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Efficient, accurate, and flexible relative localization is crucial in air-ground collaborative tasks. However, current approaches for robot relative localization are primarily realized in the form of distributed multi-robot SLAM systems…

A decentralized swarm approach for the fast cooperative flight of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in feature-poor environments without any external localization and communication is introduced in this paper. A novel model of a UAV…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Jiri Horyna , Vit Kratky , Vaclav Pritzl , Tomas Baca , Eliseo Ferrante , Martin Saska

The present work deals with a new passive system for real-time detection, classification and direction of arrival estimator of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The proposed system composed of a very low cost hardware components, comprises…

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This paper proposes an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based distributed sensing framework that uses orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms to detect the position of a ground target, and UAVs operate in half-duplex mode.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Xavier Alejandro Flores Cabezas , Diana Pamela Moya Osorio , Markku Juntti

Cooperative communication using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a promising technology for infrastructureless wireless networks. One of the key challenges in UAV based communications is the backhaul throughput. In this paper, we propose…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-07 Samer Hanna , Han Yan , Danijela Cabric

With the explosive advancement of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the security of efficient UAV networks has become increasingly critical. Owing to the open nature of its communication environment, illegitimate malicious UAVs (MUs) can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Ziqi Chen , Jun Du , Chunxiao Jiang , Tony Q. S. Quek , Zhu Han

Localization is one of the most important technologies needed to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in actual fields. Currently, most UAVs use GNSS to estimate their position. Recently, there have been attacks that target the weaknesses of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Junho Choi , Hyun Myung

In UAV-to-UAV communication, airborne UAVs need to detect the location and direction of ultra-high-speed millimeter-wave (mmWave) and Terahertz (THz) coverage areas, referred to as ultra-spots. This predictive capability allows UAVs to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Phuc Duc Nguyen , Ryosuke Isogai , Keitarou Kondou , Satoshi Yasuda , Nobuyasu Shiga , Yozo Shoji

This paper studies the optimal unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) placement problem for wireless networking. The UAV operates as a flying wireless relay to provide coverage extension for a base station (BS) and deliver capacity boost to a user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Junting Chen , David Gesbert

Autonomous landing in cluttered or unstructured environments remains a safety-critical challenge for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), particularly under noisy perception caused by sensor uncertainty and platform-induced disturbances such as…

This work considers the placement of unmanned aerial vehicle base stations (UAV-BSs) with criterion of minimum UAV-recall-frequency (UAV-RF), indicating the energy efficiency of mobile UAVs networks. Several different power consumptions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Jiaxun Lu , Shuo Wan , Xuhong Chen , Zhengchuan Chen , Pingyi Fan , Khaled B. Letaief

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) base stations (BSs) are reliable and efficient alternative to full fill the coverage and capacity requirements when the backbone network fails to provide such requirements due to disasters. In this paper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-01 Thushan Sivalingam , K. B. Shashika Manosha , Nandana Rajatheva , M. Latva-aho , Maheshi B. Dissanayake

Relative localization of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms in global navigation satellite system (GNSS) denied environments is essential for emergency rescue and battlefield reconnaissance. Existing methods suffer from significant…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-05 Guangyu Lei , Yuqi Ping , Tianhao Liang , Huahao Ding , Tingting Zhang

This paper investigates the problem of high-precision target localization in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems, where the target is sensed via both a direct path and a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Huyen-Trang Ta , Ngoc-Son Duong , Trung-Hieu Nguyen , Van-Linh Nguyen , Thai-Mai Dinh

Localization is one of the most crucial tasks for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle systems (UAVs) directly impacting overall performance, which can be achieved with various sensors and applied to numerous tasks related to search and rescue…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Thanh Nguyen Canh , Huy-Hoang Ngo , Xiem HoangVan , Nak Young Chong

It's a practical approach using the ground-aerial collaborative system to enhance the localization robustness of flying robots in cluttered environments, especially when visual sensors degrade. Conventional approaches estimate the flying…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Sijia Chen , Wei Dong

This paper tackles the problem of positioning a swarm of UAVs inside a completely unknown terrain, having as objective to maximize the overall situational awareness. The situational awareness is expressed by the number and quality of unique…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Dimitrios I. Koutras , Athanasios Ch. Kapoutsis , Elias B. Kosmatopoulos

Research in the field of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has significantly advanced in recent years, mainly due to their relevance in a large variety of commercial, industrial, and military applications. However, UAV navigation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Akkas Haque , Ahmed Elsaharti , Tarek Elderini , Mohamed Atef Elsaharty , Jeremiah Neubert

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) holds immense potential in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems for the Internet of Things (IoT). In this paper, we propose a UAV-aided ISAC framework and investigate three robust power…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-26 Junchang Sun , Shuai Ma , Ruixin Yang , Yang Tingting , Shiyin Li

Tracking and measuring targets using a variety of sensors mounted on UAVs is an effective means to quickly and accurately locate the target. This paper proposes a fusion localization method based on ridge estimation, combining the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Huayu Huang , Chen Chen , Banglei Guan , Ze Tan , Yang Shang , Zhang Li , Qifeng Yu