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Search and rescue missions and surveillance require finding targets in a large area. These tasks often use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with cameras to detect and move towards a target. However, common UAV approaches make two simplifying…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Aayush Gupta , Daniel Bessonov , Patrick Li

Training agents in cooperative settings offers the promise of AI agents able to interact effectively with humans (and other agents) in the real world. Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has the potential to achieve this goal,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Jaleh Zand , Jack Parker-Holder , Stephen J. Roberts

Autonomous UAV navigation using reinforcement learning (RL) is vulnerable to adversarial attacks that manipulate sensor inputs, potentially leading to unsafe behavior and mission failure. Although robust RL methods provide partial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Deepak Kumar Panda , Weisi Guo

We approach autonomous drone-based reforestation with a collaborative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) setup. Agents can communicate as part of a dynamically changing network. We explore collaboration and communication on the back…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Philipp Dominic Siedler

This work considers the problem of passively monitoring multiple moving targets with a single unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) agent equipped with a direction-finding radar. This is in general a challenging problem due to the unobservability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Savvas Papaioannou , Christos Laoudias , Panayiotis Kolios , Theocharis Theocharides , Christos G. Panayiotou

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle communications are encountering increasingly severe multi-source interference challenges in dynamic adversarial environments, which impose higher demands on their reliability and resilience. To address these…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Jingpu Yang , Mingxuan Cui , Hang Zhang , Fengxian Ji , Zhengzhao Lai , Yufeng Wang

We consider a pursuit-evasion problem with a heterogeneous team of multiple pursuers and multiple evaders. Although both the pursuers (robots) and the evaders are aware of each others' control and assignment strategies, they do not have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Leiming Zhang , Amanda Prorok , Subhrajit Bhattacharya

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

In this paper, we investigate secure and reliable transmission strategies for multi-cell multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with a multi-antenna active eavesdropper. We consider a time-division duplex system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-12 Yongpeng Wu , Robert Schober , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chengshan Xiao , Giuseppe Caire

Multi-UAV air combat is a complex task involving multiple autonomous UAVs, an evolving field in both aerospace and artificial intelligence. This paper aims to enhance adversarial performance through collaborative strategies. Previous…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Jinhui Pang , Jinglin He , Noureldin Mohamed Abdelaal Ahmed Mohamed , Changqing Lin , Zhihui Zhang , Xiaoshuai Hao

Traditional methods plan feasible paths for multiple agents in the stochastic environment. However, the methods' iterations with the changes in the environment result in computation complexities, especially for the decentralized agents…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Qizhen Wu , Kexin Liu , Lei Chen , Jinhu Lü

Despite the recent successes of multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms, efficiently adapting to co-players in mixed-motive environments remains a significant challenge. One feasible approach is to hierarchically model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Yizhe Huang , Anji Liu , Fanqi Kong , Yaodong Yang , Song-Chun Zhu , Xue Feng

This paper addresses a critical aerial defense challenge in contested airspace, involving three autonomous aerial vehicles -- a hostile drone (the pursuer), a high-value drone (the evader), and a protective drone (the defender). We present…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-03 Shivam Bajpai , Abhinav Sinha , Shashi Ranjan Kumar

Multiple fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (multi-UAVs) encounter significant challenges in cooperative path following over complex Digital Elevation Model (DEM) low-altitude airspace, including wind field disturbances, sudden obstacles,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Zimao Sheng , Zirui Yu , Hong'an Yang

In this paper, we consider an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted communications system, including two cooperative UAVs, a wireless-powered ground destination node leveraging simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Milad Tatar Mamaghani , Yi Hong

Target localization is a critical task in sensitive applications, where multiple sensing agents communicate and collaborate to identify the target location based on sensor readings. Existing approaches investigated the use of Multi-Agent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Ahmed Alagha , Rabeb Mizouni , Shakti Singh , Jamal Bentahar , Hadi Otrok

Swarm trajectory optimization problems are a well-recognized class of multi-agent optimal control problems with strong nonlinearity. However, the heuristic nature of needing to set the final time for agents beforehand and the time-consuming…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Xiaobo Zheng , Pan Tang , Defu Lin , Shaoming He

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are envisioned to complement the 5G communication infrastructure in future smart cities. Hot spots easily appear in road intersections, where effective communication among vehicles is challenging. UAVs may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Ming Zhu , Xiao-Yang Liu , Anwar Walid

The automation of factories and manufacturing processes has been accelerating over the past few years, boosted by the Industry 4.0 paradigm, including diverse scenarios with mobile, flexible agents. Efficient coordination between mobile…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Federico Mason , Federico Chiariotti , Andrea Zanella , Petar Popovski

Active multi-target tracking requires a mobile robot to balance exploration for undetected targets with exploitation of uncertain tracked ones. Diffusion policies have emerged as a powerful approach for capturing diverse behavioral…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Haotian Xiang , Qin Lu , Yaakov Bar-Shalom