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We propose a novel Energy-Predictive Drone Service (EPDS) framework for efficient package delivery within a skyway network. The EPDS framework incorporates a formal modeling of an EPDS and an adaptive bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Guanting Ren , Babar Shahzaad , Balsam Alkouz , Abdallah Lakhdari , Athman Bouguettaya

We introduce Crocoddyl (Contact RObot COntrol by Differential DYnamic Library), an open-source framework tailored for efficient multi-contact optimal control. Crocoddyl efficiently computes the state trajectory and the control policy for a…

Real-time vehicle dispatching operations in traditional car-sharing systems is an already computationally challenging scheduling problem. Electrification only exacerbates the computational difficulties as charge level constraints come into…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Li Li , Theodoros Pantelidis , Joseph Y. J. Chow , Saif Eddin Jabari

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have drastically gained popularity in various Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) applications to improve the safety and efficiency of transportation systems. In this context, the combination of ground…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Manuel Patchou , Benjamin Sliwa , Christian Wietfeld

Autonomous aerial delivery vehicles have gained significant interest in the last decade. This has been enabled by technological advancements in aerial manipulators and novel grippers with enhanced force to weight ratios. Furthermore,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Jack Saunders , Sajad Saeedi , Wenbin Li

To accomplish various tasks, safe and smooth control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) needs to be guaranteed, which cannot be met by existing ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC). This has attracted the attention of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Wenchao Wu , Yanning Wu , Yuanqing Yang , Yansha Deng

The conditional diffusion model has been demonstrated as an efficient tool for learning robot policies, owing to its advancement to accurately model the conditional distribution of policies. The intricate nature of real-world scenarios,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Wenhao Yu , Jie Peng , Huanyu Yang , Junrui Zhang , Yifan Duan , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang

Drone networks are becoming increasingly popular in recent years and they are being used in many applications such as area coverage, delivery systems, military operations, etc. Area coverage is a broad family of applications where a group…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Mustafa Tosun , Umut Can Cabuk , Vahid Khalilpour Akram , Orhan Dagdeviren

Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) has been proposed as a new architecture to provide efficient store-carry-and-forward data transport in satellite networks. Since these networks relay on scheduled contact plans, the Contact Graph Routing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Pablo G. Madoery , Gunes Karabulut Kurt , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Peng Hu , Khaled Ahmed , Guillaume Lamontagne

Arc-routing problems underpin numerous critical field operations, including power-line inspection, urban police patrolling, and traffic monitoring. In this domain, the Rural Postman Problem (RPP) is a fundamental variant in which a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Abhay Sobhanan , Hadi Charkhgard , Changhyun Kwon

The continuous innovation of smart robotic technologies is driving the development of smart orchards, significantly enhancing the potential for automated harvesting systems. While multi-robot systems offer promising solutions to address…

Autonomous agents are limited in their ability to observe the world state. Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) formally model the problem of planning under world state uncertainty, but POMDPs with continuous actions and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Dicong Qiu , Yibiao Zhao , Chris L. Baker

Autonomous driving is reshaping the way humans travel, with millimeter wave (mmWave) radar playing a crucial role in this transformation to enabe vehicle-to-everything (V2X). Although chirp is widely used in mmWave radar systems for its…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 Zhuoran Li , Shufeng Tan , Zhen Gao , Yi Tao , Zhonghuai Wu , Zhongxiang Li , Chun Hu , Dezhi Zheng

This paper presents a new framework to use images as the inputs for the controller to have autonomous flight, considering the noisy indoor environment and uncertainties. A new Proportional-Integral-Derivative-Accelerated (PIDA) control with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Seid Miad Zandavi , Vera Chung , Ali Anaissi

Future unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) will be shared by multiple users and will have to operate in conditions where their fully-autonomous function is required. Calculation of a drones trajectory will be important but optimal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-09 Vasileios Tsoutsouras , Joseph Story , Phillip Stanley-Marbell

Since the packet is transmitted to a set of relaying nodes in opportunistic routing strategy, so the transmission delay and the duplication transmission are serious. For reducing the transmission delay and the duplicate transmission, in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Ning Li , Jose-Fernan Martinez-Ortega , Vicente Hernandez Diaz

For combinatorial optimization problems, model-based paradigms such as mixed-integer programming (MIP) and constraint programming (CP) aim to decouple modeling and solving a problem: the `holy grail' of declarative problem solving. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ryo Kuroiwa , J. Christopher Beck

For combinatorial optimization problems, model-based approaches such as mixed-integer programming (MIP) and constraint programming (CP) aim to decouple modeling and solving a problem: the 'holy grail' of declarative problem solving. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Ryo Kuroiwa , J. Christopher Beck

The design and control of winged aircraft and drones is an iterative process aimed at identifying a compromise of mission-specific costs and constraints. When agility is required, shape-shifting (morphing) drones represent an efficient…

The Dynamic Pickup and Delivery Problem (DPDP) is an essential problem within the logistics domain. So far, research on this problem has mainly focused on using artificial data which fails to reflect the complexity of real-world problems.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Jianye Hao , Jiawen Lu , Xijun Li , Xialiang Tong , Xiang Xiang , Mingxuan Yuan , Hankz Hankui Zhuo