Publications

Here you can find materials relevant to my published research and research in progress. A complete list of publications can also be found on my Google Scholar profile.

Journals

Agilicious

Elia Kaufmann, Leonard Bauersfeld, Antonio Loquercio, Matthias Mueller, Vladlen Koltun, Davide Scaramuzza.
Champion-Level Drone Racing Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Nature, 2023.

Agilicious

P. Foehn, E. Kaufmann, A. Romero, R. Penicka, S. Sun, L. Bauersfeld, T. Laengle, G. Cioffi, Y. Song, A. Loquercio, D. Scaramuzza
Agilicious: Open-source and open-hardware agile quadrotor for vision-based flight
Science Robotics, 2022.

Human Drones

C. Pfeiffer, S. Wengler, A. Loquercio, D. Scaramuzza
Visual attention prediction improves performance of autonomous drone racing agents
PLOS ONE Vol. 17, Issue 3, 2022

Control Drones

A. Loquercio, A. Saviolo, D. Scaramuzza
AutoTune: Controller Tuning for High-Speed Flight
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) and ICRA, 2022.

Agile Autonomy

A. Loquercio, E. Kaufmann, R. Ranftl, M. Mueller, V. Koltun, D. Scaramuzza.
Learning High-Speed Flight in the Wild
Science Robotics, 2021.

Depth Interaction

A. Loquercio, A. Dosovitskiy, D. Scaramuzza
Learning Depth with Very Sparse Supervision
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) and IROS, 2020.
Also presented as a Spotlight Presentation at the Workshop Bridging AI and Cognitive Science (BAICS), ICLR 2020.

general framework

A. Loquercio, M. Segu, D. Scaramuzza
A General Framework for Uncertainty Estimation in Deep Learning
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) and ICRA, 2020.

drone racing

A. Loquercio, E. Kaufmann, R. Ranftl, A. Dosovitskiy, V. Koltun, D. Scaramuzza.
Deep Drone Racing: From Simulation to Reality with Domain Randomization
IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2020.
T-RO Best Paper Award Honorable Mention!

nano dronet

D. Palossi, A. Loquercio, F. Conti, E. Flamand, D. Scaramuzza, L. Benini.
A 64mW DNN-based Visual Navigation Engine for Autonomous Nano-Drones
IEEE Internet of Things (IoT), 2019.

dronet

A. Loquercio, A. Maqueda, C. del-Blanco, and D. Scaramuzza
DroNet: Learning to Fly by Driving
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) and ICRA, 2018.

Conferences

Equal Contribution is indicated with *

CMS

A. Loquercio and A.Kumar, J. Malik
Learning Visual Locomotion with Cross-Modal Supervision
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023.

ATL

N. Wiedemann, V. Wüest, A. Loquercio, M. Müller, D. Floreano, D.Scaramuzza
Training Efficient Controllers via Analytic Policy Gradient
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023.

ATL

D.Zhang, A.Loquercio, X.Wu, A.Kumar, J.Malik, M.W.Mueller
A Zero-Shot Adaptive Quadcopter Controller
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023.

Agile_Survey

A. Loquercio and D. Scaramuzza
Agile Autonomy: High-Speed Flight with On-Board Sensing and Computing
Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Machines (I-RIM3D), 2020.
Best Paper Award Finalist!

PD-MeshNet

F. Milano, A. Loquercio, A. Rosinol, D. Scaramuzza, L. Carlone
Primal-Dual Mesh Convolutional Neural Networks
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020.

Flightmare

Y. Song, S. Naji, E. Kaufmann, A. Loquercio, D. Scaramuzza
Flightmare: A Flexible Quadrotor Simulator
Conference on Robotic Learning (CoRL), 2020.

ASNet

N. Messikommer, D. Gehrig, A. Loquercio, D. Scaramuzza
Event-based Asynchronous Sparse Convolutional Networks
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020.

drone acrobatics

E. Kaufmann*, A. Loquercio*, R. Ranftl, M. Mueller, V. Koltun, D. Scaramuzza.
Deep Drone Acrobatics
Robotics, Science, and Systems (RSS), 2020
Best Paper Award Finalist!

e2e representation

D. Gehrig, A. Loquercio, K.G. Derpanis, D. Scaramuzza
End-to-End Learning of Representations for Asynchronous Event-Based Data
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019

unsupervised detection

Y. Yang*, A. Loquercio*, D. Scaramuzza, S. Soatto
Unsupervised Moving Object Detection via Contextual Information Separation
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019.

drone racing

E. Kaufmann*, A. Loquercio*, R. Ranftl, A. Dosovitskiy, V. Koltun, D. Scaramuzza.
Deep Drone Racing: Learning Agile Flight in Dynamic Environments
Conference on Robotic Learning (CoRL), 2018
Best Systems Paper Award!

steering angle

A. Maqueda, A. Loquercio, G. Gallego, N. Garcia, D. Scaramuzza
Event-based Vision meets Deep Learning on Steering Prediction for Self-driving Cars
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018.

place recognition

Y. Ye, T. Cieslewski, A. Loquercio, D. Scaramuzza
Place Recognition in Semi-Dense Maps: Geometric and Learning-Based Approaches
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2017.

descriptor learning

A. Loquercio, M. Dymczyk, B. Zeisl, S. Lynen, I. Gilitschenski, R. Siegwart
Efficient Descriptor Learning for Large Scale Localization
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017.

Workshops and Pre-Prints.

Vision-Pursuit

A.Bajcsy*, A.Loquercio*, A.Kumar, J. Malik
Learning Vision-Based Pursuit-Evasion Robot Policies
Submitted to the ICRA 2024.

Control Drones

D.Hanover, A.Loquercio, L.Bauersfeld, A.Romero, R.Penicka, Y.Song, G.Cioffi, E.Kaufmann, D.Scaramuzza
Autonomous Drone Racing: A Survey
Submitted to the IEEE Transactions of Robotics.

Control Drones

A. Loquercio, D. Scaramuzza
Learning to Control Drones in Natural Environments: A Survey
Spotlight Presentation at the Workshop on Perception, Inference, and Learning, ICRA 2018.

PhD Thesis

PhD Thesis

A. Loquercio.
Learning Agile Robot Navigation
University of Zurich, 2021.