Before revision: Modern deep reinforcement learning plays an important role to solve a wide range of complex decision-making tasks. However, due to the use of deep neural networks, the trained models are lacking transparency which causes distrust from their user and hard to be used in the critical field such as self-driving car and unmanned aerial vehicles. In this paper, an explainable deep reinforcement learning method is proposed to deal with the multirotor obstacle avoidance and navigation problem.
After revision: Autonomous navigation in unknown complex environment is still a hard problem, especially for small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with limited computation resources. In this paper, a neural network-based reactive controller is proposed for a quadrotor to fly autonomously in unknown outdoor environment. The navigation controller makes use of only current sensor data to generate the control signal without any optimization or configuration space searching, which reduces both memory and computation requirement. The navigation problem is modelled as a Markov Decision Process (MDP) and solved using deep reinforcement learning method is proposed to deal with the multirotor obstacle avoidance and navigation problem.