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Recently, the integration of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and visible light communication (VLC) technologies has emerged as a promising solution to offer flexible communication and efficient lighting. This letter investigates the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Tian-Tian Lin , Yi Liu , Xiao-Wei Tang , Yunmei Shi , Yi Huang , Zhongxiang Wei , Qingqing Wu , Yuhan Dong

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used in automated inspection, delivery, and navigation tasks that require reliable autonomy. This project develops a reinforcement learning (RL) approach to enable a single UAV to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Salim Oyinlola , Nitesh Subedi , Soumik Sarkar

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as an aerial base station is a promising technology to rapidly provide wireless connectivity to ground users. Given UAV's agility and mobility, a key question is how to adapt UAV deployment to best cater to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Zhe Wang , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

Low-altitude uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become integral enablers for the Internet of Things (IoT) by offering enhanced coverage, improved connectivity and access to remote areas. A critical challenge limiting their operational…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Chengzhen Li , Likun Zhang , Chuang Zhang , Jiahui Li , Changyuan Zhao , Ruichen Zhang , Geng Sun

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be applied in many Internet of Things (IoT) systems, e.g., smart farms, as a data collection platform. However, the UAV-IoT wireless channels may be occasionally blocked by trees or high-rise buildings.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Li Dong , Zhibin Liu , Feibo Jiang , Kezhi Wang

In unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted data collection system, UAVs can be deployed to charge ground terminals (GTs) via wireless power transfer (WPT) and collect data from them via wireless information transmission (WIT). In this paper,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Zhen Wang , Guopeng Zhang , Qiu Wang , Kezhi Wang , Kun Yang

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

In this paper, we study the resource allocation and trajectory design for energy-efficient secure unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication systems where a UAV base station serves multiple legitimate ground users in the existence of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Yuanxin Cai , Zhiqiang Wei , Ruide Li , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless powered communication networks (WPCNs) are promising technologies in 5G/6G wireless communications, while there are several challenges about UAV power allocation and scheduling to enhance the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Hongyang Pan , Yanheng Liu , Geng Sun , Junsong Fan , Shuang Liang , Chau Yuen

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

Distributed learning and inference algorithms have become indispensable for IoT systems, offering benefits such as workload alleviation, data privacy preservation, and reduced latency. This paper introduces an innovative approach that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-04 Vukan Ninkovic , Dejan Vukobratovic , Dragisa Miskovic

The choice of the transmitting frequency to provide cellular-connected Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) reliable connectivity and mobility support introduce several challenges. Conventional sub-6 GHz networks are optimized for ground Users…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-30 Gianluca Fontanesi , Anding Zhu , Hamed Ahmadi

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

We propose data-recovery schemes to improve the uplink reliability of Internet of Things (IoT) networks in which a gateway mounted on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) collects data from sensor nodes on the ground. The proposed techniques…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Kushwanth Sistu , Siddhartha S. Borkotoky

Despite the increasing popularity of commercial usage of UAVs or drone-delivered services, their dependence on the limited-capacity on-board batteries hinders their flight-time and mission continuity. As such, developing in-situ power…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Sayed Amir Hoseini , Jahan Hassan , Ayub Bokani , Salil S. Kanhere

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used platforms to carry data capturing sensors for various applications. The reason for this success can be found in many aspects: the high maneuverability of the UAVs, the capability of performing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Mehdi Maboudi , MohammadReza Homaei , Soohwan Song , Shirin Malihi , Mohammad Saadatseresht , Markus Gerke

This paper proposes a UAV-assisted forwarding system based on distributed beamforming to enhance age of information (AoI) in Internet of Things (IoT). Specifically, UAVs collect and relay data between sensor nodes (SNs) and the remote base…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Zifan Lang , Guixia Liu , Geng Sun , Jiahui Li , Zemin Sun , Jiacheng Wang , Victor C. M. Leung

Deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial base stations can deliver a fast and flexible solution for serving varying traffic demand. In order to adequately benefit of UAVs deployment, their efficient placement is of utmost…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-06 Atefeh Hajijamali Arani , M. Mahdi Azari , William Melek , Safieddin Safavi-Naeini

This paper studies real-time trajectory planning and radio resource allocation for a single uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) serving multiple mobile ground users in an urban environment. The downlink system considers heterogeneous user…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Chenrui Qiu , Loizos Kanaris , Yongxu Zhu , Tasos Dagiuklas

In this paper, we study a joint detection, mapping and navigation problem for a single unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with a low complexity radar and flying in an unknown environment. The goal is to optimize its trajectory with the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Anna Guerra , Francesco Guidi , Davide Dardari , Petar M. Djuric