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UAV swarms can form virtual antenna arrays to exploit additional spatial degrees of freedom and enhance integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). The optimization of UAV positions is challenging due to the distributed nature of swarms…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Zhiyuan Zhai , Wei Ni , Xin Wang , Dusit Niyato , Ekram Hossain

The Internet of Agents is propelling edge computing toward agentic AI and edge general intelligence (EGI). However, deploying multi-agent service (MAS) on resource-constrained edge infrastructure presents severe challenges. MAS service…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Runze Zheng , Yuqing Zheng , Zhengyi Cheng , Long Luo , Haoxiang Luo , Gang Sun , Hongfang Yu , Dusit Niyato

In this work, we adopt the emerging technology of mobile edge computing (MEC) in the Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for communication-computing systems, to optimize the age of information (AoI) in the network. We assume that tasks are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Marjan Tajik , Mohammadreza Maleki , Nader Mokari , Mohammad Reza Javan , Hamid Saeedi , Bile Peng , Eduard A. Jorswieck

The purpose of this paper is to provide a hierarchical dynamic mission planning framework for a single autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to accomplish task-assign process in a limited time interval while operating in an uncertain undersea…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Somaiyeh Mahmoud. Zadeh , Karl Sammut , David M. W Powers , Adham Atyabi , Amir Mehdi Yazdani

In the real world, unmanned surface vehicles (USV) often need to coordinate with each other to accomplish specific tasks. However, achieving cooperative control in multi-agent systems is challenging due to issues such as non-stationarity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Y. Wang , Y. Zhao

Traversability estimation is critical for enabling robots to navigate across diverse terrains and environments. While recent self-supervised learning methods achieve promising results, they often fail to capture the characteristics of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zipeng Fang , Yanbo Wang , Lei Zhao , Weidong Chen

An Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) needs to acquire a certain degree of autonomy for any particular underwater mission to fulfill the mission objectives successfully and ensure its safety in all stages of the mission in a large scale…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Somaiyeh Mahmoud Zadeh , David MW Powers , Karl Sammut , Amirmehdi Yazdani

In this paper, we study a vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) system where distributed base stations (BSs) acting as road-side units (RSUs) collect multimodal (wireless and visual) data from moving vehicles. We consider a decentralized rate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Charbel Bou Chaaya , Mehdi Bennis

Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm networks (UAVSNs) can effectively execute surveillance, connectivity, and computing services to ground users (GUs). These missions require trajectory planning, UAV-GUs association, task…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Muhammad Morshed Alam , Muhammad Yeasir Aarafat , Tamim Hossain

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)-assisted mobile crowdsensing (MCS) has emerged as a promising paradigm for data collection. However, challenges such as spectrum scarcity, device heterogeneity, and user mobility hinder efficient coordination…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Xianyang Deng , Wenshuai Liu , Yaru FuB , Qi Zhu

In cloud manufacturing, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can support both product collection and mobile edge computing (MEC). This joint operation forms a hybrid scheduling problem, where physical logistics decisions are coupled with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Hanwen Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Wei Zhang , Xin Lou , Malcolm Yoke Hean Low

Autonomous underwater robots are increasingly deployed for environmental monitoring, infrastructure inspection, subsea resource exploration, and long-horizon exploration. Yet, despite rapid advances in learning-based planning and control,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jingzehua Xu , Guanwen Xie , Jiwei Tang , Shuai Zhang , Xiaofan Li

Prior correlation filter (CF)-based tracking methods for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have virtually focused on tracking in the daytime. However, when the night falls, the trackers will encounter more harsh scenes, which can easily lead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Bowen Li , Changhong Fu , Fangqiang Ding , Junjie Ye , Fuling Lin

Deploying teams of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to harvest data from distributed Internet of Things (IoT) devices requires efficient trajectory planning and coordination algorithms. Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has emerged…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Jichao Chen , Omid Esrafilian , Harald Bayerlein , David Gesbert , Marco Caccamo

The proliferation of users, devices, and novel vehicular applications - propelled by advancements in autonomous systems and connected technologies - is precipitating an unprecedented surge in novel services. These emerging services require…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Mohammad Farhoudi , Hamidreza Mazandarani , Masoud Shokrnezhad , Tarik Taleb , Ignacio Lacalle

Recently, many multi-modal trackers prioritize RGB as the dominant modality, treating other modalities as auxiliary, and fine-tuning separately various multi-modal tasks. This imbalance in modality dependence limits the ability of methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Xiantao Hu , Bineng Zhong , Qihua Liang , Zhiyi Mo , Liangtao Shi , Ying Tai , Jian Yang

Managing connectivity in integrated satellite-terrestrial vehicular networks is critical for 6G, yet is challenged by dynamic conditions and partial observability. This letter introduces the Multi-Agent Actor-Critic with Satellite-Aided…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Ibrahim Althamary , Chen-Fu Chou , Chih-Wei Huang

Recent advancements in multimodal large language models and vision-languageaction models have significantly driven progress in Embodied AI. As the field transitions toward more complex task scenarios, multi-agent system frameworks are…

Fin actuators can be used for for both thrust generation and vectoring. Therefore, fin-driven autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) can achieve high maneuverability with a smaller number of actuators, but their control is challenging. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Walid Remmas , Christian Meurer , Yuya Hamamatsu , Ahmed Chemori , Maarja Kruusmaa

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in using networks of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) that collectively perform complex tasks for diverse applications. An important challenge in realizing UAV networks is the need for a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Abolfazl Razi , Fatemeh Afghah , Jacob Chakareski