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Multiple fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (multi-UAVs) encounter significant challenges in cooperative path following over complex Digital Elevation Model (DEM) low-altitude airspace, including wind field disturbances, sudden obstacles,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Zimao Sheng , Zirui Yu , Hong'an Yang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)-enabled aerial communication provides a flexible, reliable, and cost-effective solution for a range of wireless applications. However, due to the high line-of-sight (LoS) probability, aerial communications…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Jiahui Li , Geng Sun , Qingqing Wu , Shuang Liang , Pengfei Wang , Dusit Niyato

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are now becoming increasingly accessible to amateur and com-mercial users alike. Several types of airspace structures are proposed in recent research, which include several structured free flight concepts. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Rao Fu , Quan Quan , Mengxin Li , Kai-Yuan Cai

Distributed optimization offers a promising paradigm for trajectory planning in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms, yet its deployment in communication-constrained environments remains challenging due to unreliable links and limited data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yue Yu , Xiaobo Zheng , Shaoming He

This article considers a cooperative vehicle routing problem for an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance mission in the presence of communication constraints between the vehicles. The proposed framework uses a ground vehicle and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Satyanarayana G. Manyam , Kaarthik Sundar , David W. Casbeer

In this paper, we investigate the joint resource allocation and trajectory design for a multi-user, multi-target unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where the link capacity between a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Ata Khalili , Atefeh Rezaei , Dongfang Xu , Falko Dressler , Robert Schober

Aerial networks, composed of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) acting as Wi-Fi access points or cellular base stations, are emerging as an interesting solution to provide on-demand wireless connectivity to users, when there is no network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Eduardo Nuno Almeida , André Coelho , José Ruela , Rui Campos , Manuel Ricardo

One of the most critical applications undertaken by coalitions of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) is reaching predefined targets by following the most time-efficient routes while avoiding collisions.…

In this paper, we propose an efficient transmission scheme for autonomous cooperative Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) based multi-hop Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) relay networks. These systems often suffer from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Noura Sellami , Mohamed Siala

Cooperative control of multi-UAV systems has attracted substantial research attention due to its significance in various application sectors such as emergency response, search and rescue missions, and critical infrastructure inspection.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Angelos Zacharia , Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios , Christos Panayiotou

In this paper, we consider a cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with an information collection and transmission mission for multiple ground targets. Specifically, the UAV is required to collect a fixed amount of information of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Xianzhen Guo , Shuowen Zhang , Liang Liu

Due to the advantages of flexible deployment and extensive coverage, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have great potential for sensing applications in the next generation of cellular networks, which will give rise to a cellular Internet of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-29 Jingzhi Hu , Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

This paper presents a scalable acoustic navigation approach for the unified command, control and coordination of multiple autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). Existing multi-AUV operations typically achieve coordination manually, by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Nicholas R. Rypkema , Henrik Schmidt , Erin M. Fischell

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications have been widely accepted as promising technologies to support air-to-ground communications in the forthcoming sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. This paper proposes a novel air-to-ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Xiao Fan , Peiran Wu , Minghua Xia

By exploiting the degree of freedom on the altitude, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication can provide ubiquitous communication for future wireless networks. In the case of concurrent transmission of multiple UAVs, the directional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Weihao Wang , Zesong Fei , Jing Guo , Salman Durrani , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided terrestrial cellular networks is being considered as one of the disruptive technologies that can address the beyond 5G (B5G)/6G requirements. With mobile UAVs, since locations of the serving UAVs and the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Mohammad Salehi , Ekram Hossain

We propose a design that uses the principle of chaos for UAV secure communication. A UAV identified as an aerial base station communicates with a ground base station over an RF channel. The communication units have dynamics based on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Christian Nwachioma , Martins Ezuma , Olusiji . O. Medaiyese

Over the air computation (AirComp) is a promising technique that addresses big data collection and fast wireless data aggregation. However, in a network where wireless communication and AirComp coexist, mutual interference becomes a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Xunqiang Lan , Xiao Tang , Ruonan Zhang , Bin Li , Yichen Wang , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

This paper proposes a real-time movement control algorithm for massive unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that provide emergency cellular connections in an urban disaster site. While avoiding the inter-UAV collision under temporal wind…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Hyesung Kim , Jihong Park , Mehdi Bennis , Seong-Lyun Kim

Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) rely on wireless communication to exchange state information for distributed control, making communication delays a critical factor that can affect vehicle motion and degrade control performance,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Chen Huang , Ronghui Hou