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Pinching Antenna Systems (PASS) for Air-Ground Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC)

Chaoran Chen·Haochen Li·Jincheng Zhu·Zhiwen Pan·Mark F. Flanagan
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This paper proposes a multi-user single-target air-ground integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, in which a ground pinching-antenna system (PASS) transmits communication and sensing signals and an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) receives the target echo. The communication and sensing beamforming vectors, pinching antenna positions, and UAV position are jointly optimized to minimize the weighted Cramér-Rao bound (CRB). A penalty dual decomposition (PDD) algorithm is developed for the resulting nonconvex problem. The auxiliary variable and beamforming subproblems admit globally optimal solutions in semi-closed form, while the positions of the pinching antennas and the UAV are updated by successive convex approximation (SCA). Under mild conditions, every accumulation point of the sequence generated by our proposed algorithm is a Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) point of the reformulated problem. Numerical results show that the proposed PASS-UAV design achieves a lower weighted CRB than conventional multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and PASS benchmarks.

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Chaoran Chen, Haochen Li, Jincheng Zhu, Zhiwen Pan, Mark F. Flanagan. 2026-11-06. Pinching Antenna Systems (PASS) for Air-Ground Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC). https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.09435

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