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  1. On Privacy-Preserving Image Transmission in Low-Altitude Networks: A Swin Transformer-Based Framework with Federated Learning

    May 12, 2026Kexin Zhang, Lixin Li, Yuna Yan +5Unmanned Aerial VehiclesSemantic Communications

  2. Weather-Robust Cross-View Geo-Localization via Prototype-Based Semantic Part Discovery

    May 12, 2026Chi-Nguyen Tran, Dao Sy Duy Minh, Huynh Trung Kiet +3Drone-View Geo-LocalizationCross-View Geo-Localization

  3. Hierarchical LLM-Driven Control for HAPS-Assisted UAV Networks: Joint Optimization of Flight and Connectivity

    May 12, 2026Zijiang Yan, Hao Zhou, Wael Jaafar +4Multi-Uav SystemsFlight Performance

  4. Computational Design of a Low-Visibility UAV Using a Human-Aligned Perceptual Metric

    May 11, 2026Jingxian Wang, Chen Yu, David Matthews +3Uncrewed Aerial VehiclesAerodynamics

  5. ASIP-Planner: Adaptive Planning for UAV Surface Inspection in Partially Known Indoor Environments

    May 11, 2026Hanyu Jin, Zhefan Xu, Haoyu Shen +3Unmanned Aerial Vehicle TrackingCoverage Path Planning

  6. Safe Aerial 3D Path Planning for Autonomous UAVs using Magnetic Potential Fields

    May 11, 2026Haechan Mark Bong, Giovanni BeltrameUnmanned Aerial Vehicle TrajectoriesCoverage Path Planning

  7. M2^2E-UAV: A Benchmark and Analysis for Onboard Motion-on-Motion Event-Based Tiny UAV Detection

    May 11, 2026Weiqi Yan, Lixin Chen, Xiangrui Hou +5Unmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

  8. PathPainter: Transferring the Generalization Ability of Image Generation Models to Embodied Navigation

    May 8, 2026Yijin Wang, Yuru Tian, Xijie Huang +5NavigationOdometry

  9. AirBender: Adaptive Transportation of Bendable Objects Using Dual UAVs

    May 7, 2026Jiawei Xu, Longsen Gao, Rafael Fierro +1Aerial RobotsAdaptive Controller

  10. Monitoring autonomous persistent surveillance missions using invariance

    May 7, 2026Vladislav Nenchev, Prodromos SotiriadisPartial ObservabilityRuntime Enforcement

  11. Leveraging Image Generators to Address Training Data Scarcity: The Gen4Regen Dataset for Forest Regeneration Mapping

    May 7, 2026Gabriel Jeanson, David-Alexandre Duclos, William Larrivée-Hardy +5Forest InventoryImage Generation

  12. Passive Fault Tolerance through Tension-to-Thrust Feed-Forward: Hybrid Input-to-State Stability for Decentralized Multi-UAV Slung-Load Transport under Abrupt Cable Severance

    May 6, 2026Hadi Hajieghrary, Paul SchmittMulti-Uav SystemsFault Tolerance

  13. VL-UniTrack: A Unified Framework with Visual-Language Prompts for UAV-Ground Visual Tracking

    May 6, 2026Boyue Xu, Ruichao Hou, Tongwei Ren +1Multi-Object TrackingExplicit Visual Grounding

  14. Joint Optimization of Trajectory Control, Resource Allocation, and Task Offloading for Multi-UAV-Assisted IoV

    May 6, 2026Maoxin Ji, Qiong Wu, Pingyi Fan +4Multi-Uav SystemsUncrewed Aerial Vehicles

  15. UAV as Urban Construction Change Monitor: A New Benchmark and Change Captioning Model

    May 6, 2026Yupeng Gao, Tianyu Li, Guoqing Wang +1Remote Sensing Image Change CaptioningUrban Environments

  16. 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 KumarOrb-Slam2Drone-View Geo-Localization

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

    May 4, 2026Junhao Wei, Yanxiao Li, Dexing Yao +9Autonomous Drone NavigationAutonomous Navigation

  18. Experience Constrained Hierarchical Federated Reinforcement Learning for Large-scale UAV Teams in Hazardous Environments

    May 4, 2026Qinwei Huang, Rui Zuo, Simon Khan +1Federated Reinforcement LearningHierarchical Reinforcement Learning

