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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarm systems necessitate efficient collaborative perception mechanisms for diverse operational scenarios. Current Bird's Eye View (BEV)-based approaches exhibit two main limitations: bounding-box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Zefu Lin , Wenbo Chen , Xiaojuan Jin , Yuran Yang , Lue Fan , Yixin Zhang , Yufeng Zhang , Zhaoxiang Zhang

In this paper, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) architecture, in which a UAV roaming around the area may serve as a computing server to help user equipment (UEs) compute their tasks or act as a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-18 Xiaoyan Hu , Kai-Kit Wong , Kun Yang , Zhongbin Zheng

In post-disaster scenarios, the rapid deployment of adequate communication infrastructure is essential to support disaster search, rescue, and recovery operations. To achieve this, uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) has emerged as a promising…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-23 Jikang Deng , Hui Zhou , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Zero-shot Object Navigation (ZSON) has shown promise for open-vocabulary target search in unseen environments, yet most existing systems remain tied to planar representations and single-floor assumptions. These assumptions become inadequate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Han Zheng , Zhe Chen , Yudong Huang , Haoran Liu , Jinghao Wang , Ming Yang , Tong Qin

In cloud radio access networks (C-RANs), the baseband units and radio units of base stations are separated, which requires high-capacity fronthaul links connecting both parts. In this paper, we consider the delay-aware fronthaul allocation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Wei Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau , Mugen Peng

This paper presents a novel method for real-time 3D navigation in large-scale, complex environments using a hierarchical 3D visibility graph (V-graph). The proposed algorithm addresses the computational challenges of V-graph construction…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Botao He , Guofei Chen , Cornelia Fermuller , Yiannis Aloimonos , Ji Zhang

As Urban air mobility scales, commercial drone fleets offer a compelling, yet underexplored opportunity to function as mobile sensor networks for real-time urban traffic monitoring. In this paper, we propose a decentralized framework that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Pengbo Zhu , Meng Xu , Andreas A. Malikopoulos , Nikolas Geroliminis

In this paper, a novel framework is presented that achieves a combined solution based on Multi-Robot Task Allocation (MRTA) and collision avoidance with respect to homogeneous measurement tasks taking place in industrial environments. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Rathin Chandra Shit , Sharmila Subudhi

Large-scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) failures can split an unmanned aerial vehicle swarm network into disconnected sub-networks, making decentralized recovery both urgent and difficult. Centralized recovery methods depend on global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Huan Lin , Lianghui Ding

Currently, state-of-the-art exploration methods maintain high-resolution map representations in order to optimize exploration goals in each step that maximizes information gain. However, during exploring, those "optimal" selections could…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Fan Yang , Dung-Han Lee , John Keller , Sebastian Scherer

In this study, we propose a novel heuristic two-step algorithm for shared ridehailing in which users can share their rides with only one more user. The algorithm, which is centrally formulated, starts with matching users and creating a set…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Sayed Mehdi Meshkani , Bilal Farooq

We aim to train a multi-task model such that users can adjust the desired compute budget and relative importance of task performances after deployment, without retraining. This enables optimizing performance for dynamically varying user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Abhishek Aich , Samuel Schulter , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury , Manmohan Chandraker , Yumin Suh

This article investigates the energy efficiency issue in non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-enhanced Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks, where a mobile unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is exploited as a flying base station to collect data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-17 Jingjing Zhao , Kaiquan Cai , Yanbo Zhu

This paper presents a scalable and fault-tolerant framework for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) mission management in complex and uncertain environments. The proposed approach addresses the computational bottleneck inherent in solving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Md Muzakkir Quamar , Ali Nasir , Sami ELFerik

One of the major challenges in the coordination of large, open, collaborative, and commercial vehicle fleets is dynamic task allocation. Self-concerned individually rational vehicle drivers have both local and global objectives, which…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Marin Lujak , Stefano Giordani , Andrea Omicini , Sascha Ossowski

Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm is a promising solution for diverse applications, including cargo delivery and traffic control. However, it is still challenging to communicate with and control the UAV swarm with high…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yang Su , Hui Zhou , Yansha Deng , Mischa Dohler

This paper studies a multi-UAV wireless network, in which multiple UAV users share the same spectrum to send individual messages to their respectively associated ground base stations (GBSs). The UAV users aim to optimize their locations to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Haoyun Li , Peiming Li , Jie Xu , Junting Chen , Yong Zeng

Vehicular communications are the key enabler of traffic reduction and road safety improvement referred to as cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) communications. Considering the numerous transmitting entities in next generation cellular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Mohammad Hossein Bahonar , Mohammad Javad Omidi , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Decision Transformer (DT) shows promise for generative auto-bidding by capturing temporal dependencies, but suffers from two critical limitations: insufficient cross-correlation modeling among state, action, and return-to-go (RTG)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Jinren Ding , Xuejian Xu , Shen Jiang , Zhitong Hao , Jinhui Yang , Peng Jiang

Semantic segmentation is a fundamental perception task in autonomous driving, particularly for identifying drivable areas and lane markings to enable safe navigation. However, most state-of-the-art (SOTA) models are computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Quang-Huy Che , Duc-Tri Le , Minh-Quan Pham , Vinh-Tiep Nguyen , Duc-Khai Lam