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- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Enabling Beyond-Visual-Line-of-Sight Drones Operation over Open RAN 5G Networks with Slicing
Among the foretold claims of the transition from 5G to 6G, Beyond-Visual-Line-of-Sight (BVLoS) drone operation has emerged as a prominent Internet-of-Robots enabler.
- NASA NTRS 2026 LaRC Poster
Exploratory Heterogeneity in Workload–HRV Relationships Across Flight Crews During High-Fidelity Simulation
Understanding how operators adapt to varying task demands in complex systems is central to applied human performance and resilience engineering research.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2026 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Feasibility and Performance of Aerogravity Assists for Ceres Missions
This work investigates the feasibility and performance of aerogravity assist (AGA) maneuvers for missions to Ceres, with emphasis on both interplanetary trajectory design and atmospheric flight dynamics.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Shaping Wind-Tunnel Airflow for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles using Online Learning
The development and testing of advanced aerial robots require experiments in controlled environments with tailored airflow profiles. This paper presents an online learning algorithm for controlling the complex airflow fi…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
FESOM2-JAX v1.0: a differentiable shadow of the ocean-sea-ice model FESOM2, cast onto GPUs
We present FESOM2-JAX, a Python re-implementation of the Finite-volumE Sea ice-Ocean Model (FESOM2) in JAX. The model retains the unstructured-mesh, cell-vertex finite-volume formulation of the original, runs unchanged f…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Buoyancy-driven melt rate of a vertical ice surface in seawater
Reliable estimates of the melt rate of tidewater glaciers require accurate knowledge of salt and heat fluxes at the near-vertical ice-ocean interface and such knowledge is currently lacking.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
An ArcGIS Framework for Mapping Human-Centered Noise Annoyance for AAM Infrastructure Planning
Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) represents a transformative shift in urban transportation; however, successful implementation depends strongly on public acceptance, with noise emerging as a major concern for low-altitude ele…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Closed-Loop Model-Based Control Barrier Functions with Application to Robust Flight Envelope Protection
Ensuring operation of aerospace systems within prescribed flight envelope limits is a fundamental requirement for modern flight control architectures.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Network Verified NTN Positioning for 6G A Standards Oriented Survey of Hybrid TN NTN Localization
Wireless positioning is evolving from legacy cellular and standalone satellite navigation toward hybrid, high-accuracy, three-dimensional (3D), and network-verifiable frameworks for 5G Advanced, 6G, and non terrestrial n…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Global Sensitive-Based Input Shaping for UAV-Payload Precision Motion Control
This work presents a comprehensive analysis and design of global sensitivity-based input shapers for a 3D Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-payload system, emphasizing robustness against uncertainties in payload mass and rope leng…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Online Monitoring and Risk Assessment of Non-Cooperative UAVs via STL-Aware Adaptive Fusion Kalman Filtering
This paper considers the problem of online state estimation and predictive risk assessment for non-cooperative unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the presence of asynchronous heterogeneous sensing and uncertain motion mo…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Physics-Aware End-to-End Deep Reinforcement Learning for Quadcopter Control with Actuator Dynamics
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), particularly quadcopters, present unique challenges for autonomous control due to their underactuated dynamics: only four available control inputs must govern six degrees of freedom.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Co-planning of Flight Corridors and Communication Infrastructure for Urban Drone Logistics Networks
Reliable wireless connectivity is essential for urban air mobility (UAM) networks in dense urban environments. It is therefore imperative to carefully plan the supporting communication infrastructure for UAM flight corri…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Wave-induced erosion and notch development at the Fimbul Ice Shelf front
Ocean waves erode the waterline of Antarctic ice-shelf fronts and carve a thermo-erosional notch. The notch is hidden from satellites, yet it preconditions front collapse and footloose calving, so the link between notch …
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Embedded Firmware Development for Flight Control, Telemetry, and Video Streaming for DIY UAV Research
This paper presents the design and optimization of quadcopter firmware for a low-cost UAV based on the dual-core ESP32-S3 microcontroller, targeting real-time flight control, telemetry, and video transmission within stri…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Multi-Domain Physics-Based MDO of Multirotor UAVs: A Deterministic Framework for Discrete COTS Sizing
Multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) design is governed by a tightly coupled system of non-linear equations spanning structural mechanics, electrochemistry, aerodynamics, and kinematics.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Neural Differential Equations for Oscillatory Flows in Aeroelasticity Applied to Transonic Buffet
