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Employing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has attracted growing interests and emerged as the state-of-the-art technology for data collection in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. In this paper, with the objective of minimizing the total…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-02 Botao Zhu , Ebrahim Bedeer , Ha H. Nguyen , Robert Barton , Jerome Henry

Recent innovations in autonomous drones have facilitated time-optimal flight in single-drone configurations, and enhanced maneuverability in multi-drone systems by applying optimal control and learning-based methods. However, few studies…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Xian Wang , Jin Zhou , Yuanli Feng , Jiahao Mei , Jiming Chen , Shuo Li

A long-cherished vision of drones is to autonomously traverse through clutter to reach every corner of the world using onboard sensing and computation. In this paper, we combine onboard 3D lidar sensing and sim-to-real reinforcement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Guangtong Xu , Tianyue Wu , Zihan Wang , Qianhao Wang , Fei Gao

Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs), in particular those with multiple power sources, have the potential to significantly reduce fuel consumption and travel time in real-world driving conditions. In particular, the Eco-driving problem…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-21 Zhaoxuan Zhu , Shobhit Gupta , Abhishek Gupta , Marcello Canova

This paper presents the development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based fighter jet agent within a customized Pygame simulation environment, designed to solve multi-objective tasks via deep reinforcement learning (DRL). The jet's…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Swati Kar , Soumyabrata Dey , Mahesh K Banavar , Shahnewaz Karim Sakib

The real power of artificial intelligence appears in reinforcement learning, which is computationally and physically more sophisticated due to its dynamic nature. Rotation and injection are some of the proven ways in active flow control for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-02 Kamyar Dobakhti , Jafar Ghazanfarian

A Nonlinear PID (NLPID) controller is proposed to stabilize the translational and rotational motion of a 6-DOF UAV quadrotor system and enforce it to track a given trajectory with minimum energy and error. The complete nonlinear model of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Aws Abdulsalam Najm , Ibraheem Kasim Ibraheem

Autonomous navigation in unstructured environments is essential for field and planetary robotics, where robots must efficiently reach goals while avoiding obstacles under uncertain conditions. Conventional algorithmic approaches often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Shreya Santra , Thomas Robbins , Kazuya Yoshida

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is a powerful tool used for addressing complex challenges in mobile networks. This paper investigates the application of two DRL models, on-policy and off-policy, in the field of resource allocation for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Manal Mehdaoui , Amine Abouaomar

This paper presents novel methods for tuning inverter controller gains using deep reinforcement learning (DRL). A Simulink-developed inverter model is converted into a dynamic link library (DLL) and integrated with a Python-based RL…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Shuvangkar Chandra Das , Tuyen Vu , Deepak Ramasubramanian , Evangelos Farantatos , Jianhua Zhang , Thomas Ortmeyer

This paper presents a novel deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based control strategy for achieving precise and robust output voltage regulation in LCC-S resonant converters, specifically designed for wireless power transfer applications.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Reza Safari , Mohsen Hamzeh , Nima Mahdian Dehkordi

Recent literature in the field of machine learning (ML) control has shown promising theoretical results for a Deep Neural Network (DNN) based Nonlinear Adaptive Controller (DNAC) capable of achieving trajectory tracking for nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Zachary Lamb , Zachary I. Bell , Matthew Longmire , Jared Paquet , Prashant Ganesh , Ricardo Sanfelice

This investigation introduces a novel deep reinforcement learning-based suite to control floating platforms in both simulated and real-world environments. Floating platforms serve as versatile test-beds to emulate micro-gravity environments…

This article proposes a model-based deep reinforcement learning (DRL) method to design emergency control strategies for short-term voltage stability problems in power systems. Recent advances show promising results in model-free DRL-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-07 Ramij R. Hossain , Tianzhixi Yin , Yan Du , Renke Huang , Jie Tan , Wenhao Yu , Yuan Liu , Qiuhua Huang

The focus of this paper is behavior modeling for pilots of unmanned aerial vehicles. The pilot is assumed to make decisions that optimize an unknown cost functional, which is estimated from observed trajectories using a novel inverse…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-26 Jared Town , Zachary Morrison , Rushikesh Kamalapurkar

Robot navigation using deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has shown great potential in improving the performance of mobile robots. Nevertheless, most existing DRL-based navigation methods primarily focus on training a policy that directly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Wenhao Yu , Jie Peng , Quecheng Qiu , Hanyu Wang , Lu Zhang , Jianmin Ji

Safe navigation of drones in the presence of adversarial physical attacks from multiple pursuers is a challenging task. This paper proposes a novel approach, asynchronous multi-stage deep reinforcement learning (AMS-DRL), to train…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Jiaping Xiao , Mir Feroskhan

Path planning methods for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are typically designed for one specific type of mission. This work presents a method for autonomous UAV path planning based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) that can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Mirco Theile , Harald Bayerlein , Richard Nai , David Gesbert , Marco Caccamo

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has become a powerful tool for complex decision-making in machine learning and AI. However, traditional methods often assume perfect action execution, overlooking the uncertainties and deviations between an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Oren Fivel , Matan Rudman , Kobi Cohen

Aquatic organisms are known for their ability to generate efficient propulsion with low energy expenditure. While existing research has sought to leverage bio-inspired structures to reduce energy costs in underwater robotics, the crucial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Xinyu Cui , Boai Sun , Yi Zhu , Ning Yang , Haifeng Zhang , Weicheng Cui , Dixia Fan , Jun Wang