  19. 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 HaqueAutonomous Drone NavigationUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

  20. Evidence-Based Landing Site Selection and Vison-Based Landing for UAVs in Unstructured Environments

    May 2, 2026Sina Sajjadi, Jacopo Panerati, Sina Soleymanpour +3Unmanned Aerial VehiclesVisual Servoing

  21. ESARBench: A Benchmark for Agentic UAV Embodied Search and Rescue

    May 2, 2026Daoxuan Zhang, Ping Chen, Jianyi Zhou +1Unmanned Aerial VehiclesUncrewed Aerial Vehicles

  22. Terrain Perception for Agricultural UAVs in Complex Farmland via Rotating mmWave Radar

    May 2, 2026Zhihao Zhan, Le Tao, Shaobin Li +5RadarUncrewed Aerial Vehicles

  23. Separation Assurance between Heterogeneous Fleets of Small Unmanned Aerial Systems via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    May 1, 2026Iman Sharifi, Hyeong Tae Kim, Maheed Hatem Ahmed +2Uncrewed Aerial VehiclesMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

  24. Efficient Spatio-Temporal Vegetation Pixel Classification with Vision Transformers

    Apr 30, 2026Alan Gomes, Anderson Gonçalves, Samuel Felipe dos Santos +63D Plant PhenotypingNormalized Difference Vegetation Index

  25. Neural Aided Kalman Filtering for UAV State Estimation in Degraded Sensing Environments

    Apr 30, 2026Akhil Gupta, Erhan GuvenExtended Kalman FilterParticle Filters

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

    Apr 30, 2026Kaleem Arshid, Ali Krayani, Lucio Marcenaro +2Multi-Uav SystemsUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarms

  27. Robust Lightweight Crack Classification for Real-Time UAV Bridge Inspection

    Apr 30, 2026Wei Li, Haisheng Li, Weijie Li +3Unmanned Aerial Vehicle TrackingYolov8-Nano Model

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

    Apr 30, 2026Wentao Chen, Jingtang Chen, Mingjian Fu +4Autonomous Drone NavigationUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Trajectories

  29. 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 VoosUnmanned Aerial VehiclesGoal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

  30. Threat-Oriented Digital Twinning for Security Evaluation of Autonomous Platforms

    Apr 28, 2026Thomas J. Neubert, Laxima Niure Kandel, Berker PeközDigital Twin FrameworkUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

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

    Apr 28, 2026Pradeep J, Siddhardha Kedarisetty, Ashwini RatnooMulti-Uav SystemsUncrewed Aerial Vehicles

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

    Apr 28, 2026Ninh Nguyen, Srinivas AkellaMulti-Uav SystemsShortest Paths

  33. Dynamic UGV-UAV Cooperative Path Planning in Uncertain Environments

    Apr 28, 2026Ninh Nguyen, Srinivas AkellaMulti-Uav SystemsCoverage Path Planning

  34. Resource-Constrained UAV-Based Weed Detection for Site-Specific Management on Edge Devices

    Apr 25, 2026Linyuan Wang, Haibo Yao, Te-Ming Tseng +4Yolov8-Nano ModelUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection

  35. A Lightweight Toggleable Adhesion Prototype for Multirotor UAV Landing on Tilting Platforms

    Apr 24, 2026Teighin Nordholt, Melissa GreeffUnmanned Aerial VehiclesMaritime Navigation

  36. Equivariant Filter for Radar-Inertial Odometry

    Apr 24, 2026Giulio Delama, Jan Michalczyk, Morten Nissov +4Inertial OdometryExtended Kalman Filter

  37. Collaborative Trajectory Prediction via Late Fusion

    Apr 24, 2026Nadya Abdel Madjid, Murad Mebrahtu, Zakhar Yagudin +5Trajectory PredictionAutonomous Driving

  38. V-STC: A Time-Efficient Multi-Vehicle Coordinated Trajectory Planning Approach

    Apr 24, 2026Pengfei Liu, Jialing Zhou, Yuezu Lv +2Collision AvoidanceMulti-Uav Systems

  39. Instance-level Visual Active Tracking with Occlusion-Aware Planning

    Apr 23, 2026Haowei Sun, Kai Zhou, Hao Gao +5Multi-Object TrackingUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Tracking

