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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

Efficient aerial data collection is important in many remote sensing applications. In large-scale monitoring scenarios, deploying a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offers improved spatial coverage and robustness against individual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Jonas Westheider , Julius Rückin , Marija Popović

In this work uses innovative multi-channel load-sensing techniques to deploy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for surveillance. The research aims to improve the quality of data transmission methods and improve the efficiency and reliability…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Raja Vavekanand , Kira Sam , Vijay Singh

This paper studies a new latency optimization problem in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)-enabled federated learning (FL) with integrated sensing and communication. In this setup, distributed UAVs participate in model training using sensed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Shaba Shaon , Tien Nguyen , Lina Mohjazi , Aryan Kaushik , Dinh C. Nguyen

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted data collection has been emerging as a prominent application due to its flexibility, mobility, and low operational cost. However, under the dynamic and uncertainty of IoT data collection and energy…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Nam H. Chu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Diep N. Nguyen , Nguyen Van Huynh , Eryk Dutkiewicz

Utilizing autonomous drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has shown great advantages over preceding methods in support of urgent scenarios such as search and rescue (SAR) and wildfire detection. In these operations, search efficiency…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Mohammadjavad Khosravi , Rushiv Arora , Saeede Enayati , Hossein Pishro-Nik

Autonomous tracking of flying aerial objects has important civilian and defense applications, ranging from search and rescue to counter-unmanned aerial systems (counter-UAS). Ground based tracking requires setting up infrastructure, could…

Augmenting wireless networks with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly referred to as drones, offers a promising avenue for providing reliable, cost-effective, and on-demand wireless services to desired areas. However, existing UAV…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Aksh Garg

Deep learning (DL) is a powerful tool in computational imaging for many applications. A common strategy is to reconstruct a preliminary image as the input of a neural network to achieve an optimized image. Usually, the preliminary image is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-12 Ruibo Shang , Kevin Hoffer-Hawlik , Geoffrey P. Luke

In recent years, teams of robot and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been commissioned by researchers to enable accurate, online wildfire coverage and tracking. While the majority of prior work focuses on the coordination and control of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Esmaeil Seraj , Andrew Silva , Matthew Gombolay

Training robots to operate effectively in environments with uncertain states, such as ambiguous object properties or unpredictable interactions, remains a longstanding challenge in robotics. Imitation learning methods typically rely on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Hyogo Hiruma , Hiroshi Ito , Tetsuya Ogata

Federated learning (FL) involves several devices that collaboratively train a shared model without transferring their local data. FL reduces the communication overhead, making it a promising learning method in UAV-enhanced wireless networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Mariam Yahya , Setareh Maghsudi , Slawomir Stanczak

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are emerging as key enablers for low-altitude wireless network (LAWN), particularly when terrestrial networks are unavailable. In such scenarios, the environmental topology is typically unknown; hence,…

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Accurate classification of autonomous vehicle (AV) driving behaviors is critical for safety validation, performance diagnosis, and traffic integration analysis. However, existing approaches primarily rely on numerical time-series modeling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Xiangyu Li , Tianyi Wang , Xi Cheng , Rakesh Chowdary Machineni , Zhaomiao Guo , Sikai Chen , Junfeng Jiao , Christian Claudel

Infrared unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) target images often suffer from motion blur degradation caused by rapid sensor movement, significantly reducing contrast between target and background. Generally, detection performance heavily depends…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xiaolin Wang , Houzhang Fang , Qingshan Li , Lu Wang , Yi Chang , Luxin Yan

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) finds extensive application in autonomous drone navigation within complex, high-risk environments. However, its practical deployment faces a safety-exploration dilemma: soft penalty mechanisms encourage…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Wentao Chen , Jingtang Chen , Mingjian Fu , Tiantian Li , Youfeng Su , Wenxi Liu , Yuanlong Yu

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) especially drones, equipped with vision techniques have become very popular in recent years, with their extensive use in wide range of applications. Many of these applications require use of computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Subrahmanyam Vaddi , Chandan Kumar , Ali Jannesari

The vigorous developments of Internet of Things make it possible to extend its computing and storage capabilities to computing tasks in the aerial system with collaboration of cloud and edge, especially for artificial intelligence (AI)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Xu Kang , Bin Song , Jie Guo , Zhijin Qin , F. Richard Yu

This paper proposes a safe reinforcement learning filter (SRLF) to realize multicopter collision-free trajectory tracking with input disturbance. A novel robust control barrier function (RCBF) with its analysis techniques is introduced to…

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