PhD Student

University of Zurich

ETH Zurich

Biography

Hi! I am a PhD student at the Robotics and Perception Group directed by Prof. Davide Scaramuzza.

I received my masters degree in Robotics, Systems and Control from ETH Zurich under the supervision of Prof. Raffaello D’Andrea.

Interests

Education

  • MSc in Robotics, Systems and Control, 2017

    ETH Zurich

  • BSc in Mechanical Engineering, 2014

    ETH Zurich

Recent Publications

Flightmare: A Flexible Quadrotor Simulator

Currently available quadrotor simulators have a rigid and highly-specialized structure: either are they really fast, physically …
Yunlong Song, Selim Naji, Elia Kaufmann, Antonio Loquercio, Davide Scaramuzza
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Flightmare: A Flexible Quadrotor Simulator

Super-Human Performance in Gran Turismo Sport Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Autonomous car racing raises fundamental robotics challenges such as planning minimum-time trajectories under uncertain dynamics and …
Florian Fuchs, Yunlong Song, Elia Kaufmann, Davide Scaramuzza, Peter Duerr
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Super-Human Performance in Gran Turismo Sport Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

AlphaPilot: Autonomous Drone Racing

This paper presents a novel system for autonomous, vision-based drone racing combining learned data abstraction, nonlinear filtering, …
Philipp Foehn*, Dario Brescianini*, Elia Kaufmann*, Titus Cieslewski, Mathias Gehrig, Manasi Muglikar, Davide Scaramuzza
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AlphaPilot: Autonomous Drone Racing

Deep Drone Acrobatics

Performing acrobatic maneuvers with quadrotors is extremely challenging. Acrobatic flight requires high thrust and extreme angular …
Elia Kaufmann*, Antonio Loquercio*, René Ranftl, Matthias Müller, Vladlen Koltun, Davide Scaramuzza
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Deep Drone Acrobatics

Deep Drone Racing: From Simulation to Reality with Domain Randomization

Dynamically changing environments, unreliable state estimation, and operation under severe resource constraints are fundamental …
Antonio Loquercio*, Elia Kaufmann*, Rene Ranftl, Alexey Dosovitskiy, Vladlen Koltun, Davide Scaramuzza
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Deep Drone Racing: From Simulation to Reality with Domain Randomization
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