Learning UAV Navigation with Collision-Aware Predicted-Motion Embedding
 
Learning UAV Navigation with Collision-Aware Predicted-Motion Embedding 
 
Mohammad Zallaghi, Mohammad Zallaghi, Bryan Convens, Bryan Convens, Kelly Merckaert, Kelly Merckaert, Adrian Munteanu, Adrian Munteanu, Bram Vanderborght, Bram Vanderborght
 
Abstract 

Navigation of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in unknown, obstacle-cluttered environments requires motion planning under limited sensing and strict safety constraints. Although learning-based navigation approaches have demonstrated promising performance, many rely on purely reactive obstacle avoidance or indirect reward shaping (e.g., end-to-end learning or deep-learning based sensor encoding), without explicitly incorporating predictive collision information into the learning process. This work introduces a conceptual framework for learning collision-aware UAV navigation over a predicted motion horizon.