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

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

    Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden · School of Urban Planning and Design, Peking University, Shenzhen, 518055, China · Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Risk Perception and Sustainable Governance in Energy Transition, Shenzhen, 518055, Guangdong, China +2

  2. 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

    National Key Laboratory of Cognition and Decision Intelligence for Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China

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

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

    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA

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

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

    Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands · Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE · Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE

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

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

    Robotics and Autonomous Systems Thrust, Systems Hub, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China · School of Communications and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

  6. 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

    Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control, College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China. · Huzhou Institute, Zhejiang University, Huzhou 313000, China. · Institute of Systems Engineering, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang 621999, China. +3

  7. 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

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen Shenzhen, China · Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen Shenzhen Loop Area Institute Shenzhen, China · Shandong University Jinan, China

  8. 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

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China · Southern University of Science and Technology, China · Intelligent Transportation Thrust, Systems Hub, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China

  9. 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

    1: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA · 2: Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE

  10. 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

    State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, Beihang University, Beijing, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China

  11. Tether-Inertial Localization for Planetary Drones

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

    Dept. of Cognitive Robotics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, TU Delft, The Netherlands. · Biomorphic Intelligence Laboratory, Dept. of Control & Operations, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft, The Netherlands. · Planetary Robotics Lab, European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

  12. 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

    1Jilin University · 4Zhongguancun Academy · 2Tsinghua University +1

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

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

    Robotics Research Group, Indian Institute of Technology · Robotics Research Group, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India · University of Colorado, Boulder, USA +2

  14. 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

    Jeonbuk National University · Dept. of Electronic Engineering · Jeonju, Republic of Korea +1

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

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

    Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University

  16. 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

    School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University · Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney · School of Artificial Intelligence, Shandong University +1

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

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

    Department of Computer Science, North Carolina A&T State University, 1601 E Market St, Greensboro, 27411, NC, USA. · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University, 1601 E Market St, Greensboro, 27411, NC, USA.

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

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

    Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, 2800, Denmark

  19. 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

    Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Istanbul Technical University, 34467 Istanbul, Türkiye

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

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

    1Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 2Intelligent Game and Decision Laboratory · 3Renmin University of China +1

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

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

    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China · 2Shenzhen Institute for Advanced Study, UESTC, Shenzhen, China

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

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

    Big Data Institute, Central South University · Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University +1

  23. FlowPilot: Real-Time World-Action Modeling for Agile UAV Navigation

    Aug 1, 2026Runqing Wang, Ding Yu, Pengyuan Min +6World Models for RoboticsUAV Navigation

  24. 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

    Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, 27708, USA. · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, 27708, USA. · Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, 27708, USA.

  25. 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

    School of Science and Technology City St George’s University of London London, United Kingdom

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

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

    Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil · Department of Management, Information and Production Engineering, University of Bergamo, Dalmine, BG, Italy · Department of Electronic Engineering, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

  27. Co-planning of Flight Corridors and Communication Infrastructure for Urban Drone Logistics Networks

    Jul 27, 2026Yingjie He, Yikang Wang, Zhenyu GaoMulti-Armed BanditsUAV Navigation

  28. 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

    Hangzhou International Innovation Institute of Beihang University, Hangzhou 311115, China · Hangzhou International Innovation Institute of Beihang University, Hangzhou 311115, China, the School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering at Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China, and the State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Technology, Beijing 100854, China · School of Intelligent Science and Engineering and the School of Transportation, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China +3

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

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

    Computer Vision and Aerial Robotics Group at Centre for Automation and Robotics C.A.R. (UPM-CSIC), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (CVAR-UPM), Calle Jose Gutierrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain

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

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

    Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China, also with the School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China, also with the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China, and also with the Key Laboratory of Target Cognition and Application Technology (TCAT), Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China · Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China, and also with the Key Laboratory of Target Cognition and Application Technology (TCAT), Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China