arXiv Machine Learning

Disturbance-Aware Aerial Robotics for Ethical Wildlife Monitoring

arXiv:2606. 08249v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable wildlife monitoring is essential for ecology and conservation, yet many existing methods, such as tagging, capture, and close-range observation, can alter the very behaviors they aim to measure.

arXiv AI
Jul 3

Lightweight Safe Reinforcement Learning for End-to-End UAV Navigation

arXiv:2607. 01794v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the rapid development of autonomous aerial systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed in applications such as inspection, environmental monitoring, and rescue, creating growing demand for reliable autonomous navigation.

By Shenghui Zhang, YuXuan Gao, Songwei Zhao, Jifeng Hu, Zijing Zhang, Hechang Chen
arXiv AI
Jun 3

AirDreamer: Generalist Drone Navigation with World Models

arXiv:2606. 03252v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Navigating a drone in unseen and cluttered environments requires reliable generalization to unseen scene layouts and understanding of environmental structure relative to the robot's capabilities.

By Zian Liu, Andong Yang, Chunkai Yang, Ruidong An, Chao Gao, Guyue Zhou
arXiv AI
Aug 11

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

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 Machine Learning
Jun 9

Autonomous Aerial Manipulation via Contextual Contrastive Meta Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606. 08533v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly being deployed in logistics, service robotics, and other real-world applications, creating a growing demand for autonomous payload acquisition and delivery.

By Lixuan Jin, Bingxuan Lan, Xinyi Bao, Xiangyuan Xie, Chunjie Zhang, Zheng Chen, Tianshuo Liu, Ruijie Tian, Jinyu Ru, Gang Wang, Lei Yuan, Yang Yu
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 10

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

Unmanned aerial vehicle vision-language navigation (UAV-VLN) requires agents to translate visual observations and language instructions into reliable flight actions in complex environments. Although recent end-to-end UAV vision-language-action (UAV-VLA) policies reduce reliance on separately designed perception, planning, and control modules, their behavior-cloning objectives provide limited corrective supervision for interactive closed-loop execution.

arXiv AI
Sep 4

Decentralized Vision-Based Autonomous Aerial Wildlife Monitoring

The paper introduces a decentralized, vision-based system using multiple quadrotors equipped with a single RGB camera for monitoring wildlife. It emphasizes scalability, low bandwidth, and minimal sensor requirements, enabling robust identification and tracking of large species in natural habitats. The authors present novel coordination and tracking algorithms that operate without centralized communication, and validate the approach with real-world field experiments.

By Makram Chahine, William Yang, Alaa Maalouf, Justin Siriska, Ninad Jadhav, Daniel Vogt, Stephanie Gil, Robert Wood, Daniela Rus
arXiv AI
Jul 14

ActiveFly-Bench: Aligning Embodied Question Answering with Vision-Language-Action for Aerial Embodied Perception

arXiv:2607. 10180v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce ActiveFly-Bench, the first benchmark to bridge cyberspace reasoning and physical-world interaction for UAV embodied perception.

By Weichen Zhang, Shiquan Yu, Yinan Zhu, Peizhi Tang, Shilong Ji, Zhiyuan Deng, Tianyi Lyu, Haoyang Wang, Xin Zeng, Chen Gao, Yong Li, Xinlei Chen