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Trajectory optimization is the core of modern model-based robotic control and motion planning. Existing trajectory optimizers, based on sequential quadratic programming (SQP) or differential dynamic programming (DDP), are often limited by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Haizhou Zhao , Ludovic Righetti , Majid Khadiv

In this paper, we introduce a hierarchical decision-making framework for emerging mobility systems. Despite numerous studies focusing on optimizing vehicle flow, practical feasibility has often been overlooked. To address this gap, we…

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In this paper, we employ multiple UAVs coordinated by a base station (BS) to help the ground users (GUs) to offload their sensing data. Different UAVs can adapt their trajectories and network formation to expedite data transmissions via…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Shimin Gong , Meng Wang , Bo Gu , Wenjie Zhang , Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are capable of surveying expansive areas, but their operational range is constrained by limited battery capacity. The deployment of mobile recharging stations using unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Md Safwan Mondal , Subramanian Ramasamy , Pranav Bhounsule

Seamlessly unifying communication and sensing, sixth-generation (6G) networks are poised to transform into intelligent platforms with high spectral-energy efficiency and real-time environmental awareness. In the low-altitude economy,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Kang Yan , Luping Xiang , Kang Zheng , Jienan Chen , Jun Liu , Qiang Liu , Kun Yang

This letter aims to maximize the average throughput via the joint design of the transmit power and trajectory for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled network. The conventional way to tackle this problem is based on the alternating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-11 Hongying Tang , Qingqing Wu , Jing Xu , Wen Chen , Baoqing~Li

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms adoption shows a steady growth among operators due to the benefits in time and cost arisen from their use. However, this kind of system faces an important problem which is the calculation of many optimal…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Alejandro Puente-Castro , Daniel Rivero , Alejandro Pazos , Enrique Fernandez-Blanco

This letter aims to present a novel approach for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)' path planning with respect to certain quality of service requirements. More specifically, we study the max-min fairness problem in an air-to-ground…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Amine Bejaoui , Ki-Hong Park , Mohamed Slim Alouini

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

Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) is a widely used reinforcement learning algorithm that heavily relies on accurate advantage estimates for stable and efficient training. However, raw advantage signals can exhibit significant variance,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Soham Sane

The rapid advancement of Internet of Things (IoT) services and the evolution toward the sixth generation (6G) have positioned unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as critical enablers of low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs). This work…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Haijia Jin , Jun Wu , Weijie Yuan , Fan Liu , Yuanhao Cui

This paper studies a new latency optimization problem in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)-enabled federated learning (FL) with integrated sensing and communication. In this setup, distributed UAVs participate in model training using sensed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Shaba Shaon , Tien Nguyen , Lina Mohjazi , Aryan Kaushik , Dinh C. Nguyen

It is a challenging problem to characterize the air-to-ground (A2G) channel and identify the best deployment location for 3D UAVs with the QoS awareness. To address this problem, we propose a QoS-aware UAV 3D coverage deployment algorithm,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-19 engfei Du , Tingyue Xiao , Haotong Cao , Daosen Zhai

We present the first scene-update aerial path planning algorithm specifically designed for detecting and updating change areas in urban environments. While existing methods for large-scale 3D urban scene reconstruction focus on achieving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Mingfeng Tang , Ningna Wang , Ziyuan Xie , Jianwei Hu , Ke Xie , Xiaohu Guo , Hui Huang

Automatic optimization of robotic behavior has been the long-standing goal of Evolutionary Robotics. Allowing the problem at hand to be solved by automation often leads to novel approaches and new insights. A common problem encountered with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Kirk Y. W. Scheper , Guido C. H. E. de Croon

Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference by having a lightweight draft model propose speculative windows of candidate tokens for parallel verification by a larger target model. In practice, speculative efficiency is often bottlenecked…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Jie Jiang , Xing Sun , Ruotian Chen , Jianan Su , Kaixin Shen

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), although adept at aerial surveillance, are often constrained by limited battery capacity. By refueling on slow-moving Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs), their operational endurance can be significantly…

In this work, we address the cooperation problem among large language model (LLM) based embodied agents, where agents must cooperate to achieve a common goal. Previous methods often execute actions extemporaneously and incoherently, without…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Jie Liu , Pan Zhou , Yingjun Du , Ah-Hwee Tan , Cees G. M. Snoek , Jan-Jakob Sonke , Efstratios Gavves

Path planning is critical for autonomous vehicles (AVs) to determine the optimal route while considering constraints and objectives. The potential field (PF) approach has become prevalent in path planning due to its simple structure and…

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