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In this paper, a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) method is proposed to address the problem of UAV navigation in an unknown environment. However, DRL algorithms are limited by the data efficiency problem as they typically require a huge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Lei He , Nabil Aouf , James F. Whidborne , Bifeng Song

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) target tracking based on thermal infrared imaging has been one of the most important sensing technologies in anti-UAV applications. However, the infrared UAV targets often exhibit weak features and complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Houzhang Fang , Chenxing Wu , Kun Bai , Tianqi Chen , Xiaolin Wang , Xiyang Liu , Yi Chang , Luxin Yan

This paper introduces a novel unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) chasing system designed to track and chase unauthorized UAVs, significantly enhancing their neutralization effectiveness.

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-06 Tae-Won Ban , Kyu-Min Kang , Bang Chul Jung

UAV tracking can be widely applied in scenarios such as disaster rescue, environmental monitoring, and logistics transportation. However, existing UAV tracking methods predominantly emphasize speed and lack exploration in semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Xinyu Zhou , Tongxin Pan , Lingyi Hong , Pinxue Guo , Haijing Guo , Zhaoyu Chen , Kaixun Jiang , Wenqiang Zhang

We present a novel approach to online multi-target tracking based on recurrent neural networks (RNNs). Tracking multiple objects in real-world scenes involves many challenges, including a) an a-priori unknown and time-varying number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-08 Anton Milan , Seyed Hamid Rezatofighi , Anthony Dick , Ian Reid , Konrad Schindler

Autonomous driving decision-making is a great challenge due to the complexity and uncertainty of the traffic environment. Combined with the rule-based constraints, a Deep Q-Network (DQN) based method is applied for autonomous driving lane…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Junjie Wang , Qichao Zhang , Dongbin Zhao , Yaran Chen

In this letter, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-mounted mobile edge computing network, where the UAV executes computational tasks offloaded from mobile terminal users (TUs) and the motion of each TU follows a Gauss-Markov random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Q. Liu , L. Shi , L. Sun , J. Li , M. Ding , F. Shu

Intelligent traffic signal controllers, applying DQN algorithms to traffic light policy optimization, efficiently reduce traffic congestion by adjusting traffic signals to real-time traffic. Most propositions in the literature however…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Romain Ducrocq , Nadir Farhi

This research presents a novel active detection model utilizing deep reinforcement learning to accurately detect traffic objects in real-world scenarios. The model employs a deep Q-network based on LSTM-CNN that identifies and aligns target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Xinyu Ren , Ruixuan Wang

Localization of radio frequency (RF) sources has critical applications, including search and rescue, jammer detection, and monitoring of hostile activities. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer significant advantages for RF source…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Saad Masrur , Ismail Guvenc

In recent years, several progressive works promote the development of aerial tracking. One of the representative works is our previous work Fast-tracker which is applicable to various challenging tracking scenarios. However, it suffers from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Neng Pan , Ruibin Zhang , Tiankai Yang , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

Tennis strategy optimization is a challenging sequential decision-making problem involving hierarchical scoring, stochastic outcomes, long-horizon credit assignment, physical fatigue, and adaptation to opponent skill. I present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Vishnu Mohan

Deep Q-Network (DQN) based multi-agent systems (MAS) for reinforcement learning (RL) use various schemes where in the agents have to learn and communicate. The learning is however specific to each agent and communication may be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Abdul Mueed Hafiz , Ghulam Mohiuddin Bhat

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has been successfully used to solve different challenges, e.g. complex board and computer games, recently. However, solving real-world robotics tasks with DRL seems to be a more difficult challenge. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Péter Almási , Róbert Moni , Bálint Gyires-Tóth

From prehistoric encirclement for hunting to GPS orbiting the earth for positioning, target encirclement has numerous real world applications. However, encircling multiple non-cooperative targets in GPS-denied environments remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Fen Liu , Shenghai Yuan , Wei Meng , Rong Su , Lihua Xie

In the application of computer-vision based displacement measurement, an optical target is usually required to prove the reference. In the case that the optical target cannot be attached to the measuring objective, edge detection, feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Dachuan Shi , Eldar Sabanovic , Luca Rizzetto , Viktor Skrickij , Roberto Oliverio , Nadia Kaviani , Yunguang Ye , Gintautas Bureika , Stefano Ricci , Markus Hecht

Most existing deep reinforcement learning (DRL) frameworks consider either discrete action space or continuous action space solely. Motivated by applications in computer games, we consider the scenario with discrete-continuous hybrid action…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Jiechao Xiong , Qing Wang , Zhuoran Yang , Peng Sun , Lei Han , Yang Zheng , Haobo Fu , Tong Zhang , Ji Liu , Han Liu

In this paper, the implementation of two Reinforcement learnings namely, Q Learning and Deep Q Network(DQN) on a Self Balancing Robot Gazebo model has been discussed. The goal of the experiments is to make the robot model learn the best…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-24 MD Muhaimin Rahman , SM Hasanur Rashid , M. M Hossain

Landing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on a ground marker is an open problem despite the effort of the research community. Previous attempts mostly focused on the analysis of hand-crafted geometric features and the use of external sensors…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Riccardo Polvara , Massimiliano Patacchiola , Sanjay Sharma , Jian Wan , Andrew Manning , Robert Sutton , Angelo Cangelosi

This paper addresses the challenging problem of enabling reliable immersive teleoperation in scenarios where an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is remotely controlled by an operator via a cellular network. Such scenarios can be quite critical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Nassim Sehad , Xinyi Tu , Akash Rajasekaran , Hamed Hellaoui , Riku Jäntti , Mérouane Debbah