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Fangguo Zhao

6 accepted papers

2026

Beyond Reference Trajectories: A Waypoint-Based Model Predictive Path Integral Control for Agile Drone Racing

ICRA 2026poster

While model-based controllers have demonstrated remarkable performance in autonomous drone racing, their performance is often constrained by the reliance on pre-computed reference trajectories. Conventional approaches, such as trajectory tracking, demand a dynamically feasible, full-state reference,…

Cited by 0Scholar
2025

Gate-Aware Online Planning for Two-Player Autonomous Drone Racing

ICRA 2025

The flying speed of autonomous quadrotors has increased significantly in the field of autonomous drone racing. However, most research primarily focuses on the aggressive flight of a single quadrotor, simplifying the racing gate traversal problem to a waypoint passing problem that neglects the orient

Cited by 5SourceScholar
2025

Learning Time-Optimal Online Replanning for Distributed Model Predictive Contouring Control of Quadrotors

ICRA 2025

Ahstract-Achieving time-optimal flight in real time for multi-drone systems presents significant challenges, particularly in scenarios requiring rapid responses or aggressive maneuvers. This paper introduces a novel framework that bridges the gap between time-optimal polynomial trajectory generation

Cited by 2SourceScholar
2025

Online Motion Planning for Quadrotor Multi-Point Navigation Using Efficient Imitation Learning-Based Strategy

IROS 2025

Over the past decade, there has been a remarkable surge in utilizing quadrotors for various purposes due to their simple structure and aggressive maneuverability. One of the key challenges is online time-optimal trajectory generation and control technique. This paper proposes an imitation learning-b

Cited by 1SourceScholar
2024

Priority-Based Deadlock Recovery for Distributed Swarm Obstacle Avoidance in Cluttered Environments

IROS 2024

We propose a novel hierarchical priority mechanism for deadlock recovery of distributed swarm via on-demand collision avoidance in cluttered dynamic environments. The proposed priority mechanism dynamically assigns certain priority and an optimized detour point for each agent based on its spatial co

Cited by 2SourceScholar
2023

Aggressive Trajectory Generation for a Swarm of Autonomous Racing Drones

IROS 2023poster

Autonomous drone racing is becoming an excellent platform to challenge quadrotors' autonomy techniques including planning, navigation and control technologies. However, most research on this topic mainly focuses on single drone scenarios. In this paper, we describe a novel time-optimal trajectory ge…

Cited by 6SourceScholar