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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology is a promising solution for providing high-quality mobile services to ground users, where a UAV with limited service coverage travels among multiple geographical user locations (e.g., hotspots) for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Kai Wang , Xiao Zhang , Lingjie Duan , Jun Tie

Cooperating autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) often rely on acoustic communication to coordinate their actions effectively. However, the reliability of underwater acoustic communication decreases as the communication range between…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Yifei Gao , Harun Yetkin , McMahon James , Daniel J. Stilwell

The low detectability and low cost of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) allow them to swarm near the radar network for effective jamming. The key to jamming is the reasonable task assignment and resource allocation of UAVs. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Ruiqing Han , Tianxian Zhang , Han Zhong , Yuanhang Wang

Precise aerial radio environment characterization is vital for low-altitude planning. However, existing datasets and estimation methods lack the high-resolution granularity required for complex aerial spaces. Additionally, current schemes…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Shijian Gao , Jiahui Liang , Yifeng Yuan , Wenlihan Lu , Guobin Shen , Liuqing Yang

Radio map estimation (RME), also known as spectrum cartography, aims to reconstruct the strength of radio interference across different domains (e.g., space and frequency) from sparsely sampled measurements. To tackle this typical inverse…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Le Xu , Lei Cheng , Junting Chen , Wenqiang Pu , Xiao Fu

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have attracted considerable research interest recently. Especially when it comes to the realm of Internet of Things, the UAVs with Internet connectivity are one of the main demands. Furthermore, the energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Arash Hooshmand

This paper presents a novel machine-learning framework for reconstructing low-order gust-encounter flow field and lift coefficients from sparse, noisy surface pressure measurements. Our study thoroughly investigates the time-varying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Hanieh Mousavi , Jeff D. Eldredge

Communications between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play an important role in deploying aerial networks. Although some studies reveal that drone-based air-to-air (A2A) channels are relatively clear and thus can be modeled as free-space…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Zhuangzhuang Cui , Abdul Saboor , Achiel Colpaert , Sofie Pollin

Scalable and maintainable map representations are fundamental to enabling large-scale visual navigation and facilitating the deployment of robots in real-world environments. While collaborative localization across multi-session mapping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jianhao Jiao , Changkun Liu , Jingwen Yu , Boyi Liu , Qianyi Zhang , Yue Wang , Dimitrios Kanoulas

Coverage path planning (CPP) is the task of designing a trajectory that enables a mobile agent to travel over every point of an area of interest. We propose a new method to control an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) carrying a camera on a CPP…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Mirco Theile , Harald Bayerlein , Richard Nai , David Gesbert , Marco Caccamo

This paper addresses a novel multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL)-based positioning algorithm for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) collaboration (i.e., UAVs work as mobile base stations). The primary objective of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Chanyoung Park , Soohyun Park , Soyi Jung , Carlos Cordeiro , Joongheon Kim

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

Channel knowledge map (CKM) has recently emerged to facilitate the placement and trajectory optimization for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications. This paper investigates a CKM-assisted multi-UAV wireless network, by focusing on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Haoyun Li , Peiming Li , Jie Xu , Junting Chen , Yong Zeng

Information gathering algorithms play a key role in unlocking the potential of robots for efficient data collection in a wide range of applications. However, most existing strategies neglect the fundamental problem of the robot pose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Marija Popovic , Teresa Vidal-Calleja , Jen Jen Chung , Juan Nieto , Roland Siegwart

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) acting as Flying Access Points (FAPs) are being used to provide on-demand wireless connectivity in extreme scenarios. Despite ongoing research, the optimization of UAVs' positions according to dynamic users'…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Eduardo Nuno Almeida , Rui Campos , Manuel Ricardo

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have been standing out due to the wide range of applications in which they can be used autonomously. However, they need intelligent systems capable of providing a greater understanding of what they perceive to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Matheus G. Mateus , Ricardo B. Grando , Paulo L. J. Drews-Jr

Mobile robot platforms are increasingly being used to automate information gathering tasks such as environmental monitoring. Efficient target tracking in dynamic environments is critical for applications such as search and rescue and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Sanjeev Ramkumar Sudha , Marija Popović , Erlend M. Coates

Performing autonomous exploration is essential for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in unknown environments. Often, these missions start with building a map for the environment via pure exploration and subsequently using (i.e.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Ashley Peake , Joe McCalmon , Yixin Zhang , Daniel Myers , Sarra Alqahtani , Paul Pauca

Deep generative models, particularly diffusion and flow matching models, have recently shown remarkable potential in learning complex policies through imitation learning. However, the safety of generated motions remains overlooked,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Haoran Ding , Anqing Duan , Zezhou Sun , Leonel Rozo , Noémie Jaquier , Dezhen Song , Yoshihiko Nakamura

Flow matching is a recent framework to train generative models that exhibits impressive empirical performance while being relatively easier to train compared with diffusion-based models. Despite its advantageous properties, prior methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Quan Dao , Hao Phung , Binh Nguyen , Anh Tran