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UAVs are increasingly appearing in swarms or formations to leverage cooperative behavior, forming flying ad hoc networks. These UAV-enabled networks can meet several complex mission requirements and are seen as a potential enabler for many…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Martin Andreoni Lopez , Michael Baddeley , Willian T. Lunardi , Anshul Pandey , Jean-Pierre Giacalone

The decreased size and cost of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) has enabled the use of swarms of unmanned autonomous vehicles to accomplish a variety of tasks. By utilizing swarming behaviors, it is…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Shaya Wolf , Rafer Cooley , Mike Borowczak

In this paper, a hierarchical multi-UAV simulation platform,called XTDrone, is designed for UAV swarms, which is completely open-source 4 . There are six layers in XTDrone: communication, simulator,low-level control, high-level control,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-31 Kun Xiao , Lan Ma , Shaochang Tan , Yirui Cong , Xiangke Wang

Swarm perception refers to the ability of a robot swarm to utilize the perception capabilities of each individual robot, forming a collective understanding of the environment. Their distributed nature enables robot swarms to continuously…

Detecting spoofing attacks on the positions of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) within a swarm is challenging. Traditional methods relying solely on individually reported positions and pairwise distance measurements are ineffective in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-08 Siguo Bi , Kai Li , Shuyan Hu , Wei Ni , Cong Wang , Xin Wang

As software becomes more complex and assumes an even greater role in our lives, formal verification is set to become the gold standard in securing software systems into the future, since it can guarantee the absence of errors and entire…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Carolina Carreira , João F. Ferreira , Alexandra Mendes , Nicolas Christin

Drones or unmanned aerial vehicles are traditionally used for military missions, warfare, and espionage. However, the usage of drones has significantly increased due to multiple industrial applications involving security and inspection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Purbaditya Bhattacharya , Patrick Nowak

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can be used to provide wireless connectivity to support the existing infrastructure in hot-spots or replace it in cases of destruction. UAV-enabled wireless provides several advantages in network performance…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Salim Janji , Adrian Kliks

Due to the limitation of the drone's load capacity, various specific tasks need to be accomplished by multiple drones in collaboration. In some transportation tasks, two drones are required to lift the load together, which brings even more…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Peng Zhang , Yongchun Fang , Xiao Liang , He Lin , Wei He

Swarm protocols are a recently introduced formalism for specifying, implementing, and verifying peer-to-peer systems called swarms. A swarm consists of distributed agents called machines that communicate by asynchronous event propagation.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Florian Furbach , Lucas Clorius , Roland Kuhn , Hernán Melgratti , Alceste Scalas , Emilio Tuosto

To promote the developments of object detection, tracking and counting algorithms in drone-captured videos, we construct a benchmark with a new drone-captured largescale dataset, named as DroneCrowd, formed by 112 video clips with 33,600 HD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Longyin Wen , Dawei Du , Pengfei Zhu , Qinghua Hu , Qilong Wang , Liefeng Bo , Siwei Lyu

We propose a novel human-swarm interaction system, allowing the user to directly control a swarm of drones in a complex environment through trajectory drawing with a hand gesture interface based on the DNN-based gesture recognition. The…

In the past two decades, the number of mobile products being created by companies has grown exponentially. However, although these devices are constantly being upgraded with the newest features, the security measures used to protect these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Laura Pryor , Rushit Dave , Naeem Seliya , Evelyn R Sowells Boone

The emerging, practical and observed issue of how to detect rogue drones that carry terrestrial user equipment (UEs) on mobile networks is addressed in this paper. This issue has drawn much attention since the rogue drones may generate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Henrik Rydén , Sakib Bin Redhwan , Xingqin Lin

Uncontrolled emissions of gases from industrial accidents and disasters result in huge loss of life and property. Such extreme events require a quick and reliable survey of the site for effective rescue strategy planning. To achieve these…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Maryam Khalid , Edward W. Knightly

Drone light shows (DLShows) represent a rapidly growing application of swarm robotics, creating captivating aerial displays through the synchronized flight of hundreds or thousands of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as environmentally…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yunes Alqudsi

As drones become increasingly prevalent in human life, they also raises security concerns such as unauthorized access and control, as well as collisions and interference with manned aircraft. Therefore, ensuring the ability to accurately…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Zixiao Zhao , Qinghe Du , Xiang Yao , Lei Lu , Shijiao Zhang

Aerial drones are becoming an integral part of application domains including but not limited to, military operations, package delivery, construction, monitoring and search/rescue operations. It is critical to ensure the cyber security of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Muslum Ozgur Ozmen , Attila A. Yavuz

Industrial automation has created a high demand for private 5G networks, the deployment of which calls for an efficient and reliable solution to ensure strict compliance with the regulatory emission limits. While traditional methods for…

Coordinated flight of multiple drones allows to achieve tasks faster such as search and rescue and infrastructure inspection. Thus, pushing the state-of-the-art of aerial swarms in navigation speed and robustness is of tremendous benefit.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Charbel Toumieh , Dario Floreano