Aerial Robot Reinforcement Learning ML Frameworks

Projects applying reinforcement learning algorithms (DQN, Q-Learning, DDPG, Actor-Critic, TD3, SAC) to train autonomous aerial vehicles (quadcopters, drones, UAVs) for navigation, control, trajectory planning, and delivery tasks. Does NOT include general robotics RL, non-aerial vehicle control, or RL frameworks without an aerial/drone application focus.

There are 121 aerial robot reinforcement learning frameworks tracked. 1 score above 70 (verified tier). The highest-rated is LucasAlegre/sumo-rl at 70/100 with 1,002 stars.

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#	Framework	Score	Tier	Stars	Language
1	LucasAlegre/sumo-rl Reinforcement Learning environments for Traffic Signal Control with SUMO....	70	Verified	1,002	Python
2	hilo-mpc/hilo-mpc HILO-MPC is a Python toolbox for easy, flexible and fast development of...	65	Established	199	Python
3	reiniscimurs/DRL-robot-navigation Deep Reinforcement Learning for mobile robot navigation in ROS Gazebo...	54	Established	1,262	Python
4	kyegomez/RoboCAT Implementation of Deepmind's RoboCat: "Self-Improving Foundation Agent for...	53	Established	87	Python
5	cbfinn/gps Guided Policy Search	51	Established	605	Python
6	OpenQuadruped/spot_mini_mini Dynamics and Domain Randomized Gait Modulation with Bezier Curves for...	51	Established	914	C++
7	jiachenli94/Awesome-Decision-Making-Reinforcement-Learning A selection of state-of-the-art research materials on decision making and...	48	Emerging	239	—
8	MishaLaskin/curl CURL: Contrastive Unsupervised Representation Learning for Sample-Efficient...	48	Emerging	599	Python
9	avisingh599/reward-learning-rl [RSS 2019] End-to-End Robotic Reinforcement Learning without Reward Engineering	48	Emerging	375	Python
10	adham-elarabawy/open-quadruped An open-source 3D-printed quadrupedal robot. Intuitive gait generation...	48	Emerging	457	C++
11	jhu-lcsr/good_robot "Good Robot! Now Watch This!": Repurposing Reinforcement Learning for...	46	Emerging	118	Jupyter Notebook
12	fangvv/UAV-DDPG Code for paper "Computation Offloading Optimization for UAV-assisted Mobile...	45	Emerging	686	Python
13	anassinator/dqn-obstacle-avoidance Deep Reinforcement Learning for Fixed-Wing Flight Control with Deep Q-Network	44	Emerging	76	Python
14	MorvanZhou/train-robot-arm-from-scratch Build environment and train a robot arm from scratch (Reinforcement Learning)	43	Emerging	403	Python
15	UT-HCRL/LEGATO Official codebase for LEGATO (Learning with a Handheld Grasping Tool)	42	Emerging	72	Python
16	sacktock/MASA-Safe-RL MASA-Safe-RL: A safe reinforcement library for providing a common interface...	42	Emerging	2	Python
17	Weizhe-Chen/PyPolo A Python library for Robotic Information Gathering	42	Emerging	52	Python
18	TRI-ML/RAP This is the official code for the paper RAP: Risk-Aware Prediction for...	42	Emerging	46	Python
19	udacity/RL-Quadcopter Teach a Quadcopter How to Fly!	42	Emerging	141	Jupyter Notebook
20	nikhilbarhate99/min-decision-transformer Minimal implementation of Decision Transformer: Reinforcement Learning via...	41	Emerging	288	Python
21	reiniscimurs/DRL-Robot-Navigation-ROS2 Deep Reinforcement Learning for mobile robot navigation in ROS2 Gazebo...	41	Emerging	194	Python
22	UT-Austin-RPL/TRILL Official codebase for TRILL (Teleoperation and Imitation Learning for...	41	Emerging	124	Python
23	SatCom-TELMA/MA-DRL_Routing_Simulator Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning (MA-DRL) Routing Simulator for...	40	Emerging	133	Jupyter Notebook
24	roboterax/humanoid-gym Humanoid-Gym: Reinforcement Learning for Humanoid Robot with Zero-Shot...	40	Emerging	1,894	Python
25	JdeRobot/RL-Studio Robotic library for the training of Reinforcement Learning algorithms	40	Emerging	31	Python
26	John-Wendell/DDPG-AirSim-Drone-Obstacle-Avoidance Using DDPG and ConvLSTM to control a drone to avoid obstacle in AirSim	39	Emerging	61	Python
27	mihdalal/raps [NeurIPS 2021] PyTorch Code for Accelerating Robotic Reinforcement Learning...	39	Emerging	79	Python
28	danijar/director Deep Hierarchical Planning from Pixels	38	Emerging	117	Python
