arXiv Machine Learning

Embodiment-conditioned Generalist Control for Multirotor Aerial Robots

arXiv:2606. 10857v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a generalist position control policy capable of controlling arbitrary multirotor configurations of a certain rotor count (e.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Autonomous Aerial Manipulation via Contextual Contrastive Meta Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606. 08533v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly being deployed in logistics, service robotics, and other real-world applications, creating a growing demand for autonomous payload acquisition and delivery.

By Lixuan Jin, Bingxuan Lan, Xinyi Bao, Xiangyuan Xie, Chunjie Zhang, Zheng Chen, Tianshuo Liu, Ruijie Tian, Jinyu Ru, Gang Wang, Lei Yuan, Yang Yu
arXiv AI
Sep 17

CALOS: Control-Affine Lyapunov On-manifold Safety Layer for Safe Deep Reinforcement Learning for Quadrotors

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.

By Fabrizio Cesareo, Sebastiano Mengozzi, Nicola Mimmo, Andrea Acquaviva
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 17

AgilePE: Autonomous UAV Pursuit-Evasion via Self-Play Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608. 14135v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous pursuit-evasion is a fundamental challenge for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), requiring rapid decision-making under tightly coupled dynamics and continuously changing opponent behaviors.

By Wenhao Tang, Tianyang Chen, Zhejun Cui, Boyuan An, Jiayu Chen, Ruize Zhang, Huidong Liu, Tianyue Wu, Qingmin Liao, Fei Gao, Yu Wang, Chao Yu
arXiv AI
Jul 9

Vision Language Action (VLA) Models for Unmanned Aerial Robotics and Bimanual Manipulation: A Review

arXiv:2607. 06706v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision Language Action (VLA) models unify visual perception, natural-language understanding, and action generation within a single foundation model, allowing a robot to follow instructions such as fold the towel or fly to the red building directly from camera images.

By Inkyu Sa, Chanoh Park, Hea-Min Lee, Donghee Noh, Ho Seok Ahn