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

    Oct 1, 2026João Machado, Zeynep Bilgin, Matthieu Verdoucq +1Unmanned Aerial VehiclesObstacle Avoidance

    ENAC-LAB · ENAC

  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. The Impact of Processing Parameters on High-Accuracy Measurements in UAV Photogrammetry

    Oct 1, 2026Paweł Ćwiąkała, Edyta Puniach, Elżbieta Pastucha +1Aerial ImageryUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    AGH University of Krakow, al. A. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland · The Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense, Denmark

  4. AFD-CAMLs: Agile Force-Distribution-Aware Planning and Control for Cable-Suspended Aerial Multi-Lifting Systems

    Oct 1, 2026Antreas Kourris, Sihao SunMulti-UavUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology

  5. Online Planning for Sparse Ground Target Search from a High-Altitude UAV under Partial Observability

    Oct 1, 2026Ashik E Rasul, Hyung-Jin YoonUnmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Tennessee Technological University Cookeville, USA

  6. Centralized Multi-UAV Exploration and 3D Reconstruction Using Single-UAV Planners

    Sep 30, 2026João Félix Mendes, Meysam Basiri, Rodrigo VenturaMulti-UavUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Institute for Systems and Robotics, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal

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

    Sep 30, 2026Mo Zhu, Yuze Wu, Xijie Huang +3Aerial Vision-Language NavigationFuture Video Prediction

    Zhejiang University · Differential Robotics

  8. L1-MPPI: L1 Adaptive Model Predictive Path Integral for Agile UAV Control

    Sep 29, 2026Lukáš Kotek, Ondřej Procházka, Vojtěch Vonásek +2Model Predictive Path IntegralUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Trajectories

    Multi-robot Systems Group, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

  9. DSWM: Decomposed Spatio-Temporal World Model for Demand-Driven UAV Base Station Repositioning

    Sep 29, 2026Shengjie Zhong, Zhongliang Zhao, Jingxuan Chen +4Unmanned Aerial VehiclesLow-Latency Latent Planning

    School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

  10. DORA: Divergence-Oriented Data-Relay Algorithm for Partially Connected Robot Teams

    Sep 28, 2026Jonathan Diller, Fernando Cladera, Camillo Jose Taylor +1Multi-UavHuman-Centric Mission Planning

    GRASP Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

  11. GeoWind2Plan: Mission-Time 3D Urban Wind Prediction for Energy-Efficient UAV Planning

    Sep 28, 2026Shaoxiang Qin, Yucheng Zhao, Fuyuan Lyu +6WindUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Trajectories

    University of Tennessee, Knoxville · Concordia University · McGill University +2

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

    Sep 28, 2026Arman Kiani, Masoud Ataei, Elvis Gyaase +4Visual-Inertial SystemsVisual Inertial Odometry

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA · School of Forest Resources, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA

  13. Memory in the Sky: Low-Altitude Question Answering with Multi-Agent Memory Aggregation

    Sep 28, 2026Chengyang Li, Yujie Wan, Shuai Wang +6Agentic MemoryPower Allocation

    The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China · Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China +2

  14. Task-Oriented Communications for Edge-Assisted Multi-View Localization

    Sep 28, 2026Zhengru Fang, Huanhuan Lou, Senkang Hu +5Drone-View Geo-LocalizationMulti-Uav

    Hong Kong JC STEM Lab of Smart City and the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong · School of Cyber Science and Technology, Beihang University, Beijing, China

  15. An Automated Georeferencing Technique for Multi-Temporal Stope Point Clouds for Downstream Geotechnical Analysis

    Sep 24, 2026Dibyayan Patra, Simit Raval, Pasindu Ranasinghe +2Point Cloud RegistrationUnderground Mines

    School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia. · School of Science, Engineering and Digital Technologies, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia.

