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  1. Mechanical Analysis of Parachute Suspension Line Deployment with Binding Tapes Using PINN

    Jul 14, 2026Xiang Zhao, Ronghui Quan, Yaqi Xiao +1Conventional Physics-Informed Neural NetworksFlight Performance

  2. Flatness-Preserving Residual Learning for Real-Time Tight Quadrotor Formation Flight

    Jul 14, 2026Pei-An Hsieh, Fengjun Yang, Nikolai Matni +1Quadrotor ControlFlight Performance

  3. High-level spatial Dubins airplane-based reference smoothing with low-level geometric tracking for quadrotor control

    Jul 13, 2026Mogens PlessenQuadrotor ControlFlight Performance

  4. WarpMPC: Large-Batch MPC on GPU via ADMM with Unrolled LDL⊤LDL^\top Factorization

    Jul 13, 2026Henrik Hose, Se Hwan Jeon, Charles Khazoom +2Quadratic ProgramsAlternating Direction Method Of Multiplier

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

    Jul 12, 2026Xiaolei Hou, Zheng Pan, Hua Lan +6Aerial RobotsUnknown Environments

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

    Jul 11, 2026Peter Böhm, Michael Brünig, Peyman Z. Moghadam +1Quadrotor ControlAerodynamics

  7. Task-Adaptive Design of Modular Aerial Manipulators Under Airflow Exposure Constraints

    Jul 10, 2026Mengguang Li, Heinz KoepplAerial ManipulationOptimal Design

  8. STEMbot: A Compliant Robot for Under-Canopy Plant Navigation

    Jul 8, 2026Zachary Charlick, Nilay Roy Choudhury, Haoyu Ma +2Agricultural RobotsAerial Robots

  9. CaLiSym: Learning Symplectic Dynamics of Real-World Systems through Structured Canonical Lifts

    Jul 7, 2026Aristotelis Papatheodorou, Pranav Vaidhyanathan, Natalia Ares +2Scalable Robot LearningQuadrotor Flight

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

    Jul 6, 2026Antonio FranchiAerial ManipulationRobust Manipulation

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

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

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

    Jul 3, 2026Anuraj Uthayasooriyan, Musab Alibrahim, Krishna Manaswi Digumarti +2Aerial ManipulationRobotic Arms

  13. Integrating Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Safe Reinforcement Learning in a 1-DoF Helicopter System

    Jul 3, 2026Georg Schäfer, Jakob Rehrl, Stefan HuberIterative Reinforcement LearningQuadrotor Control

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

    Jul 2, 2026J. Diaz Peon Gonzalez Pacheco, J. Xu, A. Zhao +7Flight PerformanceAdvanced Jet Trainer

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

    Jul 2, 2026Pedro Santos, Joel Reis, Paulo Oliveira +1Quadrotor FlightAdaptive Controller

  16. Learning Agile Intruder Interception using Differentiable Quadrotor Dynamics

    Jul 2, 2026Michael Anoruo, Xiaoyu Tian, Abhishek Rathod +5Quadrotor ControlDeep Reinforcement Learning

  17. Towards Load-Aware Prefill Deflection for Disaggregated LLM Serving

    Jul 2, 2026Shrikara Arun, Anjaly Parayil, Srikant Bharadwaj +2PrefillPer-Token Latency

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

    Jul 1, 2026Abdullah Al Tasim, Wei SunQuadrotor ControlUrban Wind

  19. FastBridge: Closing the Model-Based Realization Gap in Safety Filters on 3D Gaussian Splatting for Fast Quadrotor Flight

    Jul 1, 2026Tscholl Dario, Nakka Yashwanth Kumar, Gunter BrianQuadrotor FlightSafety Filters

  20. From Prediction Uncertainty to Conformalized Distance Fields for Safe Motion Planning

    Jul 1, 2026Jaeuk Shin, Yoonseok Ra, Insoon YangMotion PlannersConformal Prediction

  21. Machine Learning-based Feedback Linearization Control of Quadrotor Subject to Unmodeled Dynamics

    Jun 30, 2026Amos Alwala, Gabriel da Silva Lima, Wallace Moreira BessaQuadrotor ControlQuadrotor Flight

  22. 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 DesbiensCoverage Path PlanningAerial Robots

  23. 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 BishebanUrban WindQuadrotor Control

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

    Jun 29, 2026Jiabin Lou, Haopeng Wang, Xinyu Liu +3Aerial Vision-Language NavigationAerial Robots

  25. Flying to Image-Specified Objects: 3D Quadrotor Navigation via Cross-Graph Memory and Viewpoint Planning

    Jun 29, 2026Junjie Gao, Yuqi Chen, Yongzhou Pan +3Quadrotor FlightVision-Language Navigation

  26. Learning to Throw: Agile and Accurate Cable-Suspended Payload Delivery with a Quadrotor

    Jun 25, 2026Yifan Zhai, Elia Raimondi, Yunfan Ren +4Quadrotor ControlAerial Manipulation

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

    Jun 25, 2026Jonathan Green, Jiaxu Xing, Nico Messikommer +2Aerial RobotsBridging Language

  28. Scaling Nonlinear Optimization: Many Problems One GPU

    Jun 24, 2026John Viljoen, Johanna Haffner, Masayoshi Tomizuka +1Multi-Gpu SystemsTrajectory Optimization

  29. Layered Outer-Loop Control for Disturbance-Robust Multi-Waypoint UAV Arrival

    Jun 24, 2026Runfeng LingMulti-Uav SystemsFlight Performance

  30. SkyJEPA: Learning Long-Horizon World Models for Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Control of Quadrotors

    Jun 22, 2026Pratyaksh Rao, Wancong Zhang, Randall Balestriero +2Quadrotor ControlDynamics Models

  31. A Multimodal Tiltwing Framework for Bioinspired Aerial Robots

    Jun 20, 2026Krispin C. V. Broers, Sophie F. ArmaniniAerial RobotsUnified Multimodal Models

  32. Stable Transformer-Actor-Critic Model Predictive Control: A Contraction Analysis Approach

    Jun 18, 2026Antonio Marino, Valerio Modugno, Marco CognettiModel Predictive ControlLyapunov Function

  33. Reinforcement Learning with Inner-loop Dynamics Estimator for Aerial Manipulation under Uncertainty

    Jun 15, 2026Shivansh Pratap Singh, Samaksh Ujjwal, Ishita Chaudhary +3Aerial ManipulationIterative Reinforcement Learning

  34. Agile Fall Recovery for Quadrotors with Bidirectional Thrust via Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 15, 2026Anke Zhao, Yuhang Zhong, Kenghou Hoi +5Quadrotor ControlIterative Reinforcement Learning

  35. Anisotropic Template Ansätze for Robust Positive Invariance under State-Dependent Uncertainty

    Jun 14, 2026Abdelrahman Ramadan, Melissa Greeff, Sidney GivigiQuadrotor FlightState Estimation

  36. AERMANI-PLACE: Language Guided Object Placement with Aerial Manipulators

    Jun 12, 2026Sarthak Mishra, Ritama Sanyal, Rishabh Dev Yadav +2Aerial Vision-Language NavigationAerial Manipulation

  37. Semidefinite Relaxations for Collision-Free Motion Planning

    Jun 12, 2026Bernhard Paus Graesdal, Alexandre Amice, Pablo A. Parrilo +1Collision-Free TrajectoriesSemidefinite Programming

  38. Efficient Domain-Adaptive Policy Learning via Kernel Representation with Application to Quadrotor Control under Non-Stationary Disturbances

    Jun 11, 2026Hongyu Zhou, Mingtian Tan, Vasileios TzoumasQuadrotor ControlNon-Stationarity

  39. An integrated interpretable control effectiveness learning and nonlinear control allocation methodology for overactuated aircrafts

    Jun 11, 2026Umut Demir, Aamir Ahmad, Walter FichterLinear Quadratic RegulatorFlight Performance

  40. AIR-VLA+: Decoupling Movement and Manipulation via Cascaded Dual-Action Decoders with Asymmetric MoE for Aerial Robots

    Jun 11, 2026Jianli Sun, Bin Tian, Qiyao Zhang +6Aerial ManipulationAerial Robots

  41. A Modular Dual-Camera Pipeline for Micro-Inspection Using Aerial Robots

    Jun 9, 2026S. H. Mirtajadini, N. Rublein, R. M. Ramakrishnan +3Unmanned Aerial Vehicle TrackingAerial Robots

  42. Data-Driven Runway and Taxiway Exits Prediction of Landing Aircraft: A Case Study at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

    Jun 9, 2026Alex Porcayo, Yutian Pang, Maria Thomas +1Air Traffic ControlFlight Performance

  43. Embodiment-conditioned Generalist Control for Multirotor Aerial Robots

    Jun 9, 2026Orestis Konstantaropoulos, Welf Rehberg, Mihir Kulkarni +1Quadrotor ControlRobotic Manipulation Policies

  44. Planar-Sector LOS Guidance for Interception of Agile Targets with Lifting-Wing Quadcopters

    Jun 9, 2026Linkai Liu, Kun Yang, Han Zou +4Unmanned Aerial Vehicle TrackingAdvanced Jet Trainer

  45. Autonomous FPV Flight with Translational Optical Flow and Uncertainty Mask

    Jun 8, 2026Yang Deng, Yu Hu, Feng Yu +2Optical FlowFlight Performance

  46. Hybrid Neural Network and Conventional Controller Approach for Robust Control of Highly Unstable Systems: Application to Tilt-Rotor Control

    Jun 7, 2026Ali Kafili Gavgani, Amin Talaeizadeh, Aria Alasty +1Quadrotor ControlNeural Control

  47. Autonomous Aerial Manipulation via Contextual Contrastive Meta Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 7, 2026Lixuan Jin, Bingxuan Lan, Xinyi Bao +9Aerial ManipulationManipulation

  48. Orthogonality and Dimensionality in Airline Cluster Analysis using PCA and Kernel PCA

    Jun 6, 2026Andreas SchlapbachPrincipal Component AnalysisCluster Structure

  49. Disturbance-Aware Aerial Robotics for Ethical Wildlife Monitoring

    Jun 6, 2026Mahmut Osmanovic, Isac Paulsson, Teddy LazebnikAerial Robots

  50. MuJoCo-Drones-Gym: A GPU-Accelerated Multi-Drone Simulator for Control and Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 6, 2026Manan TayalAerial RobotsSimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

  51. MinNav: Minimalist Navigation Using Optical Flow For Active Tiny Aerial Robots

    Jun 5, 2026Aniket Patil, Mandeep Singh, Uday Girish Maradana +1Aerial RobotsVisual Odometry

  52. Video-Based Prediction of In-Flight Particle Characteristics in Atmospheric Plasma Spraying

    Jun 5, 2026Abhijeet Praveen, Sareh Soleimani, Cormac Cureton +4Plasma Shape ControlFuture Video Prediction

  53. Generalization of World Models under Environmental Variability for Vision-based Quadrotor Navigation

    Jun 3, 2026Luca Zanatta, Grzegorz Malczyk, Kostas AlexisWorld ModelsScalable Robot Learning

  54. Real-World Deployment of a 5G-Connected Edge-Controlled Aerial Robot in Industrial Subterranean Mines

    Jun 3, 2026Achilleas Santi Seisa, Emanuele Pagliari, Gerasimos Damigos +2Aerial RobotsModel Predictive Control

  55. MAD: Mapping-Aware World Models for Agile Quadrotor Flight

    Jun 3, 2026Xinhong Zhang, Runqing Wang, Yunfan Ren +6Quadrotor Flight3D Mapping

  56. SEAOTTER: Sensor Embedded Autoencoding with One-Time Transcode for Efficient Reconstruction

    Jun 2, 2026Dan Jacobellis, Neeraja J. YadwadkarVideo CodingCodec

  57. Towards Precise Intent-Aligned VLA Aerial Navigation via Expert-Guided GRPO

    Jun 1, 2026Tianyang Chen, Wenjun Li, Xin zhou +2Aerial Vision-Language NavigationVision-Language-Action Models

  58. Network Distributed Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Consensus Control of Quadcopters

    Jun 1, 2026Youssef Mahran, Zeyad Gamal, Aamir Ahmad +1Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningQuadrotor Control

  59. Market-Based Replanning for Safety-Critical UAV Swarms in Search and Rescue Missions

    Jun 1, 2026Luiz Giacomossi, Andrea Haglund, Claire Namatovu +6Unmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsAerial Robots

  60. Autopilot-Preserving Residual Q-Learning with HJB-Inspired Finite-Action Risk Filtering for Fixed-Wing UAV Command Supervision

    May 31, 2026Mehmet Iscan, Batuhan TemizQuadrotor ControlModel Predictive Control