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Iman Sharifi

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Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningComputer Science and Game TheoryCryptography and SecurityLogic in Computer ScienceMultiagent SystemsRobotics

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preprint2026arXiv

A Survey of Security Challenges and Solutions for UAS Traffic Management (UTM) and small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS)

The rapid growth of small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) for civil and commercial missions has intensified concerns about their resilience to cyber-security threats. Operating within the emerging UAS Traffic Management (UTM) framework, these lightweight and highly networked platforms depend on secure communication, navigation, and surveillance (CNS) subsystems that are vulnerable to spoofing, jamming, hijacking, and data manipulation. While prior reviews of UAS security addressed these challenges at a conceptual level, a detailed, system-oriented analysis for resource-constrained sUAS remains lacking. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of cyber-security vulnerabilities and defenses tailored to the sUAS and UTM ecosystem. We organize existing research across the full cyber-physical stack, encompassing CNS, data links, sensing and perception, UTM cloud access, and software integrity layers, and classify attack vectors according to their technical targets and operational impacts. Correspondingly, we review defense mechanisms ranging from classical encryption and authentication to adaptive intrusion detection, lightweight cryptography, and secure firmware management. By mapping threats to mitigation strategies and evaluating their scalability and practical effectiveness, this work establishes a unified taxonomy and identifies open challenges for achieving safe, secure, and scalable sUAS operations within future UTM environments.

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preprint2026arXiv

ANDRE: An Attention-based Neuro-symbolic Differentiable Rule Extractor

Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) aims to learn interpretable first-order rules from data, but existing symbolic and neuro-symbolic approaches struggle to scale to noisy and probabilistic settings. Classical ILP relies on discrete combinatorial rule search and is brittle under uncertainty, while differentiable ILP methods typically depend on predefined rule templates or inaccurate fuzzy operators that suffer from vanishing gradients or poor approximation of logical structure when reasoning over probabilistic predicate valuations. This paper proposes an Attention-based Neuro-symbolic Differentiable Rule Extractor (ANDRE), a novel ILP framework that learns first-order logic programs by optimizing over a continuous rule space with attention-based logical operators. ANDRE replaces both rule templates and logical operators with fully differentiable, attention-driven conjunction and disjunction operators that approximate logical min-max semantics, enabling accurate, stable, and interpretable reasoning over probabilistic data. By softly selecting, negating, or excluding predicates within each rule, ANDRE supports flexible rule induction while preserving symbolic structure. Extensive experiments on classical ILP benchmarks, large-scale knowledge bases, and synthetic datasets with probabilistic predicates and noisy supervision demonstrate that ANDRE achieves competitive or superior predictive performance while reliably recovering correct symbolic rules under uncertainty. In particular, ANDRE remains robust to moderate label noise, substantially outperforming existing differentiable ILP methods in both rule extraction quality and stability.

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preprint2026arXiv

Separation Assurance between Heterogeneous Fleets of Small Unmanned Aerial Systems via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

In the envisioned future dense urban airspace, multiple companies will operate heterogeneous fleets of small unmanned aerial systems (sUASs), where each fleet includes several homogeneous aircraft with identical policies and configurations, e.g., equipage, sensing, and communication ranges, making tactical deconfliction highly complex for the aircraft. This paper aims to address two core questions: (1) Can tactical deconfliction policies converge or reach an equilibrium to ensure a conflict-free airspace when companies operate heterogeneous fleets of homogeneous aircraft? (2) If so, will the converged policies discriminate against companies operating sUASs with weaker configurations? We investigate a multi-agent reinforcement learning paradigm in which homogeneous aircraft within heterogeneous fleets operate concurrently to perform package delivery missions over Dallas, Texas, USA. An attention-enhanced Proximal Policy Optimization-based Advantage Actor-Critic (PPOA2C) framework is employed to resolve intra- and inter-fleet conflicts, with each fleet independently training its own policy while preserving privacy. Experimental results show that two fleets with distinct, shared PPOA2C policies can reach an equilibrium to maintain safe separation. While two PPOA2C policies outperform two strong rule-based baselines in terms of conflict resolution, a PPOA2C policy exhibits safer interaction with a rule-based policy, indicating adaptive capabilities of PPOA2C policies. Furthermore, we conducted extensive policy-configuration evaluations, which reveal that equilibria between similar policy types tend to favor fleets with stronger configurations. Even under similar configurations but different policy types, the equilibrium favors one of the heterogeneous policies, underscoring the need for fairness-aware conflict management in heterogeneous sUAS operations.

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