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

    Apr 22, 2026Angel Ayala, Donling Sui, Francisco Cruz +3Autonomous Drone NavigationAerial Vision-Language Navigation

  41. Impact-Aware Model Predictive Control for UAV Landing on a Heaving Platform

    Apr 22, 2026Jess Stephenson, Melissa GreeffModel Predictive ControlFlight Performance

  42. 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 +2Urban WindUncrewed Aerial Vehicles

  43. Optimizing Data Augmentation for Real-Time Small UAV Detection: A Lightweight Context-Aware Approach

    Apr 21, 2026Amir Zamani, Zeinab AbediniUnmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionYolov8-Nano Model

  44. Online CS-based SAR Edge-Mapping

    Apr 21, 2026Conor Flynn, Radoslav Ivanov, Birsen YaziciSynthetic Aperture RadarUncrewed Aerial Vehicles

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

    Apr 21, 2026Wen Li, Hui Wang, Jinya Su +3Visual ServoingUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Tracking

  46. Scheduling Analysis of UAV Flight Control Workloads on PREEMPT_RT Linux Using a Raspberry Pi 5

    Apr 21, 2026Luiz Giacomossi, Håkan Forsberg, Ivan Tomasic +2SchedulingUncrewed Aerial Vehicles

  47. AeroBridge-TTA: Test-Time Adaptive Language-Conditioned Control for UAVs

    Apr 21, 2026Lingxue LyuAerotrackLanguage-Conditioning Space Policy

  48. Relative State Estimation using Event-Based Propeller Sensing

    Apr 20, 2026Ravi Kumar Thakur, Luis Granados Segura, Jan Klivan +4Quadrotor FlightState Estimation

  49. Autonomous Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Enhanced Search and Rescue of Drowning Swimmers: Image-Based Localization and Mission Simulation

    Apr 20, 2026Sascha Emanuel Zell, Toni Schneidereit, Armin Fügenschuh +1Unmanned Aerial VehiclesRescue

  50. Multi-UAV Path Following using Vector-Field Guidance

    Apr 20, 2026Gautam Kumar, Amit Shivam, Ashwini RatnooMulti-Uav SystemsUncrewed Aerial Vehicles

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

    Apr 19, 2026Peiwen Yang, Shiyu Bai, Weisong Wen +2Diffusion PlanningUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

  52. LookasideVLN: Direction-Aware Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Apr 19, 2026Yuwei Ning, Ganlong Zhao, Yipeng Qin +4Aerial Vision-Language NavigationSpatial Reasoning

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

    Apr 19, 2026Yusuke Tsunoda, Yusuke Goto, Takao SatoUnmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsSwarms

  54. Tri-Modal Fusion Transformers for UAV-based Object Detection

    Apr 17, 2026Craig Iaboni, Pramod AbichandaniUnmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionMultimodal Fusion

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

    Apr 17, 2026Dian Shao, Zhengzheng Xu, Peiyang Wang +4Aerial Vision-Language NavigationMenu

  56. Robust Fleet Sizing for Multi-UAV Inspection Missions under Synchronized Replacement Demand

    Apr 17, 2026Vishal Ramesh, Antony ThomasMulti-Uav SystemsDrone

  57. PixDLM: A Dual-Path Multimodal Language Model for UAV Reasoning Segmentation

    Apr 17, 2026Shuyan Ke, Yifan Mei, Changli Wu +4Aerial DatasetUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection

  58. RL-STPA: Adapting System-Theoretic Hazard Analysis for Safety-Critical Reinforcement Learning

    Apr 16, 2026Steven A. Senczyszyn, Timothy C. Havens, Nathaniel Rice +3Safety-Critical ScenariosHazard

  59. Trajectory Planning for a Multi-UAV Rigid-Payload Cascaded Transportation System Based on Enhanced Tube-RRT*

    Apr 16, 2026Jianqiao Yu, Jia Li, Tianhua GaoMulti-Uav SystemsMulti-Robot Motion Planning

  60. MotionScape: A Motion-Stratified UAV Video Benchmark for World Modeling and Future Video Generation

    Apr 9, 2026Zile Guo, Zhan Chen, Xiaoxuan Liu +5Unmanned Aerial Vehicle TrackingUnmanned Aerial Vehicles