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

    Sep 23, 2026Vittorio Palladino, Teaya Yang, Ruiqi Zhang +1Model Predictive Path IntegralUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    High Performance Robotics Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States

  17. Beyond Balanced Accuracy: A Resolution and Parity-Controlled Benchmark for Vision-Language and Vision-Only Defect Assessment in UAV Power-Line Inspection

    Sep 23, 2026Linghao Zhang, Siyu Xiang, Junwei Kuang +1Vision-Language Foundation ModelsSelf-Supervised Vision Transformers

    State Grid Sichuan Electric Power Research Institute, Chengdu 610041, China · Power System Security and Operation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province

  18. 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

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

    Sep 20, 2026Yuyang Tian, Penghui Yang, Pengyuan Wu +7Aerial Vision-Language NavigationLatent World Models

    University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China. · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Shanghai, China. · East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China. +3

  20. 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 +1Unmanned Aerial VehiclesAutonomous Navigation

    Applied Intelligence PhD Programme, Alma Mater Europaea University, Maribor, Slovenia · Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical and Telecommunications, AGH University of Krakow, 30-059 Krakow, Poland · Alma Mater Europaea University, Maribor, Slovenia

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

    Sep 17, 2026Aashish Sahu, R Prasanth KumarUnmanned Aerial VehiclesAerial Navigation

    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Kandi, Sangareddy, India · Department of Artificial Intelligence Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Kandi, Sangareddy, India

  22. Neuro-Symbolic Agentic AI for Networked Low-Altitude UAVs

    Sep 17, 2026Yuqi Ping, Tianhao Liang, Nanchi Su +4Unmanned Aerial VehiclesNeuro-Symbolic Framework

    College of Informatics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen 518000, China

  23. Agentic AI Networking for Heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Systems in Low-Altitude Wireless Networks

    Sep 17, 2026Nguyen Duc Minh Quang, Chang Liu, Shuangyang Li +1Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningWireless Communications

    School of Computing, Engineering, and Mathematical Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia · Chair of Communications and Information Theory, Technical University of Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany · School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

  24. Real-Time Bounded Catenary Solver for UAV Tether Modeling

    Sep 16, 2026Max Beffert, Andreas ZellUnmanned Aerial VehiclesAerodynamics

    Cognitive Systems Group, University of Tübingen, Germany

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

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

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

    Sep 16, 2026Hanbing Zhang, Fangguo Zhao, Zerui Li +3Aerial Vision-Language NavigationUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China · Australian Institute for Machine Learning, Adelaide University

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

    Sep 16, 2026Yonglin Tian, Weiyi Wang, Houhua Lu +13Unmanned Aerial VehiclesEmbodied Artificial Intelligence

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. · Beihang University, China. · Shanxi Datong University, China. +7

  28. Understanding Dynamic Scenes at Gigapixel Scale: Wide-Area Spatio-Temporal Perception from UAVs

    Sep 16, 2026Yuhang Zhu, Meiyi Zhu, Yunkai Dang +4Aerial DatasetAerial Imagery

    Nanjing University

  29. The Operable Pareto Front: Distilling Offline Search into Run-Time Control for Multi-Objective UAV Edge-Computing Scheduling

    Sep 16, 2026Qiao Liao, Zhiyong Feng, Bin Wu +1SchedulersEdge Devices

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China · School of Computer Software, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China · School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong Agriculture and Engineering University, Shandong, China

  30. The Unbearable Weight: Scaling Models and Methods for UAV Audio Classification

    Sep 15, 2026Andrew P. Berg, Qian Zhang, Mia Y. WangDrone DetectionUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Department of Computer Science, College of Charleston, Charleston SC, USA. · Department of Engineering, College of Charleston, Charleston SC, USA.

  31. Set-membership localization of intermittent RF sources using a fleet of collaborating UAVs

    Sep 15, 2026Jacques Bois, Raul de Lacerda, Michel KiefferMulti-UavUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Universit´e Paris-Saclay, CNRS, CentraleSup´elec, Laboratoire des Signaux et Syst`emes, 91192, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

  32. LOTUSim-Energy: A Maritime Simulator for Human-Drone Interaction in Autonomous Offshore Operation & Maintenance

    Sep 15, 2026Juliette Grosset, Marie Dubromel, Hélène Lechêne +2Autonomous Underwater VehiclesUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    CROSSING · CROSSING IRL 2010, Naval Group · CROSSING, IMT Atlantique +1

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

    Sep 15, 2026Zhang NengboMujocoUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    School of Aerospace Engineering, Engineering Campus Universiti Sains Malaysia, 14300 Nibong Tebal, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

