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The rapid growth of the low-altitude economy has resulted in a significant increase in the number of Low, slow, and small (LLS) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), raising critical challenges for secure airspace management and reliable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Tianhao Liang , Mu Jia , Tingting Zhang , Junting Chen , Longyu Zhou , Tony Q. S. Quek , Pooi-Yuen Kam

This paper summarizes in depth the state of the art of aerial swarms, covering both classical and new reinforcement-learning-based approaches for their management. Then, it proposes a hybrid AI system, integrating deep reinforcement…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Raúl Arranz , David Carramiñana , Gonzalo de Miguel , Juan A. Besada , Ana M. Bernardos

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms are increasingly explored for their potentials in various applications such as surveillance, disaster response, and military. However, UAV swarms face significant challenges of implementing effective and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Ziye Jia , Yao Wu , Qihui Wu , Lijun He , Qiuming Zhu , Fuhui Zhou , Zhu Han

The evolving field of mobile robotics has indeed increased the demand for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems. To augment the localization accuracy and mapping efficacy of SLAM, we refined the core module of the SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Ang He , Xi-mei Wu , Xiao-bin Guo , Li-bin Liu

The advancement in cyber-physical systems has opened a new way in disaster management and rescue operations. The usage of UAVs is very promising in this context. UAVs, mainly quadcopters, are small in size and their payload capacity is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Arindam Majee , Rahul Saha , Snehasish Roy , Srilekha Mandal , Sayan Chatterjee

UAV swarms are widely used in emergency communications, area monitoring, and disaster relief. Coordinated by control centers, they are ideal for federated learning (FL) frameworks. However, current UAV-assisted FL methods primarily focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Yubo Yang , Tao Yang , Xiaofeng Wu , Ziyu Guo , Bo Hu

In recent decade, potential application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) has enabled replacement of various operations in hard-to-access areas, such as, inspection, surveillance or search and rescue applications in challenging and complex…

Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained popularity due to their many potential application fields. Alongside sophisticated sensors, UAVs can be equipped with communication adaptors aimed for inter-UAV communication.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-18 Matthias R. Brust , Bogdan M. Strimbu

Swarm in Blocks, originally developed for CopterHack 2022, is a high-level interface that simplifies drone swarm programming using a block-based language. Building on the Clover platform, this tool enables users to create functionalities…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Agnes Bressan de Almeida , Joao Aires Correa Fernandes Marsicano

The autonomous real-time optical navigation of planetary UAV is of the key technologies to ensure the success of the exploration. In such a GPS denied environment, vision-based localization is an optimal approach. In this paper, we proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Xue Wan , Yuanbin Shao , Shengyang Li

This paper introduces a high-performance artificial intelligence operating system tailored for low-altitude aviation, designed to address key challenges such as real-time task execution, computational efficiency, and seamless modular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Minzhe Tan , Xinlin Fan , Jian He , Yi Hou , Zhan Liu , Yaopeng Jiang , Y. M. Jiang

Achieving large-scale aerial swarms is challenging due to the inherent contradictions in balancing computational efficiency and scalability. This paper introduces Primitive-Swarm, an ultra-lightweight and scalable planner designed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Jialiang Hou , Xin Zhou , Neng Pan , Ang Li , Yuxiang Guan , Chao Xu , Zhongxue Gan , Fei Gao

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms offer versatile applications in logistics, agriculture, and surveillance, yet controlling them requires expert knowledge for safety and feasibility. Traditional static methods limit adaptability, while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Aditya Shibu , Marah Saleh , Mohamed Al-Musleh , Nidhal Abdulaziz

In this paper, we explore the application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in maritime search and rescue (mSAR) missions, focusing on medium-sized fixed-wing drones and quadcopters. We address the challenges and limitations inherent in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Martin Messmer , Benjamin Kiefer , Leon Amadeus Varga , Andreas Zell

We investigate training machine learning (ML) models across a set of geo-distributed, resource-constrained clusters of devices through unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) swarms. The presence of time-varying data heterogeneity and computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Su Wang , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Maria Gorlatova , Christopher G. Brinton , Mung Chiang

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network is a promising technology for assisting Internet-of-Things (IoT), where a UAV can use its limited service coverage to harvest and disseminate data from IoT devices with low transmission abilities. The…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Jiahui Li , Geng Sun , Lingjie Duan , Qingqing Wu

This research presents a multi-robot system for inpatient care, designed using swarm intelligence principles and incorporating wearable health sensors, RF-based communication, and AI-driven decision support. Within a simulated hospital…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Nakhul Kalaivanan , Senthil Arumugam Muthukumaraswamy , Girish Balasubramanian

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

Nowadays, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly utilized in search and rescue missions, a trend driven by technological advancements, including enhancements in automation, avionics, and the reduced cost of electronics. In this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-28 Andreas Anastasiou , Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios , Christos G. Panayiotou

Satellite radar altimetry is one of the most powerful techniques for measuring sea surface height variations, with applications ranging from operational oceanography to climate research. Over open oceans, altimeter return waveforms…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2017-09-25 Ribana Roscher , Bernd Uebbing , Jürgen Kusche