相关论文: Practical Mission Planning for Optimized UAV-Senso…

Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a promising technology to unlock the full potential of UAVs in the future. However, how to achieve ubiquitous three-dimensional (3D) communication coverage for the UAVs in the sky is a new…

In unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted data collection system, UAVs can be deployed to charge ground terminals (GTs) via wireless power transfer (WPT) and collect data from them via wireless information transmission (WIT). In this paper,…

By fully exploiting the mobility of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), UAV-based aerial base stations (BSs) can move closer to ground users to achieve better communication conditions. In this paper, we consider a scenario where an aerial BS…

This paper considers a multi-UAV network with a ground station (GS) that uses multi-hop relaying structure for data transmission in a power-efficient manner. The objective is to investigate the best possible multi-hop routing structure for…

Sweep coverage is to realize the periodic coverage of targets by planning the periodic sweeping paths of mobile sensors. It is difficult for sensors to reduce energy consumption by reducing the moving distances. Therefore, charging…

In this paper, we investigate joint 3-dimensional (3D) trajectory planning and resource allocation for rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensing. To support emerging real-time SAR applications and…

This work studies optimal solar charging for solar-powered self-sustainable UAV communication networks, considering the day-scale time-variability of solar radiation and user service demand. The objective is to optimally trade off between…

Due to the high mobility and easy deployment, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted much attention in the field of wireless communication and positioning. To meet the challenges of lack of infrastructure coverage, uncertain sensor…

Safety is extremely important for urban flights of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Risk-aware path planning is one of the most effective methods to guarantee the safety of UAVs. This type of planning can be represented as a…

In this letter, a novel framework to deliver critical spread out URLLC services deploying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in an out-of-coverage area is developed. To this end, the resource optimization problem, i.e., resource blocks (RBs)…

This paper considers a single-hop wireless network where a central node (or fusion center, FC) collects data from a set of m energy harvesting (EH) nodes (e.g. nodes of a wireless sensor network). In each time slot, k of m nodes can be…

This paper presents a solution to Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) large scale route planning and task assignment joint problem. Given a set of constraints (e.g., time) and a set of task priority values, the goal is to find the optimal…

Efficient energy management is essential in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to extend network lifetime and ensure reliable data transmission. This paper presents a novel method using reinforcement learning-based cluster-head selection and a…

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless power transfer (WPT) systems offer significant advantages in coverage and deployment flexibility, but suffer from endurance limitations due to the limited onboard energy. This paper proposes to…

This paper presents a mission system and the therein implemented algorithms for path planning in a time-varying environment based on graph methods. The basic task of the introduced path planning algorithms is to find a time-optimal path…

Autonomous inspection of large geographical areas is a central requirement for efficient hazard detection and disaster management in future cyber-physical systems such as smart cities. In this regard, exploiting unmanned aerial vehicle…

Due to the restricted resources, efficient scheduling in vertiports has received much more attention in the field of Urban Air Mobility (UAM). For the scheduling problem, we utilize a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP), which is often…

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted plenty of attention due to their high flexibility and enhanced communication ability. However, the limited coverage and energy of UAVs make it difficult to provide timely wireless service for…

We study real time periodic query scheduling for data collection in multihop Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Given a set of heterogenous data collection queries in WSNs, each query requires the data from the source sensor nodes to be…

This paper presents an integrated approach for efficient path planning and energy management in hybrid unmanned aerial vehicles (HUAVs) equipped with dual fuel-electric propulsion systems. These HUAVs operate in environments that include…