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In this paper, the problem of using one active unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and four passive UAVs to localize a 3D target UAV in real time is investigated. In the considered model, each passive UAV receives reflection signals from the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Yujiao Zhu , Mingzhe Chen , Sihua Wang , Ye Hu , Yuchen Liu , Changchuan Yin

Path Planning methods for autonomous control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms are on the rise because of all the advantages they bring. There are more and more scenarios where autonomous control of multiple UAVs is required. Most of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Alejandro Puente-Castro , Daniel Rivero , Eurico Pedrosa , Artur Pereira , Nuno Lau , Enrique Fernandez-Blanco

Complex planning and scheduling problems have long been solved using various optimization or heuristic approaches. In recent years, imitation learning that aims to learn from expert demonstrations has been proposed as a viable alternative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Qian Shao , Pradeep Varakantham , Shih-Fen Cheng

Since the application of Deep Q-Learning to the continuous action domain in Atari-like games, Deep Reinforcement Learning (Deep-RL) techniques for motion control have been qualitatively enhanced. Nowadays, modern Deep-RL can be successfully…

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are often used for navigating dangerous terrains, however they are difficult to pilot. Due to complex input-output mapping schemes, limited perception, the complex system dynamics and the need to maintain a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Kal Backman , Dana Kulić , Hoam Chung

Motivated by agility, 3D mobility, and low-risk operation compared to human-operated management systems of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), this work studies UAV-based active wildfire monitoring where a UAV detects fire incidents…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Sahand Khoshdel , Qi Luo , Fatemeh Afghah

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly essential in various fields such as surveillance, reconnaissance, and telecommunications. This study aims to develop a learning algorithm for the path planning of UAV wireless communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Joseanne Viana , Boris Galkin , Lester Ho , Holger Claussen

The main motivation of this work is to propose a simulation approach for a specific task within the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) field, i.e., the visual detection and tracking of arbitrary moving objects. In particular, it is described…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Giuseppe Silano , Luigi Iannelli

Due to their adaptability and mobility, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming increasingly essential for wireless network services, particularly for data harvesting tasks. In this context, Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Babacar Toure , Dimitrios Tsilimantos , Omid Esrafilian , Marios Kountouris

We propose a new Verbal Reinforcement Learning (VRL) framework for interpretable task-level planning in mobile robotic systems operating under execution uncertainty. The framework follows a closed-loop architecture that enables iterative…

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for achieving online agile navigation with quadrotors. Despite this success, policies trained via standard RL typically fail to generalize across significant dynamic variations,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jin Zhou , Dongcheng Cao , Xian Wang , Shuo Li

Autonomous navigation is a fundamental task for robot vacuum cleaners in indoor environments. Since their core function is to clean entire areas, robots inevitably encounter dead zones in cluttered and narrow scenarios. Existing planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Han Zheng , Jiale Zhang , Mingyang Jiang , Peiyuan Liu , Danni Liu , Tong Qin , Ming Yang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have numerous applications, but their efficient and optimal flight can be a challenge. Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a promising approach to address this challenge, yet there is no standardized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Jun Jet Tai , Jim Wong , Mauro Innocente , Nadjim Horri , James Brusey , Swee King Phang

Most reinforcement learning(RL)-based methods for drone racing target fixed, obstacle-free tracks, leaving the generalization to unknown, cluttered environments largely unaddressed. This challenge stems from the need to balance racing speed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Feng Yu , Yu Hu , Yang Su , Yang Deng , Linzuo Zhang , Danping Zou

This paper presents a framework for the localization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in unstructured environments with the help of deep learning. A real-time rendering engine is introduced that generates optical and depth images given a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Timo Hinzmann , Roland Siegwart

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become increasingly prominence in recent years, finding applications in surveillance, package delivery, among many others. Despite considerable efforts in developing algorithms that enable UAVs to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Guanlin Wu , Zhuokai Zhao , Yutao He

AI alignment is growing in importance, yet many current approaches learn safety behavior by directly modifying policy parameters, entangling normative constraints with the underlying policy. This often yields opaque, difficult-to-edit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Elias Malomgré , Pieter Simoens

We apply a reinforcement meta-learning framework to optimize an integrated and adaptive guidance and flight control system for an air-to-air missile. The system is implemented as a policy that maps navigation system outputs directly to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-05 Brian Gaudet , Roberto Furfaro

To achieve scenario intelligence, humans must transfer knowledge to robots by developing goal-oriented algorithms, which are sometimes insensitive to dynamically changing environments. While deep reinforcement learning achieves significant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Tingguang Li , Jin Pan , Delong Zhu , Max Q. -H. Meng

Recent technological advancements in space, air, and ground components have made possible a new network paradigm called space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN). Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play a key role in SAGINs. However, due to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-18 Atefeh H. Arani , Peng Hu , Yeying Zhu