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Coverage path planning in a generic known environment is shown to be NP-hard. When the environment is unknown, it becomes more challenging as the robot is required to rely on its online map information built during coverage for planning its…
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) acting as access points in cellular networks require wireless backhauls to the core network. In this paper we employ stochastic geometry to carry out an analysis of the UAV backhaul performance that can be…
Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a flexible platform for providing coverage over challenging environments, particularly for public safety and surveillance missions in urban areas. However, deploying the UAVs in dense urban…
Prediction of wireless channel gain (CG) across space is a necessary tool for many important wireless network design problems. In this paper, we develop prediction methods that use environment-specific features, namely building maps and CG…
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are a promising technology for fast, large scale survey operations such as maritime search and rescue (SAR). However, providing reliable communications over long distances remains a challenge. Cellular…
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…
In this paper, we study coverage probabilities of the UAV-assisted cellular network modeled by 2-dimension (2D) Poisson point process. The cellular user is assumed to connect to the nearest aerial base station. We derive the explicit…
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…
Owing to effective and flexible data acquisition, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has recently become a hotspot across the fields of computer vision (CV) and remote sensing (RS). Inspired by recent success of deep learning (DL), many advanced…
This paper addresses the problem of crack detection which is essential for health monitoring of built infrastructure. Our approach includes two stages, data collection using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and crack detection using…
Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Search and rescue operations (SAR) to navigate challenging terrain while maintaining reliable communication with the cellular network is a promising approach. This paper suggests a novel technique…
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are playing an increasingly pivotal role in modern communication networks,offering flexibility and enhanced coverage for a variety of applica-tions. However, UAV networks pose significant challenges due to…
This paper studies the problem of distributed spectrum/channel access for cognitive radio-enabled unmanned aerial vehicles (CUAVs) that overlay upon primary channels. Under the framework of cooperative spectrum sensing and opportunistic…
Providing seamless coverage under current cellular network technologies is surmountable only through gross overengineering. Alternatively, as an economically effective solution, the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), augmented with the…
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are commonly used for missions in unknown environments, where an exact mathematical model of the environment may not be available. This paper provides a framework for using reinforcement learning to allow the…
We study an urban wireless network in which cache-enabled UAV-Access points (UAV-APs) and UAV-Base stations (UAV-BSs) are deployed to provide higher throughput and ad-hoc coverage to users on the ground. The cache-enabled UAV-APs route the…
Unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs) rely on effective path planning and tracking control to accomplish complex tasks in various domains. Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods are becoming increasingly popular in control applications, as they…
The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) plays an vital role in various applications such as delivery, military mission, disaster rescue, communication, etc., due to its flexibility and versatility. This paper proposes a deep reinforcement…
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is strongly advocated for sixth-generation (6G) networks, as the 6G standard will not be limited to improving broadband services, but will also target the extension of the geographical cellular…
The usage of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in the context of structural health inspection is recently gaining tremendous popularity. Camera mounted UAVs enable the fast acquisition of a large number of images often used for mapping, 3D…