Reinforcement Learning for Flight Control of the Flying V

Recent research on the Flying V - a flying-wing long-range passenger aircraft - shows that its airframe design is 25% more aerodynamically efficient than a conventional tube-and-wing airframe. The Flying V is therefore a promising contribution towards reduction in climate impact of long-haul flights. However, some design aspects of the Flying V...

Safe Curriculum Learning for Linear Systems With Unknown Dynamics in Primary Flight Control

Safe Curriculum Learning constitutes a collection of methods that aim at enabling Rein- forcement Learning (RL) algorithms on complex systems and tasks whilst considering the safety and efficiency aspect of the learning process. On the one hand, curricular reinforce- ment learning approaches divide the task into more gradual complexity stages to...

Artificial Potential Fields for Safe Reinforcement Learning: in Flight Control Systems

Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods have become a topic of interest for performing guidance and navigation tasks, due to potential adaptability and autonomy improvements within dynamic systems. Nevertheless, a core component of RL is an agent exploring the environment it finds itself in, resulting in an intrinsic violation of the agent's safety....