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The future of 3D printing utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) presents a promising capability to revolutionize manufacturing and to enable the creation of large-scale structures in remote and hard- to-reach areas e.g. in other…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Marios-Nektarios Stamatopoulos , Avijit Banerjee , George Nikolakopoulos

This paper studies the collision avoidance problem for autonomous multiple fixedwing UAVs in the complex integrated airspace. By studying and combining the online path planning method, the distributed model predictive control algorithm, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Yajing Wang , Xiangke Wang , Shulong Zhao , Lincheng Shen

There is increasing demand for control of multi-robot and as well distributing large amounts of content to cluster of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) on the operation. In recent years several large-scale accidents have happened. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Rahim Rahmani , Ramin Firouzi , Theo Kanter

The significant components of any successful autonomous flight system are task completion and collision avoidance. Most deep learning algorithms successfully execute these aspects under the environment and conditions they are trained.…

Owing to effective and flexible data acquisition, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has recently become a hotspot across the fields of computer vision (CV) and remote sensing (RS). Inspired by recent success of deep learning (DL), many advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Xin Wu , Wei Li , Danfeng Hong , Ran Tao , Qian Du

Autonomous landing on mobile platforms is crucial for extending quadcopter operational flexibility, yet conventional methods are often too inefficient for highly dynamic scenarios. The core limitation lies in the prevalent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Chunhui Zhao , Xirui Kao , Yilin Lu , Yang Lyu

The flight time of multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is typically constrained by their high power consumption. Tethered power systems present a viable solution to extend flight times while maintaining the advantages of multirotor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Max Beffert , Andreas Zell

This paper investigates the coordinated trajectory tracking problem of multiple vertical takeooff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The case of unidirectional information flow is considered and the objective is to drive…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Yao Zou , Ziyang Meng

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, are being increasingly deployed throughout the globe as a means to streamline monitoring, inspection, mapping, and logistic routines. When dispatched on autonomous missions, drones…

In the last few years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are making a revolution as an emerging technology with many different applications in the military, civilian, and commercial fields. The advent of autonomous drones has initiated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Azza Allouch , Anis Koubaa , Mohamed Khalgui , Tarek Abbes

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is becoming increasingly important in modern civilian and military applications. However, its novel use cases is bottlenecked by conventional satellite and terrestrial localization technologies, and calling for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Bin Han , Hans D. Schotten

Transportation missions in aerospace are limited to the capability of each aerospace robot and the properties of the target transported object, such as mass, inertia, and grasping locations. We present a novel decentralized adaptive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Longsen Gao , Kevin Aubert , David Saldana , Claus Danielson , Rafael Fierro

Cooperative transportation by multi-aerial robots has the potential to support various payloads and improve failsafe against dropping. Furthermore, changing the attachment positions of robots according payload characteristics increases the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Koshi Oishi , Tomohiko Jimbo

This letter describes a method for autonomous aerial cinematography with distributed lighting by a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Although camera-carrying multi-rotor helicopters have become commonplace in cinematography, their…

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

Small multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), mainly quadcopters, are nowadays ubiquitous in research on aerial autonomy, including serving as scaled-down models for much larger aircraft such as vertical-take-off-and-lift vehicles for…

Though control algorithms for multirotor Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) are well understood, the configuration, parameter estimation, and tuning of flight control algorithms takes quite some time and resources. In previous work, we have shown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Till M. Blaha , Ewoud J. J. Smeur , Bart D. W. Remes , Coen C. de Visser

In this work, we investigate the problem of an online trajectory design for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in a Federated Learning (FL) setting where several different communities exist, each defined by a unique task to be learned. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Mohamad Mestoukirdi , Omid Esrafilian , David Gesbert , Qianrui Li

Research on Multi-rotor Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) has experienced remarkable advancements over the past two decades, propelling the field forward at an accelerated pace. Through the implementation of motion control and the integration of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Jiawei Xu

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have drastically gained popularity in various Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) applications to improve the safety and efficiency of transportation systems. In this context, the combination of ground…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Manuel Patchou , Benjamin Sliwa , Christian Wietfeld