  34. Learning to Optimize UAV Path Planning for Data Sensing in Wireless Sensor Networks

    Sep 15, 2026Sijie Ma, Zeyuan Ma, Weijia Cao +4Unmanned Aerial Vehicle TrajectoriesPath Planning

    South China University of Technology · South China Normal University · Information Research Institute, CAS +2

  35. Curriculum-Based Adversarial Heterogeneous Agent Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Quad-Copter Landing in Maritime Settings

    Sep 14, 2026Allan Minh-Tam Nguyen, Sree Showrya Kotala, Stefan Banioi-Crijman +2Reinforcement Learning ControlUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Department of Advanced Computing Sciences, Maastricht University, Minderbroedersberg 4-6, 6211 LK Maastricht, Netherlands

  36. When Ground-Truth Fidelity Matters: An Orchestrated UAS Framework for Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus Detection Using Vision Transformers and Machine Learning

    Sep 14, 2026Dewi Endah Kharismawati, Sandeep Dhakal, Courtney E. McCusker +3Precision AgricultureSirus

    Department of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA · Corn, Soybean and Wheat Quality Research Unit, USDA Agricultural Research Service, 1680 Madison Ave., Wooster, OH, 44691, USA

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

    Sep 11, 2026Erchao Rong, Zihao Liu, Junning Liang +5Unmanned Aerial Vehicle TrajectoriesUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    School of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China

  38. Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous UAV Exploration in Wildfire Response

    Sep 9, 2026Caden Chandra, Jerry NgWildfire DetectionWildfire

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

    Sep 9, 2026Boning Feng, Haoran Zhang, Xiaowen Bi +2Unmanned Aerial Vehicle TrajectoriesUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    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

  40. ScopeMamba-YOLO: Widening the Perceptual Scope Inward and Outward for Small Object Detection in Remote Sensing Imagery

    Sep 9, 2026Junjie Fan, Yijun Mai, Linduo Wei +5Yolo26Feature Pyramid

    School of Intellectual Property, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China · School of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China

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

    Sep 3, 2026Mikolaj Helinski, Spilios Theodoulis, Mahmoud Hamandi +3QuadrotorUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    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

  42. Vision-Based Leader-Follower Formation Control for Cooperative UAVs in GPS-Degraded Environments

    Sep 1, 2026Deekshitha Angadi, Naveena Budda, Vikas Agarwal +4Multi-UavUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    AI, IoT and Robotics Lab (AIR Lab), UAVs Group, Autonomous Robotics Systems Limited, Hyderabad, India · Department of Microelectronics and VLSI Design, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India · Department of Internet of Things, Ideabytes Software India Private Limited, Hyderabad, India +5

  43. On-the-Fly3R: Towards Robust Online 3D Reconstruction with Feed-Forward 3R Models for Large-Scale UAV Scenarios

    Sep 1, 2026Zhe Shen, Liyuan Lou, Yifei Yu +4Feed-Forward 3D Reconstruction3D Reconstruction

    School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China · School of Geodesy

  44. Residual Kalman Dynamics for Event-Based UAV Forecasting

    Sep 1, 2026Per Nyblom, Hannes Ovrén, David GustafssonExtended Kalman FilterUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Linköping, Sweden

  45. Connectivity-Aware Graph Extension for Decentralized Multi-Robot Exploration

    Sep 1, 2026Béatrice Garcia Cegarra, Elena Vanneaux, Quentin Picard +1Multi-UavMulti-Robot Systems

    ⋆Pˆole recherche, AMIAD, Palaiseau, France · †UI2S, ENSTA, IP Paris, Palaiseau, France

  46. GAAT: Geometry-Aware Alignment Transformer for Multimodal UAV Perception

    Aug 28, 2026Jingpu Yang, Debin Tang, Yilin Sun +4Drone DetectionCross-Modal Fusion

    Beihang University, Beijing, China. · Zhongguancun Academy, Beijing, China. · Northeastern University, Shenyang, China.

