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AIRBORNE COMPUTING NETWORKS
(NSF PROJECTS 1730675, 1730589, 1730570, 1730325)

  1. J. Chang, S. Li, M. Liu, Y. Wan, S. Fu, J. Xie, and K. Lu, Aerial Communication Using Directional Antennas: A CPS Co-design Approach, book chapter accepted by Smarter Cyber-Physical Systems: Enabling Methodologies and Applications, 2024.
  2. J. Zhang, K. Lu, Y. Wan, J. Xie, S. Fu, “Empowering UAV-Based Airborne Computing Platform with SDR: Building an LTE Base Station for Enhanced Aerial Connectivity”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Volume: 73, Issue: 10, pp. 15513 – 15524, October 2024.
  3. H. Zhang, J. Xie, Y. Wan, S. Fu, K. Lu, “Advancing Networked Airborne Computing with mmWave for Air-to-Air Communications”, in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Intelligent Computing and Networking (ISICN), San Juan, Puerto Rico, Mar. 2024.
  4. Tao Li, Y. Wan, M. Liu, S. Li, M. Pinheiro, C. He, Estimation of Random Mobility Models with Application to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Unmanned Systems, vol. 12, no. 02, pp. 391-408, 2024.
  5. J. S. Lee, N. Palmer, J. Xie, Y. Wan, K. Lu, S. Fu, “RAPTURE: a Remotely Accessible Platform of Testbeds for UAS Research and Education”, in Proceedings of AIAA Aviation, Las Vegas, NV, July. 2024.
  6. Rajath Hugar, “mmWave based Multi-UAV Testbed”, M.S. Project Report, Fall 2024.
  7. Zhang, H., Xie, J., Wan, Y., Fu, S., Lu, K. (2024). Advancing Networked Airborne Computing with MmWave for Air-to-Air Communications. In: Kadoch, M., Lu, K., Ye, F., Qian, Y. (eds) Proceedings of the International Symposium on Intelligent Computing and Networking 2024. ISICN 2024. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 1094. Springer, Cham.
  8. A. Koru, H. Chang and Y. Wan, “RSSI-based Distributed Control to Align Directional Antenna Pairs for UAV Communication,” IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics, Volume: 29, Issue: 4, pp. 2877–2885, 2024. 
  9. M. Deniz, L. Zhao, Y. Wan and F. Lewis, Game-Theoretic Decision-making and Payoff Design for UAV Collision Avoidance in a 3-Deimensional Airspace, Unmanned Systems, Volume: 12, No: 3, pp. 499-509, 2024.
  10. H. Zhang, B. Wang, Ruitao Wu, J. Xie, Y. Wan, S. Fu, K. Lu, “Exploring Networked Airborne Computing: A Comprehensive Approach with Advanced Simulator and Hardware Testbed”, Unmanned Systems, Volume: 12, No: 3, pp. 545 – 562, 2024.
  11. B. Wang, J. Xie, K. Lu, Y. Wan, and S. Fu, “Learning and batch-processing based coded computation with mobility awareness for networked airborne computing,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Volume: 72, Issue: 5, pp. 6503-6517, 2022.
  12. B. Wang, J. Xie, K. Lu, Y. Wan, and S. Fu, “On Batch-Processing Based Coded Computing for Heterogeneous Distributed Computing Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, Volume: 8, Issue: 3, pp. 2438 – 2454, 2021.
  13. D. Wang, B. Wang, J. Zhang, K. Lu, J. Xie, Y. Wan, and S. Fu, “CFL-HC: A Coded Federated Learning Framework for Heterogeneous Computing Scenarios,” IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), December 2021.
  14. B. Wang, J. Xie, K. Lu, Y. Wan, and S. Fu, “Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning based Coded Computation for Mobile Ad Hoc Computing,” in Proceedings of at 2021 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC): SAC Cloud Computing, Networking and Storage Track, January 2021.
  15. M. Liu, Y. Wan, F. Lewis, and V. Lopez, “Adaptive Optimal Control for Stochastic Multi-Agent Differential Games using On-Policy and Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning,” IEEE Transactions Neural Networks and Learning Systems, vol. 31, no. 12, pp. 5522-5533, December 2020.
  16. P. Wu, J. Xie, J. Chen, “Safe Path Planning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle under Location Uncertainty”, accepted by the 16th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, October 2020.
  17. J. Xie, J. Chen, “Multi-Regional Coverage Path Planning for Robots with Energy Constraint”, in Proceedings of 16th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, October 2020.
  18. B. Wang, J. Xie, S. Li, Y. Wan, Y. Gu, S. Fu, and K. Lu, “Computing in the Air: An Open Airborne Computing Platform,” IET Communications, vol. 14, no. 15, pp. 2410-2419, September 2020.
