Learning to fly—a gym environment with pybullet physics for reinforcement learning of multi-agent quadcopter control

J Panerati, H Zheng, SQ Zhou, J Xu… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic simulators are crucial for academic research and education as well as the
development of safety-critical applications. Reinforcement learning environments—simple …

A survey on the application of path-planning algorithms for multi-rotor UAVs in precision agriculture

A Basiri, V Mariani, G Silano, M Aatif… - The Journal of …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Multi-rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), although originally designed and developed
for defence and military purposes, in the last ten years have gained momentum, especially …

OmniDrones: An Efficient and Flexible Platform for Reinforcement Learning in Drone Control

B Xu, F Gao, C Yu, R Zhang, Y Wu… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we introduce OmniDrones, an efficient and flexible platform tailored for
reinforcement learning in drone control, built on Nvidia's Omniverse Isaac Sim. It employs a …

Microdrone-based indoor mapping with graph slam

S Karam, F Nex, BT Chidura, N Kerle - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Unmanned aerial vehicles offer a safe and fast approach to the production of three-
dimensional spatial data on the surrounding space. In this article, we present a low-cost …

Coverage path planning with semantic segmentation for UAV in PV plants

A Pérez-González, N Benítez-Montoya… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Solar energy is one of the most strategic energy sources for the world's economic
development. This has caused the number of solar photovoltaic plants to increase around …

Micro and macro quadcopter drones for indoor mapping to support disaster management

S Karam, F Nex, O Karlsson… - ISPRS Annals of …, 2022 - isprs-annals.copernicus.org
The use of drones to explore indoor spaces has gained attention and popularity for disaster
management and indoor navigation applications. In this paper we present the operations …

High-Fidelity Drone Simulation with Depth Camera Noise and Improved Air Drag Force Models

W Kim, T Luong, Y Ha, M Doh, JFM Yax, H Moon - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Drone simulations offer a safe environment for collecting data and testing algorithms.
However, the depth camera sensor in the simulation provides exact depth values without …

Reliability and availability prediction of embedded systems based on environment modeling and simulation

S Sinha, NK Goyal, R Mall - Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, 2021 - Elsevier
The embedded system developers often need to perform software testing even when the
target hardware is inaccessible. Due to the inaccessibility of the hardware, the hardware …

Sequential Manipulation Planning for Over-actuated UAMs

Y Su, J Li, Z Jiao, M Wang, C Chu, H Li, Y Zhu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We investigate the sequential manipulation planning problem for unmanned aerial
manipulators (UAMs). Unlike prior UAM work that primarily focuses on one-step …

Co-simulation platform for geometric design, trajectory control and guidance of racing drones

JM Castiblanco Quintero… - … Journal of Micro Air …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The design of racing drones brings quite a thrilling challenge from a flight dynamics point of
view. This work aims to offer a single-based simulation platform combining its geometric …