Simulating a 3D Quadcopter from Scratch

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Post by daww » Mon, May 25, 2026, 12:55 PM UTC

Simulating a 3D Quadcopter from Scratch
mrandri19.github.io

Re: Simulating a 3D Quadcopter from Scratch

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Post by daww » Mon, May 25, 2026, 12:58 PM UTC

Hi HN, Andrea (the author) here.

I'm continuing my series of blog posts on quadcopter simulation and (Reinforcement Learning based) control.

This one is the second in the series, following my previous planar/2d quadcopter post. Next one will be on how to use PPO to train a racing policy

Re: Simulating a 3D Quadcopter from Scratch

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Post by Tycho87 » Mon, May 25, 2026, 1:49 PM UTC

daww wrote: post #2

Hi HN, Andrea (the author) here. I'm continuing my series of blog posts on quadcopter simulation and (Reinforcement Learning based) control. This one is the second in the series, following my previous planar/2d quadcopter post. Next one will be on how to use PPO to train a racing policy

Hi Andrea,

Moritz from team Rerun here. Great to see the viewer in your post!

Re: Simulating a 3D Quadcopter from Scratch

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Post by daww » Mon, May 25, 2026, 2:00 PM UTC

Tycho87 wrote: post #3

daww wrote: post #2

Hi HN, Andrea (the author) here. I'm continuing my series of blog posts on quadcopter simulation and (Reinforcement Learning based) control. This one is the second in the series, following my previous planar/2d quadcopter post. Next one will be on how to use PPO to train a racing policy

Hi Andrea, Moritz from team Rerun here. Great to see the viewer in your post!

Hi, thanks! Love your product, it's been incredible for debugging simulations as well as looking at individual policy rollouts (instead of e.g. static videos) to design better rewards/environments