About
Theory in Aerial Robotics is a pilot: an openly maintained, manually curated index of recent theoretically oriented contributions in aerial robotics.
Theoretical results are often dispersed across robotics, control, mechanics, optimization, applied mathematics, and related communities. This index provides a lightweight entry point organized by theoretical topic, contribution type, and aerial platform.
Scope
A work is within scope when aerial robotics is a substantive context and its primary contribution includes mathematical analysis, a formal guarantee, a structural result, a theoretically grounded method, or a meaningful connection with another scientific field.
Relevant areas include dynamics and flight modeling; control, allocation, planning, estimation, and identification; aerial physical interaction; tethered and suspended systems; multirobot transport; and control-oriented actuation and design.
Experiments are neither required nor disqualifying. A work is not included merely because it contains equations, uses optimization, or applies an established method to a new platform.
The scope is applied pragmatically during a limited weekly screening session. Borderline decisions therefore reflect the maintainer’s personal interpretation rather than an objective or exhaustive classification of the field.
Human-only curation
Every candidate is inspected directly by the maintainer. Decisions on inclusion, classification, and the neutral public description are made without AI-generated summaries, rankings, preselection, or recommendations.
The process is deliberately personal and pragmatic. It reflects the maintainer’s preferences, biases, experience, intuition, and rapid assessment of how well a work fits the declared scope within the limited time available for weekly screening.
Automation is limited to retrieving possible candidates, collecting bibliographic metadata, identifying duplicates, checking data consistency, and generating the website and feed. These tools support the workflow but do not interpret manuscripts or make curatorial decisions.
The resulting collection is necessarily incomplete and represents one personal perspective. Inclusion means only that a work was considered relevant to the scope during screening. It is not an assessment of quality, correctness, novelty, or importance. Omission carries no such implication.
Entries are chronological and filterable. The index uses no ranking, popularity metric, sponsored placement, or paid promotion.
Pilot and contact
The pilot started on 4 October 2026 and is maintained by Antonio Franchi. Its scope, taxonomy, and workflow may evolve with experience.
Corrections and taxonomy suggestions can be reported through the Codeberg issue tracker. Contact information is available at r-franchi.eu.