Self-excited aerodynamic flows arise across a broad range of systems and can drive nonlinear fluid-structure interactions and aeroelastic instabilities that are challenging and computationally expensive to predict.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Declarative Problem Solving in UAM Strategic Deconfliction
The growing demand for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) introduces significant challenges in airspace management, particularly within densely populated metropolitan regions.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Contact-Persistent Full Actuation for Aerial Physical Interaction
Fully actuated unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are usually certified through rank conditions on a control-allocation matrix or through free-flight tracking performance.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Theoretical development of an operational wave-induced ice erosion model through laboratory experiments
Wave-induced melting of vertical ice fronts is represented in several operational iceberg and coastal-erosion models by the rough-wall parameterization of White (1980), whose closure chain is incompletely documented and …
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Rethinking Joint UAV Placement and Beamforming: A Correlation-Aware Geometric Approach
In multiuser unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted downlink communications, UAV placement and transmit beamforming are inherently coupled through the propagation geometry.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
RT-SHCUA: Real-Time Self-Hosted Computer-Use Agent for UAV Control
Natural-language control offers a promising interface for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), but directly applying self-hosted computer-use agents (SHCUAs) to UAV control introduces a structural mismatch.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Obstacle-Aware Four-Dimensional Trajectory Design for Urban Air Mobility
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) with electric Vertical TakeOff and Landing (eVTOL) vehicles can help address ground traffic congestion. The design of an eVTOL trajectory that is safe and reduces travel time is key for UAM adopt…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Pick-to-Learn Calibration of an MPC Policy for an Origin-to-Destination Flight Problem
This paper illustrates the Pick-to-Learn methodology applied to the calibration of a Model Predictive Control policy. While developed around a specific example, the presentation is meant to highlight a methodology of bro…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
LIVE-RIS: Real-Time In-Flight Actuation of UAV-Mounted RIS
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are emerging as a key technology for sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks due to their ability to dynamically control the propagation environment.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Co-Design of Aeroelastic Systems with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Control co-design considers the physical system and its controller together, enabling the strong coupling between system design and control to be uncovered and exploited.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Machine Learning Challenges in Intelligent Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Operations in Developing Economie
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) environments present significant challenges for machine learning (ML) due to limited platform resources, heterogeneous sensor data, dynamic mission conditions, and safety-critical requiremen…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Distributionally Robust and Safe Imitation Learning
Imitation learning (IL) has achieved remarkable success in complex decision-making tasks. However, its performance is highly sensitive to distribution shifts, which can pose significant safety risks.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Dynamical Vehicle Orienteering Problem for Multi-Rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
This paper introduces the Dynamical Vehicle Orienteering Problem (DVOP), a generalization of the Orienteering Problem (OP). The OP maximizes the reward collected from spatial targets under a limited travel budget; the DV…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Data driven non-equilibrium moist phase exchanges for atmospheric convection within a discontinuous Galerkin model of the compressible Euler equations
A discrete formulation of the multiphase moist compressible Euler equations is presented for which the energy and tracer variance conserving dynamics is coupled to the non-equilibrium moist phase exchanges in a thermodyn…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Autonomous Tracking and Terminal Guidance of Moving Targets for Fixed-Wing UAVs
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 acc…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Improving Autonomous Nano-drones Performance via Automated End-to-End Optimization and Deployment of DNNs
The evolution of energy-efficient ultra-low-power (ULP) parallel processors and the diffusion of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are fueling the advent of autonomous driving nano-sized unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Aerosol generation by the splashing of low viscosity drops impacting liquid layers
Using theory and numerical simulations, here we describe the early stages of the impact with a velocity $V$ of a drop of radius $R_d$ of a low viscosity liquid such as water against a layer of generic thickness $H$ of th…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Coordinated Incremental Trajectory Tracking of a Tailsitter Drone
