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Air transportation is essential for society, and it is increasing gradually due to its importance. To improve the airspace operation, new technologies are under development, such as Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). In fact, in the past few…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Euclides Carlos Pinto Neto , Derick Moreira Baum , Jorge Rady de Almeida , Joao Batista Camargo , Paulo Sergio Cugnasca

This work considers the problem of passively monitoring multiple moving targets with a single unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) agent equipped with a direction-finding radar. This is in general a challenging problem due to the unobservability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Savvas Papaioannou , Christos Laoudias , Panayiotis Kolios , Theocharis Theocharides , Christos G. Panayiotou

Artificial intelligence (AI) assisted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided next-generation networking is proposed for dynamic environments. In the AI-enabled UAV-aided wireless networks (UAWN), multiple UAVs are employed as aerial base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-03 Xiao Liu , Mingzhe Chen , Yuanwei Liu , Yue Chen , Shuguang Cui , Lajos Hanzo

Airborne radar carried on-board unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) is serving as the harbinger of new remote sensing applications for security and rescue in inclement environments. The mobility and agility of UAVs along with intelligent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Yu Rong , Richard M. Gutierrez , Kumar Vijay Mishra , Daniel W. Bliss

In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), particularly for small UAVs, due to their affordable prices, ease of availability, and ease of operability. Existing and future applications…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-08 Wahab Khawaja , Ismail Guvenc , David Matolak , Uwe-Carsten Fiebig , Nicolas Schneckenberger

The robotics community is increasingly interested in autonomous aerial transportation. Unmanned aerial vehicles with suspended payloads have advantages over other systems, including mechanical simplicity and agility, but pose great…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Haojia Li , Haokun Wang , Chen Feng , Fei Gao , Boyu Zhou , Shaojie Shen

The world we live in is full of technology and with each passing day the advancement and usage of UAVs increases efficiently. As a result of the many application scenarios, there are some missions where the UAVs are vulnerable to external…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Jaskirat Singh , Neel Adwani , Harikumar Kandath , K. Madhava Krishna

Micro aerial vehicles are becoming increasingly important in search and rescue operations due to their agility, speed, and ability to access confined spaces or hazardous areas. However, designing lightweight aerial systems presents…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Inbazhagan Ravikumar , Ram Sundhar , Narendhiran Vijayakumar

This survey studies the potential data link candidates for unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs). There has been tremendous growth in different applications of UAVs such as lifesaving and rescue missions, commercial use, recreations, etc.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Maede Zolanvari , Raj Jain , Tara Salman

The proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in controlled airspace presents significant risks, including potential collisions, disruptions to air traffic, and security threats. Ensuring the safe and efficient operation of airspace,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Francisco Giral , Ignacio Gómez , Soledad Le Clainche

This paper investigates the problem of traffic surveillance using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and proposes a domain-knowledge-aided airborne ground moving targets tracking algorithm. To improve the accuracy of multiple targets…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Jianduo Chai , Shaoming He , Hyo-Sang Shin

Over the last years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have seen significant advancements in sensor capabilities and computational abilities, allowing for efficient autonomous navigation and visual tracking applications. However, the demand…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Malte Janßen , Tobias Pfandzelter , Minghe Wang , David Bermbach

As an emerging field of aerial robotics, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant research interest within the wireless networking research community. As soon as national legislations allow UAVs to fly autonomously, we will…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Debashisha Mishra , Enrico Natalizio

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

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

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as Drones, are one of 21st century most transformative technologies. Emerging first for military use, advancements in materials, electronics, and software have catapulted drones into…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Ruchita Singh , Sandeep Kumar

Recently, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are employed for a plethora of civilian applications. Such flying vehicles can accomplish tasks under the pilot's eyesight within the range of a remote controller, or autonomously according to a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Francesco Betti Sorbelli , Mauro Conti , Cristina M. Pinotti , Giulio Rigoni

Unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones, have emerged as a disruptive technology with the potential to revolutionize operations across various industries. Drones are the fast-growing internet-of-things technology and are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Ali Kaan Kurbanzade , Ansaar M. Baig , Sanjay Mehrotra

Collision avoidance is a key factor in enabling the integration of unmanned aerial vehicle into real life use, whether it is in military or civil application. For a long time there have been a large number of works to address this problem;…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-01 Hung Pham , Scott A. Smolka , Scott D. Stoller , Dung Phan , Junxing Yang

This paper proposes a systematic solution that uses an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to aggressively and safely track an agile target. The solution properly handles the challenging situations where the intent of the target and the dense…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Zhichao Han , Ruibin Zhang , Neng Pan , Chao Xu , Fei Gao