Guidance & Control Networks for Time-Optimal Quadcopter Flight

Reaching fast and autonomous flight requires computationally efficient and robust algorithms. To this end, we train Guidance & Control Networks to approximate optimal control policies ranging from energy-optimal to time-optimal flight. We show that the policies become more difficult to learn the closer we get to the time-optimal ’bang-bang’...

An Adaptive Control Strategy for Neural Network based Optimal Quadcopter Controllers

Developing optimal controllers for aggressive high speed quadcopter flight remains a major challenge in the field of robotics. Recent work has shown that neural networks trained with supervised learning are a good candidate for real-time optimal quadcopter control. In these methods, the networks (termed G\&CNets) are trained using optimal...