29	QuadCtrl/quad-ctrl Quadcopter Controller with Deep Reinforcement Learning	38	Emerging	34	Python
30	Rolv-Arild/replay-pretraining Rocket League pretraining from replay files	37	Emerging	37	Python
31	Armandpl/furuta Building and Training a Rotary Inverted Pendulum robot	37	Emerging	37	Python
32	samholt/NeuralLaplaceControl Neural Laplace Control for Continuous-time Delayed Systems - an offline RL...	37	Emerging	16	Python
33	AlgTUDelft/AlwaysSafe Code for the paper "AlwaysSafe: Reinforcement Learning Without Safety...	37	Emerging	17	Python
34	jackvial/lerobot-data-studio LeRobot Data Studio - Unofficial LeRobot Dataset Editor	37	Emerging	42	TypeScript
35	DevMilk/UAV-Based-Cellular-Communication-Multi-Agent-DRL-Solution UAV-based Cellular-Communication: Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning...	37	Emerging	46	Jupyter Notebook
36	Zhang-Xuewen/Deep-DeePC This project is source code of paper Deep DeePC: Data-enabled predictive...	37	Emerging	29	Python
37	Jamesscn/Quadcopter My master's degree project, titled Quadcopter Control with Deep...	36	Emerging	11	C#
38	argmax-ai/drone-hardware Robust Quadrotor Frame for Machine Learning and Control Research	36	Emerging	9	OpenSCAD
39	AiltonOliveir/RL-env-for-communications Reinforcement learning environment for MIMO communications.	36	Emerging	15	Python
40	harvard-edge/AirLearning Public repository for Air Learning project	36	Emerging	243	—
41	smidmatej/mpc_quad_ros Model Predictive Controller for a quadcopter model using online learning...	36	Emerging	26	Jupyter Notebook
42	MehdiShahbazi/Webots-reinforcement-navigation Implementing obstacle avoidance and path planning for the Pioneer 3-DX robot...	35	Emerging	36	Python
43	UT-Austin-RPL/PRELUDE Official codebase for PRELUDE (Perceptive Locomotion Under Dynamic Environments)	35	Emerging	80	Python
44	bytedance/GR-MG Official implementation of GR-MG	35	Emerging	93	Python
45	dcaffo98/path-planning-cnn Solving synthetic 2d path-planning problems with a convolutional neural network.	35	Emerging	62	Python
46	ami-iit/paper_romualdi_viceconte_2024_humanoids_dnn-mpc-walking [Humanoids 2024 award finalist] Online DNN-Driven Nonlinear MPC for...	34	Emerging	20	HTML
47	rameshvarun/NeuralKart A Real-time Mario Kart 64 AI using ConvNets.	34	Emerging	669	Lua
48	CJReinforce/RIME_ICML2024 Official code for ICML 2024 paper, "RIME: Robust Preference-based...	34	Emerging	36	Python
49	ifrunistuttgart/RL_Integrated-Updraft-Exploitation This repository includes a reinforcement learning framework for end-to-end...	34	Emerging	9	Python
50	letsgogeeky/QuadCopter-RL Teaching a QuadCopter to TakeOff and Land using Reinforcement Learning	34	Emerging	9	Jupyter Notebook
51	VanIseghemThomas/AI-Parking-Unity A RL project focussed on autonomous parking, using Unity's MLAgents toolkit.	34	Emerging	53	Jupyter Notebook
52	Tushar-ml/G2RL-Path-Planning Code for G2RL to solve the multi-robot path planning problem in a fully...	33	Emerging	69	Jupyter Notebook
53	dion-jy/learning-based-navigation-papers paper-list of learning-based mobile navigation(especially motion planning &...	33	Emerging	64	—
54	MarkFzp/Deep-Whole-Body-Control [CoRL 2022] Deep Whole-Body Control: Learning a Unified Policy for...	33	Emerging	354	Python
55	DeepDynaSim/DeepLyapunovFunction Efficient Computation of Lyapunov Functions Using Deep Neural Networks for...	32	Emerging	5	Jupyter Notebook
56	capstone-insper/drone-swarm-search-algorithms Algorithms to solve the DSSE environment, focusing on optimizing drone swarm...	32	Emerging	22	Python
57	isri-aist/DataDrivenMPC Model predictive control based on data-driven model	32	Emerging	29	C++
58	BreenSammy/learning-corridor-selection Deep-learning model for selection of high-level corridors in motion planning	32	Emerging	3	Python
59	AGiannoutsos/car_racer_gym Apply major Reinforcement Learning algorithms (DQN,PPO,A2C) to CarRacing-v0...	32	Emerging	28	Jupyter Notebook
60	WangXiaoMingo/TensorDL-MPC DL-MPC(deep learning model predictive control) is a software toolkit...	31	Emerging	40	Python
61	vishweshvhavle/deep-rl-navigation Deep Reinforcement Learning for mobile robot navigation in ROS2 Gazebo...	31	Emerging	49	Python
