Autonomous Drone Racing with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Yunlong Song,Mats Steinweg,Elia Kaufmann,Davide Scaramuzza,Yunlong Song,Mats Steinweg,Elia Kaufmann,Davide Scaramuzza

In many robotic tasks, such as autonomous drone racing, the goal is to travel through a set of waypoints as fast as possible. A key challenge for this task is planning the timeoptimal trajectory, which is typically solved by assuming perfect knowledge of the waypoints to pass in advance. The resulting solution is either highly specialized for a single-track layout, or suboptimal due to simplifying...