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The ability to efficiently plan and execute automated and precise search missions using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) during emergency response situations is imperative. Precise navigation between obstacles and time-efficient searching of…

This paper presents a real-time trajectory planning framework for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) that is both safe and scalable. The proposed framework employs a decentralized, free-flight concept of operation in which each aircraft independently…

An approach to control tethered wings for airborne wind energy is proposed. A fixed length of the lines is considered, and the aim of the control system is to obtain figure-eight crosswind trajectories. The proposed technique is based on…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-08-27 Lorenzo Fagiano , Aldo U. Zgraggen , Manfred Morari , Mustafa Khammash

When pushing the speed limit for aggressive off-road navigation on uneven terrain, it is inevitable that vehicles may become airborne from time to time. During time-sensitive tasks, being able to fly over challenging terrain can also save…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Anuj Pokhrel , Aniket Datar , Xuesu Xiao

Safe flight in dynamic environments requires unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to make effective decisions when navigating cluttered spaces with moving obstacles. Traditional approaches often decompose decision-making into hierarchical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Zhefan Xu , Xinming Han , Haoyu Shen , Hanyu Jin , Kenji Shimada

Due to the inability to receive signals from the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) in extreme conditions, achieving accurate and robust navigation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is a challenging task. Recently emerged,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Yuxin Wang , Zunlei Feng , Haofei Zhang , Yang Gao , Jie Lei , Li Sun , Mingli Song

While Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant traction across various fields, path planning in 3D environments remains a critical challenge, particularly under size, weight, and power (SWAP) constraints. Traditional modular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yufei Jiang , Yuanzhu Zhan , Harsh Vardhan Gupta , Chinmay Borde , Junyi Geng

The conventional Artificial Potential Field (APF) is fundamentally limited by the local minima issue and its inability to account for the kinematics of moving obstacles. This paper addresses the critical challenge of autonomous collision…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-10 Nikita Vaibhav Pavle , Shrreya Rajneesh , Rakesh Kumar Sahoo , Manoranjan Sinha

UAV tracking can be widely applied in scenarios such as disaster rescue, environmental monitoring, and logistics transportation. However, existing UAV tracking methods predominantly emphasize speed and lack exploration in semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Xinyu Zhou , Tongxin Pan , Lingyi Hong , Pinxue Guo , Haijing Guo , Zhaoyu Chen , Kaixun Jiang , Wenqiang Zhang

Due to Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) limitations in processing power and battery lifetime. The tethered UAV (TUAV) offers an attractive approach to answer these shortcomings. Since a tethered connected to UAV is one potential energy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Abdu Saif , Kaharudin Dimyati , Kamarul Ariffin Noordin , Nor Shahida MohdShah , S. H. Alsamhi , Qazwan Abdullah

Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to perform high-altitude manipulation tasks beyond just passive visual application can reduce the time, cost, and risk of human workers. Prior research on aerial manipulation has relied on either ground…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Guanqi He , Yash Jangir , Junyi Geng , Mohammadreza Mousaei , Dongwei Bai , Sebastian Scherer

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have emerged as versatile platforms, driving the demand for accurate modeling to support developmental testing. This paper proposes data-driven modeling software for UAV. Emphasizes the utilization of…

While Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed in several missions, their inability of reliable and consistent autonomous landing poses a major setback for deploying such systems truly autonomously. In this paper we present…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Michalis Piponidis , Panayiotis Aristodemou , Theocharis Theocharides

Utilizing autonomous drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has shown great advantages over preceding methods in support of urgent scenarios such as search and rescue (SAR) and wildfire detection. In these operations, search efficiency…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Mohammadjavad Khosravi , Rushiv Arora , Saeede Enayati , Hossein Pishro-Nik

This research offers a novel framework for dynamic task assignment for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in cooperative search settings. Notably, it incorporates post-fault UAV capabilities into job assignment techniques, assuring operational…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Ali Nasir , Mohammad AlDurgam

Thanks to their quick placement and high flexibility, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be very useful in the current and future wireless communication systems. With a growing number of smart devices and infrastructure-free communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-24 Shuyan Hu , Qingqing Wu , Xin Wang

Drones, like most airborne aerial vehicles, face inherent disadvantages in achieving agile flight due to their limited thrust capabilities. These physical constraints cannot be fully addressed through advancements in control algorithms…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Dohyeon Lee , Jun-Gill Kang , Soohee Han

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used in automated inspection, delivery, and navigation tasks that require reliable autonomy. This project develops a reinforcement learning (RL) approach to enable a single UAV to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Salim Oyinlola , Nitesh Subedi , Soumik Sarkar

Fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are of great potential to serve as aerial access points (APs) owing to better aerodynamic performance and longer flight endurance. However, the inherent hovering feature of fixed-wing UAVs may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Junyu Liu , Min Sheng , Ruiling Lyu , Yan Shi , Jiandong Li

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are a convenient choice for carrying mobile base stations to rapidly setup communication services for ground users. Unlike terrestrial networks, UAVs do not have fiber optic back-haul connectivity except when…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Yuhui Wang , Junaid Farooq