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  1. A Morphing Aerial Robot With Thruster-Integrated Flexible Continuum Links for Shape Adaptive Aerial Manipulation

    Sep 16, 2026Eri Sawada, Kazuki Sugihara, Ayano Miyamichi +2Aerial RoboticsSoft Robotics

    Department of Mechano-Infomatics, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan

  2. AeroWeaver: An Embodied-Agent Harness for Weaving Aerial Skills into Distributed, Adaptive Swarm Execution

    Sep 16, 2026Jiabin Lou, Yirong Yang, Haopeng Wang +6Aerial RoboticsSwarm Robotics

    Beihang University, 37 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100191, China

  3. Real-Time Bounded Catenary Solver for UAV Tether Modeling

    Sep 16, 2026Max Beffert, Andreas ZellAerial Robotics

    Cognitive Systems Group, University of Tübingen, Germany

  4. UAVs Meet Embodied Intelligence: Bridging Human Intents and Flying Dynamics Via Harnessing Physical-Digital AI Agents

    Sep 16, 2026Yonglin Tian, Weiyi Wang, Houhua Lu +13Aerial RoboticsUAV Navigation

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. · Beihang University, China. · Shanxi Datong University, China. +7

  5. OmniRisk: Omnidirectional Trajectory-Risk Learning for Agile Quadrotor Dynamic Avoidance

    Sep 16, 2026Yifan He, Yang Liu, Wenhao Zhao +8Aerial RoboticsSafe Motion Planning

    Differential Robotics, Hangzhou, China · Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  6. Prior Evolution and Task Alignment for Aerial Grasping

    Sep 16, 2026Weiliang Deng, Zhengyang Dang, Yao Mu +1Aerial RoboticsTrajectory Optimization

    School of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China · AI Institute, School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China · Differential Robotics Technology Co., Ltd., Hangzhou, China

  7. Optical-Flow Wingbeat Counting in MuJoCo: A Comparison of Convolutional, Spiking, and Attention-Based Temporal Models

    Sep 15, 2026Zhang NengboOptical FlowAerial Robotics

    School of Aerospace Engineering, Engineering Campus Universiti Sains Malaysia, 14300 Nibong Tebal, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

  8. Calibrate Once, Fly Any Team: Residual-Grounded Low-Fidelity Training for Cooperative Drone Swarms

    Sep 15, 2026Maxim Mednikov, Oren GalAerial RoboticsSwarm Robotics

    Swarm & AI Lab (SAIL), University of Haifa, Israel

  9. DuctAM: A Duct-Assisted Quadrotor-Based Aerial Manipulator Enabling High-Force Push-and-Pull Interactions

    Sep 14, 2026Yi Wang, Rui Jin, Xinhang Xu +4Aerial RoboticsQuadrotor Control

    School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798 · NTU–VinUni Joint Research Laboratory for Embodied AI and Robotics, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, and VinUniversity, Hanoi, Vietnam

  10. PATH: Continuous Target Sensing among Autonomous Cooperative Drones

    Sep 14, 2026Heegyeong Kim, Alice James, Avishkar Seth +4Aerial RoboticsMulti-Robot Systems

    School of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia · School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia

  11. Curriculum-Based Adversarial Heterogeneous Agent Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Quad-Copter Landing in Maritime Settings

    Sep 14, 2026Allan Minh-Tam Nguyen, Sree Showrya Kotala, Stefan Banioi-Crijman +2Adversarial TrainingAerial Robotics

    Department of Advanced Computing Sciences, Maastricht University, Minderbroedersberg 4-6, 6211 LK Maastricht, Netherlands

  12. SwarmNxt: Open-source Software-Hardware Platform for Fast and Agile Aerial Swarms

    Sep 11, 2026Charbel Toumieh, Niel Mistry, Benjamin Jarvis +4Aerial RoboticsSwarm Robotics

    Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH1015 Lausanne, Switzerland · Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

  13. Aerodynamic Prior-Free Coordinated Trajectory Generation and Tracking Control for a Tail-Sitter UAV

    Sep 11, 2026Erchao Rong, Zihao Liu, Junning Liang +5Aerial RoboticsUAV Navigation

    School of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China

  14. EVPeriscope: Extended Perception across Aerial and Ground Vehicles with Event-based Propeller Tracking

    Sep 11, 2026Dexter Ong, Vijay Kumar, Pratik ChaudhariAerial RoboticsRelative Pose Estimation

    General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 19104, USA

  15. Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous UAV Exploration in Wildfire Response

    Sep 9, 2026Caden Chandra, Jerry NgAerial RoboticsReinforcement Learning

  16. Towards Embodied Air-Ground Cooperative Object Search: Benchmark, Dataset and Agentic Method

    Sep 8, 2026Boao Yu, Zimo Chen, Junreng Rao +4Aerial RoboticsAI Agent Benchmarks

    National University of Defense Technology National Key Laboratory of Digital Intelligent Modeling and Simulation

  17. Anti-Gravity Walking by a Flying Humanoid Robot via Thrust-Rate Input Whole-Body Model Predictive Control

    Sep 7, 2026Kazuki Sugihara, Kei OkadaAerial RoboticsHumanoid Robot Locomotion

    Department of Mechano-Informatics, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.

