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Possibly the coolest thing ive seen at #icra2026 From Direct Drive Innovation
Michael Cho - Rbt/Acc31,215 views • 6 days ago
We are excited to share our #ICRA2026 paper "Dream to Fly: Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Based Drone Flight"! Paper: Video: Can we use Model-Based #ReinforcementLearning (MBRL) to fly a drone from pixels to commands? In this work, we train quadrotor navigation policies from scratch using #WorldModels, mapping raw onboard camera pixels directly to control commands, much like a human pilot! While model-free methods like PPO are sample-inefficient and struggle in this setting, we leverage #MBRL to train visuomotor policies capable of agile flight through a racetrack using only raw pixel observations, no explicit state estimation needed. A key finding: because our policies are trained end-to-end directly from pixels, we no longer need the perception-aware reward term used in previous methods. Instead, this behavior emerges naturally! The policies learn to guide the camera toward feature-rich areas of the observation space on their own. Kudos to Ángel Romero Ashwin Shenai Ismail Geles Elie Aljalbout Reference: "Dream to Fly: Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Based Drone Flight" Angel Romero*, Ashwin Shenai*, Ismail Geles, Elie Aljalbout, Davide Scaramuzza IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Vienna, 2026. European Research Council (ERC) AUTOASSESS UZH IfI University of Zurich UZH Science Prophesee SynSense UZH Space Hub Swiss Robotics NCCR Robotics
Davide Scaramuzza15,487 views • 1 month ago
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