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  1. Robust Visual SLAM for UAV Navigation in GPS-Denied and Degraded Environments: A Multi-Paradigm Evaluation and Deployment Study

    May 5, 2026Prasoon Kumar, Akshay Deepak, Sandeep KumarUAV NavigationGNSS-Denied Localization

    National Institute of Technology Patna, Bihar, India · Central Research Laboratory, Bharat Electronics Ltd., Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

  2. SAGA: A Robust Self-Attention and Goal-Aware Anchor-based Planner for Safe UAV Autonomous Navigation

    May 4, 2026Junhao Wei, Yanxiao Li, Dexing Yao +9Self-AttentionRoadmap-Based Motion Planning

    Faculty of Applied Sciences, Macao Polytechnic University, Macao 999078, China · Pazhou Lab (Huangpu), Guangzhou 510555, China · College of Animal Science and Technology, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou 510225, China +3

  3. Zero-Shot, Safe and Time-Efficient UAV Navigation via Potential-Based Reward Shaping, Control Lyapunov and Barrier Functions

    May 3, 2026Ashik Abrar Naeem, Mohammad Ariful HaqueRL ControlUAV Navigation

  4. Flying by Inference: Active Inference World Models for Adaptive UAV Swarms

    Apr 30, 2026Kaleem Arshid, Ali Krayani, Lucio Marcenaro +2Multi-Robot Motion PlanningWorld Models for Robotics

    Department of Engineering and Naval Architecture (DITEN), University of Genoa, 16145 Genoa, Italy · Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Department of Systems Engineering and Automation, Carlos III University of Madrid, 28911 Legan´es, Spain

  5. Dynamic-TD3: A Novel Algorithm for UAV Path Planning with Dynamic Obstacle Trajectory Prediction

    Apr 30, 2026Wentao Chen, Jingtang Chen, Mingjian Fu +4Reinforcement LearningUAV Navigation

  6. Rule-based High-Level Coaching for Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning in Search-and-Rescue UAV Missions Under Limited-Simulation Training

    Apr 29, 2026Mahya Ramezani, Holger VoosReinforcement LearningUAV Navigation

    Automation and Robotics Research Group, Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg.

  7. Lights Out: A Nighttime UAV Localization Framework Using Thermal Imagery and Semantic 3D Maps

    Apr 29, 2026Ryan Allen, Melissa GreeffUAV NavigationGNSS-Denied Localization

    Robora Lab (www.roboralab.com), Queen’s University · affiliated with Ingenuity Labs Research Institute

  8. Slot-hopping Enabled Loiter Guidance and Automation for Fixed-wing UAV Corridors

    Apr 28, 2026Pradeep J, Siddhardha Kedarisetty, Ashwini RatnooUAV NavigationMulti-Robot Coordination

    Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, Bhilai, 491002, India · Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, 560012, India

  9. Optimal UGV-UAV Cooperative Partitioning and Inspection of Shortest Paths

    Apr 28, 2026Ninh Nguyen, Srinivas AkellaCompetitive AnalysisUAV Navigation

  10. Self-Predictive Representation for Autonomous UAV Object-Goal Navigation

    Apr 22, 2026Angel Ayala, Donling Sui, Francisco Cruz +3UAV NavigationPredictive Representation Learning

    Escola Polit´ecnica de Pernambuco, Universidade de Pernambuco, Recife, Brasil · School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia · Escuela de Ingenier´ıa, Universidad Central de Chile, Santiago, Chile

  11. Onboard Wind Estimation for Small UAVs Equipped with Low-Cost Sensors: An Aerodynamic Model-Integrated Filtering Approach

    Apr 22, 2026Bingchen Cheng, Tielin Ma, Jingcheng Fu +2UAV NavigationExtended Kalman Filtering

    Shenyuan Honors College, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China · Institute of Unmanned System, Beihang University, Beijing 100191 · School of Aeronautical Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

  12. Autonomous UAV Pipeline Near-proximity Inspection via Disturbance-Aware Predictive Visual Servoing

    Apr 21, 2026Wen Li, Hui Wang, Jinya Su +3UAV NavigationIndustrial Inspection

    School of Automation, Key Laboratory of Measurement and Control of CSE, Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China · Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering, Loughborough University, LE11 3TU, United Kingdom · Research Centre for Low Altitude Economy and the Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  13. Safer Trajectory Planning with CBF-guided Diffusion Model for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Apr 19, 2026Peiwen Yang, Shiyu Bai, Weisong Wen +2Diffusion Model GuidanceUAV Navigation

    Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

  14. Shepherding UAV Swarm with Action Prediction Based on Movement Constraints

    Apr 19, 2026Yusuke Tsunoda, Yusuke Goto, Takao SatoSwarm RoboticsUAV Navigation

    Graduate School of Engineering, University of Hyogo, Hyogo, Japan

  15. FineCog-Nav: Integrating Fine-grained Cognitive Modules for Zero-shot Multimodal UAV Navigation

    Apr 17, 2026Dian Shao, Zhengzheng Xu, Peiyang Wang +4Zero-Shot LearningUAV Navigation

    Northwestern Polytechnical University · Nanjing University

  16. Satellite-Free Training for Drone-View Geo-Localization

    Apr 2, 2026Tao Liu, Yingzhi Zhang, Kan Ren +1Cross-View Geo-LocalizationUAV Navigation

    Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Nanjing, Jiangsu, China · University of Tsukuba +3

  17. SpatialFly: Implicit 3D Prior-Guided Visual Reparameterization for Continuous UAV Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Mar 22, 2026Wen Jiang, Kangyao Huang, Li Wang +9Visual Representation Learning3D Spatial Reasoning

    School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China · Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China · Chongqing Innovation Center, Beijing Institute of Technology, Chongqing 401120, China +5

  18. HUGE-Bench: A Benchmark for High-Level UAV Vision-Language-Action Tasks

    Mar 20, 2026Jingyu Guo, Ziye Chen, Ziwen Li +7UAV NavigationVision-Language-Action Models

    1The University of Melbourne, Australia · 2Melsy Tech, China · 3MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates +1

  19. EAAE: Energy-Aware Autonomous Exploration for UAVs in Unknown 3D Environments

    Mar 16, 2026Jacob Elskamp, Moji Shi, Leonard Bauersfeld +2Mobile RoboticsUAV Navigation

    Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands · Institute for Informatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  20. FC-Vision: Real-Time Visibility-Aware Replanning for Occlusion-Free Aerial Target Structure Scanning in Unknown Environments

    Feb 14, 2026Chen Feng, Yang Xu, Shaojie ShenNext-Best-View PlanningUAV Navigation

    Dept. of Electronic and Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.

  21. High-Speed Vision-Based Flight in Clutter with Safety-Shielded Reinforcement Learning

    Feb 9, 2026Jiarui Zhang, Chengyong Lei, Chengjiang Dai +4RL for RoboticsUAV Navigation

    Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control, College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China · Differential Robotics, Hangzhou 311121, China.

  22. SPOT: Spatio-Temporal Obstacle-free Trajectory Planning for UAVs in Unknown Dynamic Environments

    Feb 1, 2026Astik Srivastava, Thomas J Chackenkulam, Bitla Bhanu Teja +2UAV NavigationSafe Motion Planning

    Robotics Research Center, IIIT Hyderabad, India · IIT-BHU, India

  23. A Multimodal Large Language Model-Driven Framework for Context-Aware UAV Emergency Landing Site Selection

    Feb 1, 2026Chunliang Hua, Lei Zhang, Jiayang Sun +2UAV NavigationMultimodal Large Language Models

    School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China · LASER, International Digital Economy Academy, Shenzhen 510085, China · Department of Electronic Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China

  24. RVC-NMPC: Nonlinear Model Predictive Control with Reciprocal Velocity Constraints for Mutual Collision Avoidance in Agile UAV Flight

    Dec 9, 2025Vit Kratky, Robert Penicka, Parakh M. Gupta +2Multi-Robot Motion PlanningNonlinear MPC

    Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

  25. HumanHalo: Safe and Efficient 3D Navigation Among Humans via Minimally Conservative MPC

    Oct 20, 2025Simon Schaefer, Helen Oleynikova, Sandra Hirche +1Constrained Motion PlanningUAV Navigation

    Technical University of Munich · ETH Zurich

  26. STITCHER: Constrained Trajectory Planning in Complex Environments with Real-Time Motion Primitive Search

    Oct 16, 2025Helene J. Levy, Brett T. LopezConstrained Motion PlanningTrajectory Generation

    VECTR Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

  27. Real-Time Maneuver Planning for Fixed-Wing UAVs in Unsteady Flows Using a GPU-Accelerated Vortex Particle Model

    Sep 19, 2025Ashwin Gupta, Kevin Wolfe, Gino Perrotta +1UAV NavigationMotion Planning

    Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering · Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab

  28. On Adversarial Attacks In Acoustic Drone Localization

    Feb 27, 2025Tamir Shor, Chaim Baskin, Alex BronsteinAdversarial AttacksUAV Navigation

    Department of Computer Science Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, Israel · School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Be’er Sheva, Israel · Technion – Israel Institute of Technology +1