
Talk is Flight: How RALLY Bridges Language and Learning in UAV Swarms
When language models take flight, consensus becomes not just possible, but programmable. Modern UAV swarms face the daunting task of coordinating across partial observability, adversarial threats, and shifting missions. Traditional Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) offers adaptability, but falters when role differentiation or semantic reasoning is required. Large Language Models (LLMs), meanwhile, understand tasks and intent—but lack grounded, online learning. RALLY (Role-Adaptive LLM-Driven Yoked Navigation) is the first framework to successfully integrate these two paradigms, enabling real-time, role-aware collaboration in UAV swarms. ...