arXiv:2609.36915v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Aerial manipulators extend robotic manipulation into 3D workspaces that are difficult for ground-based robots to access, creating new opportunities f...
By Rui Huang, Yanlin Mu, Lidong Li, Yucong Wang, Zichen Yan, Lin Zhao
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
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:2606. 10857v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a generalist position control policy capable of controlling arbitrary multirotor configurations of a certain rotor count (e.
By Orestis Konstantaropoulos, Welf Rehberg, Mihir Kulkarni, Kostas Alexis
arXiv:2608. 14135v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous pursuit-evasion is a fundamental challenge for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), requiring rapid decision-making under tightly coupled dynamics and continuously changing opponent behaviors.
By Wenhao Tang, Tianyang Chen, Zhejun Cui, Boyuan An, Jiayu Chen, Ruize Zhang, Huidong Liu, Tianyue Wu, Qingmin Liao, Fei Gao, Yu Wang, Chao Yu
arXiv:2607. 15880v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Imitation Learning aims to learn skills from extensive observations and demonstrations for robots, so it suffers from data scarcity and environment generalization.
By Zhenduo Shang, Xiyao Liu, Bohan Li, Xudong Wang, Teng Ren, Lianqing Liu, Zhi Han
AeroWeaver is a new embodied‑agent harness that integrates large language model (LLM) decision making with the executable skills of individual UAVs, enabling distributed, adaptive swarm execution. It connects semantic mission decisions to governed skills, organizes role‑conditioned local agents for coordination, and refines skill selection online using role‑indexed state‑action‑reward experience. Experiments demonstrate that AeroWeaver maintains valid skill execution without a central joint‑action generator and supports reward‑guided, training‑free adaptive learning from accumulated execution experience.
By Jiabin Lou, Yirong Yang, Haopeng Wang, Xuxin Lv, Xinyu Liu, Diyuan Hou, Xuehong Liu, Rongye Shi, Wenjun Wu
The paper presents a curriculum‑based adversarial heterogeneous agent reinforcement learning (HARL‑AC) approach for autonomous quad‑copter landing on a ship deck in maritime settings. Using Heterogeneous‑Agent Proximal Policy Optimization (HAPPO) in NVIDIA Isaac Lab, the authors train a cooperative control policy that outperforms domain‑randomized baselines, achieving up to 97.5% success on in‑distribution sea states and higher median success and lower crash rates on out‑of‑distribution sea states. The adversarially trained policy also exhibits more cautious behavior, slightly increasing timeouts but improving safety in severe, unseen conditions.
By Allan Minh-Tam Nguyen, Sree Showrya Kotala, Stefan Banioi-Crijman, Kurt Driessens, Rico M\"ockel
arXiv:2609.19138v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Enabling robots to adapt to unfamiliar environments as readily as humans remains a moonshot goal of embodied AI. No finite collection of demonstrations...
By Dongzhou Cheng, Taoran Yi, Ye Fang, Xingwu Zhang, Fan Feng, Yixuan Li, Gengxiong Zhuang, Rongze Wang, Shuai Yang, Wei Song, Weizhi Xue, Minyan Wu, Jie Gui, Jiaqi Wang, Tong Wu
arXiv:2607. 06706v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision Language Action (VLA) models unify visual perception, natural-language understanding, and action generation within a single foundation model, allowing a robot to follow instructions such as fold the towel or fly to the red building directly from camera images.
By Inkyu Sa, Chanoh Park, Hea-Min Lee, Donghee Noh, Ho Seok Ahn
arXiv:2606. 23444v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accurate dynamics models are critical for informed decision-making in robotic systems, particularly for agile aerial vehicles operating under uncertainty.
By Pratyaksh Rao, Wancong Zhang, Randall Balestriero, Yann LeCun, Giuseppe Loianno
arXiv:2512. 09706v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The paradigm of agentic AI is shifting from engineered complex workflows to post-training native models.
By Kaichen He, Zihao Wang, Muyao Li, Anji Liu, Yitao Liang