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23 papers
Human-Inspired Pavlovian and Instrumental Learning for Autonomous Agent Navigation
Jingfeng Shan, Francesco Guidi, Mehrdad Saeidi +8
Autonomous agents operating in uncertain environments must balance fast responses with goal-directed planning. Classical MF RL often converges slowly and may induce unsafe explorat…
A Cognitive Framework for Autonomous Agents: Toward Human-Inspired Design
Francesco Guidi, Jingfeng Shan, Mehrdad Saeidi +8
This work introduces a human-inspired reinforcement learning (RL) architecture that integrates Pavlovian and instrumental processes to enhance decision-making in autonomous systems…
Model Proficiency in Centralized Multi-Agent Systems: A Performance Study
Anna Guerra, Francesco Guidi, Pau Closas +2
Autonomous agents are increasingly deployed in dynamic environments where their ability to perform a given task depends on both individual and team-level proficiency. While profici…
Extremely Large-Scale Dynamic Metasurface Antennas for 6G Near-Field Networks: Opportunities and Challenges
Haiyang Zhang, Nir Shlezinger, Giulia Torcolacci +6
6G networks will need to support higher data rates, high-precision localization, and imaging capabilities. Near-field technologies, enabled by extremely large-scale (XL)-arrays, ar…
AREE-Based Decoupled Design of Hybrid Beamformers in mmWave XL-MIMO Systems
Jiazhe Li, Nicolò Decarli, Francesco Guidi +4
Hybrid beamforming has been widely employed in mmWave communications such as vehicular-to-everything (V2X) scenarios, as a compromise between hardware complexity and spectral effic…
Beam Focusing for Near-Field Multi-User Localization
Qianyu Yang, Anna Guerra, Francesco Guidi +5
Extremely large-scale antenna arrays are poised to play a pivotal role in sixth-generation (6G) networks. Utilizing such arrays often results in a near-field spherical wave transmi…
A Deep-NN Beamforming Approach for Dual Function Radar-Communication THz UAV
Gianluca Fontanesi, Anna Guerra, Francesco Guidi +7
In this paper, we consider a scenario with one UAV equipped with a ULA, which sends combined information and sensing signals to communicate with multiple GBS and, at the same time,…
Holographic Imaging with XL-MIMO and RIS: Illumination and Reflection Design
Giulia Torcolacci, Anna Guerra, Haiyang Zhang +4
This paper addresses a near-field imaging problem utilizing extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) antennas and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) a…
Near and Far Field Model Mismatch: Implications on 6G Communications, Localization, and Sensing
Ahmed Elzanaty, Jiuyu Liu, Anna Guerra +3
The upcoming 6G technology is expected to operate in near-field (NF) radiating conditions thanks to high-frequency and electrically large antenna arrays. Although several studies h…
Radio SLAM for 6G Systems at THz Frequencies: Design and Experimental Validation
Marina Lotti, Gianni Pasolini, Anna Guerra +3
Next-generation wireless networks will see the convergence of communication and sensing, also exploiting the availability of large bandwidths in the Terahertz (THz) spectrum and el…
Near-field Localization with Dynamic Metasurface Antennas
Qianyu Yang, Anna Guerra, Francesco Guidi +5
Sixth generation (6G) cellular communications are expected to support enhanced wireless localization capabilities. The widespread deployment of large arrays and high-frequency band…
6G Wireless Communications: From Far-field Beam Steering to Near-field Beam Focusing
Haiyang Zhang, Nir Shlezinger, Francesco Guidi +2
6G networks will be required to support higher data rates, improved energy efficiency, lower latency, and more diverse users compared with 5G systems. To meet these requirements, e…
Near-Field Wireless Power Transfer with Dynamic Metasurface Antennas
Haiyang Zhang, Nir Shlezinger, Francesco Guidi +3
Radio frequency wireless power transfer (WPT) enables charging low-power mobile devices without relying on wired infrastructure. Current existing WPT systems are typically designed…
Near-field Wireless Power Transfer for 6G Internet-of-Everything Mobile Networks: Opportunities and Challenges
Haiyang Zhang, Nir Shlezinger, Francesco Guidi +3
Radiating wireless power transfer (WPT) brings forth the possibility to cost-efficiently charge wireless devices without requiring a wiring infrastructure. As such, it is expected…
Networks of UAVs of Low-Complexity for Time-Critical Localization
Anna Guerra, Francesco Guidi, Davide Dardari +1
Future networks of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will be tasked to carry out ever-increasing complex operations that are time-critical and that require accurate localization perf…
Beam Focusing for Near-Field Multi-User MIMO Communications
Haiyang Zhang, Nir Shlezinger, Francesco Guidi +3
Large antenna arrays and high-frequency bands are two key features of future wireless communication systems. The combination of large-scale antennas with high transmission frequenc…
Towards 6G Holographic Localization: Enabling Technologies and Perspectives
Ahmed Elzanaty, Anna Guerra, Francesco Guidi +2
In the last years, we have experienced the evolution of wireless localization from being a simple add-on feature for enabling specific applications to become an essential character…
Near-field Tracking with Large Antenna Arrays: Fundamental Limits and Practical Algorithms
Anna Guerra, Francesco Guidi, Davide Dardari +1
Applications towards 6G have brought a huge interest towards arrays with a high number of antennas and operating within the millimeter and sub-THz bandwidths for joint communicatio…
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Localization: Position and Orientation Error Bounds
Ahmed Elzanaty, Anna Guerra, Francesco Guidi +1
Next-generation cellular networks will witness the creation of smart radio environments (SREs), where walls and objects can be coated with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs…
Reinforcement Learning for UAV Autonomous Navigation, Mapping and Target Detection
Anna Guerra, Francesco Guidi, Davide Dardari +1
In this paper, we study a joint detection, mapping and navigation problem for a single unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with a low complexity radar and flying in an unknown e…
Radio Positioning with EM Processing of the Spherical Wavefront
Francesco Guidi, Davide Dardari
Next 5G and beyond applications have brought a tremendous interest towards array systems employing an extremely large number of antennas, so that the technology that might be in pl…
Automatic Mapping of the Indoor World with Personal Radars
Anna Guerra, Francesco Guidi, Gianni Pasolini +3
Digital maps will revolutionize our experience of perceiving and navigating indoor environments. While today we rely only on the representation of the outdoors, the mapping of indo…
Single Anchor Localization and Orientation Performance Limits using Massive Arrays: MIMO vs. Beamforming
Anna Guerra, Francesco Guidi, Davide Dardari
Next generation cellular networks will experience the combination of femtocells, millimeter-wave (mm-wave) communications and massive antenna arrays. Thanks to the beamforming capa…