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We present a system that enables an autonomous small-scale RC car to drive aggressively from visual observations using reinforcement learning (RL). Our system, FastRLAP (faster lap), trains autonomously in the real world, without human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Kyle Stachowicz , Dhruv Shah , Arjun Bhorkar , Ilya Kostrikov , Sergey Levine

We apply a reinforcement meta-learning framework to optimize an integrated and adaptive guidance and flight control system for an air-to-air missile. The system is implemented as a policy that maps navigation system outputs directly to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-05 Brian Gaudet , Roberto Furfaro

This paper addresses a drone ball-balancing task, in which a drone stabilizes a ball atop a movable beam through cable-based interaction. We propose a hierarchical control framework that decouples high-level balancing policy from low-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Mingjiang Liu , Hailong Huang

Reinforcement learning (RL) holds great promise for enabling autonomous acquisition of complex robotic manipulation skills, but realizing this potential in real-world settings has been challenging. We present a human-in-the-loop…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Jianlan Luo , Charles Xu , Jeffrey Wu , Sergey Levine

The objective of the project is to explore synergies between classical control algorithms such as PID and contemporary reinforcement learning algorithms to come up with a pragmatic control mechanism to control the CrazyFlie 2.X quadrotor.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Arshad Javeed , Valentín López Jiménez

This investigation introduces a novel deep reinforcement learning-based suite to control floating platforms in both simulated and real-world environments. Floating platforms serve as versatile test-beds to emulate micro-gravity environments…

Deep Reinforcement Learning is quickly becoming a popular method for training autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Our work analyzes the effects of measurement uncertainty on the performance of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Bhaskar Joshi , Dhruv Kapur , Harikumar Kandath

The rapid growth of the low-altitude economy has driven the widespread adoption of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This growing deployment presents new challenges for UAV trajectory planning in complex urban environments. However, existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yanwei Gong , Junchao Fan , Ruichen Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Yingying Yao , Xiaolin Chang

Urban autonomous driving decision making is challenging due to complex road geometry and multi-agent interactions. Current decision making methods are mostly manually designing the driving policy, which might result in sub-optimal solutions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Jianyu Chen , Bodi Yuan , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Reinforcement learning (RL) policies deployed in safety-critical systems, such as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation in dynamic airspace, are vulnerable to out-ofdistribution (OOD) adversarial attacks in the observation space. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Deepak Kumar Panda , Adolfo Perrusquia , Weisi Guo

Reinforcement Learning (RL) offers a promising solution to enable evolutionary automated driving. However, the conventional RL method is always concerned with risk performance. The updated policy may not obtain a performance enhancement,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Jia Hu , Xuerun Yan , Tian Xu , Haoran Wang

Planning safe trajectories under uncertain and dynamic conditions makes the autonomous driving problem significantly complex. Current sampling-based methods such as Rapidly Exploring Random Trees (RRTs) are not ideal for this problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Kaleb Ben Naveed , Zhiqian Qiao , John M. Dolan

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful tool for optimal control that has found great success in Atari games, the game of Go, robotic control, and building optimization. RL is also very brittle; agents often overfit to their training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Doseok Jang , Larry Yan , Lucas Spangher , Costas Spanos

In this paper, we present our proposed approach for active tracking to increase the autonomy of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) using event cameras, low-energy imaging sensors that offer significant advantages in speed and dynamic range.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ala Souissi , Hajer Fradi , Panagiotis Papadakis

With the development of deep representation learning, the domain of reinforcement learning (RL) has become a powerful learning framework now capable of learning complex policies in high dimensional environments. This review summarises deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 B Ravi Kiran , Ibrahim Sobh , Victor Talpaert , Patrick Mannion , Ahmad A. Al Sallab , Senthil Yogamani , Patrick Pérez

Quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed in complex missions that demand reliable autonomous navigation and robust obstacle avoidance. However, traditional modular pipelines often incur cumulative latency, whereas…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jiarui Zhang , Chengyong Lei , Chengjiang Dai , Lijie Wang , Zhichao Han , Fei Gao

The real power of artificial intelligence appears in reinforcement learning, which is computationally and physically more sophisticated due to its dynamic nature. Rotation and injection are some of the proven ways in active flow control for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-02 Kamyar Dobakhti , Jafar Ghazanfarian

We propose a Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) controller-based coaching scheme to expedite reinforcement learning (RL).

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Liping Bai

Recently, needs for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that are attachable to the wall have been highlighted. As one of the ways to address the need, researches on various tilting multirotors that can increase maneuverability has been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Hyungyu Lee , Myeongwoo Jeong , Chanyoung Kim , Hyungtae Lim , Changgue Park , Sungwon Hwang , Hyun Myung

We apply reinforcement learning (RL) to robotics tasks. One of the drawbacks of traditional RL algorithms has been their poor sample efficiency. One approach to improve the sample efficiency is model-based RL. In our model-based RL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Adithya Ramesh , Balaraman Ravindran