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Despite extensive developments in motion planning of autonomous aerial vehicles (AAVs), existing frameworks faces the challenges of local minima and deadlock in complex dynamic environments, leading to increased collision risks. To address…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Junzhi Li , Teng Long , Jingliang Sun , Jianxin Zhong

We present a new approach for designing risk-bounded controllers for Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Existing frameworks for assessing risk of UAV operations rely on knowing the conditional probability of an incident occurring given…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Nicole Fronda , Hariharan Narayanan , Sadia Afrin Ananna , Steven Weber , Houssam Abbas

Package delivery via the UAVs is a promising transport mode to provide efficient and green logistic services, especially in urban areas or complicated topography. However, the energy storage limit of the UAV makes it difficult to perform…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Ziyi Lu , Na Yu , Xuehe Wang

Reliable estimation of macro and micro traffic states is essential for urban traffic management. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, with their airborne full-sample continuous trajectory observation, bring new opportunities for macro- and…

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

Efficient data collection methods play a major role in helping us better understand the Earth and its ecosystems. In many applications, the usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for monitoring and remote sensing is rapidly gaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Felix Stache , Jonas Westheider , Federico Magistri , Cyrill Stachniss , Marija Popović

Obstacle avoidance and path planning are essential for guiding unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) through environments that are densely populated with dynamic obstacles. This paper develops a novel approach that combines tangentbased path…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Okan Arif Guvenkaya , Selim Ahmet Iz , Mustafa Unel

Motion planning is a key element of robotics since it empowers a robot to navigate autonomously. Particle Swarm Optimization is a simple, yet a very powerful optimization technique which has been effectively used in many complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-25 M. Shahab Alam , M. Usman Rafique , M. Umer Khan

Path planning for high-speed unmanned surface vehicles requires more complex solutions to reduce sailing time and save energy. This article proposes a new predictive artificial potential field that incorporates time information and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jia Song , Ce Hao , Jiangcheng Su

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly essential in various fields such as surveillance, reconnaissance, and telecommunications. This study aims to develop a learning algorithm for the path planning of UAV wireless communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Joseanne Viana , Boris Galkin , Lester Ho , Holger Claussen

Demand for fast and economical parcel deliveries in urban environments has risen considerably in recent years. A framework envisions efficient last-mile delivery in urban environments by leveraging a network of ride-sharing vehicles, where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Gabriel Barsi Haberfeld , Aditya Gahlawat , Naira Hovakimyan

Significant advances in sensing, robotics, and wireless networks have enabled the collaborative utilization of autonomous aerial, ground and underwater vehicles for various applications. However, to successfully harness the benefits of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-11 Saravanan Venkatachalam , Manish Bansal , Jonathon M. Smereka , Joseph Lee

Path planning in dynamic environments is essential to high-risk applications such as unmanned aerial vehicles, self-driving cars, and autonomous underwater vehicles. In this paper, we generate collision-free trajectories for a robot within…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Sourav Dutta , Tuan Tran , Banafsheh Rekabdar , Chinwe Ekenna

Cooperative path planning is gaining its importance due to the increasing demand on using multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for complex missions. This work addresses the problem by introducing a new algorithm named MultiRRT that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Thu Hang Khuat , Duy-Nam Bui , Hoa TT. Nguyen , Mien L. Trinh , Minh T. Nguyen , Manh Duong Phung

Advances in the Internet of Things are revolutionizing data acquisition, enhancing artificial intelligence and quality of service. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) provide an efficient data-gathering solution across varied environments. This…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Priyavrat Dev Sharma , Ibrahim Sorkhoh , Muthucumaru Maheswaran

In this paper, we investigate resource allocation design for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communication systems, where a UAV is dispatched to provide communications to multiple user nodes. Our objective is to maximize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Ruide Li , Zhiqiang Wei , Lei Yang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Nan Yang , Jinhong Yuan , Jianping An

Existing UAS Traffic Management (UTM) frameworks designate preplanned flight paths to uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), enabling the UAS to deliver payloads. However, with increasing delivery demand between the source-destination pairs in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Sajid Ahamed Mohammed Abdul , Prathyush P Menon , Debasish Ghose

Sampling based probabilistic roadmap planners (PRM) have been successful in motion planning of robots with higher degrees of freedom, but may fail to capture the connectivity of the configuration space in scenarios with a critical narrow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Shubham Shukla , Lokesh Kumar , Titas Bera , Ranjan Dasgupta

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming increasingly useful for tasks which require the acquisition of data over large areas. The coverage problem, i.e., the problem of periodically visiting all subregions of an area at a desired…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Floriana Benedetti , Alessio Capitanelli , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni , Gianni Vercelli

In emergency search and rescue scenarios, the quick location of trapped people is essential. However, disasters can render the Global Positioning System (GPS) unusable. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with localization devices can serve as…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Zhihao Zhu , Jiafan He , Luyang Hou , Lianming Xu , Wendi Zhu , Li Wang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms adoption shows a steady growth among operators due to the benefits in time and cost arisen from their use. However, this kind of system faces an important problem which is the calculation of many optimal…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Alejandro Puente-Castro , Daniel Rivero , Alejandro Pazos , Enrique Fernandez-Blanco