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The problem of constrained coverage path planning involves a robot trying to cover maximum area of an environment under some constraints that appear as obstacles in the map. Out of the several coverage path planning methods, we consider…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Ankit Manerikar , Debasmit Das , Pranay Banerjee

A decentralized swarm approach for the fast cooperative flight of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in feature-poor environments without any external localization and communication is introduced in this paper. A novel model of a UAV…

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In this letter, we propose a six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA)-aided cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system to fully exploit its macro spatial diversity, where a set of distributed access points (APs), each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Xiaoming Shi , Xiaodan Shao , Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

Decentralized drone swarms deployed today either rely on sharing of positions among agents or detecting swarm members with the help of visual markers. This work proposes an entirely visual approach to coordinate markerless drone swarms…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Fabian Schilling , Julien Lecoeur , Fabrizio Schiano , Dario Floreano

This paper investigates the robust and secure task transmission and computation scheme in multi-antenna unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) networks, where the UAV is dual-function, i.e., aerial MEC and aerial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Weihao Mao , Ke Xiong , Yang Lu , Pingyi Fan , Zhiguo Ding

Supporting reliable and seamless mobility for aerial users, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), is a key challenge for the next-generation cellular systems. To tackle this challenge, we propose a joint beamforming, user association,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Jiancao Hou , Yansha Deng , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarm systems necessitate efficient collaborative perception mechanisms for diverse operational scenarios. Current Bird's Eye View (BEV)-based approaches exhibit two main limitations: bounding-box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Zefu Lin , Wenbo Chen , Xiaojuan Jin , Yuran Yang , Lue Fan , Yixin Zhang , Yufeng Zhang , Zhaoxiang Zhang

The inherent non-convexity of poriferous surfaces typically entraps agents in local minima and complicates workload distribution. To resolve this, we propose a distributed diffeomorphic coverage control framework for the multi-agent system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Xun Feng , Chao Zhai

Mobile edge computing (MEC) provides computational services at the edge of networks by offloading tasks from user equipments (UEs). This letter employs an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as the edge computing server to execute offloaded tasks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Yuwen Qian , Feifei Wang , Jun Li , Long Shi , Kui Cai , Feng Shu

A framework is introduced for planning unmanned aerial vehicle flight paths for visual surveillance of ground targets, each having particular viewing requirements. Specifically, each target is associated with a set of imaging parameters,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-16 Jeffrey R. Peters , Amit Surana , Grant S. Taylor , Terry S. Turpin , Francesco Bullo

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted plenty of attention due to their high flexibility and enhanced communication ability. However, the limited coverage and energy of UAVs make it difficult to provide timely wireless service for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-18 Rui Wang , Kaitao Meng , Deshi Li

In complex urban environments, dynamic obstacles and multipath effects lead to significant link attenuation and pervasive coverage blind spots. Conventional approaches based on large-scale fixed antenna arrays and UAV trajectory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Kan Yu , Kaixuan Li , Xiaowu Liu , Qixun Zhang , Zhiyong Feng

We study support for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications through a cell-free massive MIMO architecture, wherein a large number of access points (APs) is deployed in place of large co-located massive MIMO arrays. We consider also a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Carmen D'Andrea , Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez , Giovanni Geraci , Lorenzo Galati Giordano , Stefano Buzzi

When using constellation synergy to image large areas for reconnaissance, it is required to achieve the coverage capability requirements with minimal consumption of observation resources to obtain the most optimal constellation observation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Jiahao Zhou , Boheng Li , Qingxiang Meng

In this paper, we investigate an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled secure communication scenario that a cluster of UAVs performs a virtual non-uniform linear array (NULA) to communicate with a base station (BS) in the presence of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Bin Qiu , Wenchi Cheng , Hongxiang He , Wei Zhang

This article addresses the challenge of UAV survey coverage path planning for areas that are complex concave polygons, containing exclusion zones or obstacles. While standard drone path planners typically generate coverage paths for simple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Shadman Tajwar Shahid , Shah Md. Ahasan Siddique , Md. Mahidul Alam

Planning for multi-robot coverage seeks to determine collision-free paths for a fleet of robots, enabling them to collectively observe points of interest in an environment. Persistent coverage is a variant of traditional coverage where…

In terrestrial communication networks without fixed infrastructure, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-mounted mobile base stations (MBSs) provide an efficient solution to achieve wireless connectivity. This letter aims to minimize the number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Jiangbin Lyu , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang , Teng Joon Lim

The visual simultaneous localization and mapping(vSLAM) is widely used in GPS-denied and open field environments for ground and surface robots. However, due to the frequent perception failures derived from lacking visual texture or the…

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