeb , Hirley Alves

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based networks and Internet of Things (IoT) are being considered as integral components of current and next-generation wireless networks. In particular, UAVs can provide IoT devices with seamless connectivity…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy

This paper addresses the joint optimization of trajectories and bandwidth allocation for multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to enhance energy efficiency in the cooperative data collection problem. We focus on an important yet…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Cuong Le , Symeon Chatzinotas , Thang X. Vu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an integral part of wireless networks, and determining collision-free trajectory in multi-UAV non-cooperative scenarios while collecting data from distributed Internet of Things (IoT) nodes…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu

The demand is to solve the issue of UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) operating autonomously and implementing practical functions such as search and rescue in complex unknown environments. This paper proposes an autonomous search and rescue UAV…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Haobin Chen , Junyu Tao , Bize Zhou , Xiaoyan Liu

Recent technological progress in the development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) together with decreasing acquisition costs make the application of drone fleets attractive for a wide variety of tasks. In agriculture, disaster management,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Yoav Alon , Huiyu Zhou