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The application domains of civilian unmanned aerial systems (UASs) include agriculture, exploration, transportation, and entertainment. The expected growth of the UAS industry brings along new challenges: Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)…

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The dominating waveform in 5G is orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). OFDM will remain a promising waveform candidate for joint communication and sensing (JCAS) in 6G since OFDM can provide excellent data transmission…

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Recently, passive unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) localization has become popular due to mobility and convenience. In this paper, we consider a scenario of using distributed drone cluster to estimate the position of a passive emitter via…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Xin Cheng , Weiping Shi , Wenlong Cai , Weiqiang Zhu , Tong Shen , Feng Shu , Jiangzhou Wang

This paper presents a new Metacognitive Decision Making (MDM) framework inspired by human-like metacognitive principles. The MDM framework is incorporated in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) deployed for decentralized stochastic search…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-07-08 J. Senthilnath , K. Harikumar , S. Suresh

The widespread use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in low-altitude airspace has raised significant safety and security concerns, motivating the development of reliable non-cooperative UAV surveillance technologies. Integrated sensing and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Shiyu Bai , Sijia Li , Cunyi Yin , Wenqiu Qu , Li-Ta Hsu , Yuanwei Liu , Wen-Hua Chen

We propose in this work a radar detection system for orthogonal-frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission. We assume that the transmitting antenna Tx is colocated with a monostatic radar. The latter knows the transmitted signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Mamady Delamou , Kawtar Zerhouni , Guevara Noubir , El Mehdi Amhoud

Low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to play an important role for low-altitude economy with a wide range of applications like precise agriculture, aerial delivery and surveillance. Integrated sensing and communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Zhiwen Zhou , Yong Zeng , Chunguo Li , Fei Yang , Yan Chen , Jingon Joung

The use of supervised learning with various sensing techniques such as audio, visual imaging, thermal sensing, RADAR, and radio frequency (RF) have been widely applied in the detection of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in an environment.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Olusiji O Medaiyese , Martins Ezuma , Adrian P Lauf , Ismail Guvenc

In future sixth-generation (6G) mobile networks, radar sensing is expected to be offered as an additional service to its original purpose of communication. Merging these two functions results in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC)…

Aerial object detection using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) faces critical challenges including sub-10px targets, dense occlusions, and stringent computational constraints. Existing detectors struggle to balance accuracy and efficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Liu Wenbin

This paper presents a novel efficient method for spatial monitoring of the distribution of correlated field signals, such as temperature, humidity, etc. using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The spatial signal is compressed to its…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-27 Maryam Zahra , Homa Tajiani , Hadi Alasti

To meet the requirements for managing unauthorized UAVs in the low-altitude economy, a multi-modal UAV trajectory prediction method based on the fusion of LiDAR and millimeter-wave radar information is proposed. A deep fusion network for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yuan Gao , Xinyu Guo , Wenjing Xie , Zifan Wang , Hongwen Yu , Gongyang Li , Shugong Xu

In this paper, we investigate the uplink signal detection approaches in the cell-free massive MIMO systems with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serving as aerial access points (APs). The ground users are equipped with multiple antennas and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Xuesong Pan , Zhong Zheng , Xueqing Huang , Zesong Fei

Multistatic collaborative sensing eliminates self-interference, achieves spatial diversity gains, and enables wide-range seamless integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). However, conventional data fusion methods suffer from severe…

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This paper considers the beamforming optimization for sensing a point-like scatterer using a bistatic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) radar, which could be part of a joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Tobias Laas , Ronald Boehnke , Wen Xu

Distributed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms are formed by multiple UAVs with increased portability, higher levels of sensing capabilities, and more powerful autonomy. These features make them attractive for many recent applica-tions,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Kaili Jiang , Kailun Tian , Hancong Feng , Yuxin Zhao , Dechang Wang , Sen Cao , Jian Gao , Xuying Zhang , Yanfei Li , Junyu Yuan , Ying Xiong , Bin Tang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) hold immense potential for critical applications, such as search and rescue operations, where accurate perception of indoor environments is paramount. However, the concurrent amalgamation of localization, 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Thanh Nguyen Canh , Van-Truong Nguyen , Xiem HoangVan , Armagan Elibol , Nak Young Chong

Efficient, accurate, and flexible relative localization is crucial in air-ground collaborative tasks. However, current approaches for robot relative localization are primarily realized in the form of distributed multi-robot SLAM systems…

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

This paper introduces a novel unsupervised jamming detection framework designed specifically for monostatic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) radar systems. The framework leverages echo…

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