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The rapid deployment of drones poses significant challenges for airspace management, security, and surveillance. Current detection and classification technologies, including cameras, LiDAR, and conventional radar systems, often struggle to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 O. Yerushalimov , D. Vovchuk , A. Glam , P. Ginzburg

Aerial robots are a well-established solution for exploration, monitoring, and inspection, thanks to their superior maneuverability and agility. However, in many environments, they risk crashing and sustaining damage after collisions.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Anton Bredenbeck , Teaya Yang , Salua Hamaza , Mark W. Mueller

Advances in reflectarrays and array lenses with electronic beam-forming capabilities are enabling a host of new possibilities for these high-performance, low-cost antenna architectures. This paper reviews enabling technologies and…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-19 Sean Victor Hum , Julien Perruisseau-Carrier

This article considers the performance of wireless communication systems that utilize reconfigurable or pattern-dynamic antennas. The focus is on finite-state channels with memory and performance is assessed in terms of real-time behavior.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Santhosh Kumar , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Gregory H. Huff

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used in a plethora of applications such as shipping, surveillance, and search-and-rescue. For UAVs to operate safely, reliable cellular connectivity is essential. Utilizing the terrestrial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-27 Nesrine Cherif , Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted significant interest from the academia and industry most recently. Motivated by the wide usage of UAVs, this paper considers UAV communication with reconfigurable antenna (RA) in the presence…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-10 Ayse Betul Buyuksar , Eylem Erdogan , Ibrahim Altunbas

Flexible antenna arrays (FAAs), distinguished by their rotatable, bendable, and foldable properties, are extensively employed in flexible radio systems to achieve customized radiation patterns. This paper aims to illustrate that FAAs,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Songjie Yang , Jiancheng An , Yue Xiu , Wanting Lyu , Boyu Ning , Zhongpei Zhang , Merouane Debbah , Chau Yuen

Recent advancements in Deep Learning (DL) for Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimation have highlighted its superiority over traditional methods, offering faster inference, enhanced super-resolution, and robust performance in low…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Ruxin Zheng , Shunqiao Sun , Hongshan Liu , Honglei Chen , Mojtaba Soltanalian , Jian Li

Flexible coupler is a promising solution for enhancing wireless network capacity by moving passive couplers around a fixed-position active antenna to reshape the induced currents on passive elements. Motivated by this, this paper proposes a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Xiaodan Shao , Yixiao Zhang , Nan Cheng , Weihua Zhuang , Xuemin Shen

The tri-hybrid precoding architecture based on electromagnetically reconfigurable antennas (ERAs) is a promising solution for overcoming key limitations in multiple-input multiple-output communication systems. Aiming to further understand…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Pinjun Zheng , Yuchen Zhang , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Md. Jahangir Hossain , Anas Chaaban

This paper considers an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless power transfer (WPT) system, in which a UAV equipped with a directional antenna is dispatched to deliver wireless energy to charge two energy receivers (ERs) on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Yundi Wu , Jie Xu , Ling Qiu

Conventional beamforming with fixed-position antenna (FPA) arrays has a fundamental trade-off between maximizing the signal power (array gain) over a desired direction and simultaneously minimizing the interference power over undesired…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Lipeng Zhu , Wenyan Ma , Rui Zhang

Omnidirectional micro aerial vehicles (OMAVs) are more capable of doing environmentally interactive tasks due to their ability to exert full wrenches while maintaining stable poses. However, OMAVs often incorporate additional actuators and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yueqian Liu , Fengyu Quan , Haoyao Chen

High-mobility wireless communications have received a lot of attentions in the past few years. In this paper, we consider angle-domain Doppler shifts compensation scheme to reduce the channel time variation for the high-mobility uplink from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-22 Zhinan Hu , Weile Zhang

When a target is masked by mainlobe clutter with the same Doppler frequency, it is difficult for conventional airborne radars to determine whether a target is present in a given observation using regular space-time adaptive processing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Wenkai Jia , Andreas Jakobsson , Wen-Qin Wang

In this paper, we consider a problem motivated by search-and-rescue applications, where an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) seeks to approach the vicinity of a distant quasi-stationary radio frequency (RF) emitter surrounded by local…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-08 Muhammed Faruk Gencel , Upamanyu Madhow , Joao Pedro Hespanha

This article investigates digital predistortion (DPD) linearization of hybrid beamforming large-scale antenna transmitters. We propose a novel DPD processing and learning technique for an antenna sub-array, which utilizes a combined signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-04 Mahmoud Abdelaziz , Lauri Anttila , Alberto Brihuega , Fredrik Tufvesson , Mikko Valkama

This work presents a fully-digital high-accuracy real-time calibration procedure for frequency and time alignment of open-loop wirelessly coordinated coherent distributed antenna array (CDA) modems, enabling radio frequency (RF) phase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Jason M. Merlo , Samuel Wagner , John Lancaster , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

One of the key enablers for the realization of a variety of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based systems is the high-performance communication system linking many UAVs and ground station. We have proposed a spectrum-efficient full-duplex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Tao Yu , Kento Kajiwara , Kiyomichi Araki , Kei Sakaguchi

In this letter, a dual-bistatic unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) tracking system utilizing downlink Long-Term Evolution (LTE) signals is proposed and demonstrated. Particularly, two LTE base stations (BSs) are exploited as illumination…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Chenqing Ji , Jiahong Liu , Qionghui Liu , Yifei Sun , Chao Yu , Rui Wang