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Integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into vehicular networks have shown high potentials in affording intensive computing tasks. In this paper, we study the digital twin driven vehicular edge computing networks for adaptively…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Bin Li , Wancheng Xie , Yinghui Ye , Lei Liu , Zesong Fei

This paper discusses the problem of securing the transmissions of multiple ground users against eavesdropping attacks. We propose and optimize the deployment of a single unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which serves as an aerial relay between…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-02 Aly Sabri Abdalla , Vuk Marojevic

Unmanned Surface Vehicles technology (USVs) is an exciting topic that essentially deploys an algorithm to safely and efficiently performs a mission. Although reinforcement learning is a well-known approach to modeling such a task,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Mohammad Etemad , Nader Zare , Mahtab Sarvmaili , Amilcar Soares , Bruno Brandoli Machado , Stan Matwin

Integrated into existing Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) serve as a cornerstone in meeting the stringent requirements of future Internet of Things (IoT) networks. The current endeavor studies an MEC…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-02 Maryam Farajzadeh Dehkordi , Bijan Jabbari

Obstacle avoidance for small unmanned aircraft is vital for the safety of future urban air mobility (UAM) and Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM). There are many techniques for real-time robust drone guidance, but many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Jueming Hu , Xuxi Yang , Weichang Wang , Peng Wei , Lei Ying , Yongming Liu

This paper focuses on secure communications in UAV-assisted wireless networks, which comprise multiple legitimate UAVs (LE-UAVs) and an intelligent eavesdropping UAV (EA-UAV). The intelligent EA-UAV can observe the LE-UAVs'transmission…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jieting Yuan , Songhan Zhao , Ye Xue , Yu Zhao , Bo Gu , Shimin Gong

Autonomous docking between Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and ground robots is essential for heterogeneous systems, yet most existing approaches target wheeled platforms whose limited mobility constrains exploration in complex terrains.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Haozhe Xu , Cheng Cheng , Hongrui Sang , Zhipeng Wang , Qiyong He , Xiuxian Li , Bin He

This paper presents a cooperative multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL) approach for unmmaned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided mobile edge computing (MEC) networks. An UAV with computing capability can provide task offlaoding services…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Mintae Kim , Hoon Lee , Sangwon Hwang , Merouane Debbah , Inkyu Lee

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are emerging as enablers for supporting many applications and services, such as precision agriculture, search and rescue, temporary network deployment or coverage extension, and security. UAVs are being…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Aly Sabri Abdalla , Keith Powell , Vuk Marojevic , Giovanni Geraci

Having unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with edge computing capability hover over smart farmlands supports Internet of Things (IoT) devices with low processing capacity and power to accomplish their deadline-sensitive tasks efficiently and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Turgay Pamuklu , Aisha Syed , W. Sean Kennedy , Melike Erol-Kantarci

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to establish flexible and reliable emergency networks in disaster sites when terrestrial communication infrastructures go down. Nevertheless, potential security threats may occur on UAVs…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Yuntao Wang , Zhou Su , Qichao Xu , Ruidong Li , Tom H. Luan , Pinghui Wang

Landing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on a ground marker is an open problem despite the effort of the research community. Previous attempts mostly focused on the analysis of hand-crafted geometric features and the use of external sensors…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Riccardo Polvara , Massimiliano Patacchiola , Sanjay Sharma , Jian Wan , Andrew Manning , Robert Sutton , Angelo Cangelosi

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based networks and Internet of Things (IoT) are being considered as integral components of current and next-generation wireless networks. In particular, UAVs can provide IoT devices with seamless connectivity…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy

Path planning methods for the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in goods delivery have drawn great attention from industry and academics because of its flexibility which is suitable for many situations in the "Last Kilometer" between customer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Linfei Feng

Considering the user mobility and unpredictable mobile edge computing (MEC) environments, this paper studies the intelligent task offloading problem in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled MEC with the assistance of digital twin (DT). We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Bin Li , Yufeng Liu , Ling Tan , Heng Pan , Yan Zhang

Due to flexibility and low-cost, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly crucial for enhancing coverage and functionality of wireless networks. However, incorporating UAVs into next-generation wireless communication systems poses…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Chuang Zhang , Geng Sun , Jiahui Li , Qingqing Wu , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato , Yuanwei Liu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been recently utilized in multi-access edge computing (MEC) as edge servers. It is desirable to design UAVs' trajectories and user to UAV assignments to ensure satisfactory service to the users and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Hamidreza Asadian-Rad , Hossein Soleimani , Shahrokh Farahmand

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an integral part of wireless networks. In this paper, we aim to find collision-free paths for multiple cellular-connected UAVs, while satisfying requirements of connectivity with ground…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu

Autonomous UAV navigation using reinforcement learning (RL) is vulnerable to adversarial attacks that manipulate sensor inputs, potentially leading to unsafe behavior and mission failure. Although robust RL methods provide partial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Deepak Kumar Panda , Weisi Guo

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