  47. Graph Neural Assisted Actor-Critic for Latency-Efficient Edge Vision System

    Aug 17, 2026Alam Noor, Luis Almeida, Kai Li +3Unmanned Aerial VehiclesVision Sensors

    CISTER Research Center, Porto, Portugal. · Instituto de Telecomunicac¸˜oes, Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, Portugal. · Department of Information Technology, Kennesaw State University, USA. +2

  48. Advancing MLLM-based UAV Image Understanding and Reasoning: A Benchmark and a Training-Free Multi-Agent System

    Aug 12, 2026Haoyu Zhang, Shuoxun Zhang, Peng Ye +5Aerial DatasetUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Embedded Deep Learning and Visual Analysis Laboratory, College of Future Information Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China · Embedded Deep Learning and Visual Analysis Laboratory, College of Future Information Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China, and also with Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Shanghai 200232, China, and also with The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong · College of Future Information Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China +1

  49. JitTrack: Onboard Multi-Object Tracking Against Viewpoint Jitter for Agile UAVs

    Aug 11, 2026Yachun Shan, Feitian ZhangMulti-Object TrackingUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection

    The Department of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, Peking University, Beijing, China

  50. Model-Based Systems Engineering Framework for SysML-Driven Design of Autonomous UAVs

    Aug 10, 2026Deekshitha Angadi, Naveena Budda, Vikas Agarwal +3Unmanned Aerial VehiclesRobot Operating System

    AIR Lab, UAVs Group, Autonomous Robotics Systems Limited, Hyderabad, India · Department of Microelectronics and VLSI Design, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India · Department of IoT, Ideabytes Software India Private Limited, Hyderabad, India +4

  51. Tether-Inertial Localization for Planetary Drones

    Aug 10, 2026Dielof van Loon, Anton Bredenbeck, Lennart Puck +2Drone-View Geo-LocalizationUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    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.

  52. OGG-FR: Orthogonal Gradient Gaming and Frequency Rectification for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Infrared Image Super-Resolution

    Aug 10, 2026Yongsong Huang, Qingzhong Wang, Xiaofeng Liu +3Hyperspectral Image Super-ResolutionUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Tohoku University · Amazon Web Services · Yale University

  53. Hoverflie: An empirical investigation of rotor shrouds to transform micro air vehicles into multi-modal hovercraft

    Aug 7, 2026Mrinmoy Modak, Daniel S. DrewRotorcraftAutonomous Drones

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA

  54. When Agentic AI Meets Integrated Sensing and Communication

    Aug 6, 2026Kai Li, Conggai Li, Sarah Ali Siddiqui +4Integrated Sensing And CommunicationProduction Agentic Systems

    Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg · Technology, CSIRO, Sydney, NSW, Australia · College of Computer, Qassim University, Buraydah, Saudi Arabia +1

  55. Iterative Hybrid Discrete-Continuous Viewpoint Planning for UAV Photogrammetry

    Aug 6, 2026Alan Grech, Daniel Pisani, Andre Grima +3Unmanned Aerial VehiclesAerial Imagery

    University of Malta Msida, Malta · Stargate Studios Malta Mosta, Malta

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

    Aug 6, 2026Deyi Zhu, Haoyu Fan, Yinan Zhu +4Aerial Vision-Language NavigationUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University

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

    Aug 5, 2026Fanfu Xue, En Yu, Bohang Liu +4Aerial Vision-Language NavigationWaypoints

    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

  58. Joint UAV Flight and Opportunistic Routing under Reinforcement Learning for Delay-Tolerant Networks

    Aug 5, 2026Xiao Wang, Shun-Ren YangMulti-UavBringing Network Coding

    Department of Computer Science and the Institute of Communications Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan

  59. OutLangSplat: 3D Language Gaussian Splatting for UAV Outdoor Scenes

    Aug 5, 2026Xia Yan, He Wu, Yanghui Xu +23D Scene UnderstandingObject Localization

    Zhejiang University of Technology · Hangzhou Dianzi University

  60. Design and Flight of an Ion-propelled Micro Hovercraft Leveraging Ground Proximity Effects

    Aug 5, 2026C. Luke Nelson, Grant Nations, Mrinmoy Modak +1Bidirectional ThrustUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    C. Luke Nelson1, Grant Nations1, Mrinmoy Modak2, and Daniel S. Drew2