arxivcs.RO2026-06-25
Bridging Performance and Generalization in Reinforcement Learning for Agile Flight
Jonathan Green, Jiaxu Xing, Nico Messikommer, Angel Romero, Davide Scaramuzza
Autonomous drone racing is a fundamentally challenging regime for autonomous aerial robots, requiring time-optimal control while operating under persistent actuation saturation. While reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved human-level performance in this domain, current methods…