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This paper addresses the problem of real-time vision-based autonomous obstacle avoidance in unstructured environments for quadrotor UAVs. We assume that our UAV is equipped with a forward facing stereo camera as the only sensor to perceive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Shakeeb Ahmad , Rafael Fierro

Path planning methods for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are typically designed for one specific type of mission. This work presents a method for autonomous UAV path planning based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) that can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Mirco Theile , Harald Bayerlein , Richard Nai , David Gesbert , Marco Caccamo

This paper proposes a path planning algorithm for multi-agent unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) to autonomously cover a search area, while considering obstacle avoidance, as well as the capabilities and energy consumption of the employed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-07 Sebastian Gasche , Christian Kallies , Andreas Himmel , Rolf Findeisen

An important focus of current research in the field of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) is to increase the safety of their operation in general unstructured environments. Especially indoors, where GPS cannot be used for localization, reliable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-12 T. Holzmann , R. Prettenthaler , J. Pestana , D. Muschick , G. Graber , C. Mostegel , F. Fraundorfer , H. Bischof

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

Localization is one of the most crucial tasks for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle systems (UAVs) directly impacting overall performance, which can be achieved with various sensors and applied to numerous tasks related to search and rescue…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Thanh Nguyen Canh , Huy-Hoang Ngo , Xiem HoangVan , Nak Young Chong

In this paper, we investigate joint 3-dimensional (3D) trajectory planning and resource allocation for rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensing. To support emerging real-time SAR applications and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Mohamed-Amine Lahmeri , Walid R. Ghanem , Christina Bonfert , Robert Schober

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an integral part of wireless networks, and determining collision-free trajectory in multi-UAV non-cooperative scenarios while collecting data from distributed Internet of Things (IoT) nodes…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu

Path Planning methods for autonomously controlling swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are gaining momentum due to their operational advantages. An increasing number of scenarios now require autonomous control of multiple UAVs, as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Alejandro Puente-Castro , Enrique Fernandez-Blanco , Daniel Rivero

Autonomous uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be utilized as aerial relays to serve users far from terrestrial infrastructure. Unfortunately, existing algorithms for aerial relay path planning cannot accommodate general flight constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Pham Q. Viet , Daniel Romero

In this paper, we present a real-time approach to local trajectory replanning for microaerial vehicles (MAVs). Current trajectory generation methods for multicopters achieve high success rates in cluttered environments, but assume that the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Vladyslav Usenko , Lukas von Stumberg , Andrej Pangercic , Daniel Cremers

To improve safety and energy efficiency, autonomous vehicles are expected to drive smoothly in most situations, while maintaining their velocity below a predetermined speed limit. However, some scenarios such as low road adherence or…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Florent Altché , Philip Polack , Arnaud de la Fortelle

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer a promising solution for enhancing wireless connectivity and Quality of Service (QoS) in urban environments, acting as aerial Wi-Fi access points or cellular base stations. Their flexibility and rapid…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Kamran Shafafi , Manuel Ricardo , Rui Campos

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) represent a new frontier in a wide range of monitoring and research applications. To fully leverage their potential, a key challenge is planning missions for efficient data acquisition in complex…

Tunnel construction using the drill-and-blast method requires the 3D measurement of the excavation front to evaluate underbreak locations. Considering the inspection and measurement task's safety, cost, and efficiency, deploying lightweight…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Zhefan Xu , Baihan Chen , Xiaoyang Zhan , Yumeng Xiu , Christopher Suzuki , Kenji Shimada

In this paper, a real-time quasi-optimal trajectory planning scheme is employed to guide an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) safely into a funnel-shape stationary docking station. By taking advantage of the direct method of calculus of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Amir Mehdi Yazdani , Karl Sammut , Andrew Lammas , Youhong Tang

In this paper, we propose a framework for fast trajectory planning for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Our framework is reformulated from an existing bilevel optimization, in which the lower-level problem solves for the optimal trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Qianzhong Chen , Sheng Cheng , Naira Hovakimyan

The growing demand for drone navigation in urban and restricted airspaces requires real-time path planning that is both safe and scalable. Classical methods often struggle with the computational load of high-dimensional optimization under…

Autonomous navigation through unknown environments is a challenging task that entails real-time localization, perception, planning, and control. UAVs with this capability have begun to emerge in the literature with advances in lightweight…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Jesus Tordesillas , Brett T. Lopez , John Carter , John Ware , Jonathan P. How

High-speed obstacle avoidance of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) in cluttered environments is a significant challenge. Existing UAV planning and obstacle avoidance systems can only fly at moderate speeds or at high speeds over empty or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Minghao Lu , Xiyu Fan , Bowen Xu , Zexuan Yan , Rui Peng , Han Chen , Lixian Zhang , Peng Lu