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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have attracted great interest in the last few years owing to their ability to cover large areas and access difficult and hazardous target zones, which is not the case of traditional systems relying on direct…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Mohammed Jouhari , Abdulla Al-Ali , Emna Baccour , Amr Mohamed , Aiman Erbad , Mohsen Guizani , Mounir Hamdi

This paper studies the wireless scheduling design to coordinate the transmissions of (local) model parameters of federated learning (FL) for a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The overall goal of the proposed design is to realize…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Duc N. M. Hoang , Vu Tuan Truong , Hung Duy Le , Long Bao Le

With the proliferation of versatile Internet of Things (IoT) services, smart IoT devices are increasingly deployed at the edge of wireless networks to perform collaborative machine learning tasks using locally collected data, giving rise to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Yue Wang , Zhi Tian , Xin Fan , Yan Huo , Cameron Nowzari , Kai Zeng

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a transformative technology across diverse sectors, offering adaptable solutions to complex challenges in both military and civilian domains. Their expanding capabilities present a platform…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Shumaila Javaid , Nasir Saeed , Bin He

The design and development of swarms of micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs) has recently gained significant traction. Collaborative aerial swarms have potential applications in areas as diverse as surveillance and monitoring, inventory management,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Jorge Peña Queralta , Yu Xianjia , Li Qingqing , Tomi Westerlund

Swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly becoming vital to our society, undertaking tasks such as search and rescue, surveillance and delivery. A special variant of Distributed Model Predictive Control (DMPC) has emerged…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Alexander Gräfe , Joram Eickhoff , Marco Zimmerling , Sebastian Trimpe

The rapid adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) in unmanned systems has significantly enhanced the semantic understanding and autonomous task execution capabilities of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms. However, limited communication…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Fei Lin , Tengchao Zhang , Qinghua Ni , Jun Huang , Siji Ma , Yonglin Tian , Yisheng Lv , Naiqi Wu

To enable communication-efficient federated learning (FL), this paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled FL system, where the UAV coordinates distributed ground devices for a shared model training. Specifically, by exploiting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-21 Min Fu , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou

Decentralized learning empowers wireless network devices to collaboratively train a machine learning (ML) model relying solely on device-to-device (D2D) communication. It is known that the convergence speed of decentralized optimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Matteo Zecchin , David Gesbert , Marios Kountouris

The integration of agentic AI, powered by large language models (LLMs) with autonomous reasoning, planning, and execution, into unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms opens new operational possibilities and brings the vision of the Internet…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Thuan Minh Nguyen , Vu Tuan Truong , Long Bao Le

Distributed deep learning (DL) has become prevalent in recent years to reduce training time by leveraging multiple computing devices (e.g., GPUs/TPUs) due to larger models and datasets. However, system scalability is limited by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Zhenheng Tang , Shaohuai Shi , Wei Wang , Bo Li , Xiaowen Chu

Effective operation and seamless cooperation of robotic systems are a fundamental component of next-generation technologies and applications. In contexts such as disaster response, swarm operations require coordinated behavior and mobility…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Raffaele Galliera , Thies Möhlenhof , Alessandro Amato , Daniel Duran , Kristen Brent Venable , Niranjan Suri

The emergence of new services and applications in emerging wireless networks (e.g., beyond 5G and 6G) has shown a growing demand for the usage of artificial intelligence (AI) in the Internet of Things (IoT). However, the proliferation of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Mai Le , Thien Huynh-The , Tan Do-Duy , Thai-Hoc Vu , Won-Joo Hwang , Quoc-Viet Pham

This paper investigates federated multimodal learning (FML) assisted by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with a focus on minimizing system latency and providing convergence analysis. In this framework, UAVs are distributed throughout the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Shaba Shaon , Dinh C. Nguyen

Machine Learning has proven useful in the recent years as a way to achieve failure prediction for industrial systems. However, the high computational resources necessary to run learning algorithms are an obstacle to its widespread…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Nicolas Aussel , Sophie Chabridon , Yohan Petetin

This paper investigates the semantic communication and cooperative tracking control for an UAV swarm comprising a leader UAV and a group of follower UAVs, all interconnected via unreliable wireless multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Minjie Tang , Chenyuan Feng , Tony Q. S. Quek

The next-generation of wireless networks will enable many machine learning (ML) tools and applications to efficiently analyze various types of data collected by edge devices for inference, autonomy, and decision making purposes. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Mingzhe Chen , Deniz Gündüz , Kaibin Huang , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Aneta Vulgarakis Feljan , H. Vincent Poor

Building a distributed spatial awareness within a swarm of locally sensing and communicating robots enables new swarm algorithms. We use local observations by robots of each other and Gaussian Belief Propagation message passing combined…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Simon Jones , Sabine Hauert

Purpose of review: Recent advances in sensing, actuation, and computation have opened the door to multi-robot systems consisting of hundreds/thousands of robots, with promising applications to automated manufacturing, disaster relief,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Yutong Wang , Mehul Damani , Pamela Wang , Yuhong Cao , Guillaume Sartoretti

Robust machine learning (ML) models can be developed by leveraging large volumes of data and distributing the computational tasks across numerous devices or servers. Federated learning (FL) is a technique in the realm of ML that facilitates…