arXiv:2606. 31199v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The control of agile quadrotors in dynamic and uncertain environments remains an open area of investigation to this day, particularly when the complete system dynamics are partially known or highly nonlinear.
arXiv:2606. 08714v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multirotors are widely used in applications ranging from surveillance to precision agriculture, yet conventional designs remain limited by their under-actuation.
arXiv:2606. 13794v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Nonlinear dynamics and the strong couplings that arise between multiple effectors undermine the assumptions behind conventional, linear control allocation techniques.
arXiv:2607. 01528v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small multirotor aircraft are increasingly tasked with operations in the atmospheric boundary layer, where turbulent winds comparable to the vehicle's airspeed degrade trajectory tracking and can defeat conventional feedback control.
arXiv:2505. 18201v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Controlling flapping-wing drones requires controllers that handle time-varying, nonlinear, underactuated dynamics from incomplete, noisy sensor data.
arXiv:2512. 18333v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper proposes a new Reinforcement Learning (RL) based control architecture for quadrotors.
The paper introduces a robust and adaptive model predictive control framework for uncertain nonlinear systems with bounded disturbances and unmodeled nonlinearities, leveraging Gaussian Processes to learn dynamics from noisy measurements. It derives robust predictions for GP models using contraction metrics, integrating them into the MPC formulation to ensure recursive feasibility, robust constraint satisfaction, and convergence to a reference state with high probability. A numerical example involving a planar quadrotor experiencing challenging ground effects demonstrates significant performance gains from the robust prediction method and online learning.
FALCON‑S is a modular, high‑fidelity simulator designed for fixed‑wing aerial robots operating near the ground. It models full 6DoF rigid‑body physics, semi‑empirical ground‑effect aerodynamics, actuator dynamics, sensor noise, and environmental disturbances, and supports both CPU and GPU backends via Torch and NVIDIA Warp for large‑scale reinforcement learning and optimal control. The framework offers a unified interface for various controllers, including RL and optical control algorithms, and allows cross‑validation with X‑Plane and JSBSim for engineering integration and visual fidelity.
arXiv:2512. 13356v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper proposes a reinforcement learning (RL) framework for controlling and stabilizing the Twin Rotor Aerodynamic System (TRAS) at specific pitch and azimuth angles and tracking a given trajectory.
CALOS is a runtime safety layer for quadrotor control that enforces attitude constraints without altering the underlying deep reinforcement learning algorithm. It formulates tilt-angle inequalities and a Lyapunov descent condition into a single quadratic program, solved exactly via active-set enumeration over a three-dimensional torque space. In NVIDIA Isaac Lab trajectory-tracking tasks, CALOS reduces lateral tracking error by 55‑60% compared to an unconstrained Proximal Policy Optimization baseline and eliminates attitude-constraint violations during training.
arXiv:2606. 23444v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accurate dynamics models are critical for informed decision-making in robotic systems, particularly for agile aerial vehicles operating under uncertainty.
arXiv:2607. 03132v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) in industrial control often suffers from lag and overshoot due to purely reactive control based on the current tracking error.
arXiv:2609.39151v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Does memory-dependent control need nonlinear recurrent dynamics? We study simulated air-hockey defence under temporary loss of puck tracking. A Dream...