Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based collaborative perception enables multiple agents to share complementary perceptual information, overcoming limitations such as occlusion and limited sensing range....
arXiv:2607. 00191v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Collaborative-perception enables multi-robot systems to enhance situational awareness by sharing perceptual information.
By Luke Chen, Cheng-Ju Wu, David R. Martin, Qilin Ye, Pramod Khargonekar, Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque
arXiv:2608. 09564v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: UAV vision-language navigation (UAV-VLN) focuses on enabling an aerial agent to follow natural-language instructions in open 3D environments from egocentric visual observations.
By Zeyuan Ma, Jiaxin Chen, Di Huang
arXiv:2606. 09919v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Perceptual uncertainty is a central challenge for heterogeneous robot teams operating in unstructured outdoor environments, where no single viewpoint affords reliable scene understanding.
By Michal P. Podolinsky, Neel P. Bhatt, Pranay Samineni, Rohan Siva, Christian Ellis, Ufuk Topcu
CoCam4D is a Bayesian framework for camera-only autonomous driving that models geometric uncertainty in collaborative perception. It employs a VGGT-based network to produce 3D Gaussian scene representations with uncertainty estimates, allowing multiple vehicles to fuse observations without LiDAR. The system introduces Dynamic Object Primitives, a 35‑byte format for efficient C‑V2X communication, and shows significant performance gains over recent vision-only methods on OPV2V+ and DAIR‑V2X‑C benchmarks.
By Soham Pahari, Sudip Das, Arindam Das, Ujjwal Bhattacharya
The paper introduces AeroBelief, a dual‑layer semantic‑spatial belief mapping framework for aerial object goal navigation. It separates broad contextual plausibility (intuition layer) from target‑specific evidence (evidence layer) and fuses them into persistent spatial belief hotspots, while also employing object‑conditioned visual reasoning and temporally stable regional guidance. Experiments on the UAV‑ON benchmark show AeroBelief outperforms prior methods in success rate, object success rate, and SPL.
The paper introduces AeroBelief, a dual‑layer semantic‑spatial belief mapping framework for aerial object goal navigation. It separates broad contextual plausibility (intuition layer) from target‑specific evidence (evidence layer) and fuses them into persistent spatial belief hotspots. The method also employs object‑conditioned visual reasoning and egocentric regional guidance, achieving state‑of‑the‑art success rates on the UAV‑ON benchmark.
By Jianqiang Xiao, Xiang Deng, Yuexuan Sun, Yanjin Wu, Wenbiao Yan, Liqiang Nie
Aerial image-goal navigation requires an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to reach a target location specified by a goal image. Existing world-model-based methods rank candidate trajectories using predicted futures, but typically rely on only one or a few point predictions, which is inadequate for large-scale outdoor environments with substantial future-state uncertainty.
The paper studies how open‑vocabulary segmentation models perform on UAV footage, focusing on temporal consistency of predictions. By linking frame‑wise outputs to persistent 3D voxels via metric fusion, the authors propose a voxel‑level evaluation that measures final agreement, Semantic Belief Drift, Observation Persistence, and uncertainty. Experiments on UAVid‑3D show that high overall agreement can mask instability when observations are sparse, and that persistence‑stratified analysis reveals greater disagreement for recurrent voxels while belief drift reduces with more evidence.
By Saurbh Singh Jamwal
arXiv:2608. 09202v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern autonomous vehicles are equipped with multiple sensors, such as cameras, LiDAR, and radar, for comprehensive environmental perception.
By Junyao Wang, Yulin Xu, Yu Li, Pramod Khargonekar, Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque
arXiv:2606. 27876v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatial intelligence is essential for low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) perception, collaboration, and navigation.
By Haoyu Zhang, Meng Liu, Qianlong Xiang, Kun Wang, Yaowei Wang, Liqiang Nie
arXiv:2608. 07557v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV-VLN) requires rapid and reactive control in complex 3D environments.
By Peng Xu, Chengcheng Wang, Shaohua Wan