62	parachutel/Q-Learning-for-Intelligent-Driver We propose a driver modeling process of an intelligent autonomous driving...	30	Emerging	24	MATLAB
63	7enTropy7/Racer_AI Developed a highly customizable OpenAI gym environment and trained a...	30	Emerging	6	Python
64	Amos-Chen98/neo-planner [IROS'25] Learning to Initialize Trajectory Optimization for Vision-Based...	29	Experimental	27	Python
65	ZikangXiong/mobrob Mobile Robot Control via Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning	29	Experimental	23	Python
66	charbel-a-hC/SKIPP Repository for the End-to-end Sketch-Guided Path Planning through Imitation...	29	Experimental	9	Python
67	Taaseen-Ali/OpenAI-Gym-Car-Race A self-driving car OpenAI Gym environment	29	Experimental	8	Python
68	AxelBcr/QDroneNav Drone Project Using Q-Learning : Helping a Drone find a target. Core...	29	Experimental	3	Python
69	danliukuri/AutonomousParking Simulation of car parking in different parking lots using Unity ML-Agents	28	Experimental	12	C#
70	SMARTlab-Purdue/SAN-FAPL This repository contains the source code for our paper: "Feedback-efficient...	28	Experimental	12	Python
71	RAIL-group/RAIL-group-software Robot planning and learning research code repository from the RAIL Group at GMU	28	Experimental	10	Python
72	RaffaeleGalliera/marlin-rlcc Reinforcement Learning environment for Congestion Control with ContainerNet	28	Experimental	12	Python
73	d3ac/MetaRL-for-UAV-Anti-jamming Patent : An anti-jamming communication method for unmanned cluster based on...	27	Experimental	25	Jupyter Notebook
74	antoineleeman/SLS_safety_filter Matlab implementation of the paper "Predictive Safety Filter using System...	27	Experimental	9	MATLAB
75	Scala-Robotics-Simulator/PPS-22-srs A robotics simulator written in scala.	26	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
76	kiwi-sherbet/PRESTO Official codebase for PRESTO (Planning with Environment Representation,...	26	Experimental	44	Python
77	our-projects-github/Safe-Deep-Learning-Based-Global-Path-Planning-Using-a-Fast-Collision-Free-Path-Generator Implementation of "Safe Deep Learning-Based Global Path Planning Using a...	25	Experimental	22	Jupyter Notebook
78	zerosansan/dqn_qlearning_sarsa_mobile_robot_navigation A Reinforcement Learning (RL) based navigation implementation for mobile...	25	Experimental	40	Python
79	spaciouskarter78/congestion-aware-sdn Adaptive Congestion-Aware Routing in Software-Defined Networks Using...	25	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
80	lambdavi/path_planning_drl Researching new methods to leverage DeepRL for Coverage and Path Planning	25	Experimental	21	Python
81	Emmanuel-Naive/MATD3 Use Multi-agent Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient(TD3)...	25	Experimental	65	Python
82	skypitcher/risk_aware_marl Risk-aware multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for packet routing in...	25	Experimental	16	Python
83	AlinaBaber/ReinforcementLearning-QLearning-based-self-tuned-PID-controller-for-AUV-MatLab This repository showcases a hybrid control system combining Reinforcement...	25	Experimental	74	MATLAB
84	lbnmahs/quadrrl Quadruped Robot Locomotion Learning and Evaluation Suite.	25	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
85	sgawalsh/dqnTurtlebot Implementing Deep-Q-Learning to train a bot to navigate an environment with obstacles	24	Experimental	15	Python
86	TUMFTM/munich-sumo-scenario Kalibriertes SUMO-Straßennetzwerk der Münchner lnnenstadt (11,5 km2)...	24	Experimental	3	—
87	ZeinBarhoum/RL-quadrotor Reinforcement Learning for quadrotor trajectory planning and control	23	Experimental	72	Python
88	AlessioLuciani/distributed-uav-rl-protocol An implementation of a distributed protocol for cooperative sensing and...	22	Experimental	28	Jupyter Notebook
89	MPC-Berkeley/Implicit-Game-Theoretic-MPC Implicit Game-Theoretic MPC	22	Experimental	20	Python
90	theguega/mpc_neural_surrogate Behavior Cloning of MPC for 3-DOF Robotic Manipulator using NN	22	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
91	utra-robosoccer/Bez_IsaacGym Isaac Gym Reinforcement Learning Environments for humanoid robot Bez	21	Experimental	10	Python
