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Accurate localization of maritime targets by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) remains challenging in GPS-denied environments. UAVs equipped with gimballed electro-optical sensors are typically used to localize targets, however, reliance on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Alfonso Sciacchitano , Liraz Mudrik , Sean Kragelund , Isaac Kaminer

In modern battlefield scenarios, the reliance on GPS for navigation can be a critical vulnerability. Adversaries often employ tactics to deny or deceive GPS signals, necessitating alternative methods for the localization and navigation of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Ganesh Sapkota , Sanjay Madria

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 knowledge of the movement of animals is important and necessary for ecologists to do further analysis such as exploring the animal migration route. A novel method which is based on the state space modeling has been proposed to track the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-17 Hua Bai

This paper studies the bearing-based simultaneous localization and affine formation tracking (SLAFT) control problem for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In the considered problem, only a small set of UAVs, named leaders, can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Li Huiming , Sun Zhiyong , Chen Hao , Wang Xiangke , Shen Lincheng

Localizing ground devices (GDs) is an important requirement for a wide variety of applications, such as infrastructure monitoring, precision agriculture, search and rescue operations, to name a few. To this end, unmanned aerial vehicles…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-17 Francesco Betti Sorbelli , Cristina M. Pinotti , Simone Silvestri , Sajal K. Das

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are transforming infrastructure inspections in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Facility Management (AEC+FM) domain. By synthesizing insights from over 150 studies, this review paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Amir Farzin Nikkhah , Dong Chen , Bradford Campbell , Somayeh Asadi , Arsalan Heydarian

Ubiquitous positioning for pedestrian in adverse environment has served a long standing challenge. Despite dramatic progress made by Deep Learning, multi-sensor deep odometry systems yet pose a high computational cost and suffer from…

Navigation of UAVs in unknown environments with obstacles is essential for applications in disaster response and infrastructure monitoring. However, existing obstacle avoidance algorithms, such as Artificial Potential Field (APF) are unable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Shahid Mohammad Mulla , Aryan Kanakapudi , Lakshmi Narasimhan , Anuj Tiwari

With the increasing prevalence of drones in various industries, the navigation and tracking of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in challenging environments, particularly GNSS-denied areas, have become crucial concerns. To address this need,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Iacopo Catalano , Xianjia Yu , Jorge Pena Queralta

LiDAR has become one of the primary sensors in robotics and autonomous system for high-accuracy situational awareness. In recent years, multi-modal LiDAR systems emerged, and among them, LiDAR-as-a-camera sensors provide not only 3D point…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Ha Sier , Xianjia Yu , Iacopo Catalano , Jorge Pena Queralta , Zhuo Zou , Tomi Westerlund

Localization and tracking of a mobile node (MN) in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) scenarios, based on time of arrival (TOA) measurements, is considered in this work. To this end, we develop a constrained form of square root unscented Kalman…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-17 Siamak Yousefi , Xiao-Wen Chang , Benoit Champagne

Recently, passive unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) localization has become popular due to mobility and convenience. In this paper, we consider a scenario of using distributed drone cluster to estimate the position of a passive emitter via…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Xin Cheng , Weiping Shi , Wenlong Cai , Weiqiang Zhu , Tong Shen , Feng Shu , Jiangzhou Wang

The high mobility of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enables them to be used in various civilian fields, such as rescue and cargo transport. Path-following is a crucial way to perform these tasks while sensing and collision avoidance are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Changheng Wang , Zhiqing Wei , Wangjun Jiang , Haoyue Jiang , Zhiyong Feng

This work considers the placement of unmanned aerial vehicle base stations (UAV-BSs) with criterion of minimum UAV-recall-frequency (UAV-RF), indicating the energy efficiency of mobile UAVs networks. Several different power consumptions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Jiaxun Lu , Shuo Wan , Xuhong Chen , Zhengchuan Chen , Pingyi Fan , Khaled B. Letaief

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based base stations offer a promising solution in emergencies where the rapid deployment of cutting-edge networks is crucial for maximizing life-saving potential. Optimizing the strategic positioning of these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Mario Rico Ibanez , Azim Akhtarshenas , David Lopez-Perez , Giovanni Geraci

The development of the low-altitude economy has led to a growing prominence of uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) safety management issues. Therefore, accurate identification, real-time localization, and effective countermeasures have become…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-12 Yi Tao , Zhen Gao , Fangquan Ye , Jingbo Xu , Tao Song , Weidong Li , Yu Su , Lu Peng , Xiaomei Wu , Tong Qin , Zhongxiang Li , Dezhi Zheng

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are emerging as enablers for supporting many applications and services, such as precision agriculture, search and rescue, temporary network deployment or coverage extension, and security. UAVs are being…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Aly Sabri Abdalla , Keith Powell , Vuk Marojevic , Giovanni Geraci

Among algorithms used for sensor fusion for attitude estimation in unmanned aerial vehicles, the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) is the most commonly used for estimation. In this paper, we propose a new version of H2 estimation called extended…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Sunsoo Kim , Vaishnav Tadiparthi , Raktim Bhattacharya

The rise of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations, as well as the vulnerability of the UAVs' sensors, has led to the need for proper monitoring systems for detecting any abnormal behavior of the UAV. This work addresses this problem by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-18 Antreas Palamas , Nicolas Souli , Tania Panayiotou , Panayiotis Kolios , Georgios Ellinas