Peer-reviewed papers on safe multi-agent learning and decision-making for autonomous aircraft, drones, and vessels. Papers marked to appear have been accepted after peer review. The full record is on Google Scholar.
↳ AIAA SciTech 2027
Operational energy assessment for regional air mobility using a full-envelope eVTOL power model.
Zongo, A., Ochoa, S., Sun, L., Nguyen, A., Tran, S., and Wei, P. (2027). "Regional Air Mobility Operational Energy Assessment Using A Full-Envelope eVTOL Power Model" Accepted for presentation at AIAA SciTech 2027.
↳ AIAA SciTech 2027
Evaluates how prompting and dialogue history affect the realism of LLM-generated air traffic control communications.
Ghazanfari, M., Casanova, M., Kam, J., Zongo, A., Wei, P., Darrell, T., and Bayen, A. (2027). "Air Traffic Control Using Large Language Models: Prompt Engineering, Architecture, and Evaluation" Accepted for presentation at AIAA SciTech 2027.
↳ OCEANS 2026 IEEE
COLREGs-based language-model guidance paired with a learned vessel controller for interpretable maritime collision avoidance.
Pang, Y., Aziz, A., Zongo, A., Wei, P., and Crandall, K. (2026). "Large Language Model Guided Reinforcement Learning for Maritime Ship Collision Avoidance" OCEANS 2026 IEEE, Monterey, CA, USA.
↳ IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2026
This paper addresses real-time separation assurance and tactical deconfliction mechanisms of small Unmanned Aerial Systems via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning under GPS degradation and Spoofing.
Zongo, A., Fotiadis, F., Topcu, U., & Wei, P. (2026). "Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Small UAS Separation Assurance under GPS Degradation and Spoofing." arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.28900.
↳ 3rd Workshop on Multi-Agent Embodied Intelligent Systems Meet Agentic-AI era: Opportunities, Challenges and Futures (MEIS@CVPR 2026)
This paper presents a simulation-to-language data generation pipeline using BlueSky ATM for fine-tuning Large Language Models on cooperative tactical deconfliction of small UAS, achieving improved decision accuracy and reduced ...
Sharifi, I., Zongo, A., & Wei, P. (2026). " Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Cooperative Tactical Deconfliction of Small Unmanned Aerial Systems. " Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (MEIS) (pp. 1067-1076).
↳ Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC) 2026
Compares action and observation filtering for learned separation policies under GNSS degradation; observation filtering improves safety in the reported experiments.
Zongo, A., & Wei, P. (2026). "Runtime Safety Filtering for Learned Small UAS Separation Policies under GNSS Degradation." arXiv:2607.10014. Accepted at DASC 2026.
↳ Integrated Communications Navigation, and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference
This paper characterizes electric Vertical Take-off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft energy consumption under an autonomous tactical conflict resolution framework (the Modified Voltage Potential or MVP) in an unstructured high-dens...
Zongo, A., & Wei, P. (2026). "eVTOL Aircraft Energy Consumption Estimation with Conflict Resolution in High-Density Airspaces." 2026 Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance Conference (ICNS).
↳ Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer Nature, International Conference in Navigation Guidance and Control (ICGNC)
This paper was submitted as part of my master thesis. It delves into the use of Reinforcement Learning to enhance fault-tolerance in fixed-wing aircraft attitude flight control.
Zongo, A.B., Li, Q. (2025). "Towards Intelligent Fault-Tolerant Attitude Control of Fixed-Wing Aircraft." In: Yan, L., Duan, H., Deng, Y. (eds).Advances in Guidance, Navigation and Control. ICGNC 2024. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 1353. Springer, Singapore.
↳ Scholarly blog post (Zenodo archived)
A conceptual overview of Air Traffic Control as a predictive, safety-critical control system.
Zongo, A. (2025). "Aircraft Traffic Control: Managing Order in a Crowded Sky." Scholarly blog post. Available at: https://alex-zongo.github.io/posts/2025/12/aircraft-traffic-control/.
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