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Current state of the art in the field of UAV activation relies solely on human operators for the design and adaptation of the drones' flying routes. Furthermore, this is being done today on an individual level (one vehicle per operators),…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Yaniv Altshuler , Alex Pentland , Shlomo Bekhor , Yoram Shiftan , Alfred Bruckstein

Up until now, path planning for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has mainly been focused on the optimisation towards energy efficiency. However, to operate UAVs safely, wireless coverage is of utmost importance. Currently, deployed cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-09 Sibren De Bast , Evgenii Vingradov , Sofie Pollin

Efficient data collection methods play a major role in helping us better understand the Earth and its ecosystems. In many applications, the usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for monitoring and remote sensing is rapidly gaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Felix Stache , Jonas Westheider , Federico Magistri , Cyrill Stachniss , Marija Popović

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have played an increasingly important role in military operations and social life. Among all application scenarios, multi-target tracking tasks accomplished by UAV swarms have received extensive attention.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-18 Ziang Wang , Lei Wang , Qi Yi , Yimin Liu

The recent progress in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) technology has significantly advanced UAV-based applications for military, civil, and commercial domains. Nevertheless, the challenges of establishing high-speed communication links,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-03 Shumaila Javaid , Nasir Saeed , Zakria Qadir , Hamza Fahim , Bin He , Houbing Song , Muhammad Bilal

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

This letter investigates the transmit power and trajectory optimization problem for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided networks. Different from majority of the existing studies with fixed communication infrastructure, a dynamic scenario is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-17 Haichao Wang , Guochun Ren , Jin Chen , Guoru Ding , Yijun Yang

UAVs are becoming popular in agriculture, however, they usually use time-consuming row-by-row flight paths. This paper presents a deep-reinforcement-learning-based approach for path planning to efficiently localize weeds in agricultural…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Rick van Essen , Eldert van Henten , Gert Kootstra

One of the most critical features for the successful operation of autonomous UAVs is the ability to make decisions based on the information acquired from their surroundings. Each UAV must be able to make decisions during the flight in order…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Kelen C. Teixeira Vivaldini , Robert Pěnička , Martin Saska

In this paper, we address the problem of adaptive path planning for accurate semantic segmentation of terrain using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The usage of UAVs for terrain monitoring and remote sensing is rapidly gaining momentum due…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Felix Stache , Jonas Westheider , Federico Magistri , Marija Popović , Cyrill Stachniss

Nowadays, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly utilized in search and rescue missions, a trend driven by technological advancements, including enhancements in automation, avionics, and the reduced cost of electronics. In this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-28 Andreas Anastasiou , Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios , Christos G. Panayiotou

A swarm of cooperating UAVs communicating with a distant multiantenna ground station can leverage MIMO spatial multiplexing to scale the capacity. Due to the line-of-sight propagation between the swarm and the ground station, the MIMO…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-30 Samer Hanna , Enes Krijestorac , Danijela Cabric

Path planning methods for the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in goods delivery have drawn great attention from industry and academics because of its flexibility which is suitable for many situations in the "Last Kilometer" between customer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Linfei Feng

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can serve as aerial base stations (BSs) to extend the ubiquitous connectivity for ground users (GUs) in the sixth-generation (6G) era. However, it is challenging to cooperatively deploy multiple UAV swarms in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Ziye Jia , Jia He , Lijun He , Min Sheng , Junyu Liu , Qihui Wu , Zhu Han

The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) path planning problem is a complex optimization problem in the field of robotics. In this paper, we investigate the possible utilization of this problem in benchmarking global optimization methods. We…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Mhd Ali Shehadeh , Jakub Kudela

We consider a single Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) routing problem where there are multiple depots and the vehicle is allowed to refuel at any depot. The objective of the problem is to find a path for the UAV such that each target is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-03 Kaarthik Sundar , Sivakumar Rathinam

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

Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used for exploration-driven monitoring in hazardous environments such as disaster zones, contaminated sites, wildfire areas, and damaged infrastructure, where limited flight endurance must be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jimin Choi , Grant Stagg , Cameron K. Peterson , Max Z. Li

Harvesting data from distributed Internet of Things (IoT) devices with multiple autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a challenging problem requiring flexible path planning methods. We propose a multi-agent reinforcement learning…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Harald Bayerlein , Mirco Theile , Marco Caccamo , David Gesbert

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms must exploit machine learning (ML) in order to execute various tasks ranging from coordinated trajectory planning to cooperative target recognition. However, due to the lack of continuous connections…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Tengchan Zeng , Omid Semiari , Mohammad Mozaffari , Mingzhe Chen , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis