Fine-tuning π0.5 on 40 drone missions

A robotics foundation model was adapted to fly a drone by outputting directional velocities inside the flight control loop rather than waypoint commands

Finetuned @physical_int 's π0.5 on ~40 episodes of drone missions and got some solid results. The model controls the drone with directional velocities inside the flight control loop, not by sending the drone to NED waypoints.
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