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Due to recent booming of UAVs technologies, these are being used in many fields involving complex tasks. Some of them involve a high risk to the vehicle driver, such as fire monitoring and rescue tasks, which make UAVs excellent for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Cristian Ramirez-Atencia , Gema Bello-Orgaz , Maria D R-Moreno , David Camacho

This work describes the orchestration of a fleet of rotary-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for harvesting prioritized traffic from random distributions of heterogeneous users with Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) capabilities. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Bharath Keshavamurthy , Nicolo Michelusi

With the increasing development of intelligent transportation systems and advancements in aviation technology, the concept of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) is gaining attention. This study aims to improve operational safety and service…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-13 Jin Zhang , Xiaoran Qin , Ming Zhang

The future sixth-generation (6G) of wireless networks is expected to surpass its predecessors by offering ubiquitous coverage through integrated air-ground facility deployments in both communication and computing domains. In this network,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Shuhang Zhang , Qingyu Liu , Ke Chen , Boya Di , Hongliang Zhang , Wenhan Yang , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used for exploration-driven monitoring in hazardous environments such as disaster zones, contaminated sites, wildfire areas, and damaged infrastructure, where limited flight endurance must be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jimin Choi , Grant Stagg , Cameron K. Peterson , Max Z. Li

The development of the low-altitude economy has led to a growing prominence of uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) safety management issues. Therefore, accurate identification, real-time localization, and effective countermeasures have become…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-12 Yi Tao , Zhen Gao , Fangquan Ye , Jingbo Xu , Tao Song , Weidong Li , Yu Su , Lu Peng , Xiaomei Wu , Tong Qin , Zhongxiang Li , Dezhi Zheng

Fixed-wind unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are essential for low cost aerial surveillance and mapping applications in remote regions. One of the main limitations of UAVs is limited fuel capacity and hence requires periodic refueling to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Alessandro Rucco , PB Sujit , Pedro Aguiar , Joao Sousa , Fernando Pereira

This letter investigates the transmit power and trajectory optimization problem for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided networks. Different from majority of the existing studies with fixed communication infrastructure, a dynamic scenario is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-17 Haichao Wang , Guochun Ren , Jin Chen , Guoru Ding , Yijun Yang

Unmanned Aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used as network processors in mobile networks, but more recently, UAVs have been used in Mobile Edge Computing as mobile servers. However, there are significant challenges to use UAVs in complex…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Huan Chang , Yicheng Chen , Baochang Zhang , David Doermann

The conventional Artificial Potential Field (APF) is fundamentally limited by the local minima issue and its inability to account for the kinematics of moving obstacles. This paper addresses the critical challenge of autonomous collision…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-10 Nikita Vaibhav Pavle , Shrreya Rajneesh , Rakesh Kumar Sahoo , Manoranjan Sinha

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has emerged as a transformative solution to alleviate urban congestion by utilizing low-altitude airspace, thereby reducing pressure on ground transportation networks. To enable truly efficient and seamless…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Aoyu Pang , Maonan Wang , Zifan Sha , Wenwei Yue , Changle Li , Chung Shue Chen , Man-On Pun

UAV collective motion has become a hot research topic in recent years. The realization of UAV collective motion, however, relied heavily on centralized control method and suffered from instability. Inspired by bird flocking theory, a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-03 Xiyuan Liu , Li Qiu

The expectation of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) pushes the operation environment to narrow spaces, where the systems may fly very close to an object and perform an interaction. This phase brings the variation in UAV dynamics: thrust and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Mohamad Abdul Hady , Basaran Bahadir Kocer , Harikumar Kandath , Mahardhika Pratama

Limited flight range is a common problem for multicopters. To alleviate this problem, we propose a method for finding the optimal speed and heading of a multicopter when flying a given path to achieve the longest flight range. Based on a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Xiangyu Wu , Mark W. Mueller

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

UAVs are increasingly becoming vital tools in various wireless communication applications including internet of things (IoT) and sensor networks, thanks to their rapid and agile non-terrestrial mobility. Despite recent research, planning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Pei-Fa Sun , Yujae Song , Kang-Yu Gao , Yu-Kai Wang , Changjun Zhou , Sang-Woon Jeon , Jun Zhang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have emerged as versatile platforms, driving the demand for accurate modeling to support developmental testing. This paper proposes data-driven modeling software for UAV. Emphasizes the utilization of…

The integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) is increasingly central to the development of intelligent autonomous systems for applications such as search and rescue, environmental monitoring, and…

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communication technology is regarded as an efficient and effective solution for some special application scenarios where existing terrestrial infrastructures are overloaded to provide reliable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Jinjing Wang , Xindi Wang

Recent methods in ergodic coverage planning have shown promise as tools that can adapt to a wide range of geometric coverage problems with general constraints, but are highly sensitive to the numerical scaling of the problem space. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Yanis Lahrach , Christian Hughes , Ian Abraham