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To enhance both the sensing and covert communication performance, a dual-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided scheme is proposed for integrated sensing and communication networks, in which one UAV maneuvers as the aerial dual-functional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jingke Sun , Liang Yang , Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Hongwu Liu

Collaborative perception enhances environmental awareness through inter-agent communication and is regarded as a promising solution to intelligent transportation systems. However, existing collaborative methods for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Jiuwu Hao , Liguo Sun , Yuting Wan , Yueyang Wu , Ti Xiang , Haolin Song , Pin Lv

Air transportation is essential for society, and it is increasing gradually due to its importance. To improve the airspace operation, new technologies are under development, such as Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). In fact, in the past few…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Euclides Carlos Pinto Neto , Derick Moreira Baum , Jorge Rady de Almeida , Joao Batista Camargo , Paulo Sergio Cugnasca

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) envisions aerial corridors for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to reduce ground traffic congestion by supporting 3D mobility, such as air taxis. A key challenge in these high-mobility aerial corridors is ensuring…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Abdul Saboor , Zhuangzhuang Cui , Achiel Colpaert , Evgenii Vinogradov , Sofie Pollin

Providing connectivity to unmanned aerial vehicle-user equipments such as drones or flying taxis is a major challenge for tomorrow cellular systems. In this paper, the use of coordinated multi-point transmission for providing seamless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Ramy Amer , Walid Saad , Nicola Marchetti

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) systems are rapidly emerging as promising solutions to alleviate urban congestion, with path planning becoming a key focus area. Unlike ground transportation, UAM trajectory planning has to prioritize communication…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yuejiao Xie , Maonan Wang , Di Zhou , Man-On Pun , Zhu Han

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are powerful Internet-of-Things components to provide sensing and communications in the air due to their advantages in mobility and flexibility. As aerial users, UAVs are envisioned to support various sensing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

Autonomous cooperative planning (ACP) is a promising technique to improve the efficiency and safety of multi-vehicle interactions for future intelligent transportation systems. However, realizing robust ACP is a challenge due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Shiyao Zhang , He Li , Shengyu Zhang , Shuai Wang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chengzhong Xu

Over the air computation (AirComp) is a promising technique that addresses big data collection and fast wireless data aggregation. However, in a network where wireless communication and AirComp coexist, mutual interference becomes a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Xunqiang Lan , Xiao Tang , Ruonan Zhang , Bin Li , Yichen Wang , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is the envisioned future of inter-city aerial transportation. This paper presents a novel, in-flight connectivity link allocation method for UAM, which dynamically switches between terrestrial cellular and Low Earth…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Karnika Biswas , Hakim Ghazzai , Abdullah Khanfor , Lokman Sboui

Autonomous driving has attracted significant attention from both academia and industries, which is expected to offer a safer and more efficient driving system. However, current autonomous driving systems are mostly based on a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Senkang Hu , Zhengru Fang , Yiqin Deng , Xianhao Chen , Yuguang Fang

Providing connectivity to aerial users, such as cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or flying taxis, is a key challenge for tomorrow's cellular systems. In this paper, the use of coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-28 Ramy Amer , Walid Saad , Hesham ElSawy , Majid Butt , Nicola Marchetti

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarm systems necessitate efficient collaborative perception mechanisms for diverse operational scenarios. Current Bird's Eye View (BEV)-based approaches exhibit two main limitations: bounding-box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Zefu Lin , Wenbo Chen , Xiaojuan Jin , Yuran Yang , Lue Fan , Yixin Zhang , Yufeng Zhang , Zhaoxiang Zhang

This paper systematically studies the cooperative area coverage and target tracking problem of multiple-unmanned aerial vehicles (multi-UAVs). The problem is solved by decomposing into three sub-problems: information fusion, task…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Mengge Zhang , Jie Li , Xiangke Wang

Recent technological advancements in small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have led to the development of companion UAVs. Similar to conventional companion robots, companion UAVs have the potential to assist us in our daily lives and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Chun Fui Liew , Takehisa Yairi

Aerial manipulation (AM) promises to move Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) beyond passive inspection to contact-rich tasks such as grasping, assembly, and in-situ maintenance. Most prior AM demonstrations rely on external motion capture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yuanzhu Zhan , Yufei Jiang , Muqing Cao , Junyi Geng

Multi-uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) cooperative perception has emerged as a promising paradigm for diverse low-altitude economy applications, where complementary multi-view observations are leveraged to enhance perception performance via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yunting Xu , Jiacheng Wang , Ruichen Zhang , Changyuan Zhao , Yinqiu Liu , Dusit Niyato , Liang Yu , Haibo Zhou , Dong In Kim

Ensuring safe separation between aircraft is a critical challenge in air traffic management, particularly in urban air mobility (UAM) environments where high traffic density and low altitudes require precise control. In these environments,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Surya Murthy , Tyler Ingebrand , Sophia Smith , Ufuk Topcu , Peng Wei , Natasha Neogi

Existing data collection methods for traffic operations and control usually rely on infrastructure-based loop detectors or probe vehicle trajectories. Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) not only can report data about themselves but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Hanlin Chen , Brian Liu , Xumiao Zhang , Feng Qian , Z. Morley Mao , Yiheng Feng

With the upcoming trends in autonomous driving and urban air mobility, the number of self-navigating vehicles will increase, since they are foreseen for deliveries as well as autonomous taxis among other applications. To this end, a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-23 Nils L. Johannsen , Max Schurwanz , Lukas Grundmann , Jan Mietzner , Dirk Manteuffel , Peter A. Hoeher