7 papers
FLOAT Drone for Physical Interaction: Lateral Airflow Reduction, Wrench Modeling, and Adaptive Control
Junxiao Lin, Kehan Zhou, Shuhang Ji +4
Aerial physical interaction represents a promising direction for next-generation unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), but it requires an aerial platform that can exert contact forces w…
Towards Precise Intent-Aligned VLA Aerial Navigation via Expert-Guided GRPO
Tianyang Chen, Wenjun Li, Xin zhou +2
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models offer a promising end-to-end paradigm for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to accomplish complex tasks specified by fine-grained instructions. Ho…
Precise Aggressive Aerial Maneuvers with Sensorimotor Policies
Tianyue Wu, Guangtong Xu, Zihan Wang +6
Precise aggressive maneuvers with lightweight onboard sensors remains a key bottleneck in fully exploiting the maneuverability of drones. Such maneuvers are critical for expanding…
Flying in Clutter on Monocular RGB by Learning in 3D Radiance Fields with Domain Adaptation
Xijie Huang, Jinhan Li, Tianyue Wu +3
Modern autonomous navigation systems predominantly rely on lidar and depth cameras. However, a fundamental question remains: Can flying robots navigate in clutter using solely mono…
Automatic Generation of Aerobatic Flight in Complex Environments via Diffusion Models
Yuhang Zhong, Anke Zhao, Tianyue Wu +2
Performing striking aerobatic flight in complex environments demands manual designs of key maneuvers in advance, which is intricate and time-consuming as the horizon of the traject…
FLOAT Drone: A Fully-actuated Coaxial Aerial Robot for Close-Proximity Operations
Junxiao Lin, Shuhang Ji, Yuze Wu +3
How to endow aerial robots with the ability to operate in close proximity remains an open problem. The core challenges lie in the propulsion system's dual-task requirement: generat…