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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a promising solution to provide wireless data access for ground users in various applications (e.g., in emergence situations). This paper considers a UAV-enabled wireless network, in which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Peiming Li , Jie Xu

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming increasingly useful for tasks which require the acquisition of data over large areas. The coverage problem, i.e., the problem of periodically visiting all subregions of an area at a desired…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Floriana Benedetti , Alessio Capitanelli , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni , Gianni Vercelli

Multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play a vital role in monitoring and data collection in wide area environments with harsh conditions. In most scenarios, issues such as real-time data retrieval and real-time UAV positioning are often…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Ming He , Peizhao Wang , Haihua Chen , Bin Sun , Hongpeng Wang

Dynamic low altitude networks offer significant potential for efficient and reliable data transport via unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) relays which usually operate with predetermined trajectories. However, it is challenging to optimize the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Bowen Li , Junting Chen

Multi-hop uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) networks are promising to extend the terrestrial network coverage. Existing multi-hop UAV networks employ a single routing path by selecting the next-hop forwarding node in a hop-by-hop manner, which…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Zhenyu Zhao , Tiankui Zhang , Xiaoxia Xu , Junjie Li , Yuanwei Liu , Wenjuan Xing

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network is popular these years due to its various applications. In the UAV network, routing is significantly affected by the distributed network topology, leading to the issue that UAVs are vulnerable to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Sijie He , Ziye Jia , Chao Dong , Wei Wang , Yilu Cao , Yang Yang , Qihui Wu

Nowadays there is a growing research interest on the possibility of enriching small flying robots with autonomous sensing and online navigation capabilities. This will enable a large number of applications spanning from remote surveillance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Anna Guerra , Davide Dardari , Petar M. Djuric

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication has emerged as a prominent technology for emergency communications (e.g., natural disaster) in the Internet of Things (IoT) networks to enhance the ability of disaster prediction, damage…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-17 Dinh-Hieu Tran , Van-Dinh Nguyen , Sumit Gautam , Symeon Chatzinotas , Thang X. Vu , Bjorn Ottersten

Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used for exploration-driven monitoring in hazardous environments such as disaster zones, contaminated sites, wildfire areas, and damaged infrastructure, where limited flight endurance must be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jimin Choi , Grant Stagg , Cameron K. Peterson , Max Z. Li

This paper addresses the challenge of navigating unmanned aerial vehicles in contested environments by introducing a cooperative multi-agent framework that increases the likelihood of safe UAV traversal. The approach involves two types of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Grant Stagg , Cameron K. Peterson

A reliable communication network is essential for multiple UAVs operating within obstacle-cluttered environments, where limited communication due to obstructions often occurs. A common solution is to deploy intermediate UAVs to relay…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Yuda Chen , Shuaikang Wang , Jie Li , Meng Guo

Multiple fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (multi-UAVs) encounter significant challenges in cooperative path following over complex Digital Elevation Model (DEM) low-altitude airspace, including wind field disturbances, sudden obstacles,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Zimao Sheng , Zirui Yu , Hong'an Yang

In this work uses innovative multi-channel load-sensing techniques to deploy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for surveillance. The research aims to improve the quality of data transmission methods and improve the efficiency and reliability…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Raja Vavekanand , Kira Sam , Vijay Singh

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have great potential in urban traffic monitoring due to their rapid speed, cost-effectiveness, and extensive field-of-view, while being unconstrained by traffic congestion. However, their limited flight…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Yumeng Bai , Yiheng Feng

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

Cooperative UAV networks are becoming increasingly popular in military and civilian applications. Alas, the typical ad-hoc routing protocols, which aim at finding the shortest path, lead to significant performance degradation because of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Mohammed Gharib , Fatemeh Afghah , Elizabeth Bentley

In this paper, we propose a distributed solution to the navigation of a population of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to best localize a static source. The network is considered heterogeneous with UAVs equipped with received signal strength…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-23 Anna Guerra , Davide Dardari , Petar M. Djuric

This paper studies a heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) cooperative search approach suitable for complex environments. In the application, a fixed-wing UAV drops rotor UAVs to deploy the cluster rapidly. Meanwhile, the fixed-wing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Zhenchang Liu , Mingrui Hao

This article proposes a new Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) operation paradigm to enable a large number of relatively low-cost UAVs to fly beyond-line-of-sight without costly sensing and communication systems or substantial human intervention…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Santosh Devasia , Alexander Lee

A reliable communication network is essential for multiple UAVs operating within obstacle-cluttered environments, where limited communication due to obstructions often occurs. A common solution is to deploy intermediate UAVs to relay…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Yuda Chen , Meng Guo