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RTK-Vision PPO for Autonomous Micro UAV Recovery on an Airborne Carrier

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 17, 2026 · UTC

Autonomous recovery of a micro unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) onto a moving airborne carrier enables reusable deploy-mission-recover operation, but couples long-range rendezvous, close-range perception, carrier motion, aerodynamic interaction, and a discontinuous contact event. This paper presents an RTK-vision-guided reinforcement-learning framework in which a child UAV is physically transported by a larger carrier, takes off from the carrier while airborne, executes an independent sortie, returns to the carrier's current position, redocks, and subsequently descends with the carrier. Both vehi

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