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In the real world, unmanned surface vehicles (USV) often need to coordinate with each other to accomplish specific tasks. However, achieving cooperative control in multi-agent systems is challenging due to issues such as non-stationarity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Y. Wang , Y. Zhao

In this paper, we study the resource allocation and trajectory design for secure unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communication systems, where multiple multi-purpose UAV base stations are dispatched to provide secure communications to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Ruide Li , Zhiqiang Wei , Lei Yang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan , Jianping An

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play an essential role in future wireless communication networks due to their high mobility, low cost, and on-demand deployment. In air-to-ground links, UAVs are widely used to enhance the performance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Hongjiang Lei , Dongyang Meng , Haoxiang Ran , Ki-Hong Park , Gaofeng Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been increasingly used in the context of remote sensing missions such as target search and tracking, mapping, or surveillance monitoring. In the first part of our paper we consider agent dynamics,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Richard Carney , Monique Chyba , Chris Gray , Corey Shanbrom , George Wilkens

Target tracking plays a crucial role in real-world scenarios, particularly in drug-trafficking interdiction, where the knowledge of an adversarial target's location is often limited. Improving autonomous tracking systems will enable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Sean Ye , Manisha Natarajan , Zixuan Wu , Matthew Gombolay

Multi-agent robotic manipulation remains challenging due to the combined demands of coordination, grasp stability, and collision avoidance in shared workspaces. To address these challenges, we propose the Adaptive Dynamic Modality Diffusion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Enyi Wang , Wen Fan , Dandan Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)-assisted mobile crowdsensing (MCS) has emerged as a promising paradigm for data collection. However, challenges such as spectrum scarcity, device heterogeneity, and user mobility hinder efficient coordination…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Xianyang Deng , Wenshuai Liu , Yaru FuB , Qi Zhu

In this paper, we investigate an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assistant air-to-ground communication system, where multiple UAVs form a UAV-enabled virtual antenna array (UVAA) to communicate with remote base stations by utilizing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Saichao Liu , Geng Sun , Jiahui Li , Shuang Liang , Qingqing Wu , Pengfei Wang , Dusit Niyato

This paper systematically studies the cooperative area coverage and target tracking problem of multiple-unmanned aerial vehicles (multi-UAVs). The problem is solved by decomposing into three sub-problems: information fusion, task…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Mengge Zhang , Jie Li , Xiangke Wang

This study proposes a distributed algorithm that makes agents' adaptive grouping entrap multiple targets via automatic decision making, smooth flocking, and well-distributed entrapping. Agents make their own decisions about which targets to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Chen Wang , Minqiang Gu , Wenxi Kuang , Dongliang Wang , Weicheng Luo , Zhaohui Shi , Zhun Fan

Over the past few years, a plethora of advancements in Unmanned Areal Vehicle (UAV) technology has paved the way for UAV-based search and rescue operations with transformative impact to the outcome of critical life-saving missions. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Andreas Anastasiou , Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios , Christos G. Panayiotou

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can provide wireless access to terrestrial users, regardless of geographical constraints, and will be an important part of future communication systems. In this paper, a multi-user downlink dual-UAVs enabled…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hongjiang Lei , Jiacheng Jiang , Imran Shafique Ansari , Gaofeng Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a fundamental problem in robotics, requiring the computation of collision-free paths for multiple agents moving from their respective start to goal positions. Coordinating multiple agents in a shared…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Jinhao Liang , Jacob K. Christopher , Sven Koenig , Ferdinando Fioretto

This paper addresses the joint optimization of trajectories and bandwidth allocation for multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to enhance energy efficiency in the cooperative data collection problem. We focus on an important yet…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Cuong Le , Symeon Chatzinotas , Thang X. Vu

This work considers designing an unmanned target hunting system for a swarm of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) to hunt a target with high maneuverability. Differential game theory is used to analyze combat policies of UUVs and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-02 Wei Wei , JingJing Wang , Jun Du , Zhengru Fang , Chunxiao Jiang , Yong Ren

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are foreseen to constitute promising airborne communication devices as a benefit of their superior channel quality. But UAV-to-ground (U2G) communications are vulnerable to eavesdropping. Hence, we conceive a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Zhong Zheng , Xinyao Wang , Zesong Fei , Qingqing Wu , Bin Li , Lajos Hanzo

Advancements in underwater vehicle technology have significantly expanded the potential scope for deploying autonomous or remotely operated underwater vehicles in novel practical applications. However, the efficiency and maneuverability of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Nhat Minh Nguyen , Stephen McIlvanna , Jack Close , Mien Van

Distributed optimization offers a promising paradigm for trajectory planning in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms, yet its deployment in communication-constrained environments remains challenging due to unreliable links and limited data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yue Yu , Xiaobo Zheng , Shaoming He

Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) systems are witnessing an upswing in applications within multi-agent distributed environments, leading to the advancement of collaborative MAB algorithms. In such settings, communication between agents executing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Osama A. Hanna , Merve Karakas , Lin F. Yang , Christina Fragouli

Harvesting data from distributed Internet of Things (IoT) devices with multiple autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a challenging problem requiring flexible path planning methods. We propose a multi-agent reinforcement learning…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Harald Bayerlein , Mirco Theile , Marco Caccamo , David Gesbert