Radio World

A Class on Predicting FM Radio Signals

In my latest Signal Spot, I had my Villanova students explore machine learning techniques to see if we could accurately ...
IEEE

Actor–Critic Model Predictive Control: Differentiable Optimization Meets Reinforcement Learning for Agile Flight

Abstract: A key open challenge in agile quadrotor flight is how to combine the flexibility and task-level generality of model-free reinforcement learning (RL) with the structure and online replanning ...
IEEE

SM-NMPC: Sliding Mode-Based Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for UAVs Under Degraded Motor on Microcontrollers

Abstract: This paper presents a novel Sliding Mode-Based Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (SM-NMPC) for controlling Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) such as Quadrotors and a 10-propeller drone ...
eLife

Beyond the Focus of Expansion: Retinal curl as a functional signal for heading estimation

This study provides an important and biologically plausible account of how human perceptual judgments of heading direction are influenced by a specific pattern of motion in optic flow fields known as ...