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  1. A Switched Adaptive Control Framework for Aerial Manipulators Under Dynamic Transitions

    Sep 21, 2026Rishabh Dev Yadav, Saksham Gupta, Amitabh Sharma +4Aerial ManipulationRobotic Arms

  2. RTK-Vision PPO for Autonomous Micro UAV Recovery on an Airborne Carrier

    Sep 17, 2026Aashish Sahu, R Prasanth KumarUncrewed Aerial VehiclesUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

  3. TADreamer: Zero-Shot Language-Guided 3D Navigation for Terrestrial-Aerial Bimodal Robots via Video Imagination

    Sep 17, 2026Xiangyu Li, Tiancheng Lai, Xijie Huang +7Object Goal NavigationDream

  4. HEROIC: Heterogeneous Evidential Reasoning for Open-Vocabulary Identification and Cross-Robot Collaboration

    Sep 17, 2026Mihir Chauhan, Aarav Jain, Addison Zucek +3Multi-Robot SystemsAerial Robots

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

    Sep 16, 2026Eri Sawada, Kazuki Sugihara, Ayano Miyamichi +2Aerial ManipulationAerial Robots

  6. VLM-MPPI: Grounding Natural Language in Behaviorally Diverse Trajectories for Aerial Navigation

    Sep 16, 2026Hanbing Zhang, Fangguo Zhao, Zerui Li +3Aerial Vision-Language NavigationAutonomous Drone Navigation

  7. Indicators of resilience for autonomous control systems

    Sep 16, 2026Jasper van Beers, Da-Hwi Kim, Prashant Solanki +1Quadrotor ControlResilience

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

    Sep 16, 2026Yifan He, Yang Liu, Wenhao Zhao +8Quadrotor FlightObstacle Avoidance

  9. Prior Evolution and Task Alignment for Aerial Grasping

    Sep 16, 2026Weiliang Deng, Zhengyang Dang, Yao Mu +1Grasp GenerationAerial Manipulation

  10. CALOS: Control-Affine Lyapunov On-manifold Safety Layer for Safe Deep Reinforcement Learning for Quadrotors

    Sep 15, 2026Fabrizio Cesareo, Sebastiano Mengozzi, Nicola Mimmo +1Quadrotor ControlSafety Constraints

  11. Escape-Aware Control Barrier Functions for Quadrotor Safety under Body-Rate Limits

    Sep 15, 2026Lei Shi, Haosong Wen, Qichao LiuQuadrotor FlightControl Barrier Functions

  12. Waggle Dance Inspired Motion Communication for Multiple UAVs in MuJoCo

    Sep 15, 2026Zhang NengboUncrewed Aerial VehiclesCommunication

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

    Sep 14, 2026Yi Wang, Rui Jin, Xinhang Xu +4Aerial ManipulationFlight Performance

  14. Volumetric Harmonic Field Navigation for Quadrotors

    Sep 14, 2026Shuxiu Jia, Amartya Mukherjee, Yating YuanQuadrotor FlightVolume

  15. Learning to Exploit Passive Dynamics for Energy-Efficient Target Hopping of a Spring-Legged Quadcopter

    Sep 14, 2026Ruigang Chen, Qi Zhang, Zhicheng Zhong +3Quadrotor ControlActuator

  16. Dynamics-Informed Reinforcement Learning for Agile and Energy-Efficient Locomotion of a Monopedal Hopping Quadcopter

    Sep 14, 2026Ruigang Chen, Qi Zhang, Zhicheng Zhong +3Quadrotor ControlIterative Reinforcement Learning

  17. Global Path Planner with Multi-Model Switching

    Sep 14, 2026Pietro Gori, Francesco Iotti, Eduard Zelenay +5Coverage Path PlanningQuadrotor Flight

  18. 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 +2Quadrotor ControlUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

  19. Distributed Stochastic Optimal Control for Pattern-Oriented Swarms

    Sep 11, 2026Qingrui Zhang, Chenghao Yu, Feng Xue +1Unmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsSwarms

  20. Contact-Aware Incremental Model Predictive Control for an Underactuated Aerial Manipulator

    Sep 11, 2026Darwin Liu, Tamas Keviczky, Sihao SunAerial ManipulationModel Predictive Control

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

    Sep 7, 2026Kazuki Sugihara, Kei OkadaTask-Centric Hybrid Whole-Body ControllerAerial Manipulation

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

    Sep 1, 2026Aditya Anil Kapile, Pedro Machado, Isibor Kennedy IhianleMulti-Uav SystemsCollision Avoidance

  23. AM-Bench: A Modular Simulation Suite and Benchmark for Aerial Manipulation Policy Learning

    Sep 1, 2026Yutong Wang, Dongjae Lee, Xiaofeng Guo +9Aerial ManipulationRobotic Manipulation Policies

  24. The Structure of Merging Turbulent Jets Beneath a Small Quadrotor

    Aug 31, 2026Anoop Kiran, Nora Ayanian, Kenneth BreuerTurbulenceQuadrotor Flight

  25. A Hybrid PEM-GP Framework for Uncertainty-Aware System Identification of Quadcopters

    Aug 31, 2026Abdallah Ghoul, Ismail Khalil Bousserhane, Kadri BoufeldjaQuadrotor ControlSystem Identification

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

    Aug 31, 2026Saideep Verma, Nimisha Tatapudi, Akshay Arjun +3DroneFlight Performance

  27. 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 +2Inertial OdometryConditional Velocity

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

    Aug 13, 2026Xuwei Yang, Ruoyu Ren, Ziqian GuoAerial ManipulationActuator

  29. Exemplar-based objective classification of gust-induced loads across multiple flight conditions

    Aug 12, 2026Paolo Olivucci, Kowshik Srivatsan, David E. RivalAerodynamicsFlight Performance

  30. Clustered Randomized Smoothing for Stochastic Prediction Functions

    Aug 12, 2026Eduardo Figueiredo, Frederik Mathiesen, Julian Schumann +3SmoothingPredictive Uncertainty

  31. TailBooster: A Dual-Layer Generative Framework for Extreme Value Augmentation with Operational Validity Enforcement

    Aug 12, 2026Karim Aly, Alexei Sharpanskykh, Jacco HoekstraSynthetic Data AugmentationAugmentation

  32. Aerial Layouting: Design and Control of a Compliant and Actuated End-Effector for Precise In-flight Marking on Ceilings

    Aug 11, 2026Christian Lanegger, Marco Ruggia, Marco Tognon +2Aerial RobotsFlight Performance

  33. Robust Sliding Mode and Admittance Control of Underactuated Aerial Manipulators for Contact-Based Inspection

    Aug 11, 2026Tareq Aziz Alqutami, Yvan Petillot, Matthew W. Dunnigan +1Aerial ManipulationFeedback Linearization

  34. When Your State Estimator Has Lost The Plot: Detecting Estimator Failures Via Spectral Analysis

    Aug 11, 2026Christian Lanegger, Helen Oleynikova, Roland Siegwart +1State EstimationEstimators

  35. Trajectory Design and Budgeted Querying for Digital Twin Calibration

    Aug 9, 2026Vladyslava Spitkovska, Dmytro KuzmenkoQuadrotor ControlTwins

  36. LyEvO: Lyapunov-Guided Evolutionary Optimization for Safe and Robust Sim-to-Real Policy Learning

    Aug 6, 2026Riccardo Curcio, Hongpeng Cao, Marco CaccamoZero-Shot Sim-To-Real TransferLyapunov Function

  37. Accurate Localization of Road Traffic Objects on the Road Plane Using Surveillance Camera Imagery

    Aug 6, 2026Jan Gawroński, Witold CzajewskiRobust Vehicle RecognitionSequential Visual Localization

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

    Aug 4, 2026Ghadeer Elmkaiel, Michael MuehlebachAerodynamicsFlight Performance

  39. Hybrid Impedance-Admittance Control with Multi-Link Aerial Robot for Contact-Rich Surface Sliding Task

    Aug 3, 2026Zicheng Luo, Maolin Lei, Jinjie Li +3Impedance ControlAerial Robots

  40. 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 RobotsUncrewed Aerial Vehicles

