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Thesis etd-04082021-144632


Thesis type
Tesi di laurea magistrale
Author
BONSEMBIANTE, MARIO
URN
etd-04082021-144632
Thesis title
General neural controller for drone trajectories
Department
INFORMATICA
Course of study
INFORMATICA
Supervisors
relatore Bacciu, Davide
Keywords
  • dynamic generalization
  • MAV
  • quadrotor
  • reinforcement learning
Graduation session start date
07/05/2021
Availability
Full
Summary
Tracking a reference trajectory with a small quadrocopter is a very challenging task. Nowadays the states of the art in this task use classical control strategies like model predictive control(MPC).
In this work, we develop a reinforcement learning based approach for tracking trajectories. The model is trained completely in simulation. Furthermore, it is able to generalize the performance to different simulators, in particular on a simulator very close to the real world like RotorS. The model is also able to generalize to drones with different mass and arm length, outperforming the MPC. We show then that it is possible to develop a general neural controller that relies on full state information.
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