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  1. Hoverflie: An empirical investigation of rotor shrouds to transform micro air vehicles into multi-modal hovercraft

    Aug 7, 2026Mrinmoy Modak, Daniel S. DrewAerial RoboticsMobile Robotics

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA

  2. Design and Flight of an Ion-propelled Micro Hovercraft Leveraging Ground Proximity Effects

    Aug 5, 2026C. Luke Nelson, Grant Nations, Mrinmoy Modak +1Aerial Robotics

    C. Luke Nelson1, Grant Nations1, Mrinmoy Modak2, and Daniel S. Drew2

  3. Shaping Wind-Tunnel Airflow for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles using Online Learning

    Aug 4, 2026Ghadeer Elmkaiel, Michael MuehlebachAerial RoboticsOnline Learning

    Learning and Dynamical Systems group at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen 72076, Germany

  4. A Tilt-Rotor UAV with a Gripper for Stable Contact-Based Tasks via Environmental Anchoring

    Aug 3, 2026Joshua Taylor, Nursultan Imanberdiyev, Wei-Yun Yau +2Aerial RoboticsContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. · Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore.

  5. OmniAI: A Surface-Adaptive Aerial Projection Interface for Human--Drone Interaction

    Aug 1, 2026Nikita Kuzmin, Yuhua Jin, Georgii Demianchuk +6Aerial RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

    Intelligent Space Robotics Lab, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russian Federation · School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

  6. Embodied Passive Aeroacoustic Perception Enables Relative Sensing and Pursuit Between Aerial Robots

    Aug 1, 2026Yanbaihui Liu, Ravi Prakash, Li-Yu Lo +2Aerial RoboticsRelative Pose Estimation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, 27708, USA. · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, 27708, USA. · Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, 27708, USA.

  7. MROPE: A Multi-Robot Safe Cooperative Strategy via combined Predictive Safety Filters and Ellipse-based Constraint Compression

    Jul 31, 2026Alice Rosetti, Lorenzo Pichierri, Domenico Cappello +2Aerial RoboticsMulti-Robot Systems

    are with the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy. · are with Leonardo S.p.a., Leonardo Innovation Labs, Rome, Italy.

  8. Learning to Understand Body Language from Flight through Robust 3D Avatar Placing

    Jul 30, 2026Dragos Costea, Alina Marcu, Cristina Lazar +1Aerial RoboticsHuman Activity Recognition

    National University of Science and Technology “Politehnica” Bucharest, Romania · “Simion Stoilow” Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy · NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS

  9. A Systems Engineering Framework for Vision-Language-Enabled UAV Triage and Disaster Response

    Jul 30, 2026Swapnil Saha, Bhuvan Rajanasiriyur Jagadeesha, Karishma Patnaik +1Aerial RoboticsLanguage Model-Based Control

    University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 72701, USA · University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, Michigan, 48128, USA

  10. Global Sensitive-Based Input Shaping for UAV-Payload Precision Motion Control

    Jul 29, 2026Karan Baker, Sanjay Maharjan, Tariq Hlayel +3Aerial RoboticsRobust Control

    Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Louisiana State University, LA 70803, USA · GE Aerospace, Cincinnati OH, USA

  11. Decentralized Scalable Exploration via Emergent Adaptive Lévy Walks on Minimal-Sensing Platforms

    Jul 28, 2026Wai Lun Leong, Teo Swee Huat RodneyAerial RoboticsSwarm Robotics

    National University of Singapore, Singapore

  12. MulRobBench: A Decision-Level Benchmark for Safe and Security-Policy-Compliant Multimodal UAV Agents

    Jul 26, 2026Belal S. Alsinglawi, Weizheng Wang, Junyi Wu +3Aerial RoboticsAI Agent Security Benchmarks

    College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

  13. Multi-Domain Physics-Based MDO of Multirotor UAVs: A Deterministic Framework for Discrete COTS Sizing

    Jul 24, 2026Akshay Gupta Burela, P. B. SujitAerial Robotics

    Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India · Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India

  14. DAPM: UAV Monocular Depth Estimation from Any Height, Pitch, Roll and FOV

    Jul 23, 2026Tong Ling, Wenhui Diao, Yingchao Feng +3Aerial RoboticsUAV Navigation

    Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China, also with the School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China, also with the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China, and also with the Key Laboratory of Target Cognition and Application Technology (TCAT), Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China · Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China, and also with the Key Laboratory of Target Cognition and Application Technology (TCAT), Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

  15. Memory-Augmented Multimodal Large Language Models for Small Object Understanding in Streaming Aerial Videos

    Jul 22, 2026Penglei Sun, Yehua Huang, Zhuoli Tao +8Memory-Augmented VLMsAerial Robotics

    Information Hub, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China · University of Freiburg, Freiburg, German · Hangzhou City University, Hangzhou, China +3

