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

    Sep 21, 2026Manveen Kaur, Kevin Loi, Ifunanya Okafor +2Multi-Uav SystemsCollaborative Perception

  2. 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 +1Autonomous Drone Navigation

  3. Underwater Visual Target Tracking with Target-Specific Depth Estimation and Adaptive Model-Fusion Predictive Control

    Sep 17, 2026Yuheng Zhou, Haiyang Cheng, Yanqi Feng +5Autonomous Underwater VehiclesVisual Servoing

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

    Sep 17, 2026Aashish Sahu, R Prasanth KumarUncrewed Aerial VehiclesUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

  5. Integrated Guidance and Control of a Mother-Child UAV-UGV System for Cooperative Missions

    Sep 17, 2026Aashish Sahu, R. Prasanth KumarMulti-Uav SystemsAutonomous Surface Vehicles

  6. PointEvent: Rethinking Event-based Tiny Object Detection via Serialized Motion Evidence Accumulation

    Sep 17, 2026Zongze Wu, Baofeng Jia, Weiqi Yan +4Unmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionObject Detection

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

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

  8. Socialized UAV Cross-Task Learning: Towards Cross-Granularity Collaboration through Hierarchical Interaction

    Sep 17, 2026Xinjie Yao, Ruipu Zhao, Yunqi Zhu +6Multi-Uav SystemsCollaborative Perception

  9. HEROIC: Heterogeneous Evidential Reasoning for Open-Vocabulary Identification and Cross-Robot Collaboration

    Sep 17, 2026Mihir Chauhan, Aarav Jain, Addison Zucek +3Multi-Robot SystemsAerial Robots

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

    Sep 17, 2026Nguyen Duc Minh Quang, Chang Liu, Shuangyang Li +1Wireless NetworksMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

  11. 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

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

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

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

    Sep 16, 2026Hanbing Zhang, Fangguo Zhao, Zerui Li +3Aerial Vision-Language NavigationAutonomous Drone Navigation

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

    Sep 16, 2026Yonglin Tian, Weiyi Wang, Houhua Lu +13Uncrewed Aerial VehiclesUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

  15. Beyond Direct Sensing: Harnessing Indirect Observations from Third-Party Sensors in Vehicle Tracking

    Sep 16, 2026Gaofeng Dong, Vamsi Eyunni, Pragya Sharma +2Multi-Object TrackingMulti-Sensor Fusion

  16. 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 +1Optimal SchedulingEdge Computing

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

    Sep 15, 2026Andrew P. Berg, Qian Zhang, Mia Y. WangUnmanned Aerial VehiclesReal-Time Inference

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

    Sep 15, 2026Jacques Bois, Raul de Lacerda, Michel KiefferRobust LocalizationRadio Frequency

  19. 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 OdometryAutonomous Drone Navigation

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

    Sep 15, 2026Juliette Grosset, Marie Dubromel, Hélène Lechêne +2Autonomous Maritime NavigationAutonomous Underwater Vehicles

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

    Sep 15, 2026Zhang NengboUncrewed Aerial VehiclesCommunication

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

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

  23. UDAV: Uncertainty-Driven Adaptive VLM Waypoint Planner

    Sep 14, 2026Ghazal Farhani, Shabnam ShabaniAutonomous Drone NavigationTrajectory Prediction

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

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

  25. PATH: Continuous Target Sensing among Autonomous Cooperative Drones

    Sep 14, 2026Heegyeong Kim, Alice James, Avishkar Seth +4Uncrewed Aerial VehiclesMulti-Drone Coordination

  26. TileNet: Tile-Based CNN-SVM Architecture for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Systems Inspection of Flat Roofs

    Sep 14, 2026Samuel Dunthorne, Hashim A. HashimUnmanned Aerial Vehicle TrackingScalable Defect Detection

  27. Aligned Radiometric RGB-Thermal Fusion for UAV Facade Anomaly Screening

    Sep 14, 2026Yuan Yang, Shulei Li, Haobo LiangThermal ImagingUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection

  28. 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 +3Tomato DiseasesCrop

  29. 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 +2Quadrotor ControlUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

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

    Sep 11, 2026Erchao Rong, Zihao Liu, Junning Liang +5Uncrewed Aerial VehiclesAerodynamics

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

    Sep 9, 2026Caden Chandra, Jerry NgWildfire DetectionDeep Reinforcement Learning

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

    Sep 9, 2026Boning Feng, Haoran Zhang, Xiaowen Bi +2Unmanned Aerial Vehicle TrajectoriesCollision Avoidance

  33. 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 +5Feature Pyramid NetworksYolo26

  34. Decision Transformer for UAV-Mounted RIS-Assisted Dynamic D2D Communications

    Sep 9, 2026Yaxuan LiuUnmanned Aerial Vehicle TrajectoriesReconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

