Agile Autonomy: Learning High-Speed Vision-Based Flight

This book presents the astonishing potential of deep sensorimotor policies for agile vision-based quadrotor flight. Quadrotors are among the most agile and dynamic machines ever created. However, developing fully autonomous quadrotors that can approach or even outperform the agility of birds or human drone pilots with only onboard sensing and computing is challenging and still unsolved.

Deep sensorimotor policies, generally trained in simulation, enable autonomous quadrotors to fly faster an...