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Deep Reinforcement Learning is quickly becoming a popular method for training autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Our work analyzes the effects of measurement uncertainty on the performance of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Bhaskar Joshi , Dhruv Kapur , Harikumar Kandath

Relative localization of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms in global navigation satellite system (GNSS) denied environments is essential for emergency rescue and battlefield reconnaissance. Existing methods suffer from significant…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-05 Guangyu Lei , Yuqi Ping , Tianhao Liang , Huahao Ding , Tingting Zhang

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) is a key enabler for next-generation transportation systems. However, in an urban city scenario, mmWave is highly susceptible to blockages and shadowing. Therefore, base station (BS) placement is a crucial task in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-24 Ahmed Al-Tahmeesschi , Jukka Talvitie , Miguel López-Benítez , Hamed Ahmadi , Laura Ruotsalainen

Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a promising technology to unlock the full potential of UAVs in the future. However, how to achieve ubiquitous three-dimensional (3D) communication coverage for the UAVs in the sky is a new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-18 Yong Zeng , Xiaoli Xu , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

The proliferation of civilian and commercial unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has heightened the demand for reliable radio frequency (RF)-based drone identification systems that can operate under dynamic and uncertain airspace conditions.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Julie Liu , Irshad A. Meer , Cicek Cavdar , Mustafa Ozger

Despite the increasing adoption of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) for Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASVs), there still remain challenges limiting real-world deployment. In this paper, we first integrate buoyancy and hydrodynamics models…

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a promising candidate solution for data collection of large-scale wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this paper, we investigate a UAV-aided WSN, where cluster heads (CHs) receive data from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Botao Zhu , Ebrahim Bedeer , Ha H. Nguyen , Robert Barton , Jerome Henry

Deep learning-based algorithms can provide state-of-the-art accuracy for remote sensing technologies such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)/drones, potentially enhancing their remote sensing capabilities for many emergency response and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Christos Kyrkou , Theocharis Theocharides

In this paper, we propose reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) networks that can utilise both advantages of UAV's agility and RIS's reflection for enhancing the network's performance. To aim at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-09 Khoi Khac Nguyen , Saeed Khosravirad , Daniel Benevides da Costa , Long D. Nguyen , Trung Q. Duong

User location is a piece of critical information for network management and control. However, location uncertainty is unavoidable in certain settings leading to localization errors. In this paper, we consider the user location uncertainty…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-04 Yujie Yao , Hao Zhou , Melike Erol-Kantarci

Localization in challenging, natural environments such as forests or woodlands is an important capability for many applications from guiding a robot navigating along a forest trail to monitoring vegetation growth with handheld sensors. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Georgi Tinchev , Adrian Penate-Sanchez , Maurice Fallon

In this paper, we develop a distributed mechanism for spectrum sharing among a network of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and licensed terrestrial networks. This method can provide a practical solution for situations where the UAV network…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Alireza Shamsoshoara , Mehrdad Khaledi , Fatemeh Afghah , Abolfazl Razi , Jonathan Ashdown

Autonomous visual navigation is an essential element in robot autonomy. Reinforcement learning (RL) offers a promising policy training paradigm. However existing RL methods suffer from high sample complexity, poor sim-to-real transfer, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Qianzhong Chen , Jiankai Sun , Naixiang Gao , JunEn Low , Timothy Chen , Mac Schwager

Conventional methods for outdoor environment reconstruction rely predominantly on vision-based techniques like photogrammetry and LiDAR, facing limitations such as constrained coverage, susceptibility to environmental conditions, and high…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-13 Hrant Khachatrian , Rafayel Mkrtchyan , Theofanis P. Raptis

In this paper, the problem of using one active unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and four passive UAVs to localize a 3D target UAV in real time is investigated. In the considered model, each passive UAV receives reflection signals from the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Yujiao Zhu , Mingzhe Chen , Sihua Wang , Ye Hu , Yuchen Liu , Changchuan Yin

Path planning methods for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are typically designed for one specific type of mission. This work presents a method for autonomous UAV path planning based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) that can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Mirco Theile , Harald Bayerlein , Richard Nai , David Gesbert , Marco Caccamo

Identifying the fault in propellers is important to keep quadrotors operating safely and efficiently. The simulation-to-reality (sim-to-real) UAV fault diagnosis methods provide a cost-effective and safe approach to detecting propeller…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Wei Zhang , Shanze Wang , Junjie Tong , Fang Liao , Yunfeng Zhang , Xiaoyu Shen

We develop a framework based on deep reinforce-ment learning (DRL) to solve the spectrum allocation problem inthe emerging integrated access and backhaul (IAB) architecturewith large scale deployment and dynamic environment. The avail-able…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Wanlu Lei , Yu Ye , Ming Xiao

Recently, a variety of approaches has been enriching the field of Remote Sensing (RS) image processing and analysis. Unfortunately, existing methods remain limited faced to the rich spatio-spectral content of today's large datasets. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Amina Ben Hamida , A Benoit , Patrick Lambert , Chokri Ben Amar

With the rapidly growing expansion in the use of UAVs, the ability to autonomously navigate in varying environments and weather conditions remains a highly desirable but as-of-yet unsolved challenge. In this work, we use Deep Reinforcement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Bruna G. Maciel-Pearson , Letizia Marchegiani , Samet Akcay , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , James Garforth , Toby P. Breckon