10 papers
Asymmetric physics enables efficient learning in quadrupedal robot swarms
Yuang Zhang, Yunlong Song, Zhihao He +7
Animal collectives navigate cluttered environments through local coordination, yet robot swarms still struggle to reproduce this capability in the physical world. End-to-end learni…
Autonomous FPV Flight with Translational Optical Flow and Uncertainty Mask
Yang Deng, Yu Hu, Feng Yu +2
Autonomous FPV quadrotor flight in complex environments using a monocular RGB camera as the sole exteroceptive sensor remains a fundamental challenge. Recent research has shown tha…
RoboWits: Unexpected Challenges for Robotic Creative Problem Solving
Chunru Lin, Hongxin Zhang, Fenghao Yu +5
The ability to reason, adapt, and creatively solve problems under unexpected challenges is essential for robots operating in real-world environments. However, current robotic bench…
Vision-Based End-to-End Learning for UAV Traversal of Irregular Gaps via Differentiable Simulation
Linzuo Zhang, Yu Hu, Feng Yu +3
-Navigation through narrow and irregular gaps is an essential skill in autonomous drones for applications such as inspection, search-and-rescue, and disaster response. However, tra…
QuadAgent: A Responsive Agent System for Vision-Language Guided Quadrotor Agile Flight
Ao Zhuang, Feng Yu, Tianbao Zhang +2
We present QuadAgent, a training-free agent system for agile quadrotor flight guided by vision-language inputs. Unlike prior end-to-end or serial agent approaches, QuadAgent decoup…
Vector Field Augmented Differentiable Policy Learning for Vision-Based Drone Racing
Yang Su, Feng Yu, Yu Hu +4
Autonomous drone racing in complex environments requires agile, high-speed flight while maintaining reliable obstacle avoidance. Differentiable-physics-based policy learning has re…