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  1. Decentralized Power-Optimal Coordination for Spacecraft Swarms Using Time-Varying Magnetorquer Actuation

    Oct 1, 2026Yuta Takahashi, Shin-ichiro SakaiUnmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsSpacecraft

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · Department of Spacecraft Engineering, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Kanagawa, Japan

  2. Managing Context and Communication in Distributed Agentic UAV Swarms

    Oct 1, 2026Andrea Iannoli, Ivan Zyrianoff, Angelo Trotta +2Unmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsSwarms

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Bologna Bologna, Italy · Technology Innovation Institute (TII) United Arab Emirates

  3. Perception-Aware Communication Middleware for Distributed Visual Perception in UAV Swarms

    Sep 21, 2026Manveen Kaur, Kevin Loi, Ifunanya Okafor +2Unmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Department of Computer Science, California State University, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA, USA · Department of Civil Engineering, California State University, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA, USA

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

    Sep 16, 2026Yang Chen, Darius Giannoli, Dario FloreanoUnmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsAerial Manipulation

    Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

  5. AeroWeaver: An Embodied-Agent Harness for Weaving Aerial Skills into Distributed, Adaptive Swarm Execution

    Sep 16, 2026Jiabin Lou, Yirong Yang, Haopeng Wang +6Unmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsSwarms

    Beihang University, 37 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100191, China

  6. CC-OPI: Online Distributed Task Allocation for UAV Swarms under Communication Constraints

    Sep 16, 2026Biao Liu, Tong ZhangUnmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsSwarms

  7. Calibrate Once, Fly Any Team: Residual-Grounded Low-Fidelity Training for Cooperative Drone Swarms

    Sep 15, 2026Maxim Mednikov, Oren GalMulti-Drone CoordinationUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarms

    Swarm & AI Lab (SAIL), University of Haifa, Israel

  8. EECTracker: Swarm Motion Prior-Guided Feature Compensation for Airborne Optical UAV Swarm Tracking

    Sep 14, 2026Zhaochen Chu, Tao Song, Ren Jin +2Unmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarms

    China-UAE Belt and Road Joint Laboratory on Intelligent Unmanned Systems, School of Aerospace Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China

  9. Distributed Stochastic Optimal Control for Pattern-Oriented Swarms

    Sep 11, 2026Qingrui Zhang, Chenghao Yu, Feng Xue +1Unmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsSwarms

    School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, P.R. China

  10. SwarmNxt: Open-source Software-Hardware Platform for Fast and Agile Aerial Swarms

    Sep 11, 2026Charbel Toumieh, Niel Mistry, Benjamin Jarvis +4Unmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsAutonomous Drones

    Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH1015 Lausanne, Switzerland · Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

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

    Aug 7, 2026Minseok Park, Joon Soo YooGlobal Navigation Satellite SystemUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarms

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

  12. Neural Operator Learning for Collision-Aware Trajectory Planning of Spacecraft Swarms

    Jul 31, 2026Sidhdharth D. Sikka, Suyi Gao, Zehui Lu +2Unmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsSpacecraft

    Manifold Research Group and the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 USA · Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 USA · Independent Researcher, Fremont, CA USA

  13. MROPE: A Multi-Robot Safe Cooperative Strategy via combined Predictive Safety Filters and Ellipse-based Constraint Compression

    Jul 31, 2026Alice Rosetti, Lorenzo Pichierri, Domenico Cappello +2Unmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsMulti-Robot Systems

    are with the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy. · are with Leonardo S.p.a., Leonardo Innovation Labs, Rome, Italy.

  14. FleetScape: A Mixed Reality Sandtable for Spatial Supervision and Control of Scalable Drone Fleets

    Jul 29, 2026Peisen Xu, Jérémie Garcia, Peter Cleveland +2Multi-Drone CoordinationUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarms

    CNRS, IPAL, Singapore · University of Toulouse, Fédération ENAC ISAE-SUPAERO ONERA Toulouse, France · National University of Singapore, School of Computing Singapore +2

  15. Predictive Lightweight MARL for Resilient Coverage in Sparse-Signaling Aerial Networks

    Jul 24, 2026Chuan-Chi Lai, Ang-Hsun TsaiUnmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsLong-Run Coverage Guarantees

    Department of Communications Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Minxiong Township, Chiayi County 621301, Taiwan · Advanced Institute of Manufacturing with High-tech Innovations (AIM-HI), National Chung Cheng University, Minxiong Township, Chiayi County 621301, Taiwan · Department of Communications Engineering, Feng Chia University, Taichung 407102, Taiwan

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

    Jul 22, 2026Dimitria Silveria, Paulo Ricardo Marques de Araujo, Tiago Nascimento +1Unmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsSwarms

    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

  17. From Sketch Prior to Trajectories: A Mission-Oriented Coordinated Navigation Framework for Indoor UAV Swarm

    Jul 13, 2026Xinhang Xu, Ruiyang Liu, Haotian Jin +4Multi-UavUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarms

    School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore.

