Toward Real-World Implementation of Deep Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Based Autonomous Drone Navigation with Mission

dc.contributor.authorNavardi, Mozhgan
dc.contributor.authorDixit, Prakhar
dc.contributor.authorManjunath, Tejaswini
dc.contributor.authorWaytowich, Nicholas R.
dc.contributor.authorMohsenin, Tinoosh
dc.contributor.authorOates, Tim
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-19T20:44:03Z
dc.date.available2022-07-19T20:44:03Z
dc.description.abstractThough high fidelity simulators for drones and other aerial vehicles look exceptionally realistic, using simulators to train control policies and then transferring them to the real world does not work well. One reason is that real images, especially on low-power drones, produce output that look different from simulated images, ignoring for the moment that simulated worlds themselves look rather different from real ones at the level that matters for machine learning. To overcome this limitation, we focus on using object detectors that tend to transfer well from simulation to the real world, and extract features of detected objects to serve as input to reinforcement learning algorithms. Empirical results with a low-power drone show promising results.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis project was sponsored by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory under Cooperative Agreement Number W911NF2120076.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://sim2real.github.io/assets/papers/2022/navardi.pdfen_US
dc.format.extent3 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articlesen_US
dc.genrepreprintsen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2lk1e-eyau
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/25197
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
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dc.rightsThis work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law.en_US
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dc.titleToward Real-World Implementation of Deep Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Based Autonomous Drone Navigation with Missionen_US
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