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Avionics systems of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) or drone are the critical electronic components found onboard that regulate, navigate, and control UAV travel while ensuring public safety. Contemporary UAV avionics work together to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Hashim A. Hashim

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are indispensable for infrastructure inspection, surveillance, and related tasks, yet they also introduce critical security challenges. This survey provides a wide-ranging examination of the anti-UAV domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yifei Dong , Fengyi Wu , Sanjian Zhang , Guangyu Chen , Yuzhi Hu , Masumi Yano , Jingdong Sun , Siyu Huang , Feng Liu , Qi Dai , Zhi-Qi Cheng

The number of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) continues to explode. Within the total spectrum of Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) operations, Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is also on the way. Dense air traffic is getting ever closer to us. Current…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Quan Quan , Mengxin Li

Aerial autonomous machines (Drones) has a plethora of promising applications and use cases. While the popularity of these autonomous machines continues to grow, there are many challenges, such as endurance and agility, that could hinder the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Srivatsan Krishnan , Thierry Tambe , Zishen Wan , Vijay Janapa Reddi

As wireless researchers are tasked to enable wireless communication as infrastructure in more dynamic aerial settings, there is a growing need for large-scale experimental platforms that provide realistic, reproducible, and reliable…

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, are proliferating. Applications, such as surveillance, disaster management, and drone racing, place high requirements on the communication with the drones in terms of throughput,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Prabhu Chandhar , Erik G. Larsson

As drones are getting more and more entangled in our society, more untrained users require the capability to operate them. This scenario is to be achieved through the development of artificial intelligence capabilities assisting the human…

This paper introduces a cooperative and decentralized collision avoidance algorithm (CoDe) for small-scale UAV swarms consisting of up to three UAVs. CoDe improves energy efficiency of UAVs by achieving effective cooperation among UAVs.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Shuangyao Huang , Haibo Zhang , Zhiyi Huang

In the current unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) for sensing services, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) transmit their sensory data to terrestrial mobile devices over the unlicensed spectrum. However, the interference from surrounding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-13 F. Wu , H. Zhang , J. Wu , L. Song

The increasing adoption of UAVs equipped with advanced sensors and GPU-accelerated edge computing has enabled real-time AI-driven applications in domains such as precision agriculture, wildfire monitoring, and environmental conservation.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Kautuk Astu , Suman Raj , Priyanshu Pansari , Yogesh Simmhan

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms offer versatile applications in logistics, agriculture, and surveillance, yet controlling them requires expert knowledge for safety and feasibility. Traditional static methods limit adaptability, while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Aditya Shibu , Marah Saleh , Mohamed Al-Musleh , Nidhal Abdulaziz

Over the air computation (AirComp) is a promising technique that addresses big data collection and fast wireless data aggregation. However, in a network where wireless communication and AirComp coexist, mutual interference becomes a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Xunqiang Lan , Xiao Tang , Ruonan Zhang , Bin Li , Yichen Wang , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

Small Uncrewed Aerial Systems (sUAS) are increasingly deployed as autonomous swarms in search-and-rescue and other disaster-response scenarios. In these settings, they use computer vision (CV) to detect objects of interest and autonomously…

Heterogeneous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms consist of dozens to hundreds of drones with different roles and varying hardware and software requirements collaborating towards a shared mission. While traditional approaches for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Lin Geng , Hao Li , Sidney Givigi , Bram Adams

Lightweight aerial swarms have potential applications in scenarios where larger drones fail to operate efficiently. The primary foundation for lightweight aerial swarms is efficient relative localization, which enables cooperation and…

This work details the problem of aerial target capture using multiple UAVs. This problem is motivated from the challenge 1 of Mohammed Bin Zayed International Robotic Challenge 2020. The UAVs utilise visual feedback to autonomously detect…

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), referenced as drones, have advanced to consumer adoption for hobby and business use. Drone applications, such as infrastructure technology, security mechanisms, and resource delivery, are just the starting…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Rafer Cooley , Shaya Wolf , Mike Borowczak

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones are being introduced in a wide range of commercial applications. This has also made them prime targets of attackers who compromise their fundamental security properties, including confidentiality,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Sonali Rout , Vireshwar Kumar

Drowning is an omnipresent risk associated with any activity on or in the water, and rescuing a drowning person is particularly challenging because of the time pressure, making a short response time important. Further complicating water…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Sascha Emanuel Zell , Toni Schneidereit , Armin Fügenschuh , Michael Breuß

Abstract. Fixed wing and multirotor UAVs are common in the field of robotics. Solutions for simulation and control of these vehicles are ubiquitous. This is not the case for airships, a simulation of which needs to address unique…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Eric Price , Yu Tang Liu , Michael J. Black , Aamir Ahmad