  41. Learning Smooth SE(3) Trajectories under Left-Invariant Riemannian Metrics

    Aug 3, 2026Yuwei Wu, Vijay KumarRigid-Body DynamicsLie Group

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

    Aug 1, 2026Yanbaihui Liu, Ravi Prakash, Li-Yu Lo +2Aerial RobotsPassive Acoustic Monitoring

  43. Homotopy-Aware Corridor Generation without Predefined Reference Paths

    Jul 31, 2026Haoze Dong, Minghan Li, Meng Guo +1Travel TimeAerial Robots

  44. DART: Dual-Axis Airborne Reachability-Gated Torque-Reaction for Off-Road Vehicle Jumps

    Jul 31, 2026Yu Hu, Fangzhou Zhao, Mingyuan Sang +7Flight PerformanceActuator

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

    Jul 30, 2026Dragos Costea, Alina Marcu, Cristina Lazar +1Aerial RobotsHuman Motion

  46. Physics-Aware End-to-End Deep Reinforcement Learning for Quadcopter Control with Actuator Dynamics

    Jul 28, 2026Ya-Chia Shen, Woei-Leong ChanQuadrotor ControlIterative Reinforcement Learning

  47. Critical slowing down for predicting controller induced loss of control in quadrotors

    Jul 28, 2026Jasper J. van Beers, Prashant Solanki, Erik-Jan van Kampen +1Quadrotor ControlFlight Performance

  48. Learning Adaptive Multi-Task Guidance, Navigation, and Control via Hypernetworks

    Jul 27, 2026Ricard Marsal I Castan, Aman Arora, Antoine Richard +3Multi-Task Reinforcement LearningAerial Robots

  49. Anticipatory Risk-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Safe Flight Through Dynamic Clutter

    Jul 26, 2026Yuchao Mei, Guohao Zhang, Luxia Ai +2Quadrotor FlightForesight

  50. Flight-Ready LiDAR-Inertial Odometry for Embedded Drone Platforms

    Jul 24, 2026Alvaro J. Gaona, David Perez-Saura, Francisco J. Anguita +1Robust Lidar-Inertial OdometryDrone

  51. Robostral Navigate

    Jul 22, 2026Abdelaziz Bounhar, Abhijeet Somani, Aditi Kabra +273RobocasaLarge Vision Language Models

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

    Jul 20, 2026Ryan Gomes Paiva, Conrad Ho, Jiarong Kang +3Aerial RobotsLocomotion Stability

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

    Jul 20, 2026Xurui Liu, Miao Wang, Tianyu He +2Quadrotor FlightAutonomous Driving Perception

  54. Disturbance-Aware Flight for Aerial Robots in Narrow Space

    Jul 20, 2026Lei Qiang, Tianyu He, Chenyang Sun +3Aerial RobotsQuadrotor Flight

  55. Certifiable Safe Model-Based Reinforcement Learning with Control-Affine Dynamics Approximation

    Jul 17, 2026Hao Zhou, Yanze Zhang, Cameron Reid +1Control Barrier FunctionsScalable Robot Learning

  56. 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 OnderQuadrotor ControlUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

  57. Pick-to-Learn Calibration of an MPC Policy for an Origin-to-Destination Flight Problem

    Jul 17, 2026Marco C. Campi, Simone GarattiModel Predictive ControlControl System Operator Learning

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

    Jul 17, 2026Murat Bronz, Mahmoud Hamandi, Elgiz Baskaya +2AerodynamicsQuadrotor Flight

  59. Minimum Time Dubins Airplane Paths with Asymmetric Climb Rates

    Jul 17, 2026Jaeyoung Lim, Giuseppe LoiannoFlight PerformanceAsymmetric

  60. Conditional Invertible Neural Networks for Data-Driven UAV Control: A 2-D Proof of Concept

    Jul 15, 2026Christian Wittke, Stephan Myschik, Oliver NiggemannQuadrotor ControlNeural Control