Optimization and Communication in UAV Networks

• Other Authors: Mitton, Nathalie (Editor), Caillouet, Christelle (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Information technology industries; direction-of-arrival estimation; unmanned aerial vehicles; UAV swarm; aperiodic arrays; MUSIC; Cramer-Rao bound; stochastic system; configuration control; multiplicative noises; dynamic model; stochastic robustness analysis and design; wireless sensor networks; unmanned aerial vehicle; mission completion time; trajectory planning; UAV secure communication; secrecy rate maximization; jamming; trajectory design; power control; sensors; data collection utility; GPS measurement; UAV; 3D models; measurement precision; unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); cooperative communication; topology structure; complex field network coding (CFNC); edge computing; internet of things; mobile robots; resource allocation; control co-design; data offloading; UAV-enabled computing; resource-based pricing; risk-awareness; multi-access edge computing systems; UAV fleet; energy consumption; self-organization; algorithms; optimization; UAV replacement; multiple unmanned aerial vehicles; mobile nodes; data collection; collision-free; synchronized multi-agent formation; decentralized sliding mode control; drones; wireless; swarm; communication
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UAVs are becoming a reality and attract increasing attention. They can be remotely controlled or completely autonomous and be used alone or as a fleet and in a large set of applications. They are constrained by hardware since they cannot be too heavy and rely on batteries. Their use still raises a large set of exciting new challenges in terms of trajectory optimization and positioning when they are used alone or in cooperation, and communication when they evolve in swarm, to name but a few examples. This book presents some new original contributions regarding UAV or UAV swarm optimization and communication aspects.