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UAVGENT: A Language-Guided Distributed Control Framework

Robotics 2026-02-17 v1 Multiagent Systems Systems and Control Systems and Control

Abstract

We study language-in-the-loop control for multi-drone systems that execute evolving, high-level missions while retaining formal robustness guarantees at the physical layer. We propose a three-layer architecture in which (i) a human operator issues natural-language instructions, (ii) an LLM-based supervisor periodically interprets, verifies, and corrects the commanded task in the context of the latest state and target estimates, and (iii) a distributed inner-loop controller tracks the resulting reference using only local relative information. We derive a theoretical guarantee that characterizes tracking performance under bounded disturbances and piecewise-smooth references with discrete jumps induced by LLM updates. Overall, our results illustrate how centralized language-based task reasoning can be combined with distributed feedback control to achieve complex behaviors with provable robustness and stability.

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@article{arxiv.2602.13212,
  title  = {UAVGENT: A Language-Guided Distributed Control Framework},
  author = {Ziyi Zhang and Xiyu Deng and Guannan Qu and Yorie Nakahira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.13212},
  year   = {2026}
}
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