92	MickyasTA/DRL_robot_navigation_ros2 TD3-based Deep Reinforcement learning-based collision avoidance of mobile...	21	Experimental	14	Python
93	ifrunistuttgart/RL_CrossCountrySoaring This repository includes a reinforcement learning framework for solving the...	21	Experimental	11	Python
94	Engineering-Geek/RL-UAV Reinforcement Learning for Unmanned Airial Vehicles	21	Experimental	14	Python
95	Amanuel-1/autonomous-drone A 3D autonomous drone simulation with AI-powered flight capabilities using...	20	Experimental	3	TypeScript
96	AndyRay1998/U-model-based-Adaptive-Sliding-Mode-Control-Using-a-Deep-Deterministic-Policy-Gradient Personal research topic about U-model control and Sliding Mode Control tuned...	20	Experimental	8	Jupyter Notebook
97	Aaronaferns/MBRL-DeepMPC Efficient Model-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning with Predictive Control:...	20	Experimental	10	Python
98	saqib1707/RL-Robot-Manipulation Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Robot Hand Manipulation Task	20	Experimental	21	HTML
99	arjun7579/maddpg-drone-coverage Implementation of a multi-agent UAV swarm system using MADDPG. Drones learn...	20	Experimental	13	Python
100	FerhatAkalan/DroneDeliverySystemQLearning This project is an intelligent drone simulator that optimizes urban package...	20	Experimental	3	Python
101	silaozgel/Autonomous-AI-Parking-Simulation A comparison of A* and Q-Learning algorithms in a dynamic 15x15 parking environment.	20	Experimental	—	Python
102	erfan-ashtari/Path-planning Implementation of "Safe Deep Learning-Based Global Path Planning Using a...	20	Experimental	10	Jupyter Notebook
103	Nikunj-Gupta/conformal-agent-modelling CAMMARL: Conformal Action Modeling in Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning	19	Experimental	15	Python
104	FerhatAkalan/DroneDeliverySystemDQN This project is an intelligent drone simulator that optimizes urban package...	19	Experimental	2	Python
105	newton-adhikari/rl_goal_nav_tb3 TurtleBot3 autonomous navigation using Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) in...	19	Experimental	1	Python
106	gregora/Drone-AI A project for training a neural network using genetic algorithm to control a drone	17	Experimental	1	C++
107	sparkup/autonomous-spacecraft-rl Autonomous spacecraft reinforcement learning project focused on mission...	17	Experimental	1	Vue
108	jeffdacpano28/self-driving-car-rl 🏎️ Train autonomous racing cars with DQN and PPO in a realistic simulator...	15	Experimental	1	Python
109	AidenPQ/exoskeleton-high-level-control-ml DNN + Gaussian Process Regression for hip/knee trajectory generation...	14	Experimental	3	TeX
110	MPC-Berkeley/hmpc_raidnet Implementation of Hierarchical MPC with RAID-Net	14	Experimental	17	Python
111	BOODY2209/anymal_c_velocity 🚶♂️ Train ANYmal C to walk and track body velocities by integrating a custom...	14	Experimental	—	Python
112	Schawel0/network-routing-project Маршрутизации в динамических сетях с использованием STGNN и DQN	13	Experimental	6	Python
113	mansipawar29/RL-Project Simulation of a drone to implement Reinforcement Learning	13	Experimental	9	Python
114	martindoff/DC-NN-MPC Computationally tractable learning-based nonlinear tube MPC using difference...	13	Experimental	9	Python
115	NikoRina/real2sim-eval 🤖 Evaluate real robot policies using Gaussian splatting for soft-body...	13	Experimental	—	—
116	jatolentino/Autonomous-UAV Based in my last research paper - 2021	13	Experimental	10	MATLAB
117	ProfessorNova/PPO-Car Gymnasium car environment. Autonomous Racing with Proximal Policy...	12	Experimental	5	Python
118	pmerinodiaz/stvai Simulacion del Trafico Vehicular con Agentes Inteligentes. Programa hecho en C++.	11	Experimental	—	—
119	TarekSaati/LearnToNavigate A deep reinforcement learning solution to dynamic navigation for indoor...	11	Experimental	4	MATLAB
120	juanerolon/Train-Autonomous-Vehicle Training an Autonomous Vehicle using Reinforcement Learning. Implements an...	11	Experimental	4	Jupyter Notebook
121	yuxiaooye/hi-MADRL Effective and scalable MADRL solution for air-ground crowdsourcing	10	Experimental	2	HTML

Comparisons in this category

DRL-robot-navigation and DRL-Robot-Navigation-ROS2 (54 vs 41)