  16. Contact-Persistent Full Actuation for Aerial Physical Interaction

    Jul 22, 2026Abhimanyu Khadga, Abhinav Sinha, Shashi Ranjan KumarAerial RoboticsAerial Manipulation

    Guidance, Autonomy, Learning, and Control for Intelligent Systems (GALACxIS) Lab, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA · Intelligent Systems and Control (ISaC) Lab, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076, India

  17. Computing on the Fly: Navigating a Vision for the Future of Drone Computing

    Jul 21, 2026Kevin Butler, Christopher Stewart, Nils Aschenbruck +4Aerial RoboticsMulti-Robot Systems

    University of Florida · The Ohio State University · Osnabrück University +4

  18. DASH Robot: Minimalistic Design and Optimal Aerial-Terrestrial Locomotion via Contact-Implicit Control

    Jul 20, 2026Ryan Gomes Paiva, Conrad Ho, Jiarong Kang +3Aerial RoboticsEnergy-Efficient Robot Locomotion

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, WI, USA. · Shanghai Innovation Institute (SII), Shanghai, China

  19. RT-SHCUA: Real-Time Self-Hosted Computer-Use Agent for UAV Control

    Jul 20, 2026Di Lu, Bo Zhang, Xiyuan Li +5Aerial RoboticsSafety-Critical Control

    School of Cyber Engineering, Shaanxi Key Lab of Network and System Security, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710071, China. · College of Cyber Security, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.

  20. Configuration-Induced Passive Self-Rotation for Perception-Enhanced Autonomous Flight

    Jul 20, 2026Xurui Liu, Miao Wang, Tianyu He +2Aerial RoboticsUAV Navigation

    School of Robotics and Automation, Nanjing University, Suzhou 215163, China

  21. Linear Stability Analysis of an INDI Pitch-Rate Controller under Model Mismatch for a Tilt-Rotor VTOL UAV

    Jul 17, 2026Lorenzo Schenk, Guillaume Ducard, Christopher OnderAerial RoboticsRobust Control

  22. Knowing the Self, Understanding the World: A Dual-Cognition Benchmark for UAV Spatio-temporal Reasoning with MLLMs

    Jul 17, 2026Like Liu, Zhengzheng Xu, Haitao He +3Multimodal GroundingAerial Robotics

    Northwestern Polytechnical University Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

  23. A Morphing-Designed Hexarotor Prototype combining Practical Resilience and Efficiency

    Jul 17, 2026Murat Bronz, Mahmoud Hamandi, Elgiz Baskaya +2Aerial RoboticsFault-Tolerant Control

    Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile, Toulouse, France · Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, New York University Abu Dhabi, Saadiyat Island, 129188, Abu Dhabi, UAE · Robotics and Mechatronics lab, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands +1

  24. Minimum Time Dubins Airplane Paths with Asymmetric Climb Rates

    Jul 17, 2026Jaeyoung Lim, Giuseppe LoiannoAerial RoboticsConstrained Motion Planning

    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

  25. CosFly-VLA: A Spatially Aware Vision-Language-Action Model for UAV Tracking

    Jul 16, 2026Ruilong Ren, Songsheng Cheng, Yunpeng Zhou +9Aerial RoboticsVisual Object Tracking

    1Autel Robotics · 2Northeast Normal University · 3Southern University of Science and Technology +2

  26. AeroAct: Action-Centered World-Action Models for Language-Conditioned Quadrotor Flight

    Jul 16, 2026Xinhong Zhang, Qiyuan Zhu, Yubo Huang +8Robotic ControlAerial Robotics

    School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology · School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology · Independent researcher

  27. Improving Autonomous Nano-drones Performance via Automated End-to-End Optimization and Deployment of DNNs

    Jul 14, 2026Vlad Niculescu, Lorenzo Lamberti, Francesco Conti +2Efficient Neural Network InferenceAerial Robotics

    Integrated Systems Laboratory - ETH Zürich, Switzerland · Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering - University of Bologna, Italy · Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence - USI-SUPSI, Switzerland

  28. Self in Space: Benchmarking Self-Awareness and Spatial Cognition in UAV Embodied Intelligence

    Jul 14, 2026Zhishan Zou, Guoyan Sun, Zhiwei Wei +4Aerial RoboticsEmbodied AI

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Hunan Normal University · Tsinghua University

  29. MIRA: A Modular Open-Source Micro-UAV for Indoor Research

    Jul 13, 2026Lucas K. de Oliveira, Felipe A. G. Tommaselli, João Aires Marsicano +4Aerial RoboticsRobotics

    University of São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, Brazil

  30. A Model for Mediating Multi-Modal Human Intent into Safe Maneuvers for UAVs

    Jul 13, 2026Sofia Nelson, Dalal Alrajeh, Pedro Antonio Alarcon Granadeno +1Aerial RoboticsSafe Motion Planning

    University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN, USA · Imperial College London London, UK