This paper investigates the rendezvous problem for autonomous cooperative landing of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on surface (USV). Such heterogeneous agents, with nonlinear dynamics, are dynamically decoupled but share a common task. The underlying control scheme is based distributed Model Predictive Control (MPC). main contribution algorithm online update rule location. only requires agen...

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been deemed as a transformative technology to achieve smart and reconfigurable environment for wireless communication. This letter studies new IRS-aided communication system, where multiple IRSs assist in the between multi-antenna base station (BS) remote single-antenna user by multi-hop signal reflection. Specifically, exploiting line-of-sight (LoS) lin...

Communication is a goal–directed activity. In general, it can serve multiple purposes, e.g. information transfer, expression of emotions, making promises,... According to H.P. Grice (1989), if communication is to be successful, the specific purpose of the communicative act has to be known and accepted by all participants. Hence, for a participant to be cooperative (i.e. willing to make the comm...

In this paper, an iterative incremental relay selection (IIRS) scheme is considered for wireless cooperative networks in order to increase the reliability of transmission. Different from the conventional incremental relay selection which incrementally selects a best relay for only one iteration; the IIRS scheme iteratively applies the incremental relaying and relay selection processes. To evalu...

In a multi-user communication system, cooperative diversity allows single-antenna mobile sets to achieve transmit diversity. Cooperative diversity improves the communication capacity and enhances the robustness of a wireless link when a single channel alone is not reliable. In this paper, a novel cooperative diversity scheme is introduced that enables simultaneous transmission of non-redundant ...