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Research questionHow can high-altitude balloons maintain station-keeping under nonlinear dynamics and partially observed wind fields?Station-keeping requires controlling an underactuated balloon while its nonlinear dynamics and surrounding wind field are only partly known. Model-free policies avoid explicit modeling, while model-based planning must account for uncertainty and compute actions during operation.
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Latest papersRecent research connected to this question, newest first.High-Altitude Balloon Station-Keeping with First Order Model Predictive ControlThe source studies First-Order Model Predictive Control using differentiable balloon and wind dynamics implemented in JAX. It reports comparisons with a state-of-the-art reinforcement-learning policy, including a 24% improvement in time-within-radius without offline training, at the cost of greater online computation; ablations also examine simplified wind and dynamics models.research paper · Sep 3, 2026
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