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Despite extensive developments in motion planning of autonomous aerial vehicles (AAVs), existing frameworks faces the challenges of local minima and deadlock in complex dynamic environments, leading to increased collision risks. To address…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Junzhi Li , Teng Long , Jingliang Sun , Jianxin Zhong

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been attracting significant attention because there is a high probability of line-of-sight links being obtained between them and terrestrial nodes in high-rise urban areas. In this work, we investigate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Hongjiang Lei , Xiaqiu Wu , Ki-Hong Park , Gaofeng Pan

Localization is one of the most crucial tasks for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle systems (UAVs) directly impacting overall performance, which can be achieved with various sensors and applied to numerous tasks related to search and rescue…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Thanh Nguyen Canh , Huy-Hoang Ngo , Xiem HoangVan , Nak Young Chong

Autonomous flight in unknown environments requires precise spatial and temporal trajectory planning, often involving computationally expensive nonconvex optimization prone to local optima. To overcome these challenges, we present the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yicheng Chen , Jinjie Li , Wenyuan Qin , Yongzhao Hua , Xiwang Dong , Qingdong Li

In this paper, the problem of trajectory design of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for maximizing the number of satisfied users is studied in a UAV based cellular network where the UAV works as a flying base station that serves users, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Xuanlin Liu , Mingzhe Chen , Changchuan Yin

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a critical component in next-generation wireless networks, particularly for disaster recovery scenarios, due to their flexibility, mobility, and rapid deployment capabilities. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-15 Mohammad Taghi Dabiri , Mazen Hasna , Saud Althunibat , Khalid Qaraqe

In this study, reinforcement learning was applied to learning two-dimensional path planning including obstacle avoidance by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in an indoor environment. The task assigned to the UAV was to reach the goal position…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Jongmin Park , Sooyoung Jang , Younghoon Shin

Unmanned aerial vehicles combined with computer vision systems, such as convolutional neural networks, offer a flexible and affordable solution for terrain monitoring, mapping, and detection tasks. However, a key challenge remains the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Hermann Blum , Silvan Rohrbach , Marija Popovic , Luca Bartolomei , Roland Siegwart

The Orienteering Problem (OP) is a well-studied routing problem that has been extended to incorporate uncertainties, reflecting stochastic or dynamic travel costs, prize-collection costs, and prizes. Existing approaches may, however, be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-10 Qiuchen Qian , Yanran Wang , David Boyle

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are desirable platforms for time-efficient and cost-effective task execution. 3-D path planning is a key challenge for task decision-making. This paper proposes an improved multi-objective evolutionary…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Yougang Xiao , Hao Yang , Huan Liu , Keyu Wu , Guohua Wu

We investigate the autonomous navigation of a mobile robot in the presence of other moving vehicles under time-varying uncertain environmental disturbances. We first predict the future state distributions of other vehicles to account for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Junhong Xu , Kai Yin , Lantao Liu

This paper studies the collision avoidance problem for autonomous multiple fixedwing UAVs in the complex integrated airspace. By studying and combining the online path planning method, the distributed model predictive control algorithm, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Yajing Wang , Xiangke Wang , Shulong Zhao , Lincheng Shen

Efficiently planning an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) path is crucial, especially in dynamic settings where potential threats are prevalent. A Dynamic Path Planner (DPP) for UAV using the Spherical Vector-based Particle Swarm Optimisation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Mohssen E. Elshaar , Mohammed R. Elbalshy , A. Hussien , Mohammed Abido

Swarm trajectory optimization problems are a well-recognized class of multi-agent optimal control problems with strong nonlinearity. However, the heuristic nature of needing to set the final time for agents beforehand and the time-consuming…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Xiaobo Zheng , Pan Tang , Defu Lin , Shaoming He

Consider an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that searches for an unknown number of targets at unknown positions in 3D space. A particle filter uses imperfect measurements about the targets to update an intensity function that represents the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Bilal Yousuf , Zsofia Lendek , Lucian Busoniu

Autonomous vehicles must navigate dynamically uncertain environments while balancing safety and efficiency. This challenge is exacerbated by unpredictable human-driven vehicle (HV) behaviors and perception inaccuracies, necessitating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Rui Yang , Lei Zheng , Shuzhi Sam Ge , Jun Ma

Fast and accurate path planning is important for ground robots to achieve safe and efficient autonomous navigation in unstructured outdoor environments. However, most existing methods exploiting either 2D or 2.5D maps struggle to balance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Jiayang Liu , Xieyuanli Chen , Junhao Xiao , Sichao Lin , Zhiqiang Zheng , Huimin Lu

As the demands of autonomous mobile robots are increasing in recent years, the requirement of the path planning/navigation algorithm should not be content with the ability to reach the target without any collisions, but also should try to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Jian Zhang

Unmanned Aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used as network processors in mobile networks, but more recently, UAVs have been used in Mobile Edge Computing as mobile servers. However, there are significant challenges to use UAVs in complex…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Huan Chang , Yicheng Chen , Baochang Zhang , David Doermann

This paper explores the problem of path planning under uncertainty. Specifically, we consider online receding horizon based planners that need to operate in a latent environment where the latent information can be modeled via Gaussian…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-19 Wen Sun , Niteesh Sood , Debadeepta Dey , Gireeja Ranade , Siddharth Prakash , Ashish Kapoor