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Adaptive Surrogate Gradients for Sequential Reinforcement Learning in Spiking Neural Networks
Korneel Van den Berghe, Stein Stroobants, Vijay Janapa Reddi +1
Neuromorphic computing systems are set to revolutionize energy-constrained robotics by achieving orders-of-magnitude efficiency gains, while enabling native temporal processing. Sp…
SkyDreamer: Interpretable End-to-End Vision-Based Drone Racing with Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
Aderik Verraest, Stavrow Bahnam, Robin Ferede +2
Autonomous drone racing (ADR) systems have recently achieved champion-level performance, yet remain highly specific to drone racing. While end-to-end vision-based methods promise b…
Whisker-based Tactile Flight for Tiny Drones
Chaoxiang Ye, Guido de Croon, Salua Hamaza
Tiny flying robots hold great potential for search-and-rescue, safety inspections, and environmental monitoring, but their small size and limited computational resources constrain…
Depth Transfer: Learning to See Like a Simulator for Real-World Drone Navigation
Hang Yu, Christophe De Wagter, Guido C. H. E de Croon
Sim-to-real transfer is a fundamental challenge in robot reinforcement learning. Discrepancies between simulation and reality can significantly impair policy performance, especiall…
Self-Supervised Monocular Visual Drone Model Identification through Improved Occlusion Handling
Stavrow A. Bahnam, Christophe De Wagter, Guido C. H. E. de Croon
Ego-motion estimation is vital for drones when flying in GPS-denied environments. Vision-based methods struggle when flight speed increases and close-by objects lead to difficult v…
One Net to Rule Them All: Domain Randomization in Quadcopter Racing Across Different Platforms
Robin Ferede, Till Blaha, Erin Lucassen +2
In high-speed quadcopter racing, finding a single controller that works well across different platforms remains challenging. This work presents the first neural network controller…
Multi-objective Evolution of Drone Morphology
Elijah H. W. Ang, Christophe De Wagter, Guido C. H. E. de Croon
The design of multicopter drones has remained almost the same since its inception. While conventional designs, such as the quadcopter, work well in many cases, they may not be opti…