Automatic Generation of Aerobatic Flight in Complex Environments via Diffusion Models

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Main Authors: Zhong, Yuhang, Zhao, Anke, Wu, Tianyue, Zhang, Tingrui, Gao, Fei
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Published: 2025
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author Zhong, Yuhang
Zhao, Anke
Wu, Tianyue
Zhang, Tingrui
Gao, Fei
author_facet Zhong, Yuhang
Zhao, Anke
Wu, Tianyue
Zhang, Tingrui
Gao, Fei
contents Performing striking aerobatic flight in complex environments demands manual designs of key maneuvers in advance, which is intricate and time-consuming as the horizon of the trajectory performed becomes long. This paper presents a novel framework that leverages diffusion models to automate and scale up aerobatic trajectory generation. Our key innovation is the decomposition of complex maneuvers into aerobatic primitives, which are short frame sequences that act as building blocks, featuring critical aerobatic behaviors for tractable trajectory synthesis. The model learns aerobatic primitives using historical trajectory observations as dynamic priors to ensure motion continuity, with additional conditional inputs (target waypoints and optional action constraints) integrated to enable user-editable trajectory generation. During model inference, classifier guidance is incorporated with batch sampling to achieve obstacle avoidance. Additionally, the generated outcomes are refined through post-processing with spatial-temporal trajectory optimization to ensure dynamical feasibility. Extensive simulations and real-world experiments have validated the key component designs of our method, demonstrating its feasibility for deploying on real drones to achieve long-horizon aerobatic flight.
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spellingShingle Automatic Generation of Aerobatic Flight in Complex Environments via Diffusion Models
Zhong, Yuhang
Zhao, Anke
Wu, Tianyue
Zhang, Tingrui
Gao, Fei
Robotics
Performing striking aerobatic flight in complex environments demands manual designs of key maneuvers in advance, which is intricate and time-consuming as the horizon of the trajectory performed becomes long. This paper presents a novel framework that leverages diffusion models to automate and scale up aerobatic trajectory generation. Our key innovation is the decomposition of complex maneuvers into aerobatic primitives, which are short frame sequences that act as building blocks, featuring critical aerobatic behaviors for tractable trajectory synthesis. The model learns aerobatic primitives using historical trajectory observations as dynamic priors to ensure motion continuity, with additional conditional inputs (target waypoints and optional action constraints) integrated to enable user-editable trajectory generation. During model inference, classifier guidance is incorporated with batch sampling to achieve obstacle avoidance. Additionally, the generated outcomes are refined through post-processing with spatial-temporal trajectory optimization to ensure dynamical feasibility. Extensive simulations and real-world experiments have validated the key component designs of our method, demonstrating its feasibility for deploying on real drones to achieve long-horizon aerobatic flight.
title Automatic Generation of Aerobatic Flight in Complex Environments via Diffusion Models
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15138