This paper derives an analytical differential flatness transform for a tailsitter Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) under coordinated flight conditions using a simplified aerodynamic model.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Conflict Resolution under Degraded Surveillance in Air Corridors Using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Safe Advanced Air Mobility operations require aircraft to maintain separation when surveillance information is noisy, delayed, incomplete, or temporarily unavailable.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Runtime Safety Filtering for Learned Small UAS Separation Policies under GNSS Degradation
Learning-based separation assurance for small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) achieves near-zero collision rates in simulation, but assumes accurate position and velocity information from Global Navigation Satellite Sys…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
End-to-End LLM Flight Planning with RAG-based Memory and Multi-modal Coach Agent
Bridging the gap between human pilot intent and autonomous flight operation is critical for real-world electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft deployment.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Observability of Finite-Depth Double-Diffusive Exchange from Sparse Temperature-Salinity Measurements
Double-diffusive interfaces can support exchange histories that are spatially organized but only sparsely observed. A resolved three-dimensional calculation contains the route by which scalar gradients broaden, remain co…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Physically consistent formulation for the bound vortex sheet strength in the Wagner model
Unsteady thin-airfoil theory (UTAT) coupled with discrete-vortex methods has been widely employed in reduced-order aerodynamic modeling.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Intercepting an Agile Target with Net-Carrying Drones using Competitive Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
This article presents a solution to intercept an agile drone by a team of agile drone carrying catching nets. We formulate the problem as a competitive Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) task.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Towards Effcient Low Altitude Sensing: A Dual Heterogeneous Graph Learning Method for UAV Task Allocation
With the development of low altitude intelligent systems, multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can collaboratively execute more complex tasks.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
U3DWind: A Low Altitude Wind Field Dataset and Benchmark for Urban Air Mobility
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) requires reliable assessment of low-altitude wind hazards, because winds, gusts, and building-induced turbulence have been recognized as critical factors affecting vehicle stability, route feasib…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
U-Joint CAAMS: Experimental Evaluation of a Universal-Joint Continuum Manipulator for Aerial Manipulation
Continuum manipulators mounted on multi-rotor UAVs enable compliant aerial manipulation, but payloads and propeller downwash amplify out-of-plane bending and twisting that degrade end-effector pose accuracy.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
RCOA Extension and Applications
The Relaxed Convex Obstacle Avoidance (RCOA) formulation is the first approach to enable a fully convex optimal control problem (OCP) for obstacle avoidance.
- Semantic Scholar 2026 Article (IEEE transactions on power electronics)
Challenges and Opportunities in Electric Propulsion Systems for Low-Altitude eVTOL Aircraft
Low-altitude aviation is rapidly emerging as a transformative solution for next-generation transportation, driving significant advancements in electric propulsion systems.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Communication-Aware and Safety-Aware UAV Control via Predictive Latent Models
This article presents a communication-aware and risk-aware predictive latent control (CRPL) framework for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems operating under partial observability and uncertain environment dynamics.
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Wind-Aware Reinforcement Learning Control of a Small Quadrotor Using Learned Onboard Wind Estimation in Simulated Atmospheric Turbulence
Small multirotor aircraft are increasingly tasked with operations in the atmospheric boundary layer, where turbulent winds comparable to the vehicle's airspeed degrade trajectory tracking and can defeat conventional feed…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Diffusion-based 4D Trajectory Prediction and Distributed Control for UAV Swarms
Accurate 4D trajectory prediction and closed-loop tracking are essential for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms to achieve safe and efficient operations in complex low-altitude environments such as urban airspaces, ind…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
fARfetch: Enabling Collocated AR-HRC in Large Visually Diverse Environments with VLM-Driven AR Content Adaptation
Augmented Reality (AR) can improve collocated human-robot collaboration by making robot state and intent visible and enabling intuitive control, yet large, visually diverse environments like the outdoors challenge both i…
- arXiv 2026 ARXIV arXiv preprint
Robust Data-Driven Nash Equilibrium Seeking under Partial-Decision Information
This paper presents a data-driven framework for decentralized Nash equilibrium (NE) seeking in multi-agent systems with unknown linear dynamics subject to exogenous disturbances, operating under partial-decision informat…