Autonomous Flight Arcade: Reinforcement Learning for End-to-End Control of Fixed-Wing Aircraft

In this paper, we present the Autonomous Flight Arcade (AFA), a suite of robust environments for end-to-end control of fixed-wing aircraft and quadcopter drones. These environments are playable by both humans and artificial agents, making them useful for varied tasks including reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and human experiments. Additionally, we show that interpretable policies can be learned through the Neural Circuit Policy architecture on these environments. Finally, we present baselines of both human and AI performance on the Autonomous Flight Arcade environments.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2021

Author dc:creator

• Wrafter, Daniel

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Rus, Daniela L.

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
• Copyright MIT

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/139297

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/139297