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The design of control systems for the spatial self-organization of mobile agents is an open challenge across several engineering domains, including swarm robotics and synthetic biology. Here, we propose a bio-inspired leader-follower…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Gian Carlo Maffettone , Alain Boldini , Mario di Bernardo , Maurizio Porfiri

To develop the low-altitude economy, the establishment of the low-altitude wireless network (LAWN) is the first priority. As the number of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) increases, how to support the reliable flying and effective…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Yiyan Ma , Bo Ai , Jingli Li , Weijie Yuan , Boxiang He , Weiyang Feng , Zhengyu Zhang , Qingqing Cheng , Zhangdui Zhong

This paper presents a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based controller for collective navigation of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms in communication-denied environments, enabling robust operation in complex, obstacle-rich…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Myong-Yol Choi , Hankyoul Ko , Hanse Cho , Changseung Kim , Seunghwan Kim , Jaemin Seo , Hyondong Oh

Fast and reliable wireless communication has become a critical demand in human life. In the case of mission-critical (MC) scenarios, for instance, when natural disasters strike, providing ubiquitous connectivity becomes challenging by using…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Hongyi Zhang , Zhiqiang Qi , Jingya Li , Anders Aronsson , Jan Bosch , Helena Holmström Olsson

The threats on cyber-physical system have changed much into a level of sophistication that elude the traditional security and protection methods. This work addresses a proactive approaches to the cyber security of a formation flying UAVs. A…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 Lebsework Negash , Han-Lim Choi

Robust cooperative formation control is investigated in this paper for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles in close formation flight to save energy. A novel cooperative control method is developed. The concept of virtual structure is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Qingrui Zhang , Hugh H. T. Liu

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has emerged as a pivotal technology for advancing low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs), serving as a critical enabler for next-generation communication systems. This paper investigates the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Jun Wu , Weijie Yuan , Qingqing Cheng , Haijia Jin

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) ad hoc network has achieved significant growth for its flexibility, extensibility, and high deployability in recent years. The application of clustering scheme for UAV ad hoc network is imperative to enhance…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Xinru Zhao , Zhiqing Wei , Yingying Zou , Hao Ma , Yanpeng Cui , Zhiyong Feng

The simultaneous control of multiple coordinated robotic agents represents an elaborate problem. If solved, however, the interaction between the agents can lead to solutions to sophisticated problems. The concept of swarming, inspired by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Nathan K Long , Karl Sammut , Daniel Sgarioto , Matthew Garratt , Hussein Abbass

This article proposes Persistence Administered Collective Navigation (PACNav) as an approach for achieving decentralized collective navigation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms. The technique is based on the flocking and collective…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Afzal Ahmad , Daniel Bonilla Licea , Giuseppe Silano , Tomas Baca , Martin Saska

Conventional affine formation control (AFC) empowers a network of agents with flexible but collective motions - a potential which has not yet been exploited for large-scale swarms. One of the key bottlenecks lies in the design of an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Zhonggang Li , Geert Leus , Raj Thilak Rajan

Path Planning methods for autonomous control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms are on the rise because of all the advantages they bring. There are more and more scenarios where autonomous control of multiple UAVs is required. Most of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Alejandro Puente-Castro , Daniel Rivero , Eurico Pedrosa , Artur Pereira , Nuno Lau , Enrique Fernandez-Blanco

In this paper, we propose an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and bird recognition scheme with signal processing and deep learning for integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system. We first provide the basic scene of low-altitude…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Hongliang Luo , Zhonghua Chu , Tengyu Zhang , Chuanbin Zhao , Bo Lin , Feifei Gao

This article presents Persistence Administered Collective Navigation (PACNav) as an approach for achieving decentralized collective navigation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms. The technique is inspired by the flocking and collective…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Afzal Ahmad , Daniel Bonilla Licea , Giuseppe Silano , Tomas Baca , Martin Saska

Distributed model predictive control (DMPC) is often used to tackle path planning for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms. However, it requires considerable computations on-board the UAV, leading to increased weight and power consumption.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Alexander Gräfe , Joram Eickhoff , Sebastian Trimpe

This paper addresses the increasing significance of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) and the emergence of UAV swarms for collaborative operations in various domains. However, the effectiveness of UAV swarms can be severely compromised by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Haechan Jeong

In this paper a modular and scalable architecture for heterogeneous swarm-based Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UASs) built on PX4-Autopilot and Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2) framework is presented. The proposed architecture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Robert Pommeranz , Kevin Tebbe , Ralf Heynicke , Gerd Scholl

Minimalistic robot swarms offer a scalable, robust, and cost-effective approach to performing complex tasks with the potential to transform applications in healthcare, disaster response, and environmental monitoring. However, coordinating…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Raina Zakir , Timoteo Carletti , Marco Dorigo , Andreagiovanni Reina

In this paper, we present Neural-Swarm, a nonlinear decentralized stable controller for close-proximity flight of multirotor swarms. Close-proximity control is challenging due to the complex aerodynamic interaction effects between…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Guanya Shi , Wolfgang Hönig , Yisong Yue , Soon-Jo Chung

We consider a leader-follower formation control setup as an example for a multi-agent networked control system (NCS). This paper proposes an event-based wireless communication scheme with a MIMO precoder, that dynamically adapts to both the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Yasemin Karacora , Aydin Sezgin