  18. From Multi-Fisheye Sensing to Panoramic Perception: A Parallax-Aware Onboard Platform for Ultra-Low-Altitude UAVs

    Sep 2, 2026Dun Dai, Ze Lu, Cheng He +2Aerial RoboticsComputational Imaging

    School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China · Tianmushan Laboratory, Hangzhou 311115, China

  19. TriSAR: Task Coordination and Collision Avoidance for Aerial Robot Teams in Disaster Response

    Sep 1, 2026Aditya Anil Kapile, Pedro Machado, Isibor Kennedy IhianleAerial RoboticsMulti-Robot Coordination

    School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom

  20. Vision-Based Leader-Follower Formation Control for Cooperative UAVs in GPS-Degraded Environments

    Sep 1, 2026Deekshitha Angadi, Naveena Budda, Vikas Agarwal +4Multi-Robot Formation ControlAerial Robotics

    AI, IoT and Robotics Lab (AIR Lab), UAVs Group, Autonomous Robotics Systems Limited, Hyderabad, India · Department of Microelectronics and VLSI Design, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India · Department of Internet of Things, Ideabytes Software India Private Limited, Hyderabad, India +5

  21. Evaluating Multimodal LLMs as Generalist Vision-Language-Action Agents for Drone Control: Commanding, Approaching, Tracking and Searching

    Sep 1, 2026Jaewoo Park, Minyoung Lee, Sukmin Seo +11Aerial RoboticsLanguage Model-Based Control

    Drone AI Team, NAVER Cloud

  22. Fleets Need a Context Plane: Rethinking Cooperative Perception for Autonomous Drones

    Sep 1, 2026Liangkai Liu, Xiaoxiao WuAerial RoboticsCommunication-Efficient Collaborative Perception

    Department of Computer Science, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA

  23. Optimized Modular Design and Development of a Tilt-Rotor Bicopter Drone

    Aug 31, 2026Saideep Verma, Nimisha Tatapudi, Akshay Arjun +3Aerial RoboticsVehicle Dynamics

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, India. · Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, India.

  24. VeloBins: Learning Velocity and Its Uncertainty via Bins and Error-Conditioned Gaussian Labels for Aerial Inertial Odometry

    Aug 30, 2026Maulana Bisyir Azhari, Seungwook Lee, Donghun Han +2Aerial RoboticsInertial Odometry

    Unmanned Systems Research Group (USRG), School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, South Korea

  25. Graph Neural Assisted Actor-Critic for Latency-Efficient Edge Vision System

    Aug 17, 2026Alam Noor, Luis Almeida, Kai Li +3Aerial RoboticsEdge Computing

    CISTER Research Center, Porto, Portugal. · Instituto de Telecomunicac¸˜oes, Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, Portugal. · Department of Information Technology, Kennesaw State University, USA. +2

  26. FAM-DQ: A Dual-Quadrotor-Based Fully Actuated Aerial Manipulator for High-Torque Interaction

    Aug 13, 2026Xuwei Yang, Ruoyu Ren, Ziqian GuoAerial RoboticsQuadrotor Control

  27. Nonlinear Model Predictive Control via Sequential Convex Programming for Drone-to-Drone Docking

    Aug 11, 2026Neeraj Balachandar, Shriram Hari, Vishnu R. UnniAerial RoboticsTrajectory Optimization

    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  28. JitTrack: Onboard Multi-Object Tracking Against Viewpoint Jitter for Agile UAVs

    Aug 11, 2026Yachun Shan, Feitian ZhangAerial RoboticsVision-Based Robot Control

    The Department of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, Peking University, Beijing, China

  29. Model-Based Systems Engineering Framework for SysML-Driven Design of Autonomous UAVs

    Aug 10, 2026Deekshitha Angadi, Naveena Budda, Vikas Agarwal +3Model-Based Systems EngineeringAerial Robotics

    AIR Lab, UAVs Group, Autonomous Robotics Systems Limited, Hyderabad, India · Department of Microelectronics and VLSI Design, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India · Department of IoT, Ideabytes Software India Private Limited, Hyderabad, India +4

  30. Exact Thrust-Reversal Limits of Bidirectional Propellers under Bounded Motor Inputs

    Aug 7, 2026Ahmed Ali, Chiara Gabellieri, Antonio FranchiAerial Robotics

    Robotics and Mechatronics Department, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science (EEMCS) Faculty, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands · Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy