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With the rapid advancement of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and missile technologies, perimeter-defense game between attackers and defenders for the protection of critical regions have become increasingly complex and strategically…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Li Wang , Xin Yu , Xuxin Lv , Gangzheng Ai , Wenjun Wu

Our work is motivated by environmental monitoring tasks, where finding the global maxima (i.e., hotspot) of a spatially varying field is crucial. We investigate the problem of identifying the hotspot for fields that can be sensed using an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Yoonchang Sung , Deeksha Dixit , Pratap Tokekar

With the rapidly growing expansion in the use of UAVs, the ability to autonomously navigate in varying environments and weather conditions remains a highly desirable but as-of-yet unsolved challenge. In this work, we use Deep Reinforcement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Bruna G. Maciel-Pearson , Letizia Marchegiani , Samet Akcay , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , James Garforth , Toby P. Breckon

Methods like multi-agent reinforcement learning struggle to scale with growing population size. Mean-field games (MFGs) are a game-theoretic approach that can circumvent this by finding a solution for an abstract infinite population, which…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Patrick Benjamin , Alessandro Abate

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) spectral remote sensing technology is widely used in water quality monitoring. However, in dynamic environments, varying illumination conditions, such as shadows and specular reflection (sun glint), can cause…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yuanshuang Fu , Qianyao Wang , Qihao Wang , Bonan Zhang , Jiaxin Zhao , Yiming Cao , Zhijun Li

Agentic UAVs represent a new frontier in autonomous aerial intelligence, integrating perception, decision-making, memory, and collaborative planning to operate adaptively in complex, real-world environments. Driven by recent advances in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Ranjan Sapkota , Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis , Manoj Karkee

Game-based interactive driving simulations have emerged as versatile platforms for advancing decision-making algorithms in road transport mobility. While these environments offer safe, scalable, and engaging settings for testing driving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zhihao Lin , Zhen Tian

The multi-UAV network is promising to extend conventional networks by providing broader coverage and better reliability. Nevertheless, the broadcast nature of wireless signals and the broader coverage expose multi-UAV communications to the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Mengnian Xu , Yanjiao Chen , Wei Wang

In this paper, a novel mathematical framework is introduced for modeling and analyzing the cyber-physical security of time-critical UAV applications. A general UAV security network interdiction game is formulated to model interactions…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Anibal Sanjab , Walid Saad , Tamer Başar

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) path planning algorithms often assume a knowledge reward function or priority map, indicating the most important areas to visit. In this paper we propose a method to create priority maps for monitoring or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Vera L. J. Somers , Ian R. Manchester

Increased utilization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in critical operations necessitates secure and reliable communication with Ground Control Stations (GCS). This paper introduces Aero-LLM, a framework integrating multiple Large…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Balakrishnan Dharmalingam , Rajdeep Mukherjee , Brett Piggott , Guohuan Feng , Anyi Liu

This paper presents a novel control method for a group of UAVs in obstacle-laden environments while preserving sensing network connectivity without data transmission between the UAVs. By leveraging constraints rooted in control barrier…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Thiviyathinesvaran Palani , Hiroaki Fukushima , Shunsuke Izuhara

The deployment flexibility and maneuverability of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) increased their adoption in various applications, such as wildfire tracking, border monitoring, etc. In many critical applications, UAVs capture images and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Marwan Dhuheir , Emna Baccour , Aiman Erbad , Sinan Sabeeh Al-Obaidi , Mounir Hamdi

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) ad-hoc network is a significant contingency plan for communication after a natural disaster, such as typhoon and earthquake. To achieve efficient and rapid networks deployment, we employ noncooperative game…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Zhuoying Li , Pan Zhou , Yanru Zhang , Lin Gao

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as powerful embodied agents. One of the core abilities is autonomous navigation in large-scale three-dimensional environments. Existing navigation policies, however, are typically optimized for…

Autonomous exploration is one of the important parts to achieve the fast autonomous mapping and target search. However, most of the existing methods are facing low-efficiency problems caused by low-quality trajectory or back-and-forth…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Yinghao Zhao , Li Yan , Hong Xie , Jicheng Dai , Pengcheng Wei

Safe UAV navigation is challenging due to the complex environment structures, dynamic obstacles, and uncertainties from measurement noises and unpredictable moving obstacle behaviors. Although plenty of recent works achieve safe navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Zhefan Xu , Di Deng , Yiping Dong , Kenji Shimada

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are capable of serving as flying base stations (BSs) for supporting data collection, artificial intelligence (AI) model training, and wireless communications. However, due to the privacy concerns of devices…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Helin Yang , Jun Zhao , Zehui Xiong , Kwok-Yan Lam , Sumei Sun , Liang Xiao

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as adequate platforms to carry communications nodes, including Wi-Fi Access Points and cellular Base Stations. This has led to the concept of flying networks composed of UAVs as a flexible and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-06 André Coelho , Rui Campos , Manuel Ricardo

In this paper, we consider an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted communications system, including two cooperative UAVs, a wireless-powered ground destination node leveraging simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Milad Tatar Mamaghani , Yi Hong