2024
End-to-End Thermal Updraft Detection and Estimation for Autonomous Soaring Using Temporal Convolutional Networks
ICRA 2024poster
Exploiting thermal updrafts to gain altitude can significantly extend the endurance of fixed-wing aircraft, as has been demonstrated by human glider pilots for decades. In this work, we present a novel end-to-end deep learning approach for the simultaneous detection of multiple thermal updrafts and…