Zero-Shot Scalable Resilience in UAV Swarms: A Decentralized Imitation Learning Framework with Physics-Informed Graph Interactions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15762v1
• Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:06:42 GMT
• Title: Zero-Shot Scalable Resilience in UAV Swarms: A Decentralized Imitation Learning Framework with Physics-Informed Graph Interactions
• Abstract summary: Large-scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) failures can split an unmanned aerial vehicle swarm network into disconnected sub-networks.<n>We present Physics-informed Adrial Graph Learning algorithm (PhyGAIL) that adopts centralized training with decentralized execution.
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• Abstract: Large-scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) failures can split an unmanned aerial vehicle swarm network into disconnected sub-networks, making decentralized recovery both urgent and difficult. Centralized recovery methods depend on global topology information and become communication-heavy after severe fragmentation. Decentralized heuristics and multi-agent reinforcement learning methods are easier to deploy, but their performance often degrades when the swarm scale and damage severity vary. We present Physics-informed Graph Adversarial Imitation Learning algorithm (PhyGAIL) that adopts centralized training with decentralized execution. PhyGAIL builds bounded local interaction graphs from heterogeneous observations, and uses physics-informed graph neural network to encode directional local interactions as gated message passing with explicit attraction and repulsion. This gives the policy a physically grounded coordination bias while keeping local observations scale-invariant. It also uses scenario-adaptive imitation learning to improve training under fragmented topologies and variable-length recovery episodes. Our analysis establishes bounded local graph amplification, bounded interaction dynamics, and controlled variance of the terminal success signal. A policy trained on 20-UAV swarms transfers directly to swarms of up to 500 UAVs without fine-tuning, and achieves better performance across reconnection reliability, recovery speed, motion safety, and runtime efficiency than representative baselines.

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