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

    Sep 8, 2026Shanwei Fan, Bin Zhang, Zhiwei Xu +4Aerial Vision-Language NavigationSpatial Grounding

  36. Towards Embodied Air-Ground Cooperative Object Search: Benchmark, Dataset and Agentic Method

    Sep 8, 2026Boao Yu, Zimo Chen, Junreng Rao +4Aerial Vision-Language NavigationLarge Vision Language Models

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

    Sep 8, 2026Jianqiang Xiao, Xiang Deng, Yuexuan Sun +3Aerial Vision-Language NavigationAerotrack

  38. DroneGround: Open-Vocabulary Drone Payload Characterization Using Synthetic Data and Grounded Vision-Language Models

    Sep 7, 2026Ami Pandat, Rajasekhar Punna, Gopika Vinod +1Aerial DatasetUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection

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

    Sep 3, 2026Mikolaj Helinski, Spilios Theodoulis, Mahmoud Hamandi +3Uncrewed Aerial VehiclesCoverage Path Planning

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

    Sep 3, 2026Shuning Zhang, Liang Li, Yunheng Wang +3Aerial Vision-Language NavigationBird'S-Eye View

  41. Evidential Deep Learning for Multi-Modal Anti-UAV Detection

    Sep 1, 2026Dmitry Golovchits, Seyed Sahand Mohammadi Ziabari, Ali Mohammed Mansoor AlsahagUnmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionMulti-Sensor Fusion

  42. UAV Thermal Imagery for Inert Ordnance Screening: Multi Campaign Dataset Development,Object Detection, and Practical Recommendations

    Sep 1, 2026Chad Melton, PhD., Annabelle KeltonUnmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionAerial Imagery

  43. TriSAR: Task Coordination and Collision Avoidance for Aerial Robot Teams in Disaster Response

    Sep 1, 2026Aditya Anil Kapile, Pedro Machado, Isibor Kennedy IhianleMulti-Uav SystemsCollision Avoidance

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

    Sep 1, 2026Deekshitha Angadi, Naveena Budda, Vikas Agarwal +4Robust Formation ControlDrone-View Geo-Localization

  45. Residual Kalman Dynamics for Event-Based UAV Forecasting

    Sep 1, 2026Per Nyblom, Hannes Ovrén, David GustafssonExtended Kalman FilterTrajectory Prediction

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

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

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

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

  48. OGR-MARL: Option-Guided Residual Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Heterogeneous USV Cooperative Pursuit in Constrained Port Waterways

    Aug 13, 2026Mao Jiayang, Wang Lanfeng, Peng Zhao-HanMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningMulti-Uav Systems

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

    Aug 13, 2026Yutong Liu, Xiaojie Li, Mingzhu Xu +1Aerial Vision-Language NavigationSpatial Reasoning

  50. DreamFly: Causal Memory and Receding-Horizon Diffusion Planning for Aerial Vision-Language Navigation

    Aug 12, 2026Yan Deng, Fei XuAerial Vision-Language NavigationComet

  51. Multi-AUV Ad-hoc network-based Target Tracking: A Value Gradient Guidance Multi-Agent Diffusion Reinforcement Learning Approach

    Aug 12, 2026Jiaao Ma, Chuan Lin, Guangjie Han +4Autonomous Underwater VehiclesMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

  52. 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

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

    Aug 12, 2026Tianshun Li, Yanggang Sheng, Hongliang Lu +3Unmanned Aerial Vehicle TrajectoriesUrban Wind

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

    Aug 11, 2026Yachun Shan, Feitian ZhangUnmanned Aerial Vehicle TrackingMulti-Object Tracking

  55. Conversational versus Dashboard Explainable AI for UAV Intrusion Detection: An Empirical Study of Operator Trust and Reliance

    Aug 11, 2026Cong Chi Nguyen, Trang Mai Xuan, Vu-Duc Ngo +3Unmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionIntrusion Detection

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

    Aug 10, 2026Zeyuan Ma, Jiaxin Chen, Di HuangAerial Vision-Language NavigationNavigation

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

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

  58. Towards Collaborative Joint Perception and Prediction: Framework, Baseline Evaluation, and Deployment Perspectives

    Aug 10, 2026Lei Wan, Hannan Ejaz Keen, Alexey VinelCollaborative PerceptionAutonomous Driving

  59. Tether-Inertial Localization for Planetary Drones

    Aug 10, 2026Dielof van Loon, Anton Bredenbeck, Lennart Puck +2Drone-View Geo-LocalizationInertial Navigation Systems

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

    Aug 10, 2026Boxiong Wang, Hui Kang, Geng Sun +3Aerial Vision-Language NavigationReinforcement Learning Post-Training