5 papers
Data-Driven MPC for Quadrotors
Guillem Torrente, Elia Kaufmann, Philipp Foehn +1
Aerodynamic forces render accurate high-speed trajectory tracking with quadrotors extremely challenging. These complex aerodynamic effects become a significant disturbance at high…
Deep Drone Acrobatics
Elia Kaufmann, Antonio Loquercio, René Ranftl +3
Performing acrobatic maneuvers with quadrotors is extremely challenging. Acrobatic flight requires high thrust and extreme angular accelerations that push the platform to its physi…
Deep Drone Racing: From Simulation to Reality with Domain Randomization
Antonio Loquercio, Elia Kaufmann, René Ranftl +3
Dynamically changing environments, unreliable state estimation, and operation under severe resource constraints are fundamental challenges that limit the deployment of small autono…
Beauty and the Beast: Optimal Methods Meet Learning for Drone Racing
Elia Kaufmann, Mathias Gehrig, Philipp Foehn +4
Autonomous micro aerial vehicles still struggle with fast and agile maneuvers, dynamic environments, imperfect sensing, and state estimation drift. Autonomous drone racing brings t…
Deep Drone Racing: Learning Agile Flight in Dynamic Environments
Elia Kaufmann, Antonio Loquercio, Rene Ranftl +3
Autonomous agile flight brings up fundamental challenges in robotics, such as coping with unreliable state estimation, reacting optimally to dynamically changing environments, and…