arXiv Machine Learning

WONDER: A Radio World Model-based Negotiation Framework for Multi-Agent UAV Coverage Optimization

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.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

AERIS: Offline Policy Improvement for Multi-UAV Integrated Sensing and Communication

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
arXiv AI
Sep 18

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

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
arXiv AI
Jul 28

MulRobBench: A Decision-Level Benchmark for Safe and Security-Policy-Compliant Multimodal UAV Agents

arXiv:2607. 23870v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Smart-city airspace is transforming Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) from passive sensing platforms into cyber-physical decision makers that must follow operational rules under degraded observations and ambiguous language.

By Belal S. Alsinglawi, Weizheng Wang, Junyi Wu, Yi Jiang, Lianhai Lin, Merouane Debbah, Izzat Alsmadi
arXiv AI
Aug 26

Place, Slice and Schedule: Hierarchical O-RAN Control of a Tethered mmWave UAV-gNB

The paper proposes a hierarchical Open Radio Access Network (O‑RAN) control framework for tethered millimeter‑wave UAV‑mounted 5G base stations (gNBs). A Non‑Real‑Time RIC application jointly manages UAV placement and slice budgets, while a Near‑Real‑Time RIC application allocates per‑user resources using a permutation‑equivariant DeepSets Soft Actor‑Critic scheduler. This two‑level controller improves eMBB service‑level agreement satisfaction by up to 17 % and URLLC on‑time delivery by up to 42 % compared with conventional schedulers.

By Alireza Mohammadhosseini, Fatemeh Afghah
arXiv AI
Sep 2

Evaluating Multimodal LLMs as Generalist Vision-Language-Action Agents for Drone Control: Commanding, Approaching, Tracking and Searching

The paper introduces DroneCATS-Agent, a modular framework that places a multimodal large language model (MLLM) at the core of a drone’s control loop, allowing the model to decide actions solely from prompts. It presents the DroneCATS benchmark, evaluating MLLMs on four tasks—approaching, tracking, searching, and multi‑drone commanding—without fine‑tuning or function‑calling. Results show that while small open models can navigate reliably, they often fail by mismanaging protocol termination, highlighting a gap between perception and action planning in current MLLMs.

By Jaewoo Park, Minyoung Lee, Sukmin Seo, Moonbin Yim, Hyunwook Yoon, Dohoon Ryu, Daehee Kim, Myungseo Song, Jihyuk Byun, Seunggyu Chang, Taeho Kil, Jiseob Kim, Bado Lee, Geewook Kim