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Generative agents have proven to be powerful assistants in a wide variety of contexts. Given this success, users are now deploying agents with minimal restrictions in open ended, multi-agent environments. Current methods for monitoring the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Hayden Helm , Carey Priebe , Brandon Duderstadt

This paper addresses the challenges of distributed formation control in multiple mobile robots, introducing a novel approach that enhances real-world practicability. We first introduce a distributed estimator using a variable structure and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Zhe Xu , Tao Yan , Simon X. Yang , S. Andrew Gadsden , Mohammad Biglarbegian

Multimodal time series (MTS) anomaly detection is crucial for maintaining the safety and stability of working devices (e.g., water treatment system and spacecraft), whose data are characterized by multivariate time series with diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Chaoyue Ding , Shiliang Sun , Jing Zhao

While unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with flexible mobility are envisioned to enhance physical layer security in wireless communications, the efficient security design that adapts to such high network dynamics is rather challenging. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-03 Xiao Tang , Kexin Zhao , Chao Shen , Qinghe Du , Yichen Wang , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

Robust cooperative formation control is investigated in this paper for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles in close formation flight to save energy. A novel cooperative control method is developed. The concept of virtual structure is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Qingrui Zhang , Hugh H. T. Liu

We present Neural-Swarm2, a learning-based method for motion planning and control that allows heterogeneous multirotors in a swarm to safely fly in close proximity. Such operation for drones is challenging due to complex aerodynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Guanya Shi , Wolfgang Hönig , Xichen Shi , Yisong Yue , Soon-Jo Chung

Multi-sourced datasets are common in studies of variable interactions, for example, individual-level fMRI integration, cross-domain recommendation, etc, where each source induces a related but distinct dependency structure. Joint learning…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-08 Shixiang Liu , Yanhang Zhang , Zhifan Li , Jianxin Yin

With rapid evolution of mobile core network (MCN) architectures, large-scale control-plane traffic (CPT) traces are critical to studying MCN design and performance optimization by the R&D community. The prior-art control-plane traffic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Z. Jonny Kong , Nathan Hu , Y. Charlie Hu , Jiayi Meng , Yaron Koral

Recent advances in safety-critical risk-aware control are predicated on apriori knowledge of the disturbances a system might face. This paper proposes a method to efficiently learn these disturbances online, in a risk-aware context. First,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-14 Prithvi Akella , Skylar X. Wei , Joel W. Burdick , Aaron D. Ames

Commonly adopted in the manufacturing and aerospace sectors, digital twin (DT) platforms are increasingly seen as a promising paradigm to control and monitor software-based, "open", communication systems, which play the role of the physical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-30 Clement Ruah , Osvaldo Simeone , Bashir Al-Hashimi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples, in which DNNs are misled to false outputs due to inputs containing imperceptible perturbations. Adversarial training, a reliable and effective method of defense, may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Zongyuan Zhang , Qingwen Bu , Tianyang Duan , Zheng Lin , Yuhao Qing , Zihan Fang , Heming Cui , Dong Huang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based communication networks (UCNs) are a key component in future mobile networking. To handle the dynamic environments in UCNs, reinforcement learning (RL) has been a promising solution attributed to its…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Ran Zhang , Bowei Li , Liyuan Zhang , Jiang , Xie , Miao Wang

Aerial robots are a well-established solution for exploration, monitoring, and inspection, thanks to their superior maneuverability and agility. However, in many environments, they risk crashing and sustaining damage after collisions.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Anton Bredenbeck , Teaya Yang , Salua Hamaza , Mark W. Mueller

In this paper, the design of an optimal trajectory for an energy-constrained drone operating in dynamic network environments is studied. In the considered model, a drone base station (DBS) is dispatched to provide uplink connectivity to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Ye Hu , Mingzhe Chen , Walid Saad , H. Vincent Poor , Shuguang Cui

Over the years, reinforcement learning has emerged as a popular approach to develop signal control and vehicle platooning strategies either independently or in a hierarchical way. However, jointly controlling both in real-time to alleviate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Xianyue Peng , Shenyang Chen , Hang Gao , Hao Wang , H. Michael Zhang

This paper addresses distributed robust learning-based control for consensus formation tracking of multiple underwater vessels, in which the system parameters of the marine vessels are assumed to be entirely unknown and subject to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Tao Yan , Zhe Xu , Simon X. Yang

Adaptive teaming-the capability of agents to effectively collaborate with unfamiliar teammates without prior coordination-is widely explored in virtual video games but overlooked in real-world multi-robot contexts. Yet, such adaptive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Yang Li , Junfan Chen , Feng Xue , Jiabin Qiu , Wenbin Li , Qingrui Zhang , Ying Wen , Wei Pan

We present graph attention networks (GATs), novel neural network architectures that operate on graph-structured data, leveraging masked self-attentional layers to address the shortcomings of prior methods based on graph convolutions or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-06 Petar Veličković , Guillem Cucurull , Arantxa Casanova , Adriana Romero , Pietro Liò , Yoshua Bengio

In this paper, the problem of drone-assisted collaborative learning is considered. In this scenario, swarm of intelligent wireless devices train a shared neural network (NN) model with the help of a drone. Using its sensors, each device…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Mahnoosh Mahdavimoghadam , Rahim Tafazolli , Walid Saad

Solar sensor-based monitoring systems have become a crucial agricultural innovation, advancing farm management and animal welfare through integrating sensor technology, Internet-of-Things, and edge and cloud computing. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Dian Chen , Zelin Wan , Dong Sam Ha , Jin-Hee Cho