5 papers
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…
Breaking the Circle: An Autonomous Control-Switching Strategy for Stable Orographic Soaring in MAVs
Sunyou Hwang, Christophe De Wagter, Bart Remes +1
Orographic soaring can significantly extend the endurance of micro aerial vehicles (MAVs), but circling behavior, arising from control conflicts between the longitudinal and vertic…
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…
Neuromorphic Attitude Estimation and Control
Stein Stroobants, Christophe de Wagter, Guido C. H. E. De Croon
The real-world application of small drones is mostly hampered by energy limitations. Neuromorphic computing promises extremely energy-efficient AI for autonomous flight but is stil…
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…