Nonlinear System Identification Nano-drone Benchmark

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Main Authors: Busetto, Riccardo, Cereda, Elia, Forgione, Marco, Maroni, Gabriele, Piga, Dario, Palossi, Daniele
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author Busetto, Riccardo
Cereda, Elia
Forgione, Marco
Maroni, Gabriele
Piga, Dario
Palossi, Daniele
author_facet Busetto, Riccardo
Cereda, Elia
Forgione, Marco
Maroni, Gabriele
Piga, Dario
Palossi, Daniele
contents We introduce a benchmark for system identification based on 75k real-world samples from the Crazyflie 2.1 Brushless nano-quadrotor, a sub-50g aerial vehicle widely adopted in robotics research. The platform presents a challenging testbed due to its multi-input, multi-output nature, open-loop instability, and nonlinear dynamics under agile maneuvers. The dataset comprises four aggressive trajectories with synchronized 4-dimensional motor inputs and 13-dimensional output measurements. To enable fair comparison of identification methods, the benchmark includes a suite of multi-horizon prediction metrics for evaluating both one-step and multi-step error propagation. In addition to the data, we provide a detailed description of the platform and experimental setup, as well as baseline models highlighting the challenge of accurate prediction under real-world noise and actuation nonlinearities. All data, scripts, and reference implementations are released as open-source at https://github.com/idsia-robotics/nanodrone-sysid-benchmark to facilitate transparent comparison of algorithms and support research on agile, miniaturized aerial robotics.
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spellingShingle Nonlinear System Identification Nano-drone Benchmark
Busetto, Riccardo
Cereda, Elia
Forgione, Marco
Maroni, Gabriele
Piga, Dario
Palossi, Daniele
Systems and Control
Robotics
We introduce a benchmark for system identification based on 75k real-world samples from the Crazyflie 2.1 Brushless nano-quadrotor, a sub-50g aerial vehicle widely adopted in robotics research. The platform presents a challenging testbed due to its multi-input, multi-output nature, open-loop instability, and nonlinear dynamics under agile maneuvers. The dataset comprises four aggressive trajectories with synchronized 4-dimensional motor inputs and 13-dimensional output measurements. To enable fair comparison of identification methods, the benchmark includes a suite of multi-horizon prediction metrics for evaluating both one-step and multi-step error propagation. In addition to the data, we provide a detailed description of the platform and experimental setup, as well as baseline models highlighting the challenge of accurate prediction under real-world noise and actuation nonlinearities. All data, scripts, and reference implementations are released as open-source at https://github.com/idsia-robotics/nanodrone-sysid-benchmark to facilitate transparent comparison of algorithms and support research on agile, miniaturized aerial robotics.
title Nonlinear System Identification Nano-drone Benchmark
topic Systems and Control
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14450