Ahilen Mazondo

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

The integration of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offers unprecedented semantic reasoning capabilities. However, real-time closed-loop navigation requires not only low inference latency but also obedience to structured flight commands. This paper proposes a hybrid FSM-VLM co...