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In this paper, we investigate resource allocation design for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communication systems, where a UAV is dispatched to provide communications to multiple user nodes. Our objective is to maximize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Ruide Li , Zhiqiang Wei , Lei Yang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Nan Yang , Jinhong Yuan , Jianping An

Teams of UGVs patrolling harsh and complex 3D environments can experience interference and spatial conflicts with one another. Neglecting the occurrence of these events crucially hinders both soundness and reliability of a patrolling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Luigi Freda , Mario Gianni , Fiora Pirri , Abel Gawel , Renaud Dube , Roland Siegwart , Cesar Cadena

This work describes the orchestration of a fleet of rotary-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for harvesting prioritized traffic from random distributions of heterogeneous users with Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) capabilities. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Bharath Keshavamurthy , Nicolo Michelusi

Safe and agile trajectory planning is essential for autonomous systems, especially during complex aerobatic maneuvers. Motivated by the recent success of diffusion models in generative tasks, this paper introduces AeroTrajGen, a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Peiwen Yang , Shiyu Bai , Weisong Wen , Yixin Gao , Jiahao Hu

As a kind of fully actuated system, omnidirectional multirotor aerial vehicles (OMAVs) has more flexible maneuverability than traditional underactuated multirotor aircraft, and it also has more significant advantages in obstacle avoidance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Peiyan Liu , Fengyu Quan , Yueqian Liu , Haoyao Chen

Multi-UAV cooperative path planning (MUCPP) is a fundamental problem in multi-agent systems, aiming to generate collision-free trajectories for a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to complete distributed tasks efficiently. A key…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Hongzong Li , Luwei Liao , Xiangguang Dai , Yuming Feng , Rong Feng , Shiqin Tang

Scalable multi-robot transition is essential for ubiquitous adoption of robots. As a step towards it, a computationally efficient decentralized algorithm for continuous-time trajectory optimization in multi-robot scenarios based upon model…

The area coverage problem is the task of efficiently servicing a given two-dimensional surface using sensors mounted on robots such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). We present a novel formulation for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Saurav Agarwal , Srinivas Akella

In recent years, various state of the art autonomous vehicle systems and architectures have been introduced. These methods include planners that depend on high-definition (HD) maps and models that learn an autonomous agent's controls in an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-29 David Paz , Hengyuan Zhang , Henrik I. Christensen

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications have been widely accepted as promising technologies to support air-to-ground communications in the forthcoming sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. This paper proposes a novel air-to-ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Xiao Fan , Peiran Wu , Minghua Xia

For tasks conducted in unknown environments with efficiency requirements, real-time navigation of multi-robot systems remains challenging due to unfamiliarity with surroundings.In this paper, we propose a novel multi-robot collaborative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Qingquan Lin , Weining Lu , Litong Meng , Chenxi Li , Bin Liang

Trajectory planning is crucial in multi-robot systems, particularly in environments with numerous obstacles. While extensive research has been conducted in this field, the challenge of coordinating multiple robots to flow collectively from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Han Liu , Yu Jin , Mingyue Cui , Boyang Li , Tianjiang Hu , Kai Huang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming a viable platform for sensing and estimation in a wide variety of applications including disaster response, search and rescue, and security monitoring. These sensing UAVs have limited battery and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Lorson Blair , Carlos A. Varela , Stacy Patterson

This paper presents a method for planning optimal trajectories with a team of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) performing autonomous cinematography. The method is able to plan trajectories online and in a distributed manner, providing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Alfonso Alcántara , Jesús Capitán , Rita Cunha , Aníbal Ollero

This letter addresses the problem of trajectory planning in a marsupial robotic system consisting of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) linked to an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) through a non-taut tether withcontrollable length. To the best…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-26 S. Mart/'inez-Rozas , D. Alejo , F. Caballero , L. Merino

Navigating an arbitrary-shaped ground robot safely in cluttered environments remains a challenging problem. The existing trajectory planners that account for the robot's physical geometry severely suffer from the intractable runtime. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Yisheng Li , Longji Yin , Yixi Cai , Jianheng Liu , Fangcheng Zhu , Mingpu Ma , Siqi Liang , Haotian Li , Fu Zhang

Path planning is a major problem in autonomous vehicles. In recent years, with the increase in applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), one of the main challenges is path planning, particularly in adversarial environments. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Mohammad Reza Ranjbar Divkoti , Mostafa Nouri-Baygi

Reliable and efficient trajectory generation methods are a fundamental need for autonomous dynamical systems of tomorrow. The goal of this article is to provide a comprehensive tutorial of three major convex optimization-based trajectory…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-18 Danylo Malyuta , Taylor P. Reynolds , Michael Szmuk , Thomas Lew , Riccardo Bonalli , Marco Pavone , Behcet Acikmese

Despite recent progress on trajectory planning of multiple robots and path planning of a single tethered robot, planning of multiple tethered robots to reach their individual targets without entanglements remains a challenging problem. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Muqing Cao , Kun Cao , Shenghai Yuan , Thien-Minh Nguyen , Lihua Xie

A flexible topological representation consisting of a two-layer graph structure built on-board an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) by continuously filling the free space of an occupancy map with intersecting spheres is proposed in this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Tomáš Musil , Matěj Petrlík , Martin Saska