3 papers
cs.RO2026
MonoRace: Winning Champion-Level Drone Racing with Robust Monocular AI
Stavrow A. Bahnam, Robin Ferede, Till M. Blaha +6
Autonomous drone racing represents a major frontier in robotics research. It requires an Artificial Intelligence (AI) that can run on board light-weight flying robots under tight r…
cs.RO2025
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…
cs.RO2025
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…