Structured Online Learning for Low-Level Control of Quadrotors
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Abstract
Although effective low-level control configurations of quadrotors are already known, the tuning of such controllers requires extensive expert knowledge which can impede their design and deployment. Considering the growing demand for quadrotors in different environments, the importance of an automated approach to designing the controller cannot be neglected. For this purpose, recently, a successful implementation of a model-based reinforcement learning technique was demonstrated by training a neural network using only flight data. In this paper, as an alternative to the neural network approach, we employ a structured model parameterized by a set of bases to identify the governing dynamics of quadrotors. The model accompanied by a value function defined in the product space of the bases leads to an analytical update rule for the controller that can be effectively solved by ODE solvers. The runtime results confirm that the controller together with a recursive least squares identifier can be used as a lightweight framework for learning to stabilize an unknown quadrotor at a given position. In the simulation results, a nonlinear model of the quadrotor is exploited that replaces the real unknown quadrotor. The flight data and 3D graphical simulation are generated to verify the presented learning approach.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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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