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This paper investigates an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile-edge computing (MEC) system, in which the UAV provides complementary computation resource to the terrestrial MEC system. The UAV processes the received computation…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Xianfu Chen , Tao Chen , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang , Mehdi Bennis , Yusheng Ji

We present a micro aerial vehicle (MAV) system, built with inexpensive off-the-shelf hardware, for autonomously following trails in unstructured, outdoor environments such as forests. The system introduces a deep neural network (DNN) called…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Nikolai Smolyanskiy , Alexey Kamenev , Jeffrey Smith , Stan Birchfield

In this current technological world, the application of machine learning is becoming ubiquitous. Incorporating machine learning algorithms on extremely low-power and inexpensive embedded devices at the edge level is now possible due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Harsha Yelchuri , Rashmi R

Wireless communication networks have been witnessing an unprecedented demand due to the increasing number of connected devices and emerging bandwidth-hungry applications. Albeit many competent technologies for capacity enhancement purposes,…

This letter introduces an energy-efficient pull-based data collection framework for Internet of Things (IoT) devices that use Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) to interpret data queries. A TinyML model is transmitted from the edge server to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Junya Shiraishi , Mathias Thorsager , Shashi Raj Pandey , Petar Popovski

Today's intelligent applications can achieve high performance accuracy using machine learning (ML) techniques, such as deep neural networks (DNNs). Traditionally, in a remote DNN inference problem, an edge device transmits raw data to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Mounssif Krouka , Anis Elgabli , Chaouki Ben Issaid , Mehdi Bennis

With the exploitation of wind power, more turbines will be deployed at remote areas possibly with harsh working conditions (e.g., offshore wind farm). The adverse working environment may lead to massive operating and maintenance costs of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-24 Hwei-Ming Chung , Sabita Maharjan , Yan Zhang , Frank Eliassen , Tingting Yuan

Extreme edge devices or Internet-of-thing nodes require both ultra-low power always-on processing as well as the ability to do on-demand sampling and processing. Moreover, support for IoT applications like voice recognition, machine…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Vikram Jain , Sebastian Giraldo , Jaro De Roose , Linyan Mei , Bert Boons , Marian Verhelst

Object detection (OD) has become vital for numerous computer vision applications, but deploying it on resource-constrained IoT devices presents a significant challenge. These devices, often powered by energy-efficient microcontrollers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Christophe EL Zeinaty , Wassim Hamidouche , Glenn Herrou , Daniel Menard

Autonomous navigation typically relies on power-intensive processors, limiting accessibility in low-cost robotics. Although microcontrollers offer a resource-efficient alternative, they impose strict constraints on model complexity. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Pooria Roy , Nourhan Jadallah. Tomer Lapid , Shahzaib Ahmad , Armita Afroushe , Mete Bayrak

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

In this paper, we present our proposed approach for active tracking to increase the autonomy of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) using event cameras, low-energy imaging sensors that offer significant advantages in speed and dynamic range.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ala Souissi , Hajer Fradi , Panagiotis Papadakis

Autonomous navigation in unknown complex environment is still a hard problem, especially for small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with limited computation resources. In this paper, a neural network-based reactive controller is proposed for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Lei He , Aouf Nabil , Bifeng Song

In this paper, we study unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) with the objective to optimize computation offloading with minimum UAV energy consumption. In the considered scenario, a UAV plays the role of an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Mushu Li , Nan Cheng , Jie Gao , Yinlu Wang , Lian Zhao , Xuemin , Shen

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) technique has been recognized as a promising solution in future wireless connectivity from the sky, and UAV navigation is one of the most significant open research problems, which has attracted wide interest…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-28 Hongji Huang , Yuchun Yang , Hong Wang , Zhiguo Ding , Hikmet Sari , Fumiyuki Adachi

Edge sensing and computing is rapidly becoming part of intelligent infrastructure architecture leading to operational reliance on such systems in disaster or emergency situations. In such scenarios there is a high chance of power supply…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Talha Azfar , Kaicong Huang , Ruimin Ke

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are envisioned to complement the 5G communication infrastructure in future smart cities. Hot spots easily appear in road intersections, where effective communication among vehicles is challenging. UAVs may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Ming Zhu , Xiao-Yang Liu , Anwar Walid

Edge computing facilitates low-latency services at the network's edge by distributing computation, communication, and storage resources within the geographic proximity of mobile and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. The recent advancement…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Xiaoyu Xia , Sheik Mohammad Mostakim Fattah , Muhammad Ali Babar

With the emergence of diverse mobile applications (such as augmented reality), the quality of experience of mobile users is greatly limited by their computation capacity and finite battery lifetime. Mobile edge computing (MEC) and wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-13 Fuhui Zhou , Yongpeng Wu , Haijian Sun , Zheng Chu

Traditional machine learning models often require powerful hardware, making them unsuitable for deployment on resource-limited devices. Tiny Machine Learning (tinyML) has emerged as a promising approach for running machine learning models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Hasib-Al Rashid , Argho Sarkar , Aryya Gangopadhyay , Maryam Rahnemoonfar , Tinoosh Mohsenin