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cs.RO2026

ASTER: Attitude-aware Suspended-payload Quadrotor Traversal via Efficient Reinforcement Learning

Dongcheng Cao, Jin Zhou, Shuo Li

Agile maneuvering of the quadrotor cable-suspended system is significantly hindered by its non-smooth hybrid dynamics. While model-free Reinforcement Learning (RL) circumvents expl…

cs.RO2026

MAVEN: A Meta-Reinforcement Learning Framework for Varying-Dynamics Expertise in Agile Quadrotor Maneuvers

Jin Zhou, Dongcheng Cao, Xian Wang +1

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for achieving online agile navigation with quadrotors. Despite this success, policies trained via standard RL typical…

cs.RO2026

Vision-Guided MPPI for Agile Drone Racing: Navigating Arbitrary Gate Poses via Neural Signed Distance Fields

Fangguo Zhao, Hanbing Zhang, Zhouheng Li +2

Autonomous drone racing requires the tight coupling of perception, planning, and control under extreme agility. However, recent approaches typically rely on precomputed spatial ref…

cs.RO2026

Online Trajectory Optimization for Arbitrary-Shaped Mobile Robots via Polynomial Separating Hypersurfaces

Shuoye Li, Zhiyuan Song, Yulin Li +2

An emerging class of trajectory optimization methods enforces collision avoidance by jointly optimizing the robot's configuration and a separating hyperplane. However, as linear se…

cs.RO2026

LOONG: Online Time-Optimal Autonomous Flight for MAVs in Cluttered Environments

Xin Guan, Fangguo Zhao, Qianyi Wang +3

Autonomous flight of micro air vehicles (MAVs) in unknown, cluttered environments remains challenging for time-critical missions due to conservative maneuvering strategies. This ar…

cs.RO2025

Rethinking Reference Trajectories in Agile Drone Racing: A Unified Reference-Free Model-Based Controller via MPPI

Fangguo Zhao, Xin Guan, Shuo Li

While model-based controllers have demonstrated remarkable performance in autonomous drone racing, their performance is often constrained by the reliance on pre-computed reference…