Our PhD student Jie Xu will present his latest work “Learning to Fly: Computational Controller Design for Hybrid UAVs with Reinforcement Learning” at SIGGRAPH 2019 this summer. In this paper, Jie proposed a novel neural network controller design for hybrid UAVs, an aerial robot that is challenging to control due to its complex aerodynamic effects. His method allows us to directly apply a controller trained in simulation to real hybrid UAV hardware without any modification. Checkout his website and the project page to find more!