Agilicious : Open-source and open-hardware agile quadrotor for vision-based flight

Autonomous, agile quadrotor flight raises fundamental challenges for robotics research in terms of perception, planning, learning, and control. A versatile and standardized platform is needed to accelerate research and let practitioners focus on the core problems. To this end, we present Agilicious, a codesigned hardware and software framework tailored to autonomous, agile quadrotor flight. It is completely open source and open hardware and supports both model-based and neural network-based controllers. Also, it provides high thrust-to-weight and torque-to-inertia ratios for agility, onboard vision sensors, graphics processing unit (GPU)-accelerated compute hardware for real-time perception and neural network inference, a real-time flight controller, and a versatile software stack. In contrast to existing frameworks, Agilicious offers a unique combination of flexible software stack and high-performance hardware. We compare Agilicious with prior works and demonstrate it on different agile tasks, using both model-based and neural network-based controllers. Our demonstrators include trajectory tracking at up to 5g and 70 kilometers per hour in a motion capture system, and vision-based acrobatic flight and obstacle avoidance in both structured and unstructured environments using solely onboard perception. Last, we demonstrate its use for hardware-in-the-loop simulation in virtual reality environments. Because of its versatility, we believe that Agilicious supports the next generation of scientific and industrial quadrotor research.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:7

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Science robotics - 7(2022), 67 vom: 22. Juni, Seite eabl6259

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Foehn, Philipp [VerfasserIn]
Kaufmann, Elia [VerfasserIn]
Romero, Angel [VerfasserIn]
Penicka, Robert [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Sihao [VerfasserIn]
Bauersfeld, Leonard [VerfasserIn]
Laengle, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Cioffi, Giovanni [VerfasserIn]
Song, Yunlong [VerfasserIn]
Loquercio, Antonio [VerfasserIn]
Scaramuzza, Davide [VerfasserIn]

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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 24.06.2022

Date Revised 19.07.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1126/scirobotics.abl6259

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM34253047X