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  1. Battery-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Aggressive Quadrotor Flight

    Sep 29, 2026Alejandro Sanchez Roncero, Olov Andersson, Petter OgrenRL ControlAutonomous Drone Racing

    Department of Robotics, Perception and Learning, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden

  2. DQ-MPCC: Dual-Quaternion MPCC for Quadrotor Racing

    Sep 29, 2026Bryan S. Guevara, Luis F. Recalde, Guanrui Li +1Autonomous Drone RacingModel Predictive Control

    Laboratory of Systems and Robotics Engineering (LASER), Center of Informatics (CI), Federal University of Para´ıba (UFPB), Jo˜ao Pessoa, PB 58051-900, Brazil · Department of Robotics Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, MA 01609, USA

  3. Bridging Performance and Generalization in Reinforcement Learning for Agile Flight

    Jun 25, 2026Jonathan Green, Jiaxu Xing, Nico Messikommer +2RL for RoboticsAerial Robotics

    Robotics and Perception Group, University of Zurich

  4. CA-AC-MPC: CUDA-Accelerated Actor-Critic Model Predictive Control

    May 27, 2026Antoonio Buo, Vittorio Cammarota, Michele Avagnale +3Autonomous Drone RacingGPU Acceleration

    PRISMA Lab and CREATE Consortium, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

  5. Superhuman Safe and Agile Racing through Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    May 21, 2026Ismail Geles, Leonard Bauersfeld, Markus Wulfmeier +1Aerial RoboticsMulti-Agent Coordination

    Robotics and Perception Group, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland · Google DeepMind, London, United Kingdom

  6. Factored Diffusion Policies:Compositionally Generalized Robot Control with a Single Score Network

    May 21, 2026Sayan Mitra, Ege Yuceel, Noah Giles +1Robotic ControlAutonomous Drone Racing

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  7. Fuzzy Logic Theory-based Adaptive Reward Shaping for Robust Reinforcement Learning (FARS)

    Apr 17, 2026Hürkan Şahin, Van Huyen Dang, Erdi Sayar +2Reward ShapingAutonomous Drone Racing

    Automatic Control Group (RAT), Paderborn University, 33098 Paderborn, Germany

  8. Dual Pose-Graph Semantic Localization for Vision-Based Autonomous Drone Racing

    Apr 16, 2026David Perez-Saura, Miguel Fernandez-Cortizas, Alvaro J. Gaona +1Pose Graph OptimizationAutonomous Racing

    Computer Vision & Aerial Robotics Group, Universidad Polit´ecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain · Automation and Robotics Group (ARG-SnT), University of Luxembourg – SnT, Luxembourg

  9. Vector Field Augmented Differentiable Policy Learning for Vision-Based Drone Racing

    Mar 9, 2026Yang Su, Feng Yu, Yu Hu +4Autonomous Drone RacingPolicy Learning

    The authors are with the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

  10. Vision-Guided MPPI for Agile Drone Racing: Navigating Arbitrary Gate Poses via Neural Signed Distance Fields

    Mar 7, 2026Fangguo Zhao, Hanbing Zhang, Zhouheng Li +2Autonomous Drone RacingAerial Robotics

    College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

  11. Robust Tightly-Coupled Filter-Based Monocular Visual-Inertial State Estimation and Graph-Based Evaluation for Autonomous Drone Racing

    Mar 3, 2026Maulana Bisyir Azhari, Donghun Han, Sung Jun Park +1Autonomous Drone RacingError-State Kalman Filtering

    Unmanned Systems Research Group (USRG), School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, South Korea.

  12. Curriculum Reinforcement Learning for Quadrotor Racing with Random Obstacles

    Feb 27, 2026Fangyu Sun, Fanxing Li, Yu Hu +4Autonomous Drone RacingAutonomous Racing

    School of Automation and Perception, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China · Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands