Autonomous Helicopter Flight

Goal

The goal of this project is to push the state-of-the-art in autonomous helicopter flight: extreme aerobatics under computer control.

Publications

[26] Learning Parameterized Maneuvers for Autonomous Helicopter Flight,
Jie Tang, Arjun Singh, Nimbus Goehausen and Pieter Abbeel.
In the proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2010. (pdf)

[23] Autonomous Helicopter Aerobatics through Apprenticeship Learning,
Pieter Abbeel, Adam Coates and Andrew Y. Ng.
In the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), Volume 29 Issue 13 November 2010. (pdf, videos)

[I3] Apprenticeship learning for helicopter control,
Adam Coates, Pieter Abbeel and Andrew Y. Ng.
In Communications of the ACM , July 2009. (ACM)

[18] Autonomous Autorotation of an RC Helicopter, IFRR Student Fellowship Award,
Pieter Abbeel, Adam Coates, Timothy Hunter and Andrew Y. Ng.
In 11th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER) , 2008. (pdf, supplementary material)

[17] Learning for Control from Muliple Demonstrations, Best Paper Award: Best Application Paper,
Adam Coates, Pieter Abbeel and Andrew Y. Ng.
In Proceedings of ICML, 2008. (ps, pdf, supplementary material)

[13] An Application of Reinforcement Learning to Aerobatic Helicopter Flight,
Pieter Abbeel, Adam Coates, Morgan Quigley and Andrew Y. Ng.
In NIPS 19, 2007. (ps, pdf)

[8] Learning Vehicular Dynamics, with Application to Modeling Helicopters,
Pieter Abbeel, Varun Ganapathi and Andrew Y. Ng.
In NIPS 18, 2006. (ps, .pdf)

Videos