This study introduces a unified control framework for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) fitted with a pan-tilt (PT) camera, intended to perform an end-to-end mission spanning from initial target detection to accurate terminal engagement. The proposed system employs a three-phase strategy: a vision-based target acquisition phase, an NMPC-based tracking phase, and a terminal guidance phase.
arXiv:2606. 20045v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: UAV Vision-Language Navigation (UAV-VLN) is typically formulated as a holistic search-and-reach problem, where long-range target discovery and final target approach are optimized and evaluated jointly.
By Fanfu Xue, En Yu, Yantian Shen, Zhikun Hu, Hongjun Wang, Yang Yang, Xindi Wang, Jiande Sun
UAV Vision-Language Navigation (UAV-VLN) is typically formulated as a holistic search-and-reach problem, where long-range target discovery and final target approach are optimized and evaluated jointly. This formulation makes it difficult to assess a critical capability of aerial embodied agents, namely whether a UAV can accurately ground a visible target and translate vision-language evidence into precise 3D motion once the target enters its field of view.
arXiv:2606. 00747v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: For low-altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) autonomy, 3D spatial understanding is not merely a perception objective, but the safety interface between human instructions and physical flight.
By Jie Gao, Jie Ma, Kaihui Lin, Kai Ye, Miaohui Zhang, Pingyang Dai, Liujuan Cao
arXiv:2609.00839v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study short- and mid-horizon UAV bounding-box forecasting on the FRED event-camera dataset. We use a constant-velocity Kalman filter over a full cen...
By Per Nyblom, Hannes Ovr\'en, David Gustafsson
arXiv:2606. 19176v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous UAV operations on ships require reliable vision-based relative pose estimation, yet at-sea validation is costly, weather-dependent, and risky.
By Maneesha Wickramasuriya, Beomyeol Yu, Jaden Shin, Mason Huslig, Taeyoung Lee, Murray Snyder