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Robotic swarms · Outdoor collision-verification experience

An outdoor UAV-swarm study examines decentralized reachability checks, communications and runtime timing. The authors describe changes needed when algorithmic assumptions meet physical deployment constraints and report the resulting flight-test evidence.

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Original title
Robust Safety Assurance for Robotic Swarms Using Decentralized Collision Verification
Publisher
arXiv
Authors
Phillips, Grant, Tran, Hoang-Dung, Bradley, Justin M.
First archive posting
2026-10-31
Source language
en
Source country
US
Edition
arXiv:2611.01081v1
Access
Open archive metadata and manuscript
Publication status
Accepted manuscript

Related resources and engineering notes

Source overview

An outdoor UAV-swarm study examines decentralized reachability checks, communications and runtime timing. The authors describe changes needed when algorithmic assumptions meet physical deployment constraints and report the resulting flight-test evidence.

Use and review

Source check covers the archive abstract and metadata. Reported results depend on the stated models and tests; application-specific safety validation remains required. The date is the first archive posting.

Sources & editions

Robust Safety Assurance for Robotic Swarms Using Decentralized Collision Verification ↗

arXiv · arXiv:2611.01081v1

arXiv abstract, citation metadata and v1 submission history. First archive posting: 2026-10-31. The archive identifies this as an accepted manuscript and cites IEEE TAES volume 62, pages 9706–9717 (2026), related publisher DOI 10.1109/TAES.2026.3683620.