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  1. Decentralized UAV Swarms for Ground Target Protection in GPS- and Communication-Denied Environments

    Jul 22, 2026Dimitria Silveria, Paulo Ricardo Marques de Araujo, Tiago Nascimento +1Swarm RoboticsMulti-Robot Coordination

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Ingenuity Labs Research Institute, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada · School of Computing and the Ingenuity Labs Research Institute, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada · Lab of Systems Engineering and Robotics (LASER), Department of Computer Systems, Universidade Federal da Para´ıba, and with the Department of Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague 16629, Czechia

  2. Safe and Scalable Multi-Drone Payload Transport via CBF-based Reinforcement Learning with Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Transfer

    Jul 22, 2026Jaeyoun Choi, Oswin So, Songyuan Zhang +2Multi-Robot SystemsControl Barrier Functions

    Reliable Autonomous Systems Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

  3. Distributed Motion Planning with Safety Guarantees for Self-Reconfiguring Robotic Boats

    Jul 22, 2026Alejandro Gonzalez-Garcia, Wei Wang, Wei Xiao +4Multi-Robot Formation ControlMulti-Robot Motion Planning

    MECO Research Team, Department of Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium · Marine Robotics Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706 USA · School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, and with M3S, SMART, Singapore +2

  4. Confidence-Gated Vision-Only Heading Alignment for UAV-UGV Cooperative Systems

    Jul 21, 2026Reza Ahmari, Vahid Hemmati, Parham Kebria +3Robotic ControlVisual Navigation

    Department of Computer Science, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA

  5. ADMM-Based Safety-Critical Distributed NMPC for Cooperative Transportation by Quadrupedal Robots

    Jul 18, 2026Ruturaj S. Sambhus, Kapi Ketan Mehta, Yicheng Zeng +1Multi-Agent CoordinationNonlinear MPC

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA

  6. Implicit Virtual Leader: Decentralized Vision-Only Relative Pose Estimation for Multi-Robot Formations

    Jul 17, 2026Shiyuan Yang, Zelin Wang, Zhijia Tao +8Multi-Robot Formation ControlRelative Pose Estimation

  7. Modeling and Validation of Quality of Control for Edge-Offloaded Collaborative Navigation

    Jul 16, 2026Neelabhro Roy, Mikael Hammarling, Victor Nan Fernandez-Ayala +4Robot NavigationMulti-Robot Coordination

    †KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden · ∗National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India

  8. Simultaneous Arrival Control for Distributed Multi-Robot Systems with Curvature and Constant-Speed Constraints

    Jul 16, 2026Zhouru Xiao, Yang Lu, Weijia Yao +2Multi-Robot SystemsMulti-Robot Coordination

    School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Hunan University, China · College of Intelligence Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, China

  9. World-Model-Aware Responsibility Allocation in Heterogeneous Logistics Systems

    Jul 16, 2026Artan Markaj, Niklas Jobs, Felix GehlhoffMulti-Robot CoordinationShared Autonomy

    Eurogate GmbH & Co. KGaA, KG · Hamburg, Germany · Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg

  10. Stress-Sharing: A Bio-Inspired Approach to Decentralized Fault Repair in Modular Spacecraft

    Jul 15, 2026Sidhdharth D. Sikka, Yue Shen, Shaoshuai MouModular RoboticsRobotics

    Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA · Manifold Research Group

  11. Unveiling Complex Collective Behaviors from Simple Rewards

    Jul 14, 2026Yize Mi, Jianan Li, Liang Li +1Swarm RoboticsMulti-Robot Coordination

    College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. · WINDY Lab, School of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China · Shanghai AI Laboratory, 200030, Shanghai, China +4

  12. Infra-Swarm: Robust Vision-Based Multi-Robot Swarming via Near-Infrared Spectral Vision

    Jul 14, 2026Haoyu Chen, Qijin Li, Wanyu Xiang +3Multi-Robot SystemsSwarm Robotics

    WINDY Lab in the School of Engineering at Westlake University, Hangzhou, China · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China · Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  13. EFLUX: Elastic Multi-Robot Formation Navigation and Adaptation with Agentic LLMs

    Jul 13, 2026Jinyuan Zhang, Yuwei Wu, Guangyao Shi +3Multi-Robot Formation ControlMulti-Robot Motion Planning

    GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA · Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA

  14. Self-Healing Coordination in Cognitive Swarm Agents with Bloch-Type Perceptual Memory

    Jul 12, 2026Jyotiranjan BeuriaMulti-Agent CoordinationMulti-Robot Systems

    IKS Research Center, ISS Delhi, India

  15. From Non-Rigid to Rigid: Safe Acquisition of Rigid Communication Graphs under Limited Sensing

    Jul 11, 2026Saharsh, Vedhas Talnikar, Pushpak JagtapMulti-Robot Formation ControlMulti-Agent Control

    Department of Cyber Physical Systems · Indian Institute of Science · Bengaluru, 560012, India

  16. CoDiMAD: Diffusion-Based Privileged Distillation for Communication-Free Multi-Robot Coordination

    Jul 10, 2026Jiyue Tao, Shunheng Xin, Tongsheng Shen +2Multi-Agent CoordinationMulti-Robot Coordination

    Robotics and Control Laboratory, School of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, and the State Key Laboratory of Turbulence and Complex Systems, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China · National Innovation Institute of Defense Technology, Beijing 100071, China

  17. 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.

  18. Programmable Synchronization Graphs for Adaptive and Fault-Tolerant Modular Miniature Robots

    Jul 8, 2026Okan Kulekcioglu, Arqam Bin Ahmad, Ines Garcia +3Dynamical SystemsModular Robotics

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bilkent University; Ankara, Türkiye. · International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL); Braga, Portugal.

  19. A Closed-Loop Multi-Agent Framework for Robust Multi-Robot Manipulation

    Jul 8, 2026Yi-Xiang He, Lan Wei, Haoming Cen +6Large Language Model-Based Robot PlanningMulti-Task Robotic Manipulation

    Sun Yat-sen University · Key Laboratory of Machine Intelligence and Advanced Computing, Ministry of Education, China

  20. Towards Reliable Aerial Ground Vehicle Collaboration: An Integrated Planning and Autonomy Framework for Field Deployment

    Jul 7, 2026Md Safwan Mondal, Luca Russo, James D. Humann +2Vehicle RoutingMulti-Robot Coordination

    Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago, IL, 60607 USA · DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA · DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Aberdeen, MD 21005 USA

  21. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Battery Management of Autonomous Order Pickers

    Jul 6, 2026Taniya Shaji, Abhay Sobhanan, Christof DefrynRL for RoboticsMobile Robotics

    Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Bannerghatta Road, Bengaluru 560076, Karnataka, India · University of Antwerp, Prinsstraat 13, Antwerp 2000, Belgium

  22. Multi-Robot Open Adaptive Teaming Across Unseen Environments, Partners, and Scales

    Jul 6, 2026Yang Li, Feng Xue, Fan Mo +6Robot Policy AdaptationMulti-Robot Systems

    1Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 2Sun Yat-sen University · 3National University of Singapore +4

  23. Dynamic Airspace Management for UAVs in Evolving Urban Environments: Collaborative Coordination and Human Safety

    Jul 6, 2026Lin Sun, Yuhang Wang, Fan Meng Hong +3Collision AvoidanceMulti-Robot Coordination

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, China · Shanghai Shapere Information Technology Co.,Ltd. Shanghai, China

  24. LLM-Centric Agentic AI for UAV Swarms: Architecture, Enabling Technologies, and Open Problems

    Jul 5, 2026Yousef Emami, Rahim Taheri, Mohammadhossein Homaei +2Multi-Agent LLM SystemsAI Agent Security

    Senior Member, IEEE

  25. High-Precision Formation Control for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems via Hierarchical Hybrid Physics-Informed Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 3, 2026Yanzhou Li, Guangli Chen, Xiao-Meng Li +3Multi-Robot Formation ControlMulti-Robot Systems

    Dongguan Key Laboratory of Intelligent Equipment and Smart Industry, School of Advanced Engineering, Great Bay University, Dongguan 523000, China · Chair of Applied Statistics, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany · School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China +2

  26. Choreographing the Way of Water: A Computational Framework for Aquatic Robotic Art

    Jul 2, 2026Aswin Ramachandran, Christopher Golling, Sebastian Burmester +4Multi-Robot Coordination

    ETH Zurich Zurich, Switzerland

  27. AMBUSH: Collaborative Capture in Complex Environments with Neural Acceleration

    Jul 1, 2026Junfeng Chen, YinHang Luo, Xinyi Wang +2Multi-Robot SystemsMonte Carlo Tree Search

    the School of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China · the Distributed Autonomous Systems and Control Lab, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-1079, USA

  28. From Real-Time Planning to Reliable Execution:Scalable Coordination for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Fleets in Industrial Environments

    Jul 1, 2026Bo CaoMulti-Robot Motion PlanningRobotics

  29. 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

  30. Sampling-Based Coordination-Informed Multi-Objective Multi-Robot Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 29, 2026Antonio Marino, Esteban Restrepo, Soon-jo Chung +2Multi-Objective Reinforcement LearningMulti-Robot Coordination

    University of Cambridge · CNRS, Univ Rennes, Inria, IRISA · Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology

  31. 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

  32. SPACE: Swarm Pheromone Fields for Adaptive Collision-Aware Exploration

    Jun 28, 2026Haohua Que, Haojia Gao, Mingkai Liu +3Swarm RoboticsMulti-Robot Exploration

    Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. · Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School (SIGS), Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China. · School of Software and Microelectronics, Peking University, Beijing, China.

  33. AirGroundBench: Probing Spatial Intelligence in Multimodal Large Models under Heterogeneous Multi-View Embodied Collaboration

    Jun 26, 2026Haotian Li, Yida Wang, Leyuan Wang +7Multi-View ConsistencyMultimodal Reasoning

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Tsinghua University +1

  34. When Multi-Robot Systems Meet Agentic AI:Towards Embodied Collective Intelligence

    Jun 26, 2026Yuxuan Yan, Yuanyuan Jia, Qianqian YangMulti-Robot SystemsMulti-Robot Coordination

    College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  35. 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

  36. P-ARC: Exploiting Subproblem Independence for Parallel Multi-Robot Motion Planning

    Jun 26, 2026James D. Motes, Marco Morales, Nancy M. AmatoMulti-Robot Motion PlanningMulti-Robot Coordination

    Parasol Lab, School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL, 61820 USA · Department of Computer Science at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico City, México

  37. Commerge: Communication-Efficient, Robust, and Fast LiDAR Map Merging Framework for Multi-Robot Coordination in Resource-Constrained Scenarios

    Jun 24, 2026Hogyun Kim, Jiwon Choi, Juwon Kim +4Multi-Robot Coordination

    Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, INHA University, S.Korea · Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

  38. 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

  39. Swarm-Inspired Generation of Collective Behaviors in Graph Dynamical Systems

    Jun 23, 2026Ji Chen, Song Chen, Chengzhang Gong +2Dynamical SystemsGraph Representation Learning

    College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310000, Zhejiang, China. · Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore, 10 Lower Kent Ridge Road, 119076, Singapore. · Huzhou Institute of Zhejiang University, Huzhou, 313000, Zhejiang, China. +3

  40. Topological Online Learning for Displacement-based Formation Control

    Jun 22, 2026Saksham Sharma, Shubhankar Gupta, Sumant A Gunagi +1Multi-Robot Formation ControlRobust Control

    ArtGarage, Indian Institute of Science, India · Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, India

  41. Integrated cloud-based architecture for robot-robot and human-robot collaboration using ROS 2--MQTT in Mediterranean Greenhouses

    Jun 21, 2026F. Cañadas-Aránega, M. Muñoz, J. C. Moreno +1RoboticsMulti-Robot Coordination

    Department of Informatics, CIESOL, ceiA3, Universidad de Almería, Ctra.2026 Sacramento s/n, Almería, 04120, Spain · Department of Engineering, CIESOL, ceiA3, Universidad de Almería, Ctra. Sacramento s/n, Almería, 04120, Spain

  42. Duet: Dual-Robot Understanding via Efficient Teaching

    Jun 18, 2026Yiqi Zhao, Ruohai Ge, Celina Shiyu Wang +10Robotic Data CollectionRobot Teleoperation

    University of Southern California · 2Toyota Research Institute · 3Stanford University

  43. Heterogeneous Policy Networks for Composite Robot Team Communication and Coordination

    Jun 18, 2026Esmaeil Seraj, Rohan Paleja, Luis Pimentel +7Multi-Robot CoordinationMulti-Agent Communication

    Georgia Institute of Technology · Carnegie Mellon University · Sandia National Laboratories

  44. Deep-Unfolded Coordination

    Jun 18, 2026Hunter Kuperman, Minchan Jung, Rahul V. Ghosh +2Trajectory OptimizationMulti-Agent System Optimization

    Autonomous Control and Decision Systems Laboratory Georgia Institute of Technology United States

  45. Formal Verification of Learned Multi-Agent Communication Policies via Decision Tree Distillation

    Jun 17, 2026Ahmad Farooq, Kamran IqbalNeural Network VerificationMulti-Robot Coordination

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR 72204 USA

  46. Robots that Collaborate: Sequential Asymmetric Imitation for Learning Coupled Robot Policies

    Jun 15, 2026Yincong Chen, Ranpeng Qiu, Zihao Li +3Bimanual Robotic ManipulationMulti-Task Robotic Manipulation

    Zeno AI. · Y. Zhou and W. Zhi are with the University of Sydney.

  47. Robots as Tokens: Unified Diffusion Transformer for Coordinated Multi-Robot Trajectory Generation

    Jun 14, 2026Ruofei Bai, Jie Chen, Yuxin Cai +3Multi-Robot Motion PlanningConstrained Motion Planning

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore · National University of Singapore, Singapore

  48. OSDAG: Online Scheduling for Efficient Multi-Robot Collaboration

    Jun 13, 2026Thanh Nguyen Canh, Thang Tran Viet, Phuc Van Dinh +2Multi-Robot SystemsLarge Language Model-Based Robot Planning

    School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, 923-1211, Ishikawa, Japan. · University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University, 10000, Hanoi, Vietnam. · Department of Robotics, Hanyang University, Ansan, 15588, Gyeonggi, Korea.

  49. DynaHMRC: Decentralized Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Collaboration for Dynamic Tasks with Large Language Models

    Jun 12, 2026Wenhao Yu, Yu'ang Xie, Yifan Duan +5Multi-Agent LLM SystemsMulti-Robot Coordination

    University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) · University of Macau (UM)

  50. CHORUS: Decentralized Multi-Embodiment Collaboration with One VLA Policy

    Jun 10, 2026Ria Doshi, Tian Gao, Annie Chen +2Mobile RoboticsCross-Embodiment Robot Learning

    Stanford University

  51. UGV-Conditioned Multi-UAV Informative Planning on a Shared Exposure Belief

    Jun 10, 2026Lars Oerlemans, Moji Shi, Marija PopovicInformative Path PlanningSafe Robot Navigation

    MAVLab, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft, The Netherlands

  52. Steering Multirobot Behavior via Closed-Loop Affine Activation Editing

    Jun 9, 2026Satyajeet Das, Darren Chiu, Shashank Hegde +1Robot Policy LearningRobot Policy Adaptation

    Department of Computer Science University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA

  53. A Distributed Multi-UGV Exploration Framework With Loop-Aware Planning and Descriptor-Aided Localization in Resource-Limited Environments

    Jun 9, 2026Zhiwei Li, Haiou Liu, Xijun Zhao +3Simultaneous Localization and MappingMulti-Robot Systems

    School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China · China North Artificial Intelligence & Innovation Research Institute, Collective Intelligence & Collaboration Laboratory (CIC), Beijing 100081, China

  54. Multi-UAV Active Sensing with Information Gain-based Planning and Belief Fusion

    Jun 9, 2026S. Habibi, L. MarquesInformative Path PlanningActive Sensing

    Institute of Systems and Robotics University of Coimbra, 3030-290 Coimbra, Portugal

  55. Shape Formation for the Cooperative Transportation of Arbitrary Objects Using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 8, 2026Mohamed Sayed, Wolfram Burgard, Tanja Katharina KaiserMulti-Robot Formation ControlMulti-Robot Coordination

    Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany

  56. MASK: Multi-Agent Semantic K-Scheduling for Risk-Sensitive 6G Robotics

    Jun 8, 2026Ahmet Gunhan Aydin, Elif Tugce CeranSemantic CommunicationMulti-Robot Coordination

    Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 06800, Turkey · Aselsan Inc., Ankara, Turkey

  57. Distributed Model Predictive Control with Adaptive Safety Zones for Multi-Fleet Drone Operations

    Jun 8, 2026Linda Mümken, Diyar Altinses, Michael Schwung +2Collision AvoidanceAerial Robotics

    Department of Automation Technology South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences, Soest, Germany · Institute of Automation and Computer Control, Ruhr University Bochum, 44801 Bochum, Germany · Department of Logistics and Supply Chain Management, South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences, Meschede, Germany

  58. LAEI: Layered Autonomous Edge Intelligence Framework for Robust UAV Swarm Operations

    Jun 8, 2026Changmin Park, Wooyong Jung, Hwangnam KimAerial RoboticsSwarm Robotics

    School of Electrical Engineering Korea University Seoul 02841, Korea

  59. Systems-Level Planning and Coordination of Truck-Drone Collaborative Delivery Networks

    Jun 7, 2026Didem Cicek, Burak KantarciVehicle RoutingMulti-Robot Coordination

    School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N5, Canada

  60. Continual Quadruped Robots Coordination via Semantic Skill Discovery

    Jun 6, 2026Daoqing Wang, Yuchen Xiao, Weixuan Huang +5Continual LearningMulti-Robot Coordination

    National Key Laboratory of Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China · Polixir Technologies, Nanjing, China