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This paper studies the path design problem for cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which aims to minimize its mission completion time while maintaining good connectivity with the cellular network. We first argue that the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Yong Zeng , Xiaoli Xu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an integral part of wireless networks, and determining collision-free trajectories for multiple UAVs while satisfying requirements of connectivity with ground base stations (GBSs) is a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an integral part of wireless networks. In this paper, we aim to find collision-free paths for multiple cellular-connected UAVs, while satisfying requirements of connectivity with ground…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu

Autonomous deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) supporting next-generation communication networks requires efficient trajectory planning methods. We propose a new end-to-end reinforcement learning (RL) approach to UAV-enabled data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Harald Bayerlein , Mirco Theile , Marco Caccamo , David Gesbert

Efficient path planning for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is crucial in remote sensing and information collection. As task scales expand, the cooperative deployment of multiple UAVs significantly improves information collection…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Zilin Zhao , Chishui Chen , Haotian Shi , Jiale Chen , Xuanlin Yue , Zhejian Yang , Yang Liu

Our premise is that autonomous vehicles must optimize communications and motion planning jointly. Specifically, a vehicle must adapt its motion plan staying cognizant of communications rate related constraints and adapt the use of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Mayank K. Pal , Rupali Bhati , Anil Sharma , Sanjit K. Kaul , Saket Anand , P. B. Sujit

In this paper, the problem of trajectory design of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for maximizing the number of satisfied users is studied in a UAV based cellular network where the UAV works as a flying base station that serves users, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Xuanlin Liu , Mingzhe Chen , Changchuan Yin

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an integral part of wireless networks, and determining collision-free trajectory in multi-UAV non-cooperative scenarios while collecting data from distributed Internet of Things (IoT) nodes…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu

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

This paper investigates an interference-aware joint path planning and power allocation mechanism for a cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in a sparse suburban environment. The UAV's goal is to fly from an initial point and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Alireza Shamsoshoara , Fatemeh Lotfi , Sajad Mousavi , Fatemeh Afghah , Ismail Guvenc

In this paper, an interference-aware path planning scheme for a network of cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is proposed. In particular, each UAV aims at achieving a tradeoff between maximizing energy efficiency and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Ursula Challita , Walid Saad , Christian Bettstetter

Cellular networks are promising to support effective wireless communications for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which will help to enable various long-range UAV applications. However, these networks are optimized for terrestrial users,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Hongyu Yang , Jun Zhang , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Lataief

The integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) into Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN) enhances communication in disaster management and Search and Rescue (SAR) operations by ensuring connectivity when infrastructure fails. However, SAR…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Zaineh Abughazzah , Emna Baccour , Loay Ismail , Amr Mohamed , Mounir Hamdi

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used as aerial base stations to provide ad hoc communications infrastructure. Building upon prior research efforts which consider either static nodes, 2D trajectories or single UAV systems,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Danish Rizvi , David Boyle

In this paper, we address the problem of adaptive path planning for accurate semantic segmentation of terrain using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The usage of UAVs for terrain monitoring and remote sensing is rapidly gaining momentum due…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Felix Stache , Jonas Westheider , Federico Magistri , Marija Popović , Cyrill Stachniss

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are commonly used for missions in unknown environments, where an exact mathematical model of the environment may not be available. This paper provides a framework for using reinforcement learning to allow the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Huy X. Pham , Hung M. La , David Feil-Seifer , Luan V. Nguyen

Path planning methods for the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in goods delivery have drawn great attention from industry and academics because of its flexibility which is suitable for many situations in the "Last Kilometer" between customer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Linfei Feng

Efficient data collection methods play a major role in helping us better understand the Earth and its ecosystems. In many applications, the usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for monitoring and remote sensing is rapidly gaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Felix Stache , Jonas Westheider , Federico Magistri , Cyrill Stachniss , Marija Popović

In this letter, we study the energy efficiency (EE) optimisation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) providing wireless coverage to static and mobile ground users. Recent multi-agent reinforcement learning approaches optimise the system's EE…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Babatunji Omoniwa , Boris Galkin , Ivana Dusparic

Recently, the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used in real-time sensing applications over cellular networks, which sense the conditions of the tasks and transmit the real-time sensory data to the base station (BS). The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-11 Jingzhi Hu , Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song