RTK-Vision PPO for Autonomous Micro UAV Recovery on an Airborne Carrier

arXiv:2609.20629 · cs.RO · Submitted 2026-09-17 · Read on arXiv

cs.RO

Submitted: 2026-09-17

Updated: 2026-09-17

Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Alignment — 9× in this paper
• Accuracy — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Verification — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Actor — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Deep Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• PID Controller — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Sim-to-Real Transfer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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