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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with multi-connectivity (MC) capabilities efficiently and reliably transfer data between terrestrial networks (TNs) and non-terrestrial networks (NTNs). However, optimally sharing and allocating spectrum and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Abd Ullah Khan , Wali Ullah Khan , Haejoon Jung , Hyundong Shin

In this paper, we investigate an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted integrated communication and localization network in emergency scenarios where a single UAV is deployed as both an airborne base station (BS) and anchor node to assist…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Suzhi Bi , Jiaxing Yu , Zheyuan Yang , Xiaohui Lin , Yuan Wu

The design and development of swarms of micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs) has recently gained significant traction. Collaborative aerial swarms have potential applications in areas as diverse as surveillance and monitoring, inventory management,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Jorge Peña Queralta , Yu Xianjia , Li Qingqing , Tomi Westerlund

In this paper, we employ multiple UAVs to accelerate data transmissions from ground users (GUs) to a remote base station (BS) via the UAVs' relay communications. The UAVs' intermittent information exchanges typically result in delays in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Che Chen , Lanhua Li , Shimin Gong , Yu Zhao , Yuming Fang , Dusit Niyato

This paper presents an optimized Joint Radar-Communication (JRC) system utilizing multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to simultaneously achieve sensing and communication objectives. By leveraging UAVs equipped with dual radar and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Alaa Awad Abdellatif , Helder Fontes , Andre Coelho , Luis M. Pessoa , Rui Campos

Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are widely deployed across diverse applications due to their mobility and agility. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a transformative opportunity to enhance UAV intelligence beyond…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yousef Emami , Hao Zhou , Radha Reddy , Atefeh Hajijamali Arani , Biliang Wang , Kai Li , Luis Almeida , Zhu Han

Swarms of aerial drones have recently been considered for last-mile deliveries in urban logistics or automated construction. At the same time, collaborative transportation of payloads by multiple drones is another important area of recent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Akash Kopparam Sreedhara , Deepesh Padala , Shashank Mahesh , Kai Cui , Mengguang Li , Heinz Koeppl

Swarm UAV autonomous flight for Embodied Long-Horizon (ELH) tasks is crucial for advancing the low-altitude economy. However, existing methods focus only on specific basic tasks due to dataset limitations, failing in real-world deployment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Tongtong Feng , Xin Wang , Feilin Han , Leping Zhang , Wenwu Zhu

This paper introduces a testbed to study distributed sensing problems of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) exhibiting swarm intelligence. Several Smart City applications, such as transport and disaster response, require efficient collection…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Chuhao Qin , Fethi Candan , Lyudmila S. Mihaylova , Evangelos Pournaras

Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) cooperative Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) systems face critical challenges in coordinating trajectory planning, task offloading, and resource allocation while ensuring Quality of Service (QoS) under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Zhiyu Wang , Suman Raj , Rajkumar Buyya

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are being employed in many areas such as photography, emergency, entertainment, defence, agriculture, forestry, mining and construction. Over the last decade, UAV technology has found applications in numerous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-30 L. V. Nguyen , I. Torres Herrera , T. H. Le , M. D. Phung , R. P. Aguilera , Q. P. Ha

Swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have demonstrated enormous potential in many industrial and commercial applications. However, before deploying UAVs in the real world, it is essential to ensure they can operate safely in complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Longhao Yan , Jingyuan Zhou , Kaidi Yang

This work investigates a collaborative sensing and data collection system in which multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) sense an area of interest and transmit images to a cloud server (CS) for processing. To accelerate the completion of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Eunhyuk Park , Junbeom Kim , Seok-Hwan Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Shlomo Shamai

In this paper, we focus on a typical cooperative communication system with one pair of source and destination, where a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flying from a start location to an end location serves as a mobile relay. To efficiently…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Sixing Yin , Jing Tan , Lihua Li

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are valuable for ocean exploration due to their flexibility and ability to carry communication and detection units. Nevertheless, AUVs alone often face challenges in harsh and extreme sea conditions.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jingzehua Xu , Guanwen Xie , Xinqi Wang , Yimian Ding , Shuai Zhang

This paper addresses the problem of autonomous task allocation by a swarm of autonomous, interactive drones in large-scale, dynamic spatio-temporal environments. When each drone independently determines navigation, sensing, and recharging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Chuhao Qin , Evangelos Pournaras

Tracking multiple targets in dynamic environments using distributed sensor networks is a challenging problem for situational awareness in connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs). In such scenarios, the network of mobile sensors must coordinate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-05 Aidan Blair , Amirali Khodadadian Gostar , Alireza Bab-Hadiashar , Xiaodong Li , Reza Hoseinnezhad

Next-generation wireless networks will deploy UAVs dynamically as aerial base stations (UAV-BSs) to boost the wireless network coverage in the out of reach areas. To provide an efficient service in stochastic environments, the optimal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Shavbo Salehi , Jahan Hassan , Ayub Bokani

This work addresses the path planning problem for a group of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to maintain a desired formation during operation. Our approach formulates the problem as an optimization task by defining a set of fitness…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Van Truong Hoang , Manh Duong Phung

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial relays are practically appealing for assisting Internet of Things (IoT) network. In this work, we aim to utilize the UAV swarm to assist the secure communication between the micro base station (MBS)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Chuang Zhang , Geng Sun , Qingqing Wu , Jiahui Li , Shuang Liang , Dusit Niyato , Victor C. M. Leung