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In this paper, we present our proposed approach for active tracking to increase the autonomy of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) using event cameras, low-energy imaging sensors that offer significant advantages in speed and dynamic range.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ala Souissi , Hajer Fradi , Panagiotis Papadakis

Autonomous vehicles (AV) offer a cost-effective solution for scientific missions such as underwater tracking. Recently, reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful method for controlling AVs in complex marine environments.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Matteo Gallici , Ivan Masmitja , Mario Martín

The use of multi-rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for search and rescue as well as remote sensing is rapidly increasing. Multi-rotor UAVs, however, have limited endurance. The range of UAV applications can be widened if teams of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Xiaolong Zhu , Fernando Vanegas , Felipe Gonzalez , Conrad Sanderson

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) and Deep Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) have achieved significant successes across a wide range of domains, including game AI, autonomous vehicles, robotics, and so on. However, DRL and deep MARL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Jianye Hao , Tianpei Yang , Hongyao Tang , Chenjia Bai , Jinyi Liu , Zhaopeng Meng , Peng Liu , Zhen Wang

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) is a widely used technique for optimization in decentralised control problems. However, most applications of MARL are in static environments, and are not suitable when agent behaviour and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-09-17 Andrei Marinescu , Ivana Dusparic , Adam Taylor , Vinny Cahill , Siobhán Clarke

With the continual adoption of Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) across a wide-variety of application spaces, robust aerial manipulation remains a key research challenge. Aerial manipulation tasks require interacting with objects in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Cora A. Dimmig , Marin Kobilarov

In this work, we present an approach to supervisory reinforcement learning control for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). UAVs are dynamic systems where control decisions in response to disturbances in the environment have to be made in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Ibrahim Ahmed , Marcos Quinones-Grueiro , Gautam Biswas

In recent years, autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) swarms are gradually becoming popular and have been widely promoted in ocean exploration or underwater tracking, etc. In this paper, we propose a multi-AUV cooperative underwater…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Shengbo Wang , Chuan Lin , Guangjie Han , Shengchao Zhu , Zhixian Li , Zhenyu Wang , Yunpeng Ma

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) is a challenging subarea of Reinforcement Learning due to the non-stationarity of the environments and the large dimensionality of the combined action space. Deep MARL algorithms have been applied…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Yuanchao Xu , Amal Feriani , Ekram Hossain

This paper introduces the deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as lightweight wireless access points that leverage the fixed infrastructure in the context of the emerging open radio access network (O-RAN). More precisely, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Hossein Mohammadi , Vuk Marojevic , Bodong Shang

Multi-rotor UAVs suffer from a restricted range and flight duration due to limited battery capacity. Autonomous landing on a 2D moving platform offers the possibility to replenish batteries and offload data, thus increasing the utility of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Pascal Goldschmid , Aamir 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

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

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is a widely used Artificial Intelligence (AI) technique. However, current studies and applications need to address its scalability, non-stationarity, and trustworthiness. This paper aims to review…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Ziyuan Zhou , Guanjun Liu , Ying Tang

Path Planning methods for autonomous control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms are on the rise because of all the advantages they bring. There are more and more scenarios where autonomous control of multiple UAVs is required. Most of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Alejandro Puente-Castro , Daniel Rivero , Eurico Pedrosa , Artur Pereira , Nuno Lau , Enrique Fernandez-Blanco

Attitude control of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a difficult control problem in part due to uncertain nonlinear dynamics, actuator constraints, and coupled longitudinal and lateral motions. Current state-of-the-art…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-20 Eivind Bøhn , Erlend M. Coates , Dirk Reinhardt , Tor Arne Johansen

Multi-agent reinforcement learning was performed in this study for indoor path planning of two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Each UAV performed the task of moving as fast as possible from a randomly paired initial position to a goal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Jongmin Park , Kwansik Park

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an integral part of wireless networks. In this paper, we aim to find collision-free paths for multiple cellular-connected UAVs, while satisfying requirements of connectivity with ground…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu

Efficient mission planning for cooperative systems involving Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) requires addressing energy constraints, scalability, and coordination challenges between agents. UAVs excel in…

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) plays a pivotal role in tackling real-world challenges. However, the seamless transition of trained policies from simulations to real-world requires it to be robust to various environmental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Aakriti Agrawal , Rohith Aralikatti , Yanchao Sun , Furong Huang