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With the increasing development of intelligent transportation systems and advancements in aviation technology, the concept of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) is gaining attention. This study aims to improve operational safety and service…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-13 Jin Zhang , Xiaoran Qin , Ming Zhang

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for different applications has increased many folds in recent years. The UAVs are expected to change the future air operations. However, there are instances where the UAVs can be used for malicious…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-21 Wahab Khawaja , Martins Ezuma , Vasilii Semkin , Fatih Erden , Ozgur Ozdemir , Ismail Guvenc

The United Nations has long put on the discussion agenda the sustainability challenges of ur- banization, which have both direct and indirect effects on future regulation strategies. Undoubtedly, most initiatives target better quality of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-03 Árpád Takács , Tamás Haidegger

There has been a rapid growth in the deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in various applications ranging from vital safety-of-life such as surveillance and reconnaissance at nuclear power plants to entertainment and hobby…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Alireza Famili , Angelos Stavrou , Haining Wang , Jung-Min , Park , Ryan Gerdes

In this paper, a software-based simulator for the deployment of base station-equipped unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a cellular network is proposed. To this end, the Google Earth Engine platform and its included image processing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Aaron French , Mohammad Mozaffari , Abdelrahman Eldosouky , Walid Saad

Unplanned extubation (UE) remains a critical patient safety concern in intensive care units (ICUs), often leading to severe complications or death. Real-time UE detection has been limited, largely due to the ethical and privacy challenges…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Junhyuk Seo , Hyeyoon Moon , Kyu-Hwan Jung , Namkee Oh , Taerim Kim

CCTV-based surveillance using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is considered a key technology for security in smart city environments. This paper creates a case where the UAVs with CCTV-cameras fly over the city area for flexible and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Won Joon Yun , Soohyun Park , Joongheon Kim , MyungJae Shin , Soyi Jung , David A. Mohaisen , Jae-Hyun Kim

The rapid growth of the low-altitude economy (LAE) is making aerial systems an important part of future digital infrastructure. Although major advances have been achieved in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platforms, communications, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Xue Zhang , Bang Huang , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been increasingly utilized in various civilian and military applications such as remote sensing, border patrolling, disaster monitoring, and communication coverage extension. However, there are still…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-20 Mahsa Keshavarz , Alireza Shamsoshoara , Fatemeh Afghah , Jonathan Ashdown

Long range (LoRa) wireless networks have been widely proposed as a efficient wireless access networks for the battery-constrained Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In many practical search-and-rescue (SAR) operations, one challenging…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Mehdi Naderi Soorki , Hossein Aghajari , Sajad Ahmadinabi , Hamed Bakhtiari Babadegani , Christina Chaccour , Walid Saad

While Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed in several missions, their inability of reliable and consistent autonomous landing poses a major setback for deploying such systems truly autonomously. In this paper we present…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Michalis Piponidis , Panayiotis Aristodemou , Theocharis Theocharides

Advances in machine learning (ML) open the way to innovating functions in the avionic domain, such as navigation/surveillance assistance (e.g. vision-based navigation, obstacle sensing, virtual sensing), speechto-text applications,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Guillaume Vidot , Christophe Gabreau , Ileana Ober , Iulian Ober

In recent years, with the increasing maturity of UAV technology, the application of UAV in the civilian field has seen explosive growth due to their low cost, high flexibility, and wide adaptability. In order to address the drawbacks of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Yexin Pan , Yong Xu , Bo Ma , Chuanhuang Li

The exceptional progress in the field of machine learning (ML) in recent years has attracted a lot of interest in using this technology in aviation. Possible airborne applications of ML include safety-critical functions, which must be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-29 K. Dmitriev , J. Schumann , F. Holzapfel

As urban air mobility (UAM) emerges as a transformative solution to urban transportation, the demand for robust communication frameworks capable of supporting high-density aerial traffic becomes increasingly critical. An essential area of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-01 Abdullah Abu Zaid , Baha Eddine Youcef Belmekki , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In emergency search and rescue scenarios, the quick location of trapped people is essential. However, disasters can render the Global Positioning System (GPS) unusable. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with localization devices can serve as…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Zhihao Zhu , Jiafan He , Luyang Hou , Lianming Xu , Wendi Zhu , Li Wang

There is a great demand for vision-based robotics solutions that can operate using Global Positioning Systems (GPS), but are also robust against GPS signal loss and gyroscope failure. This paper investigates the estimation and tracking…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-28 Hashim A. Hashim

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer a promising solution for enhancing wireless connectivity and Quality of Service (QoS) in urban environments, acting as aerial Wi-Fi access points or cellular base stations. Their flexibility and rapid…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Kamran Shafafi , Manuel Ricardo , Rui Campos

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely applied in civil applications, such as disaster relief, agriculture and cargo transportation, etc. With the massive number of UAV flight activities, the anti-collision technologies aiming to avoid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Zhiqing Wei , Zeyang Meng , Meichen Lai , Huici Wu , Jiarong Han , Zhiyong Feng

Challenges related to automated driving are no longer focused on just the construction of such automated vehicles (AVs), but in assuring the safety of their operation. Recent advances in Level 3 and Level 4 autonomous driving have motivated…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-09 Tong Zhao , Ekim Yurtsever , Joel Paulson , Giorgio Rizzoni