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  1. Coordinated Incremental Trajectory Tracking of a Tailsitter Drone

    Jul 13, 2026Evangelos Ntouros, Ewoud J. J. SmeurRobot Trajectory TrackingAerial Robotics

    All authors are with Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

  2. SLIDER: Sparse History-Guided Aerial Robot Target Search using Sliding Local Maps

    Jul 12, 2026Xiaolei Hou, Zheng Pan, Hua Lan +6Aerial RoboticsRobot Navigation

  3. ActiveFly-Bench: Aligning Embodied Question Answering with Vision-Language-Action for Aerial Embodied Perception

    Jul 11, 2026Weichen Zhang, Shiquan Yu, Yinan Zhu +9Active PerceptionAerial Robotics

    1Tsinghua University · 2Manifold AI

  4. Direct Rotor Thrust Sensing and Feedback Control for Disturbance Rejection of Multirotors Using Load-cells

    Jul 11, 2026Peter Böhm, Michael Brünig, Peyman Z. Moghadam +1Aerial RoboticsRobust Control

    University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia · School of EECS, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia · CSIRO Robotics, DATA61, CSIRO, Australia +1

  5. Banshee: Target Switch Attacks on Gimbal-Stabilized Visual Tracking Systems via Acoustic Injection

    Jul 10, 2026Jiarui Li, Joseph Brewington, Qingzhao Zhang +1Aerial RoboticsVisual Object Tracking

    University of Michigan · The University of Arizona

  6. Dec-MARVEL: Decentralized Multi-Agent Exploration without Communication under Budget Constraints

    Jul 10, 2026Janghyun Cho, Jimmy Chiun, Guillaume Sartoretti +1Aerial RoboticsMulti-Robot Exploration

    1Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, Sogang University. · 2Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore. · 3Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Sogang University.

  7. End-to-End LLM Flight Planning with RAG-based Memory and Multi-modal Coach Agent

    Jul 8, 2026Amin Tabrizian, Arsyi Aziz, Aarifah Ullah +3Aerial RoboticsLLM Planning

    George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA 20052 · Metis Solutions Technology Inc, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA 94035

  8. Vision Language Action (VLA) Models for Unmanned Aerial Robotics and Bimanual Manipulation: A Review

    Jul 7, 2026Inkyu Sa, Chanoh Park, Hea-Min Lee +2Aerial RoboticsBimanual Robotic Manipulation

    Chef Robotics, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA · RovifyLab, Gyeonggi 13840, Republic of Korea · IT Application Research Center, Jeonbuk Regional Branch, Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI), Jeonju 54853, Republic of Korea +1

  9. Aerial Manipulation: Contact, Medium Coupling, and the Geometry of Readiness

    Jul 6, 2026Antonio FranchiAerial RoboticsAerial Manipulation

    Robotics and Mechatronics lab, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Twente, 7522 NB Enschede, The Netherlands · Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy

  10. FLOAT Drone for Physical Interaction: Lateral Airflow Reduction, Wrench Modeling, and Adaptive Control

    Jul 5, 2026Junxiao Lin, Kehan Zhou, Shuhang Ji +4Aerial RoboticsAdaptive Control

    Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control, College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China · Differential Robotics Technology Company, Hangzhou 311100, China

  11. U-Joint CAAMS: Experimental Evaluation of a Universal-Joint Continuum Manipulator for Aerial Manipulation

    Jul 3, 2026Anuraj Uthayasooriyan, Musab Alibrahim, Krishna Manaswi Digumarti +2Aerial RoboticsSoft Robotics

    QUT Centre for Robotics · School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics · REF, QUT, Brisbane, QLD Australia 4000.

  12. MorphQuad: Morphable Quadrotor for Superhuman Maneuverability, Manipulation, and Resiliency

    Jul 2, 2026J. Diaz Peon Gonzalez Pacheco, J. Xu, A. Zhao +7Aerial RoboticsQuadrotor Control

    Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan.

  13. QuadRocket: An Aerial Robotic Testbed for Adaptive Thrust-Vector Control of Rocket-Like Vehicles

    Jul 2, 2026Pedro Santos, Joel Reis, Paulo Oliveira +1Robot Trajectory TrackingAerial Robotics

    Instituto Superior T´ecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal · Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Taipa, Macao, China

  14. NEUROSYMLAND: Neuro-Symbolic Landing-Site Assessment for Robust and Edge-Deployable UAV Autonomy

    Jul 2, 2026Weixian Qian, Tianyi Yang, Sebastian Schroder +5Aerial RoboticsNeuro-Symbolic Reasoning

    School of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia. · Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. · Anitron

  15. Wind-Aware Reinforcement Learning Control of a Small Quadrotor Using Learned Onboard Wind Estimation in Simulated Atmospheric Turbulence

    Jul 1, 2026Abdullah Al Tasim, Wei SunRL ControlAerial Robotics

    University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 73019

  16. WaveLander: A Generalizable Hierarchical Control Framework for UAV Landing on Wave-Disturbed Platforms via Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 1, 2026Chun-Kit Li, Iok Long Sit, Ming Fung Siu +4RL ControlAerial Robotics