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

    Jul 5, 2026Yousef Emami, Rahim Taheri, Mohammadhossein Homaei +2Unmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsSwarms

    Senior Member, IEEE

  19. LOTUSim: Multi-Domain Simulator for Marine Robotics

    Jul 3, 2026Cédric Buche, Juliette Grosset, Hélène Lechêne +4Underwater RobotsUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarms

    CROSSING, IMT Atlantique · CROSSING IRL 2010, CNRS · IMT Atlantique +2

  20. Diffusion-based 4D Trajectory Prediction and Distributed Control for UAV Swarms

    Jun 30, 2026Tianshun Li, Hongliang Lu, Haoang Li +1Unmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsModel Predictive Control

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China · Southern University of Science and Technology, China and MoSense Technologies, China

  21. Swarm sign language: motion-based communication between drones

    Jun 26, 2026Thomas Rey, Julien Moras, Alexandre Eudes +1Unmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsSwarms

    U2IS, ENSTA, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 828 Boulevard des Mar´echaux, Palaiseau, 91120, France

  22. Swazure: Swarm Measurement of Pose for Flying Light Specks

    Jun 23, 2026Hamed Alimohammadzadeh, Shahram GhandeharizadehUnmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsAutonomous Drones

    University of Southern California · Los Angeles, California, USA

  23. SwarmFly: A simulation platform for UAV swarm experiment design and validation

    Jun 23, 2026Abhishek Phadke, Karthik Kumar Vasudeva, Abhishek JoshiUnmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsSwarms

    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

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

    Jun 8, 2026Changmin Park, Wooyong Jung, Hwangnam KimUnmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    School of Electrical Engineering Korea University Seoul 02841, Korea

  25. RSC: Decentralized Rigid Formation Flocking for Large-Scale Swarms via Hybrid Predictive Control and Online Reconfiguration

    Jun 2, 2026Ganyu Zou, Linhan Wang, Chen Dai +2Unmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsSwarms

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

    Jun 1, 2026Luiz Giacomossi, Andrea Haglund, Claire Namatovu +6Unmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsHuman-Centric Mission Planning

    Mälardalen University (MDU) Västerås, Sweden

  27. Classification and detection of multiple UAVs using rational Gaussian wavelet neural networks

    May 25, 2026Ungvári Gergő, Ferenc Braun, Attila Ámon +4Drone DetectionUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarms

    Department of Numerical Analysis, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány, Budapest, 1117, Hungary. · System and Control Laboratory, HUN-REN Institute for Computer Science and Control, Kende utca, Budapest, 1111, Hungary. · HUN-REN Centre for Energy Research, Konkoly-Thege Miklós út, Budapest, 1121, Hungary. +3

  28. TriSweep: A Four-Drone Swarm Framework for Electromagnetic Side-Channel Analysis

    May 21, 2026Eric Yocam, Varghese VaidyanUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarms

    Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407, USA · Beacom College of Computer and Cyber Sciences, Dakota State University, Madison, SD 57042, USA

  29. Distributed Multi-Coverage for Robot Swarms

    May 20, 2026Mariem Guitouni, Aaron T. BeckerLong-Run Coverage GuaranteesUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarms

    University of Houston, Texas, USA, 77204

  30. Say the Mission, Execute the Swarm: Agent-Enhanced LLM Reasoning in the Web-of-Drones

    May 5, 2026Andrea Iannoli, Lorenzo Gigli, Luca Sciullo +2Unmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsSwarms

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Bologna Bologna, Italy

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

    Apr 30, 2026Kaleem Arshid, Ali Krayani, Lucio Marcenaro +2Unmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsCollision Avoidance

    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

  32. A Case Study in Recovery of Drones using Discrete-Event Systems

    Apr 23, 2026Liam P. Burns, Dayse M. Cavalcanti, Felipe G. Cabral +4Unmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsAutonomous Drones

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Ingenuity Labs Research Institute, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada · Automation and Systems Engineering Program, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, 88.040-900, Brazil

  33. Effects of Swarm Size Variability on Operator Workload

    Apr 23, 2026William Hunt, Aleksandra Landowska, Horia A. Maior +2SwarmsUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarms

    University of Southampton · University of Nottingham

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

    Apr 19, 2026Yusuke Tsunoda, Yusuke Goto, Takao SatoUnmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

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

  35. Zero-Shot Scalable Resilience in UAV Swarms: A Decentralized Imitation Learning Framework with Physics-Informed Graph Interactions

    Apr 17, 2026Huan Lin, Lianghui DingUnmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Institute of Image Communication and Network Engineering, School of Integrated Circuits, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

  36. Flocking phase transition and threat responses in bio-inspired autonomous drone swarms

    Dec 24, 2025Matthieu Verdoucq, Dari Trendafilov, Clément Sire +3Unmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsSwarms

    Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile, Université de Toulouse, France · Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) & Université de Toulouse – Paul Sabatier, France · Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, CNRS & Université de Toulouse – Paul Sabatier, France

  37. Optimization without Future Compromises? Decentralized Coordination via Collective and Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 22, 2025Chuhao Qin, Evangelos PournarasMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningGlobal Coordination

    School of Computer Science, University of Leeds, UK