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For autonomous vehicles to operate without human intervention, information sharing from local sensors plays a fundamental role. This can be challenging to handle with bandwidth-constrained communication systems, which calls for the adoption…

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Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) base stations (BSs) are reliable and efficient alternative to full fill the coverage and capacity requirements when the backbone network fails to provide such requirements due to disasters. In this paper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-01 Thushan Sivalingam , K. B. Shashika Manosha , Nandana Rajatheva , M. Latva-aho , Maheshi B. Dissanayake

According to the rapid development of drone technologies, drones are widely used in many applications including military domains. In this paper, a novel situation-aware DRL- based autonomous nonlinear drone mobility control algorithm in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-03 Hyunsoo Lee , Soohyun Park , Won Joon Yun , Soyi Jung , Joongheon Kim

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), an integral part of the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) vision, are capable of performing a wide spectrum of tasks in urban environments. The societal integration of UAS is a pivotal challenge, as these systems…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Zhenyu Gao , John-Paul Clarke , Javid Mardanov , Karen Marais

Autonomous operation of UAVs in a closed environment requires precise and reliable pose estimate that can stabilize the UAV without using external localization systems such as GNSS. In this work, we are concerned with estimating the pose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Matěj Petrl\' ik , Tom\' aš Krajn\' ik , Martin Saska

The agility and versatility offered by UAV platforms still encounter obstacles for full exploitation in industrial applications due to their indoor usage limitations. A significant challenge in this sense is finding a reliable and…

Aerial robots play a vital role in various applications where the situational awareness of the robots concerning the environment is a fundamental demand. As one such use case, drones in GPS-denied environments require equipping with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Ahmed Radwan , Ali Tourani , Hriday Bavle , Holger Voos , Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez

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

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

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is becoming increasingly important in modern civilian and military applications. However, its novel use cases is bottlenecked by conventional satellite and terrestrial localization technologies, and calling for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Bin Han , Hans D. Schotten

The increasing spreading of small commercial Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs, aka drones) presents serious threats for critical areas such as airports, power plants, governmental and military facilities. In fact, such UAVs can easily disturb…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Marco Esposito , Toni Mancini , Enrico Tronci

Safely integrating unmanned aerial vehicles into civil airspace is contingent upon development of a trustworthy collision avoidance system. This paper proposes an approach whereby a parameterized resolution logic that is considered trusted…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Zachary N. Sunberg , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Marco Pavone

In this paper, a combat Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) is modeled in the simulation environment. The rotary wing UAV is successfully performed various tasks such as locking on the targets, tracking, and sharing the relevant data with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-28 A. Huzeyfe Demir , Berke Yavas , Mehmet Yazici , Dogukan Aksu , M. Ali Aydin

Micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) have high potential for information gathering tasks to support situation awareness in search and rescue scenarios. Manually controlling MAVs in such scenarios requires experienced pilots and is error-prone,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Daniel Schleich , Marius Beul , Jan Quenzel , Sven Behnke

Hazardous environments such as chemical spills, radiological zones, and bio-contaminated sites pose significant threats to human safety and public infrastructure. Rapid and reliable hazard mitigation in these settings often unsafe for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Jimin Choi , Max Z. Li

Developing agents capable of navigating to a target location based on language instructions and visual information, known as vision-language navigation (VLN), has attracted widespread interest. Most research has focused on ground-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Xiangyu Wang , Donglin Yang , Ziqin Wang , Hohin Kwan , Jinyu Chen , Wenjun Wu , Hongsheng Li , Yue Liao , Si Liu

Passive geolocation by multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) covers a wide range of military and civilian applications including rescue, wild life tracking and electronic warfare. The sensor-target geometry is known to significantly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Xin Cheng , Feng Shu , Yifan Li , Zhihong Zhuang , Di Wu , Jiangzhou Wang

Vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are versatile platforms widely used in applications such as surveillance, search and rescue, and urban air mobility. Despite their potential, the critical phases of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Sandeep Banik , Jinrae Kim , Naira Hovakimyan , Luca Carlone , John P. Thomas , Nancy G. Leveson

The use of drones for aerial cinematography has revolutionized several applications and industries that require live and dynamic camera viewpoints such as entertainment, sports, and security. However, safely controlling a drone while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Rogerio Bonatti , Cherie Ho , Wenshan Wang , Sanjiban Choudhury , Sebastian Scherer

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are of crucial importance in search and rescue missions in maritime environments due to their flexible and fast operation capabilities. Modern computer vision algorithms are of great interest in aiding such…

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