Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle navigation using reinforcement learning: A systematic review

F AlMahamid, K Grolinger - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2022 - Elsevier
There is an increasing demand for using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), known as drones,
in different applications such as packages delivery, traffic monitoring, search and rescue …

An efficient RRT-based framework for planning short and smooth wheeled robot motion under kinodynamic constraints

B Hu, Z Cao, MC Zhou - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a framework that extends a rapidly exploring random tree (RRT)
algorithm to plan the motion for a wheeled robot under kinodynamic constraints. Unlike …

[HTML][HTML] PX4 simulation results of a quadcopter with a disturbance-observer-based and PSO-optimized sliding mode surface controller

Y **g, X Wang, J Heredia-Juesas, C Fortner… - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
This work designed a disturbance-observer-based nonlinear sliding mode surface controller
(SMC) and validated the controller using a simulated PX4-conducted quadcopter. To …

[HTML][HTML] Sim-to-real deep reinforcement learning for safe end-to-end planning of aerial robots

HI Ugurlu, XH Pham, E Kayacan - Robotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this study, a novel end-to-end path planning algorithm based on deep reinforcement
learning is proposed for aerial robots deployed in dense environments. The learning agent …

A time-optimal trajectory planning strategy for an aircraft with a suspended payload via optimization and learning approaches

H Hua, Y Fang, X Zhang, C Qian - IEEE Transactions on Control …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a real-time interactive time-optimal trajectory planning (TOTP) strategy is
proposed for aircraft slung-load systems, in which the practical performance is guaranteed …

Aggressive maneuvering of a quadcopter via differential flatness-based fuzzy controllers: From tuning to experiments

C Guzay, T Kumbasar - Applied Soft Computing, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, the rapid development in contemporary technology has brought nano
quadcopters with high agility. This paper presents a new differential flatness-based Single …

Pencilnet: Zero-shot sim-to-real transfer learning for robust gate perception in autonomous drone racing

HX Pham, A Sarabakha… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In autonomous and mobile robotics, one of the main challenges is the robust on-the-fly
perception of the environment, which is often unknown and dynamic, like in autonomous …

Learning mixed strategies in trajectory games

L Peters, D Fridovich-Keil, L Ferranti… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
In multi-agent settings, game theory is a natural framework for describing the strategic
interactions of agents whose objectives depend upon one another's behavior. Trajectory …

Hierarchical cognitive control for unknown dynamic systems tracking

MB Radac, T Lala - Mathematics, 2021 - mdpi.com
A general control system tracking learning framework is proposed, by which an optimal
learned tracking behavior called 'primitive'is extrapolated to new unseen trajectories without …