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Obstacle avoidance for small unmanned aircraft is vital for the safety of future urban air mobility (UAM) and Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM). There are many techniques for real-time robust drone guidance, but many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Jueming Hu , Xuxi Yang , Weichang Wang , Peng Wei , Lei Ying , Yongming Liu

We investigate the problem of energy-constrained planning for a cooperative system of an Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) and an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). In scenarios where the UGV serves as a mobile base to ferry the UAV and as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Bill Cai , Fei Lu , Lifeng Zhou

We introduce a decentralized and online path planning technique for a network of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the presence of weather disturbances. In our problem setting, the group of UAVs are required to collaboratively visit a set…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Wei Zhao , Borzoo Bonakdarpour

For intelligent quadcopter UAVs, a robust and reliable autonomous planning system is crucial. Most current trajectory planning methods for UAVs are suitable for static environments but struggle to handle dynamic obstacles, which can pose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Jiageng Zhong , Ming Li , Yinliang Chen , Zihang Wei , Fan Yang , Haoran Shen

An innovative sort of mobility platform that can both drive and fly is the air-ground robot. The need for an agile flight cannot be satisfied by traditional path planning techniques for air-ground robots. Prior studies had mostly focused on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Xiaoyu Wang , Kangyao Huang , Xinyu Zhang , Honglin Sun , Wenzhuo Liu , Huaping Liu , Jun Li , Pingping Lu

A vehicle's fuel consumption depends on its type, the speed, the condition, and the gradients of the road on which it is moving. We developed a Routing Engine for finding an eco-route (one with low fuel consumption) between a source and a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-30 R K Ghosh , Vinay R , Arnab Bhattacharyya

This paper tackles the problem of planning minimum-energy coverage paths for multiple UAVs. The addressed Multi-UAV Coverage Path Planning (mCPP) is a crucial problem for many UAV applications such as inspection and aerial survey. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Denys Datsko , Frantisek Nekovar , Robert Penicka , Martin Saska

In this paper, we study the resource allocation and trajectory design for energy-efficient secure unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication systems where a UAV base station serves multiple legitimate ground users in the existence of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Yuanxin Cai , Zhiqiang Wei , Ruide Li , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

Integration of reinforcement learning with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to achieve autonomous flight has been an active research area in recent years. An important part focuses on obstacle detection and avoidance for UAVs navigating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Jeremy Roghair , Kyungtae Ko , Amir Ehsan Niaraki Asli , Ali Jannesari

On-board battery consumption, cellular disconnectivity, and frequent handoff are key challenges for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based delivery missions, a.k.a., cargo-UAV. Indeed, with the introduction of UAV technology into cargo…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Nesrine Cherif , Wael Jaafar , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Abbas Yongacoglu

In this paper, a software-based simulator for the deployment of base station-equipped unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a cellular network is proposed. To this end, the Google Earth Engine platform and its included image processing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Aaron French , Mohammad Mozaffari , Abdelrahman Eldosouky , Walid Saad

We propose a novel Energy-Predictive Drone Service (EPDS) framework for efficient package delivery within a skyway network. The EPDS framework incorporates a formal modeling of an EPDS and an adaptive bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Guanting Ren , Babar Shahzaad , Balsam Alkouz , Abdallah Lakhdari , Athman Bouguettaya

The rapid growth of the low-altitude economy has driven the widespread adoption of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This growing deployment presents new challenges for UAV trajectory planning in complex urban environments. However, existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yanwei Gong , Junchao Fan , Ruichen Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Yingying Yao , Xiaolin Chang

Connected and Automated Hybrid Electric Vehicles have the potential to reduce fuel consumption and travel time in real-world driving conditions. The eco-driving problem seeks to design optimal speed and power usage profiles based upon…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Zhaoxuan Zhu , Nicola Pivaro , Shobhit Gupta , Abhishek Gupta , Marcello Canova

Quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles have a limited quantity of embedded energy. To preserve and guaranty the success of the UAV mission, we should manage energy consumption during the mission. In this study we introduce an optimization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Fouad Yacef , Nassim Rizoug , Laid Degaa

Autonomous agile flight brings up fundamental challenges in robotics, such as coping with unreliable state estimation, reacting optimally to dynamically changing environments, and coupling perception and action in real time under severe…

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

In this paper, we present a motion planning strategy for UAVs that generates a time-optimal trajectory to survey a given target area. There are several situations where completing an aerial survey is time sensitive, such as gaining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Tankasala Srinath , Pehlivanturk Can , Pryor Mitch

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are used for numerous inspection and video capture tasks. Manually controlling UAVs in the vicinity of obstacles is challenging, however, and poses a high risk of collisions. Even for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Daniel Schleich , Sven Behnke

Multirotor unmanned aerial vehicle is a prevailing type of aerial robots with wide real-world applications. The energy efficiency of the robot is a critical aspect of its performance, determining the range and duration of the missions that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Nicolas Michel , Ayush Patnaik , Zhaodan Kong , Xinfan Lin