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Reinforcement Learning for Drone Racing
Reinforcement Learning for Drone Racing
Keywords: reinforcement learning, drone racing
In drone racing, human pilots navigate quadrotor drones as quickly as possible through a sequence of gates arranged in a 3D track. Inspired by the impressive flight performance of human pilots, the goal of this project is to train a deep sensorimotor policy that can complete a given track as fast as possible. To this end, the policy directly predicts low-level control commands from noisy odometry data.
Provided with an in-house drone simulator, the student investigates state-of-the-art reinforcement learning algorithms and reward designs for the task of drone racing. The ultimate goal is to outperform human pilots on a simulated track.
Applicants should have strong experience in C++ and python programming. Reinforcement learning and robotics background are required.
In drone racing, human pilots navigate quadrotor drones as quickly as possible through a sequence of gates arranged in a 3D track. Inspired by the impressive flight performance of human pilots, the goal of this project is to train a deep sensorimotor policy that can complete a given track as fast as possible. To this end, the policy directly predicts low-level control commands from noisy odometry data.
Provided with an in-house drone simulator, the student investigates state-of-the-art reinforcement learning algorithms and reward designs for the task of drone racing. The ultimate goal is to outperform human pilots on a simulated track.
Applicants should have strong experience in C++ and python programming. Reinforcement learning and robotics background are required.
Find the fastest possible trajectory through a drone racing track using reinforcement learning. Investigate different reward formulations for the task of drone racing. Compare the resulting trajectory with other trajectory planning methods, e.g., model-based path planning algorithms or optimization-based algorithms.
Find the fastest possible trajectory through a drone racing track using reinforcement learning. Investigate different reward formulations for the task of drone racing. Compare the resulting trajectory with other trajectory planning methods, e.g., model-based path planning algorithms or optimization-based algorithms.