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Movable-antennas (MAs) are revolutionizing spatial signal processing by providing flexible beamforming in next-generation wireless systems. This paper investigates an MA-empowered autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) system in low-altitude…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Xuhui Zhang , Wenchao Liu , Jinke Ren , Chunjie Wang , Huijun Xing , Yanyan Shen , Shuguang Cui

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enabled Internet of things (IoT) systems have become an important part of future wireless communications. To achieve higher communication rate, the joint design of UAV trajectory and resource allocation is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Yingchao Jiao , Xuhui Zhang , Wenchao Liu , Yinyu Wu , Jinke Ren , Yanyan Shen , Bo Yang , Xinping Guan

Swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have demonstrated enormous potential in many industrial and commercial applications. However, before deploying UAVs in the real world, it is essential to ensure they can operate safely in complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Longhao Yan , Jingyuan Zhou , Kaidi Yang

As terrestrial resources become increasingly saturated, the research attention is shifting to the low-altitude airspace, with many emerging applications such as urban air taxis and aerial inspection. Low-Altitude Wireless Networks (LAWNs)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Jiacheng Wang , Changyuan Zhao , Jialing He , Geng Sun , Weijie Yuan , Dusit Niyato , Liehuang Zhu , Tao Xiang

In this article, we introduce a novel low-altitude wireless network (LAWN), which is a reconfigurable, three-dimensional (3D) layered architecture. In particular, the LAWN integrates connectivity, sensing, control, and computing across…

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been attracting significant attention because there is a high probability of line-of-sight links being obtained between them and terrestrial nodes in high-rise urban areas. In this work, we investigate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Hongjiang Lei , Xiaqiu Wu , Ki-Hong Park , Gaofeng Pan

This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless sensor network, in which one UAV flies in the sky to collect the data transmitted from a set of ground nodes (GNs) via distributed beamforming. We consider two scenarios…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Tianxin Feng , Lifeng Xie , Jianping Yao , Jie Xu

Recently, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has attracted much attention due to its flexible deployment and controllable mobility. As the general communication network cannot meet the emergency requirements, in this paper we study the multi-UAV…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yixin Zhang , Wenchi Cheng

This paper studies high-speed online planning in dynamic environments. The problem requires finding time-optimal trajectories that conform to system dynamics, meeting computational constraints for real-time adaptation, and accounting for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Gilhyun Ryou , Lukas Lao Beyer , Sertac Karaman

This paper studies the trajectory optimization problem in a scenario where a single rotary-wing UAV acts as a relay of data payloads for downlink transmission requests generated randomly by two ground nodes (GNs) in a wireless network. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Matthew Bliss , Nicolò Michelusi

We present a novel control policy, called Predictive Network Control (PNC) to control wireless communication networks (on packet level), based on paradigms of Model Predictive Control (MPC). In contrast to common myopic policies, who use…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-03 Richard Schoeffauer , Gerhard Wunder

Dynamic low altitude networks offer significant potential for efficient and reliable data transport via unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) relays which usually operate with predetermined trajectories. However, it is challenging to optimize the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Bowen Li , Junting Chen

Timely information delivery in low-altitude networks is critical for many time-sensitive applications, such as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation, inspection, and surveillance. The key challenge lies in balancing three competing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Bowen Li , Jiping Luo , Themistoklis Charalambous , Nikolaos Pappas

This paper studies unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided wireless communication systems where a UAV supports uplink communications of multiple ground nodes (GNs) while flying over the area of the interest. In this system, the propulsion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Subin Eom , Hoon Lee , Junhee Park , Inkyu Lee

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted significant interest recently in assisting wireless communication due to their high maneuverability, flexible deployment, and low cost. This paper considers a multi-UAV enabled wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Qingqing Wu , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

We consider a scenario where an UAV-mounted flying base station is providing data communication services to a number of radio nodes spread over the ground. We focus on the problem of resource-constrained UAV trajectory design with (i)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Omid Esrafilian , Rajeev Gangula , David Gesbert

Wireless communications is nowadays an important aspect of robotics. There are many applications in which a robot must move to a certain goal point while transmitting information through a wireless channel which depends on the particular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-19 D. Bonilla Licea , M. Bonilla , M. Ghogho , S. Lasaulce , V. S. Varma

In this paper, the design of the optimal decentralized state-feedback controllers is considered for a wireless sensor and actuator network (WSAN) with stochastic network-induced delays and packet losses. In particular, taking advantage of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-10-20 Zhuwei Wang , Xiaodong Wang , Lihan Liu

Autonomous deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) supporting next-generation communication networks requires efficient trajectory planning methods. We propose a new end-to-end reinforcement learning (RL) approach to UAV-enabled data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Harald Bayerlein , Mirco Theile , Marco Caccamo , David Gesbert

Realtime model learning proves challenging for complex dynamical systems, such as drones flying in variable wind conditions. Machine learning technique such as deep neural networks have high representation power but is often too slow to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Michael O'Connell , Guanya Shi , Xichen Shi , Soon-Jo Chung