The paper addresses lifelong aerial autonomy by treating visual place recognition (VPR) as a mission‑based domain‑incremental learning problem. It introduces a heterogeneous memory framework that first trains on a static satellite exemplar memory and then uses a bounded replay buffer to retain selected airborne observations across missions. The proposed DBS‑Hybrid replay strategy, which blends prototype‑based diversity trimming with representative‑first feature‑space coverage, outperforms baseline methods in accuracy, generalization, and knowledge retention across multiple UAV missions.
By Xingyu Shao, Zhiqiang Yan, Liangzheng Sun, Mengfan He, Chao Chen, Jinhui Zhang, Chunyu Li, Ziyang Meng
arXiv:2603. 18853v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous aerial vehicles (AAVs) enable data collection for sixth-generation Internet-of-Things networks, but their trajectories couple nonlinear wireless rates with long-horizon service progress.
By Xiucheng Wang, Zhenye Chen, Nan Cheng, Zhisheng Yin, Xuemin Shen
The paper introduces a hierarchical hybrid architecture combining large language models (LLMs) and multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) to manage heterogeneous unmanned aerial systems in low‑altitude wireless networks (LAWNs). An outer LLM‑driven loop interprets service requirements and operator intent to reconfigure objectives and resource priorities, while an inner MARL loop executes decentralized policies under the updated game. A logistics‑monitoring case study demonstrates the framework’s ability to coordinate diverse services and adapt to changing conditions without retraining the MARL policies.
By Nguyen Duc Minh Quang, Chang Liu, Shuangyang Li, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
The paper discusses how Diffusion Models (DMs) can improve decision-making and digital modeling for Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). It highlights the limitations of Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Digital Twin (DT) approaches, noting that DMs learn underlying probability distributions and generate realistic patterns, thereby addressing data scarcity and enhancing modeling accuracy. Simulation results demonstrate DMs’ effectiveness in estimating neighbor velocities for a four‑UAV swarm coordination task using Deep Reinforcement Learning.
By Yousef Emami, Hao Zhou, Luis Almeida, Kai Li
The paper introduces WONDER, a radio world‑model‑based negotiation framework designed to optimize multi‑UAV coverage for rapid post‑disaster wireless restoration. WONDER employs a Joint‑Embedding Predictive Architecture to forecast the incremental radio impact of candidate UAV trajectories and uses multi‑round negotiation to sequentially commit trajectories while updating the context. Experiments in the RadioDynamics simulation environment demonstrate that WONDER outperforms six other methods, achieving a balanced score of 0.870 and a 0.162 coverage advantage over STACCA while preserving full UAV connectivity.
By Jiahao Huang, Rongpeng Li, Zhifeng Zhao, Guoru Ding, Honggang Zhang
AERIS is an offline policy improvement framework for multi-UAV integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) that learns from fixed flight logs using centralized training and decentralized execution. It introduces STAR-CRDT, an offline multi-agent RL algorithm that rectifies local actions and distills trusted improvements into decentralized actors, providing an offline-support policy improvement guarantee. Experiments demonstrate that STAR-CRDT boosts the main ISAC objective return by 29.3% and improves communication sum rate, sensing pass rate, and sensing margin while reducing collision-risk events by 54.2%.
By Ziyuan Wang (Steven), Yifan Sui (Steven), Wei Wei (Steven), Wenjie Xin (Steven), Zekai Zhang (Steven), Xiangwang Hou (Steven), Xiao-Ping (Steven), Zhang
The paper proposes Neuro‑Symbolic Agentic AI (NSAAI) as a framework that blends neural grounding, symbolic reasoning, and closed‑loop interaction to enhance decision‑making for networked low‑altitude UAVs. It outlines NSAAI’s strengths in data efficiency, compositional generalization, continual learning, and zero‑shot transfer, and presents a reference architecture covering task management, planning, verification, skill execution, and network interaction. An urban fire‑inspection simulation demonstrates how a UAV can coordinate sensing, cloud access, and verified image‑delivery skills under intermittent connectivity, illustrating NSAAI’s potential for reusable skills, evidence‑grounded decisions, and adaptive mission execution.
By Yuqi Ping, Tianhao Liang, Nanchi Su, Guangyu Lei, Junwei Wu, Qinyu Zhang, Tingting Zhang
arXiv:2608. 14599v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The placement of base station (BS) is a fundamental determinant of coverage and capacity of urban wireless networks.
By Zhenyu Tao, Yuxuan Li, Wei Xu, Yongming Huang, Xiaohu You
The paper investigates UAV‑mounted reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted device‑to‑device (D2D) communication with stochastic link activation. It models UAV motion, attitude, time‑varying Rician angles, and angle‑dependent RIS reflection, and formulates a joint optimization of UAV trajectory, attitude, and RIS phases to maximize average sum rate under mobility, energy, and hardware constraints. The authors employ deep reinforcement learning and a Decision Transformer trained on expert trajectories from multiple scenarios, showing that zero‑shot transfer outperforms direct DRL transfer and that online fine‑tuning achieves competitive performance with fewer interactions.
By Yaxuan Liu
arXiv:2606. 16331v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The integration of generative artificial intelligence with wireless communication and signal processing systems has opened new avenues for intelligent, data-driven decision-making in future 6G networks.
By Eslam Eldeeb, Hirley Alves
arXiv:2608. 09467v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicle vision-language navigation (UAV-VLN) requires agents to translate visual observations and language instructions into reliable flight actions in complex environments.
By Boxiong Wang, Hui Kang, Geng Sun, Jiahui Li, Chao Yu, Daxin Tian
arXiv:2606. 01324v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The evolution toward 6G wireless networks envisions a seamlessly intelligent, Open-RAN-enabled architecture where unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play a pivotal role in extending coverage, enhancing resilience, and ensuring reliable connectivity for ground users deployment.
By Marwan Dhuheir, Thang X. Vu, Symeon Chatzinotas