  19. J. Xie, L. R. G. Carrilo, L. Jin, “Path Planning for UAV to Cover Multiple Separated Convex PolygonalRegions”, IEEE Access, Vol. 8, pp. 51770-51785, 2020.
  20. J. Zhang, Y. Zhang, K. Lu, J. Wang, K. Wu, X. Jia, and B. Liu, “Detecting and Identifying Optical Signal Attacks on Autonomous Driving Systems,” IEEE Journal of Internet of Things, published online, July 2020, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2020.3011690.
  21. P. Wu, L. Li, J. Xie, J. Chen, “Probabilistic Guaranteed Path Planning for Safe Urban Air Mobility using Chance Constrained RRT*”, in Proceedings of AIAA Aviation, June 2020.
  22. M. Fu, J. Wang, J. Wang, K. Lu, A. Jukan, and F. Gu, “Decode-and-Compare: An Efficient Verification Scheme for Coded Edge Computing”, in Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2020), June 2020.
  23. Z. Huang, W. Wu, F. Shan, Y. Bian, K. Lu, Z. Li, J. Wang, and J. Wang, “CoUAS: Enable Cooperation for Unmanned Aerial Systems,” ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 16, No. 3, June 2020, DOI: 10.1145/3388323.
  24. J. Xie, W. Zhang, J. Chen, “Path Planning for Multiple Energy Constrained Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Cover Multiple Regions”, in Proceedings of AIAA Aviation, June 2020.
  25. Y. Zhang, J. Zhang, J. Zhang, J. Wang, K. Lu, J. Hong, “A Novel Learning Framework for Sampling-Based Motion Planning in Autonomous Driving,” in Proceedings of AAAI 2020, February 2020.
  26. M. Liu, Y. Wan, S. Li, F. Lewis, and S. Fu, “Learning and Uncertainty-exploited Directional Antenna Control for Robust Long-distance and Broad-band Aerial Communication,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technologies, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 593-606, January 2020.
  27. K. Lu, J. Xie, Y. Wan, and S. Fu, “Toward UAV-based Airborne Computing,” IEEE Communication Magazine, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 172-179, December 2019.
  28. J. Xie, L. R. G. Carrilo, L. Jin, “A Robust State Estimator for Multi-Agent Systems under Impulsive Noise and Missing Measurements”, in Proceedings of the 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nice, France, December 2019.
  29. S. Li, Y. Gu, B. Subedi, C. He, Y. Wan, A. Miyaji, and T. Higashino, “Beyond Visual Line of Sight UAV Control for Remote Monitoring using Directional Antennas,” in Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM 2019 Workshop on Computing-Centric Drone Networks, Waikoloa, Hawaii, December 2019.
  30. B. Wang, J. Xie, K. Lu, Y. Wan, “Coding for Heterogeneous UAV-based Networked Airborne Computing”, in Proceedings of the IEEE Globecom Workshop on Computing-Centric Drone Networks, Waikoloa, HI, December 2019.
  31. Y. Qi, D. Wang, J. Xie, K. Lu, Y. Wan, S. Fu, “BirdsEyeView: Aerial View Dataset for Object Classification and Detection”, in Proceedings of the IEEE Globecom Workshop on Computing-Centric Drone Networks, Waikoloa, HI, December 2019.
  32. I. R. Scola, G. A. G. Reyes, L. R. G. Carrilo, J. Hespanha, J. Xie, “Translational Model Identification and Robust Control for the Parrot Mambo UAS Multicopter”, in Proceedings of the IEEE Globecom Workshop on Computing-Centric Drone Networks, Waikoloa, HI, December 2019.
  33. J. Xie, Y. Wan, B. Wang, S. Fu, and J. H. Kim, “A Comprehensive 3-Dimensional Random Mobility Modeling Framework for Airborne Networks,” IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 22849 – 22862, March 2018.
  34. M. Pinheiro, M. Liu, Y. Wan and A. Dogan, “On the Analysis of On-board Sensing and Off-board Sensing through Wireless Communication for UAV Path Planning in Wind Fields,” in Proceedings of AIAA Schitech, San Diego, CA, January 7-11, 2019.
  35. B. Wang, J. Xie, Y. Wan, “3-D Trajectory Modeling for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”, in Proceedings of AIAA Scitech, San Diego, CA, January 7-11, 2019.
  36. L. Yao, Y. Wan, S. Fu, and T. Yang, “Consensus in Layered Sensor Networks with Communication Delays,” in Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, Singapore, November 18-21, 2018.
  37. J. Xie, S. Li, Y. Wan, S. Fu, and K. Lu, “Enabling High-Performance Onboard Computing with Virtualization for Unmanned Aerial Systems”, in Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS’18), Dallas, TX, June 12-15, 2018.