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This paper tackles the challenging task of maintaining formation among multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) while avoiding both static and dynamic obstacles during directed flight. The complexity of the task arises from its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yuqing Xie , Chao Yu , Hongzhi Zang , Feng Gao , Wenhao Tang , Jingyi Huang , Jiayu Chen , Botian Xu , Yi Wu , Yu Wang

Distance-based reward mechanisms in deep reinforcement learning (DRL) navigation systems suffer from critical safety limitations in dynamic environments, frequently resulting in collisions when visibility is restricted. We propose DRL-NSUO,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Mingao Tan , Shanze Wang , Biao Huang , Zhibo Yang , Rongfei Chen , Xiaoyu Shen , Wei Zhang

This paper presents a novel reinforcement learning framework for trajectory tracking of unmanned aerial vehicles in cluttered environments using a dual-agent architecture. Traditional optimization methods for trajectory tracking face…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Shaswat Garg , Houman Masnavi , Baris Fidan , Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi

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

Obstacle avoidance for small unmanned aircraft is vital for the safety of future urban air mobility (UAM) and Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM). There are many techniques for real-time robust drone guidance, but many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Jueming Hu , Xuxi Yang , Weichang Wang , Peng Wei , Lei Ying , Yongming Liu

In this paper, we study the application of DRL algorithms in the context of local navigation problems, in which a robot moves towards a goal location in unknown and cluttered workspaces equipped only with limited-range exteroceptive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Victor R. F. Miranda , Armando A. Neto , Gustavo M. Freitas , Leonardo A. Mozelli

The proliferation of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) has caused airspace regulation authorities to examine the interoperability of these aircraft with collision avoidance systems initially designed for large transport category aircraft.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Cooper Cone , Michael Owen , Luis Alvarez , Marc Brittain

Autonomous indoor navigation of UAVs presents numerous challenges, primarily due to the limited precision of GPS in enclosed environments. Additionally, UAVs' limited capacity to carry heavy or power-intensive sensors, such as overheight…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Kangtong Mo , Linyue Chu , Xingyu Zhang , Xiran Su , Yang Qian , Yining Ou , Wian Pretorius

The rapid growth of the low-altitude economy has driven the widespread adoption of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This growing deployment presents new challenges for UAV trajectory planning in complex urban environments. However, existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yanwei Gong , Junchao Fan , Ruichen Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Yingying Yao , Xiaolin Chang

In this paper, we study a joint detection, mapping and navigation problem for a single unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with a low complexity radar and flying in an unknown environment. The goal is to optimize its trajectory with the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Anna Guerra , Francesco Guidi , Davide Dardari , Petar M. Djuric

The challenges to solving the collision avoidance problem lie in adaptively choosing optimal robot velocities in complex scenarios full of interactive obstacles. In this paper, we propose a distributed approach for multi-robot navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Ruihua Han , Shengduo Chen , Shuaijun Wang , Zeqing Zhang , Rui Gao , Qi Hao , Jia Pan

Safe flight in dynamic environments requires unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to make effective decisions when navigating cluttered spaces with moving obstacles. Traditional approaches often decompose decision-making into hierarchical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Zhefan Xu , Xinming Han , Haoyu Shen , Hanyu Jin , Kenji Shimada

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

In obstacle avoidance navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), variations in obstacle scale have received strangely less attention than obstacle number or density. Existing methods typically extract purely geometric features from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Hong Hong , Feiyu Liao , Yongheng Liang , Boning Zhang , Haitao Wang , Hejun Wu

This paper presents a Pre-Training Deep Reinforcement Learning(DRL) for avoidance navigation without map for mobile robots which map raw sensor data to control variable and navigate in an unknown environment. The efficient offline training…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Yang Wenkai Ji Ruihang Zhang Yuxiang Lei Hao , Zhao Zijie

Active target sensing is the task of discovering and classifying an unknown number of targets in an environment and is critical in search-and-rescue missions. This paper develops a deep reinforcement learning approach to plan informative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Harsh Goel , Laura Jarin Lipschitz , Saurav Agarwal , Sandeep Manjanna , Vijay Kumar

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

Unmanned Surface Vehicles technology (USVs) is an exciting topic that essentially deploys an algorithm to safely and efficiently performs a mission. Although reinforcement learning is a well-known approach to modeling such a task,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Mohammad Etemad , Nader Zare , Mahtab Sarvmaili , Amilcar Soares , Bruno Brandoli Machado , Stan Matwin

In different situations, like disaster communication and network connectivity for rural locations, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could indeed be utilized as airborne base stations to improve both the functionality and coverage of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shahid Rasool , Irfan Ullah , Abid Ali , Ishtiaq Ahmad

Recent technological progress in the development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) together with decreasing acquisition costs make the application of drone fleets attractive for a wide variety of tasks. In agriculture, disaster management,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Yoav Alon , Huiyu Zhou