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Nowadays, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been significantly improved, and one of their most important applications is to provide temporary coverage for cellular users. Static Base Station cannot service all users due to temporary…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Mehdi Sookhak , Amir Hossein Mohajerzadeh

Enabling autonomous operation of large-scale construction machines, such as excavators, can bring key benefits for human safety and operational opportunities for applications in dangerous and hazardous environments. To facilitate robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Julian Nubert , Shehryar Khattak , Marco Hutter

Global localisation from visual data is a challenging problem applicable to many robotics domains. Prior works have shown that neural networks can be trained to map images of an environment to absolute camera pose within that environment,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Christopher J. Holder , Muhammad Shafique

Localizing moving targets in unknown harsh environments has always been a severe challenge. This letter investigates a novel localization system based on multi-agent networks, where multiple agents serve as mobile anchors broadcasting their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-27 Qin Shi , Xiaowei Cui , Sihao Zhao , Mingquan Lu

This paper investigates security vulnerabilities and countermeasures for the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Fifth Generation New Radio (5G-NR) Time Difference of Arrival (TDoA)-based unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) localization in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-17 Zexin Fang , Bin Han , Zhu Han , Yufei Zhao , Yong Liang Guan , Hans D. Schotten

The monocular visual-inertial system (VINS), which consists one camera and one low-cost inertial measurement unit (IMU), is a popular approach to achieve accurate 6-DOF state estimation. However, such locally accurate visual-inertial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Tong Qin , Perliang Li , Shaojie Shen

This paper introduces an online inspection algorithm that enables an autonomous UAV to fly around a transmission tower and obtain detailed inspection images without a prior map of the tower. Our algorithm relies on camera-LiDAR sensor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Václav Riss , Vít Krátký , Robert Pěnička , Martin Saska

In this work, we propose a new learning approach for autonomous navigation and landing of an Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicle (UAV). We develop a multimodal fusion of deep neural architectures for visual-inertial odometry. We train the model in an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Francesca Baldini , Animashree Anandkumar , Richard M. Murray

Fluid antennas (FAs) and movable antennas (MAs) have emerged as promising technologies in wireless communications, which offer the flexibility to improve channel conditions by adjusting transmit/receive antenna positions within a spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Weidong Mei , Xin Wei , Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen , Rui Zhang

Movable antennas (MAs) show great promise for enhancing the sensing capabilities of future sixth-generation (6G) networks. With the growing prevalence of near-field propagation at ultra-high frequencies, this paper focuses on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Yushen Wang , Weidong Mei , Xin Wei , Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen

Location information is a fundamental requirement for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and other wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, accurately and efficiently localizing sensor nodes with diverse functionalities remains a significant…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ze Zhang , Qian Dong

This paper proposes an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based distributed sensing framework that uses orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms to detect the position of a ground target, and UAVs operate in half-duplex mode.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Xavier Alejandro Flores Cabezas , Diana Pamela Moya Osorio , Markku Juntti

For precise, efficient, and safe drone landings, ground platforms should real-time, accurately locate descending drones and guide them to designated spots. While mmWave sensing combined with cameras improves localization accuracy, the lower…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Haoyang Wang , Jingao Xu , Xinyu Luo , Xuecheng Chen , Ting Zhang , Ruiyang Duan , Yunhao Liu , Xinlei Chen

Unsupervised Learning based monocular visual odometry (VO) has lately drawn significant attention for its potential in label-free leaning ability and robustness to camera parameters and environmental variations. However, partially due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Yang Li , Yoshitaka Ushiku , Tatsuya Harada

Precise geolocalization is crucial for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, most current deployed UAVs rely on the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) or high precision inertial navigation systems (INS) for geolocalization. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Jun Mao , Lilian Zhang , Xiaofeng He , Hao Qu , Xiaoping Hu

Reliable estimation of network-wide traffic states is essential for urban traffic management. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), with their airborne full-sample continuous trajectory observation, bring new opportunities for traffic state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Jiarong Yao , Chaopeng Tan , Meng Wang , Wei Ma

In this work, a system scheme is proposed for tracking a radio emitting target moving in two-dimensional space. The localization is based on the use of biased time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements obtained at two asynchronous receivers, each…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-05-14 Siamak Yousefi , Xiao-Wen Chang , Benoit Champagne

This study considers a UAV-assisted multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MU-mMIMO) systems, where a decode-and-forward (DF) relay in the form of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) facilitates the transmission of multiple data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Mobeen Mahmood , MohammadMahdi Ghadaksaz , Asil Koc , Tho Le-Ngoc

In this paper, we present a cooperative odometry scheme based on the detection of mobile markers in line with the idea of cooperative positioning for multiple robots [1]. To this end, we introduce a simple optimization scheme that realizes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Raul Acuna , Zaijuan Li , Volker Willert

In this paper, a single Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicle (UAV)-aided localization algorithm which uses both Doppler and Time of Arrival (ToA) measurements is presented. In contrast to Doppler-based localization algorithms which are based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-03 Samaneh Motie , Hadi Zayyani , Mohammad Salman , Hasan Abu Hilal