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Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm networks (UAVSNs) can effectively execute surveillance, connectivity, and computing services to ground users (GUs). These missions require trajectory planning, UAV-GUs association, task…

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This paper proposes a novel Reinforcement Learning (RL) approach for sim-to-real policy transfer of Vertical Take-Off and Landing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTOL-UAV). The proposed approach is designed for VTOL-UAV landing on offshore docking…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Ali M. Ali , Aryaman Gupta , Hashim A. Hashim

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) increasingly collaborate in logistics, surveillance, inspection tasks and etc. However, existing simulators often focus on a single domain, limiting cross-domain study.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Wenhui Ma , Wenhao Li , Bo Jin , Changhong Lu , Xiangfeng Wang

Digital network twins (DNTs) are virtual representations of physical networks, designed to enable real-time monitoring, simulation, and optimization of network performance. When integrated with machine learning (ML) techniques, particularly…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zifan Zhang , Minghong Fang , Dianwei Chen , Xianfeng Yang , Yuchen Liu

Many applications, e.g., in shared mobility, require coordinating a large number of agents. Mean-field reinforcement learning addresses the resulting scalability challenge by optimizing the policy of a representative agent interacting with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Matej Jusup , Barna Pásztor , Tadeusz Janik , Kenan Zhang , Francesco Corman , Andreas Krause , Ilija Bogunovic

Trajectory guidance requires a leader robotic agent to assist a follower robotic agent to cooperatively reach the target destination. However, planning cooperation becomes difficult when the leader serves a family of different followers and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yuhan Zhao , Quanyan Zhu

Task scheduling is a critical problem when one user offloads multiple different tasks to the edge server. When a user has multiple tasks to offload and only one task can be transmitted to server at a time, while server processes tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Xiucheng Wang , Longfei Ma , Haocheng Li , Zhisheng Yin , Tom. Luan , Nan Cheng

We present a hybrid compositional approach for real-time mission planning for multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a time critical search and rescue scenario. Starting with a known environment, we specify the mission using Metric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Usman A. Fiaz , John S. Baras

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) offers a robust alternative to traditional control methods for autonomous underwater docking, particularly in adapting to unpredictable environmental conditions. However, bridging the "sim-to-real" gap and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Alaaeddine Chaarani , Narcis Palomeras , Pere Ridao

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is gaining attention as a potential approach to design trajectories for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) used as flying access points in the context of cellular or Internet of Things (IoT)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Omid Esrafilian , Harald Bayerlein , David Gesbert

The rapid growth of the low-altitude economy has driven the widespread adoption of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This growing deployment presents new challenges for UAV trajectory planning in complex urban environments. However, existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yanwei Gong , Junchao Fan , Ruichen Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Yingying Yao , Xiaolin Chang

Quadrupeds have gained rapid advancement in their capability of traversing across complex terrains. The adoption of deep Reinforcement Learning (RL), transformers and various knowledge transfer techniques can greatly reduce the sim-to-real…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Dikai Liu , Tianwei Zhang , Jianxiong Yin , Simon See

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based base stations offer a promising solution in emergencies where the rapid deployment of cutting-edge networks is crucial for maximizing life-saving potential. Optimizing the strategic positioning of these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Mario Rico Ibanez , Azim Akhtarshenas , David Lopez-Perez , Giovanni Geraci

Environment sensing and fusion via onboard sensors are envisioned to be widely applied in future autonomous driving networks. This paper considers a vehicular system with multiple self-driving vehicles that is assisted by multi-access edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Xueyao Zhang , Bo Yang , Xuelin Cao , Zhiwen Yu , George C. Alexandropoulos , Yan Zhang , Merouane Debbah , Chau Yuen

Previous works showed that Deep-RL can be applied to perform mapless navigation, including the medium transition of Hybrid Unmanned Aerial Underwater Vehicles (HUAUVs). This paper presents new approaches based on the state-of-the-art…

This paper proposes a novel design on the wireless powered communication network (WPCN) in dynamic environments under the assistance of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Unlike the existing studies, where the low-power wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Ze Yu Zhao , Yue Ling Che , Sheng Luo , Gege Luo , Kaishun Wu , Victor C. M. Leung

Digital twins (DTs), which are virtual environments that simulate, predict, and optimize the performance of their physical counterparts, hold great promise in revolutionizing next-generation wireless networks. While DTs have been…

5G and beyond networks need to provide dynamic and efficient infrastructure management to better adapt to time-varying user behaviors (e.g., user mobility, interference, user traffic and evolution of the network topology). In this paper, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Esteban Catté , Mohamed Sana , Mickael Maman

Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed in complex networked environments, yet the joint optimization of multi-UAV motion control and connectivity remains a fundamental challenge. In this paper, we study a multi-UAV system…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zijiang Yan , Hao Zhou , Wael Jaafar , Jianhua Pei , Ping Wang , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Hina Tabassum

The Metaverse holds the potential to revolutionize digital interactions through the establishment of a highly dynamic and immersive virtual realm over wireless communications systems, offering services such as massive twinning and…

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