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arxiv 2507.23339 v2 pith:ZHATO7QO submitted 2025-07-31 cs.RO cs.SYeess.SY

Learning to Drift with Individual Wheel Drive: Maneuvering Autonomous Vehicle at the Handling Limits

classification cs.RO cs.SYeess.SY
keywords driftinglearningsimulationwheelanglesapproachcontrolcontrolled
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Drifting, characterized by controlled vehicle motion at high sideslip angles, is crucial for safely handling emergency scenarios at the friction limits. While recent reinforcement learning approaches show promise for drifting control, they struggle with the significant simulation-to-reality gap, as policies that perform well in simulation often fail when transferred to physical systems. In this paper, we present a reinforcement learning framework with GPU-accelerated parallel simulation and systematic domain randomization that effectively bridges the gap. The proposed approach is validated on both simulation and a custom-designed and open-sourced 1/10 scale Individual Wheel Drive (IWD) RC car platform featuring independent wheel speed control. Experiments across various scenarios from steady-state circular drifting to direction transitions and variable-curvature path following demonstrate that our approach achieves precise trajectory tracking while maintaining controlled sideslip angles throughout complex maneuvers in both simulated and real-world environments.

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