Bio-inspired Time-to-contact Control for Autonomous Quadrotor Vehicles
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper presents a bio-inspired flight guidance and control system for quadrotor UAVs. Inspired by research showing that animals use the perceived instantaneous timeto-contact with a target to control certain time-sensitive maneuvers, this research applies time-to-contact control for the autonomous landing of quadrotors. Strategies are developed for the planning and control of two-dimensional landing maneuvers under a time-to-contact control framework. The proposed scheme is implemented on a small research quadrotor and assessed through extensive simulations and flight testing. This control methodology is determined to have benefits in its ability to arrive at a destination in a predefined time, but has certain practical limitations compared to conventional PID position control.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it