Vision-Language Models as copilots for Autonomous UAV Navigation: Analysis of Latency and Reliability in Degraded Environments

arXiv:2609.26084 · cs.RO · Submitted 2026-08-10 · Read on arXiv

cs.RO

Submitted: 2026-08-10

Updated: 2026-08-10

Code: https://github.com/hiagojacobs/UAV_Sim_VLM

Terminology

• Vision-Language Model — 11× in this paper
• Vision-language models — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Finite State Machine — 6× in this paper
• Structured Reasoning — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Model — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hallucination — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Robustness — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Vision-Language Models (VLMs) — 3× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Generative Models — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Vision-Language Model (VLM) — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Action Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Edge Deployment — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Hybrid Architectures — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Multimodal Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multimodal Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Semantic Understanding — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models

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