Cellular-enabled UAV communication: A connectivity-constrained trajectory optimization perspective

S Zhang, Y Zeng, R Zhang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integrating the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the cellular network is envisioned to
be a promising technology to significantly enhance the communication performance of both …

Communication-aware robotics: Exploiting motion for communication

A Muralidharan, Y Mostofi - Annual Review of Control, Robotics …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
In this review, we present a comprehensive perspective on communication-aware robotics,
an area that considers realistic communication environments and aims to jointly optimize …

Decentralized control of a heterogeneous human–robot team for exploration and patrolling

M Aggravi, G Sirignano, PR Giordano… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a decentralized connectivity-maintenance control framework for a
heterogeneous human–robot team. The algorithm is able to manage a team composed of an …

A queue-stabilizing framework for networked multi-robot exploration

L Clark, J Galante, B Krishnamachari… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Motivated by planetary exploration, we consider the problem of deploying a network of
mobile robots to explore an unknown environment and share information with a stationary …

Path planning for minimizing the expected cost until success

A Muralidharan, Y Mostofi - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Consider a general path planning problem of a robot on a graph with edge costs, where
each node has a Boolean value of success or failure (with respect to some task) with a given …

Uav access point placement for connectivity to a user with unknown location using deep rl

E Krijestorac, S Hanna, D Cabric - 2019 IEEE Globecom …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been considered for
telecommunications purposes as relays, caches, or IoT data collectors. In addition to being …

Statistics of the distance traveled until successful connectivity for unmanned vehicles

A Muralidharan, Y Mostofi - Autonomous Robots, 2020 - Springer
In this paper, we consider a scenario where a robot needs to establish connectivity with a
remote operator or another robot, as it moves along a path. We are interested in answering …

When Robotics Meets Wireless Communications: An Introductory Tutorial

DB Licea, M Ghogho, M Saska - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The importance of ground mobile robots (MRs) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) within
the research community, industry, and society is growing fast. Nowadays, many of these …

Path planning under MIMO network constraints for throughput enhancement in multi-robot data aggregation tasks

A Pogue, S Hanna, A Nichols, X Chen… - 2020 IEEE/RSJ …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Under line-of-sight (LOS) network conditions, multi-input multi-output (MIMO) wireless
communications can increase the channel capacity between a team of robots and a multi …

Cooperative Channel Sensing, Relaying and Computing in UAV and Vehicular Networks

E Krijestorac - 2024 - escholarship.org
Mobile devices generate an enormous amount of data traffic to satisfy their computing and
communications needs. To meet these demands, mobile network operators frequently need …