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The robotics community is increasingly interested in autonomous aerial transportation. Unmanned aerial vehicles with suspended payloads have advantages over other systems, including mechanical simplicity and agility, but pose great…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Haojia Li , Haokun Wang , Chen Feng , Fei Gao , Boyu Zhou , Shaojie Shen

This paper studies collective motion optimization of a fleet of UAVs flying over a populated and geometrically constrained area. The paper treats UAVs as particles of a deformable body, thus, UAV coordination is defined by a homeomorphic…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Hossein Rastgoftar , Ella Atkins

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

Due to recent booming of UAVs technologies, these are being used in many fields involving complex tasks. Some of them involve a high risk to the vehicle driver, such as fire monitoring and rescue tasks, which make UAVs excellent for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Cristian Ramirez-Atencia , Gema Bello-Orgaz , Maria D R-Moreno , David Camacho

In this paper, we consider deploying multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to enhance the computation service of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) through collaborative computation among UAVs. In particular, the tasks of different types and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Bin Li , Rongrong Yang , Lei Liu , Celimuge Wu

Mobile agent networks, such as multi-UAV systems, are constrained by limited resources. In particular, limited energy affects system performance directly, such as system lifetime. It has been demonstrated in the wireless sensor network…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Mason Thammawichai , Sujit P. Baliyarasimhuni , Eric C. Kerrigan , João B. Sousa

In this letter, we study the deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle mounted Base Stations (UAV-BSs) in multi-UAV cellular networks. We model the multi-UAV deployment problem as a user satisfaction maximization problem, that is, maximizing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Chuan-Chi Lai , Ang-Hsun Tsai , Chia-Wei Ting , Ko-Han Lin , Jing-Chi Ling , Chia-En Tsai

This work proposes a coverage controller that enables an aerial team of distributed autonomous agents to collaboratively generate non-myopic coverage plans over a rolling finite horizon, aiming to cover specific points on the surface area…

We consider a probabilistic model for large-scale task allocation problems for multi-agent systems, aiming to determine an optimal deployment strategy that minimizes the overall transport cost. Specifically, we assign transportation agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-13 Anqi Dong , Karl H. Johansson , Johan Karlsson

In order to improve the communication of the UAV network when the UAV formation in a complex military mission environment. This paper proposed formation reconfiguration strategy under complexities mission environment. We take the problem of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-13 Hu Jin

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have significantly enhanced fog computing by acting as both flexible computation platforms and communication mobile relays. In this paper, we consider four important and interdependent modules: attitude…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-13 Shuaijun Liu , Jinqiu Du , Yaxin Zheng , Jiaying Yin , Yuhui Deng , Jingjin Wu

Optimal collision-free formation control of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a challenge. The state-of-the-art optimal control approaches often rely on numerical methods sensitive to initial guesses. This paper presents an innovative…

This work considers the deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over a predefined area to serve a number of ground users. Due to the heterogeneous nature of the network,the UAVs may cause severe interference to the transmissions of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-03 Hajar El Hammouti , Doha Hamza , Basem Shihada , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Jeff S. Shamma

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained a lot of popularity in diverse wireless communication fields. They can act as high-altitude flying relays to support communications between ground nodes due to their ability to provide…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-01 Hakim Ghazzai , Mahdi Ben Ghorbel , Andreas Kassler , Md. Jahangir Hossain

Future unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) will be shared by multiple users and will have to operate in conditions where their fully-autonomous function is required. Calculation of a drones trajectory will be important but optimal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-09 Vasileios Tsoutsouras , Joseph Story , Phillip Stanley-Marbell

To enhance the performance of aerial-ground networks, this paper proposes an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) framework for multi-UAV systems. In our model, ground base stations (BSs) cooperatively serve multiple unmanned aerial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-01 Fangzhi Li , Zhichu Ren , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Jing Jin , Qixing Wang , Jiangzhou Wang

The ability to efficiently plan and execute search missions in challenging and complex environments during natural and man-made disasters is imperative. In many emergency situations, precise navigation between obstacles and time-efficient…

This paper presents a new swarm intelligence-based approach to deal with the cooperative path planning problem of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which is essential for the automatic inspection of infrastructure. The approach uses a 3D…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-14 Duy Nam Bui , Thuy Ngan Duong , Manh Duong Phung

With the emergence of compute-intensive and delay-sensitive applications in vehicular networks, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a promising complement for vehicular edge computing due to the high mobility and flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Hongbao Li , Ziye Jia , Sijie He , Kun Guo , Qihui Wu

Achieving both safety guarantees and real-time performance in cooperative vehicle coordination remains a fundamental challenge, particularly in dynamic and uncertain environments. Existing methods often suffer from insufficient uncertainty…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Haojie Bai , Tingting Zhang , Cong Guo , Yang Wang , Xiongwei Zhao , Hai Zhu