    Department of Mathematics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR. · Cheng Kar-Shun Robotics Institute, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR. · Division of Integrative Systems and Design, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR. +2

  17. Robust Autonomous UAV Landing on Maritime Platforms via Multimodal Agentic AI and Active Wave Compensation

    Jun 30, 2026Francisco S. Neves, Pedro N. Pereira, Raul D. S. G. Campilho +1Aerial RoboticsMulti-Robot Systems

    Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP) · Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP)

  18. AeroVerse-SatAgent: UAV-Satellite Collaborative Spatial Reasoning Inspired by the Dual Visual Pathway Theory of Cognitive Neuroscience

    Jun 30, 2026Wenyi Zhang, Fanglong Yao, Youzhi Liu +5Aerial Robotics3D Spatial Reasoning

    Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China · School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China +4

  19. MultiUAV-Plat: An LLM-Oriented Platform, Benchmark and Framework for Multi-UAV Collaborative Task Planning

    Jun 30, 2026Sheng Zhang, Qinglin Li, Yuechao Zang +3Aerial RoboticsLarge Language Model-Based Robot Planning

    National Key Laboratory of Information Systems Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Deya Road, Changsha, 410073, Hunan, China

  20. Ground Plane-Aided Extrinsic Calibration of Inertial and RGB-D Sensors for Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles

    Jun 30, 2026Ilyar Asl Sabbaghian Hokmabadi, Mahdis BishebanAerial Robotics

    Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, 40 Research Pl NW, Calgary · Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, 40 Research Pl NW, Calgary, AIAA Member. This work was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Government of Alberta, Alberta Innovates, and the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary. Funding was awarded to Dr. Mahdis Bisheban, Director of the Intelligent Dynamics and Control Lab and Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary.

  21. TAPE: Tether-Aware Path Planning for Autonomous Exploration of Unknown 3D Cavities Using a Tangle-Compatible Tethered Aerial Robot

    Jun 29, 2026Louis Petit, Alexis Lussier DesbiensAerial RoboticsMobile Robotics

    Createk Design Lab, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, J1K 2R1, Canada

  22. Wind and State Estimation on SE(3): Comparative Evaluation of EKF and UKF with Continuous and Discrete Quadrotor Models

    Jun 29, 2026Hiranya Udagedara, Adam Bigsby, Mahdis BishebanAerial RoboticsKalman Filtering

    Dept. of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

  23. AERIS: Aerial-Edge Role-Driven Intelligence at Runtime via Orchestrated Language-Model Swarm

    Jun 29, 2026Jiabin Lou, Haopeng Wang, Xinyu Liu +3Aerial RoboticsLarge Language Model-Based Robot Planning

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China · Hangzhou International Innovation Institute, Beihang University, Hangzhou 311115, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

  24. Multi-UAV Formation Cooperative Obstacle Avoidance and Adaptive Shape Deformation Control in Complex Environments Based on BI-APF-RRT and Affine Transformation

    Jun 29, 2026Yiliang Wu, Weican Chen, Yendo HuMulti-Robot Formation ControlMulti-Robot Motion Planning

    College of Marine Information Engineering, Jimei University, Xiamen, China

  25. LNN-Fly: Continuous-Time UAV Navigation for Robust Obstacle Avoidance under Timing Mismatch

    Jun 27, 2026Yulin Huang, Shaojie Chen, Di Feng +3Aerial RoboticsRobot Navigation

    Shenzhen Institute for Advanced Study, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518000, China

  26. Swarm sign language: motion-based communication between drones

    Jun 26, 2026Thomas Rey, Julien Moras, Alexandre Eudes +1Aerial RoboticsMulti-Robot Systems

    U2IS, ENSTA, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 828 Boulevard des Mar´echaux, Palaiseau, 91120, France

  27. Bridging Performance and Generalization in Reinforcement Learning for Agile Flight

    Jun 25, 2026Jonathan Green, Jiaxu Xing, Nico Messikommer +2RL for RoboticsAerial Robotics

    Robotics and Perception Group, University of Zurich

  28. Swazure: Swarm Measurement of Pose for Flying Light Specks

    Jun 23, 2026Hamed Alimohammadzadeh, Shahram GhandeharizadehAerial RoboticsMulti-Robot Systems

    University of Southern California · Los Angeles, California, USA

  29. SwarmFly: A simulation platform for UAV swarm experiment design and validation

    Jun 23, 2026Abhishek Phadke, Karthik Kumar Vasudeva, Abhishek JoshiAerial RoboticsSwarm Robotics

    School of Engineering and Computing, Christopher Newport University · Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University · Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

  30. AeroCast: Probabilistic 3D Trajectory Prediction for Non-Cooperative Aerial Obstacles via Transformer-MDN Architecture

    Jun 23, 2026Syed Izzat Ullah, Jose BacaAerial RoboticsMultimodal Trajectory Prediction

    Department of Engineering, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX 78412 USA