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Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications have been widely accepted as promising technologies to support air-to-ground communications in the forthcoming sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. This paper proposes a novel air-to-ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Xiao Fan , Peiran Wu , Minghua Xia

This paper presents a novel approach to enhance sensing capabilities in UAV-enabled MIMO-OFDM ISAC systems by leveraging UAV mobility as a mono-static radar. By integrating uniform planar arrays (UPAs) and modeling the UAV dynamics in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-30 Dongxiao Xu , Xinyang Li , Vlad C. Andrei , Moritz Wiese , Ullrich J. Moenich , Holger Boche

Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained popularity due to their many potential application fields. Alongside sophisticated sensors, UAVs can be equipped with communication adaptors aimed for inter-UAV communication.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-18 Matthias R. Brust , Bogdan M. Strimbu

Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to play an increasingly important role in future wireless networks. To facilitate the reliable navigation for cellular-connected UAVs, channel knowledge map (CKM) is considered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yuxuan Song , Haiquan Lu , Chiya Zhang , Beixiong Zheng , Yong Zeng

Over the last decade, developments in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has greatly increased, and they are being used in many fields including surveillance, crisis management or automated mission planning. This last field implies the search…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Cristian Ramirez-Atencia , David Camacho

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) play a crucial role in surveying marine environments, carrying out underwater inspection tasks, and ocean exploration. However, in order to ensure that the AUV is able to carry out its mission…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Pierre Nicolay , Yvan Petillot , Mykhaylo Marfeychuk , Sen Wang , Ignacio Carlucho

Cooperative utilization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in public and military surveillance applications has attracted significant attention in recent years. Most UAVs are equipped with sensors that have bounded coverage and wireless…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Abdulsamet Dağaşan , Ezhan Karaşan

This paper describes a technique for the autonomous mission planning of unmanned aerial system swarms. Given a swarm operating in a known area, a central command system generates measurements from the swarm. If those measurements indicate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Vincent W. Hill , Ryan W. Thomas , Jordan D. Larson

Recent technological advancements in small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have led to the development of companion UAVs. Similar to conventional companion robots, companion UAVs have the potential to assist us in our daily lives and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Chun Fui Liew , Takehisa Yairi

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) have become very popular for many military and civilian applications including in agriculture, construction, mining, environmental monitoring, etc. A desirable feature for UAVs is the ability to navigate and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Taha Elmokadem

A novel framework is proposed for the trajectory design of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) based on the prediction of users' mobility information. The problem of joint trajectory design and power control is formulated for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-05 Xiao Liu , Yuanwei Liu , Yue Chen , Lajos Hanzo

Sensing-assisted predictive beamforming, as one of the enabling technologies for emerging integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) paradigm, shows significant promise for enhancing various future unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Yifan Jiang , Qingqing Wu , Hongxun Hui , Wen Chen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

With the increasing prevalence of drones in various industries, the navigation and tracking of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in challenging environments, particularly GNSS-denied areas, have become crucial concerns. To address this need,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Iacopo Catalano , Xianjia Yu , Jorge Pena Queralta

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have great potential in urban traffic monitoring due to their rapid speed, cost-effectiveness, and extensive field-of-view, while being unconstrained by traffic congestion. However, their limited flight…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Yumeng Bai , Yiheng Feng

In this paper, we investigate beamforming design and trajectory optimization for a multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. The proposed system employs multiple UAVs equipped with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yan Kyaw Tun , Nway Nway Ei , Sheikh Salman Hassan , Cedomir Stefanovic , Nguyen Van Huynh , Madyan Alsenwi , Choong Seon Hong

This paper studies the leaderless formation flying problem with collision avoidance for a group of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which requires the UAVs to navigate through cluttered environments without colliding while maintaining the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Yiming Wang , Yao Fang , Jie Mei , Youmin Gong , Guangfu Ma

Agile trajectory planning can improve the efficiency of multi-rotor Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in scenarios with combined task-oriented and kinematic trajectory planning, such as monitoring spatio-temporal phenomena or intercepting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Atharva Ghotavadekar , František Nekovář , Martin Saska , Jan Faigl

The paper presents a two-stage stochastic program to model a routing problem involving an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in the context of patrolling missions. In particular, given a set of targets and a set of supplemental targets…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Sudarshan Rajan , Kaarthik Sundar , Natarajan Gautam

Driven by the recent advancement in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology, this paper proposes a new wireless network architecture of \emph{coordinate multipoint (CoMP) in the sky} to harness both the benefits of interference mitigation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Rui Zhang