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Payload transport over flat terrain via multi-wheel robot carriers is well-understood, highly effective, and configurable. In this paper, our goal is to provide similar effectiveness and configurability for transport over rough terrain that…

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer significant potential in dynamic, perception-intensive tasks such as search and rescue and environmental monitoring; however, their effectiveness is severely restricted by conventional pre-planned…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Yuhan Hu , Yirong Sun , Yanjun Chen , Xinghao Chen , Xiaoyu Shen , Wei Zhang

World model-based searching and planning are widely recognized as a promising path toward human-level physical intelligence. However, current driving world models primarily rely on video diffusion models, which specialize in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Yuntao Chen , Yuqi Wang , Zhaoxiang Zhang

An unmanned deformable vehicle is a wheel-legged robot transforming between two configurations: vehicular and humanoid states, with different motion modes and stability characteristics. To address motion stability in multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jun Liu , Hongxun Liu , Cheng Zhang , Jiandang Xing , Shang Jiang , Ping Jiang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been actively studied as moving cloudlets to provide application offloading opportunities and to enhance the security level of user equipments (UEs). In this correspondence, we propose a hybrid UAV-aided…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-17 Seonghoon Yoo , Seongah Jeong , Joonhyuk Kang

Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV) has been widely applied in automatic logistics system because it provides flexibility and efficiency. This paper addresses review and design of multi AGVs system (MAGS) and its coordination control to be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Roni Permana Saputra , Estiko Rijanto

This paper introduces for the first time the design, modelling, and control of a novel morphing multi-rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that we call the OmniMorph. The morphing ability allows the selection of the configuration that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Youssef Aboudorra , Chiara Gabellieri , Ralph Brantjes , Quentin Sablé , Antonio Franchi

There is increasing demand for control of multi-robot and as well distributing large amounts of content to cluster of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) on the operation. In recent years several large-scale accidents have happened. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Rahim Rahmani , Ramin Firouzi , Theo Kanter

To enable communication-efficient federated learning (FL), this paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled FL system, where the UAV coordinates distributed ground devices for a shared model training. Specifically, by exploiting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-21 Min Fu , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided mobile edge computing (MEC) framework is proposed, where several UAVs having different trajectories fly over the target area and support the user equipments (UEs) on the ground. We aim to jointly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-24 Liang Wang , Kezhi Wang , Cunhua Pan , Wei Xu , Nauman Aslam , Lajos Hanzo

Designing ground-aerial robots is challenging due to the increased actuation requirements which can lead to added weight and reduced locomotion efficiency. Morphobots mitigate this by combining actuators into multi-functional groups and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Ioannis Mandralis , Reza Nemovi , Alireza Ramezani , Richard M. Murray , Morteza Gharib

Optimal deployment and movement of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is studied. The considered scenario consists of several ground terminals (GTs) communicating with the UAVs using variable transmission power and fixed data rate.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Erdem Koyuncu , Maryam Shabanighazikelayeh , Hulya Seferoglu

Cooperative transportation by multi-aerial robots has the potential to support various payloads and improve failsafe against dropping. Furthermore, changing the attachment positions of robots according payload characteristics increases the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Koshi Oishi , Tomohiko Jimbo

This paper focuses on the control of a cooperative system composed of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) manipulating an object. The two units are subject to input saturations and collaborate to move the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Tam W. Nguyen , Laurent Catoire , Emanuele Garone

Using a deformable sheet to handle objects is convenient and found in many practical applications. For object manipulation through a deformable sheet that is held by multiple mobile robots, it is a challenging task to model the object-sheet…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Jiawei Hu , Wenhang Liu , Heng Zhang , Jingang Yi , Zhenhua Xiong

Autonomous vehicles (AV) have progressed rapidly with the advancements in computer vision algorithms. The deep convolutional neural network as the main contributor to this advancement has boosted the classification accuracy dramatically.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Letao Liu , Martin Saerbeck , Justin Dauwels

The non-equilibrium Green's function method combined with density functional theory (NEGF-DFT) provides a rigorous framework for simulating nanoscale electronic transport, but its computational cost scales steeply with system size. Recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Zili Tang , Xiaoxin Xie , Guanwen Yao , Ligong Zhang , Xiaoyan Liu , Xing Zhang , Liu Fei

We designed and constructed an A-sized base autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), augmented with a stack of modular and extendable hardware and software, including autonomy, navigation, control and high fidelity simulation capabilities…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Supun Randeni , Michael Sacarny , Michael Benjamin , Michael Triantafyllou

This paper presents a novel approach to utilizing underactuated quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as assistive devices in cooperative payload transportation task through human guidance and physical interaction. The proposed system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Hussein Naser , Hashim A. Hashim , Mojtaba Ahmadi

Mobile robots are ubiquitous. Such vehicles benefit from well-designed and calibrated control algorithms ensuring their task execution under precise uncertainty bounds. Yet, in tasks involving humans in the loop, such as elderly or mobility…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Cristian Axenie , Matteo Saveriano