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Resource balancing within complex transportation networks is one of the most important problems in real logistics domain. Traditional solutions on these problems leverage combinatorial optimization with demand and supply forecasting.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Xihan Li , Jia Zhang , Jiang Bian , Yunhai Tong , Tie-Yan Liu

It has been considered that urban air mobility (UAM), also known as drone-taxi or electrical vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL), will play a key role in future transportation. By putting UAM into practical future transportation, several…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Chanyoung Park , Soohyun Park , Gyu Seon Kim , Soyi Jung , Jae-Hyun Kim , Joongheon Kim

The recent progress in multi-agent deep reinforcement learning(MADRL) makes it more practical in real-world tasks, but its relatively poor scalability and the partially observable constraints raise challenges to its performance and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Zhenhui Ye , Xiaohong Jiang , Guanghua Song , Bowei Yang

With the increasing demand for heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms to perform complex tasks in urban environments, system design now faces major challenges, including efficient semantic understanding, flexible task planning,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Tengchao Zhang , Yonglin Tian , Fei Lin , Jun Huang , Patrik P. Süli , Qinghua Ni , Rui Qin , Xiao Wang , Fei-Yue Wang

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been extensively applied to Multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) network (MUN) to effectively enable real-time adaptation to complex, time-varying environments. Nevertheless, most of the existing works…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-11 Bowei Li , Yang Xu , Ran Zhang , Jiang , Xie , Miao Wang

Persistent monitoring of dynamic targets is essential in real-world applications such as disaster response, environmental sensing, and wildlife conservation, where mobile agents must continuously gather information under uncertainty. We…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xingjian Zhang , Yizhuo Wang , Guillaume Sartoretti

Autonomous Flying Networks (FNs) are emerging as a key enabler of on-demand connectivity in dynamic and infrastructure-limited environments. However, current approaches mainly focus on UAV placement, routing, and resource management,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Diogo Ferreira , Pedro Ribeiro , André Coelho , Rui Campos

Cooperative perception has attracted wide attention given its capability to leverage shared information across connected automated vehicles (CAVs) and smart infrastructures to address sensing occlusion and range limitation issues. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Zonglin Meng , Yun Zhang , Zhaoliang Zheng , Zhihao Zhao , Jiaqi Ma

Learning cooperative multi-agent policies directly from high-dimensional, multimodal sensory inputs like pixels and audio (from pixels) is notoriously sample-inefficient. Model-free Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) algorithms…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Sureyya Akin , Kavita Srivastava , Prateek B. Kapoor , Pradeep G. Sethi , Sunita Q. Patel , Rahu Srivastava

This paper investigates underwater cooperative target detection using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), with a focus on the critical trade-off between cooperation efficiency and communication covertness. To tackle this challenge, we…

We study resilient leader-follower consensus of multi-agent systems (MASs) in the presence of adversarial agents, where agents' communication is modeled by time-varying topologies. The objective is to develop distributed algorithms for the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Liwei Yuan , Hideaki Ishii

The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with Internet of Things (IoT) networks offers promising solutions for efficient data collection. However, the limited energy capacity of UAVs remains a significant challenge. In this case,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Geng Sun , Likun Zhang , Jiahui Li , Jing Wu , Jiacheng Wang , Zemin Sun , Changyuan Zhao , Victor C. M. Leung

As a fundamental problem for Artificial Intelligence, multi-agent system (MAS) is making rapid progress, mainly driven by multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) techniques. However, previous MARL methods largely focused on grid-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Haiyang Wang , Wenguan Wang , Xizhou Zhu , Jifeng Dai , Liwei Wang

In this chapter, the regulation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) communication network is investigated in the presence of dynamic changes in the UAV lineup and user distribution. We target an optimal UAV control policy which is capable of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-26 Ran Zhang , Duc Minh , Nguyen , Miao Wang , Lin X. Cai , Xuemin , Shen

Urban traffic congestion is a critical predicament that plagues modern road networks. To alleviate this issue and enhance traffic efficiency, traffic signal control and vehicle routing have proven to be effective measures. In this paper, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-18 Xianyue Peng , Hang Gao , Gengyue Han , Hao Wang , Michael Zhang

Target localization is a critical task in sensitive applications, where multiple sensing agents communicate and collaborate to identify the target location based on sensor readings. Existing approaches investigated the use of Multi-Agent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Ahmed Alagha , Rabeb Mizouni , Shakti Singh , Jamal Bentahar , Hadi Otrok

The prosperity of smart mobile devices has made mobile crowdsensing (MCS) a promising paradigm for completing complex sensing and computation tasks. In the past, great efforts have been made on the design of incentive mechanisms and task…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Yize Chen , Hao Wang

This paper investigates the network-assisted full-duplex (NAFD) cell-free millimeter-wave (mmWave) networks, where the distribution of the transmitting access points (T-APs) and receiving access points (R-APs) across distinct geographical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Qingrui Fan , Yu Zhang , Jiamin Li , Dongming Wang , Hongbiao Zhang , Xiaohu You

This work investigates resource optimization in heterogeneous satellite clusters performing autonomous Earth Observation (EO) missions using Reinforcement Learning (RL). In the proposed setting, two optical satellites and one Synthetic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Mohamad A. Hady , Siyi Hu , Mahardhika Pratama , Zehong Cao , Ryszard Kowalczyk

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) has become a classic paradigm to solve diverse, intelligent control tasks like autonomous driving in Internet of Vehicles (IoV). However, the widely assumed existence of a central node to implement…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Xiaoxue Yu , Rongpeng Li , Fei Wang , Chenghui Peng , Chengchao Liang , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang