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25 papers in the last four weeks, up 178% on the four weeks before. 0.2% of all new papers.

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  1. NMPP: Nonlinear Model Predictive Planning for Agile UAV Flight in Cluttered Environments

    Oct 6, 2026Ondřej Procházka, Juraj Pauko, Robert Pěnička +1Constrained Motion PlanningNonlinear MPC

  2. WareFly-VLA: A Vision-Language-Action Framework for UAV Navigation and Human Tracking in Smart Warehouses

    Oct 6, 2026Thinh D. Le, Son T. Nguyen, Duong Q. Nguyen +3Aerial RoboticsUAV Navigation

  3. Sensor-Layout-Agnostic Navigation via Geometric Observation Canonicalization

    Oct 6, 2026Welf Rehberg, Kostas AlexisRobot NavigationUAV Navigation

  4. Embedded Bare-Metal Radar-Inertial Odometry

    Oct 5, 2026Nicolai Adil Øyen Aatif, Morten Nissov, Kostas AlexisUAV NavigationRadar-Inertial Odometry

  5. Towards Quadruped-Provided Localization and Active Tracking for Micro-UAVs

    Oct 5, 2026Alejandro Lorite Mora, Andrés FaíñaUAV NavigationCooperative Localization

  6. PB-STDG: A Prediction-Based Short-Term Decentralized Greedy Guidance Algorithm for a Drone Road System

    Oct 4, 2026Zhouyu Qu, Andreas Willig, Xiaobing WuCollision AvoidanceMulti-Robot Motion Planning

  7. LightVLN: Efficient Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation with Compact Memory and History-Guided Local Aggregation

    Oct 4, 2026Yiming Zhao, Tianshun Li, Jingle He +2Memory-Augmented VLMsVision-Language Models

  8. LiDARFlow: Real-Time Panel-Based MAV Guidance in Unknown Environments

    Oct 1, 2026João Machado, Zeynep Bilgin, Matthieu Verdoucq +1UAV NavigationMotion Planning

  9. DiffWAM: A Fast and Efficient Navigation World Action Model

    Sep 30, 2026Mo Zhu, Yuze Wu, Xijie Huang +3Trajectory GenerationWorld Models for Robotics

  10. ForVis: An In-Field Dataset and Benchmark for VIO Using Under-Canopy UAV Flights in Forests

    Sep 28, 2026Arman Kiani, Masoud Ataei, Elvis Gyaase +4UAV NavigationVisual-Inertial SLAM

  11. ForeFly: A Dual-Horizon World Action Model for Aerial Vision-Language Navigation

    Sep 27, 2026Kunhui Wang, Xintong Zhang, Junyu Gao +1World Models for RoboticsUAV Navigation

  12. OA-MPPI: Occlusion-Aware Model Predictive Path Integral Control for UAV Flight

    Sep 23, 2026Vittorio Palladino, Teaya Yang, Ruiqi Zhang +1UAV NavigationQuadrotor Control

  13. Skytopia: Monocular Drone Navigation with Action-Conditioned Latent World Models

    Sep 22, 2026Yuhang Zhang, Rangya Zhang, Yujing Shang +6Robot NavigationUAV Navigation

  14. WOLF: World Model Guided LiDAR Exploration with Predictive Frontiers

    Sep 20, 2026Yuyang Tian, Penghui Yang, Pengyuan Wu +7World Model LearningUAV Navigation

  15. Spiking Neural Network Actor-Critic Proximal Policy Optimization Control for Autonomous UAV Navigation Through Constrained Openings in Civil Infrastructure and Buildings

    Sep 20, 2026Francis Noah Walugembe, Maciej Wielgosz, Tomaž Goričan +1UAV NavigationSpiking Neural Networks

  16. Custom PX4 firmware for autonomous hybrid aerial-marine missions

    Sep 17, 2026Andrea Capuozzo, Fabio Ruggiero, Vincenzo LippielloAerial RoboticsRobot Navigation

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

    Sep 17, 2026Aashish Sahu, R Prasanth KumarAerial RoboticsRobot Policy Learning

  18. Body-Motion Control of a Simulated Aerial Swarm from a First-Person View

    Sep 16, 2026Yang Chen, Darius Giannoli, Dario FloreanoSwarm RoboticsUAV Navigation

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

    Sep 16, 2026Hanbing Zhang, Fangguo Zhao, Zerui Li +3UAV NavigationVision-Language Navigation

  20. UAVs Meet Embodied Intelligence: Bridging Human Intents and Flying Dynamics Via Harnessing Physical-Digital AI Agents

    Sep 16, 2026Yonglin Tian, Weiyi Wang, Houhua Lu +13Aerial RoboticsUAV Navigation

  21. TIO-Former: Ultra-Lightweight 6-Directional ToF-Inertial Odometry for Nano-UAVs via a Streaming Causal Transformer

    Sep 15, 2026Yang Liu, Yifan He, Wenhao Zhao +9Inertial OdometryTransformer

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

    Sep 15, 2026Zhang NengboUAV NavigationMulti-Agent Communication

  23. UDAV: Uncertainty-Driven Adaptive VLM Waypoint Planner

    Sep 14, 2026Ghazal Farhani, Shabnam ShabaniUncertainty Estimation for VLA ModelsTrajectory Generation

  24. Volumetric Harmonic Field Navigation for Quadrotors

    Sep 14, 2026Shuxiu Jia, Amartya Mukherjee, Yating YuanUAV NavigationRobot Motion Generation

  25. Parameter Sensitivity Analysis for Aerial LiDAR-Inertial Odometries in low-altitude flights

    Sep 14, 2026Robert Milijas, Jose Ramiro Martinez-de Dios, Stjepan BogdanSimultaneous Localization and MappingUAV Navigation

  26. Belief-Adaptive Online Autonomy for Quadrotor UAV Navigation under GNSS Degradation in Urban Environments

    Sep 13, 2026Deepak Kumar Panda, Weisi GuoKalman FilteringUAV Navigation

  27. Aerodynamic Prior-Free Coordinated Trajectory Generation and Tracking Control for a Tail-Sitter UAV

    Sep 11, 2026Erchao Rong, Zihao Liu, Junning Liang +5Aerial RoboticsUAV Navigation

  28. Future-Aware Flow Planning for Safe UAV Target Following

    Sep 9, 2026Boning Feng, Haoran Zhang, Xiaowen Bi +2Collision AvoidanceUAV Navigation

  29. AirAnchor: Bridging Local and Global Spatial Information for Zero-Shot Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Sep 8, 2026Shanwei Fan, Bin Zhang, Zhiwei Xu +4Zero-Shot LearningUAV Navigation

  30. Dual-Layer Semantic-Spatial Belief Mapping for Aerial Object Goal Navigation

    Sep 8, 2026Jianqiang Xiao, Xiang Deng, Yuexuan Sun +3UAV NavigationVision-Language Navigation

  31. Local Path Planning and Obstacle Avoidance for an Omnicopter Platform

    Sep 3, 2026Mikolaj Helinski, Spilios Theodoulis, Mahmoud Hamandi +3UAV NavigationRobot Motion Planning

  32. Air-Ground Collaborative Vision-and-Language Navigation via Shared Bird's-Eye Maps

    Sep 3, 2026Shuning Zhang, Liang Li, Yunheng Wang +3Robot NavigationUAV Navigation

  33. Neural-Primitive: An Efficient End-to-end Local Planner with Primitive-based Imitation Learning for Autonomous Flight

    Aug 21, 2026Zhitao Liu, Guangtong Xu, Zihan Wang +3Trajectory GenerationUAV Navigation

  34. AirForesight: Current-to-Future Spatial Map Imagination with Cross-Space Planning Consistency for UAV-VLN

    Aug 13, 2026Yutong Liu, Xiaojie Li, Mingzhu Xu +1Visual Spatial ReasoningUAV Navigation

  35. Energy-Aware Wind-Resilient Routing for Truck-Assisted Multi-UAV Delivery under Wind Uncertainty

    Aug 12, 2026Tianshun Li, Yanggang Sheng, Hongliang Lu +3UAV NavigationVehicle Routing

  36. Wind-Informed Rapid Flight-Planning in Complex Urban Topologies via Machine Learning and Experimental Validation

    Aug 10, 2026Peter I. Renn, Alejandro A. Stefan-Zavala, Julian Humml +8UAV NavigationSafe Motion Planning

  37. From Semantic Grounding to Decision Optimization: A Unified Framework for Long-Horizon UAV Vision-Language Navigation

    Aug 10, 2026Zeyuan Ma, Jiaxin Chen, Di HuangUAV NavigationVision-Language Navigation

  38. Tether-Inertial Localization for Planetary Drones

    Aug 10, 2026Dielof van Loon, Anton Bredenbeck, Lennart Puck +2UAV NavigationRobot Localization

  39. RecoverFly: A Failure-Aware Reinforcement Learning Post-Training Framework for Aerial Vision-Language Navigation

    Aug 10, 2026Boxiong Wang, Hui Kang, Geng Sun +3UAV NavigationVision-Language Navigation

  40. Drone-Assisted UAV-UGV Collaboration for Autonomous Navigation in Snow-Covered Terrain

    Aug 7, 2026Shreyam Gupta, P. Agrawal, Priyam Gupta +1UAV NavigationAutonomous Driving Perception

  41. Rigid-Covert GNSS Spoofing of UAV Swarms: A Structural Blind Spot, Its Detection Limit, and Absolute-Anchor Defenses

    Aug 7, 2026Minseok Park, Joon Soo YooUAV NavigationCooperative Localization

  42. Uncertainty-Aware World Model for Aerial Image-Goal Navigation

    Aug 6, 2026Deyi Zhu, Haoyu Fan, Yinan Zhu +4Uncertainty QuantificationWorld Models for Robotics

  43. Deliberate Before You Fly: Vision-Guided Spatial Deliberation for UAV See-and-Reach Navigation

    Aug 5, 2026Fanfu Xue, En Yu, Bohang Liu +4UAV NavigationVision-Language Navigation

  44. Interpretable Fuzzy Inference for UAV Target Tracking Using Bounding-Box Geometry

    Aug 4, 2026Reza Ahmari, Ahmad Mohammadi, Vahid Hemmati +5UAV NavigationFuzzy Logic

  45. Dynamic UAV-based search operations using probabilistic diffusion modeling of Man Overboard incident victims

    Aug 3, 2026Dimosthenis Angelis, Evangelos BoukasUAV NavigationCoverage Path Planning

  46. TANGO-VIO: Triangulation-Aware Navigation with Guaranteed Feature-Observability for Visual-Inertial Odometry

    Aug 3, 2026Abdülbaki Şanlan, Ege C. Altunkaya, Hasan T. Bağci +2Inertial OdometryUAV Navigation

  47. CoNav-UAV: Cooperative Dual-Altitude Aerial Navigation via Stackelberg Learning

    Aug 3, 2026Junru Song, Wenhao Zhang, Yang Yang +7UAV NavigationStackelberg Games

  48. AeroDPO: Unleashing Lightweight UAV Navigation with High-Fidelity Perception and Automated Preference Optimization

    Aug 2, 2026Peng Xu, Chengcheng Wang, Shaohua WanCollision AvoidanceDirect Preference Optimization

  49. FreqNav: Stage-Wise Frequency Routing for Object-Oriented Aerial Vision-Language Navigation

    Aug 2, 2026Yin Tang, Jiawei Ma, Jiahao Li +4Efficient VLM InferenceUAV Navigation

  50. 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

  51. Shared Voxel-Map-Based Cooperative Indoor UAV Guidance with a Multi-Agent Soft Actor-Critic Controller

    Jul 28, 2026Thomas Hickling, Dylan Wynne, Yu Su +1Multi-Agent CoordinationUAV Navigation

  52. Model Predictive Planner for UAV Navigation in Non-Convex Air Corridors

    Jul 27, 2026Henrique Silva, Marcelo A. Santos, Guilherme V. RaffoConstrained Motion PlanningTrajectory Generation

  53. TRUAV: Distributed Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Trajectory Planning and Routing Enhancement in UAV-Aided IoT-Enabled VANETs

    Jul 26, 2026Muhammad Umar Farooq Qaisar, Lin Zhang, Zhen Chen +3UAV NavigationDecentralized MARL

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

    Jul 24, 2026Alvaro J. Gaona, David Perez-Saura, Francisco J. Anguita +1Inertial OdometryUAV Navigation

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

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

  56. VoLN: Vision-Only Long-Horizon Navigation---Paradigm, Benchmark, and Method

    Jul 23, 2026Jiabin Lou, Haopeng Wang, Yuanshuai Wang +6Embodied NavigationRobot Navigation

  57. RIM: A Retrieval-In-Matching Framework for Cross-Domain Global Visual Localization of UAVs

    Jul 22, 2026Xin Li, Siyuan Duan, Shang Wang +3Cross-View Geo-LocalizationVisual Place Recognition

  58. Remote ID Spoofing-Aware Trajectory Planning for Small Unmanned Aerial Systems

    Jul 22, 2026Jeremiah Webb, Bryce Bjorkman, Abel Diaz Gonzalez +7Collision AvoidanceUAV Navigation