alt.hn

8/16/2026 at 1:12:34 PM

A recipe for drone racing with reinforcement learning

https://mrandri19.github.io/2026/07/19/drone-racing-with-reinforcement-learning.html

by daww

8/16/2026 at 1:15:39 PM

Hi HN, Andrea (the author) here.

This is the last post of my series on quadcopter simulation and (Reinforcement Learning based) control.

This post is less educational that the other ones and more like a recipe, hope it'll be useful/interesting for others too!

by daww

8/19/2026 at 6:18:09 PM

I was glad to see it's a simulated environment. Otherwise, RL'ing your way to drone supremacy is going to get really expensive.

by CamperBob2

8/20/2026 at 6:55:37 PM

haha definitely, PPO is not the most sample efficient method for sure

by daww

8/19/2026 at 6:19:13 PM

Only one million crashes until it learns to hover, lol

by isoprophlex