ResearchResearch paperImage, Video & 3D Generation · Robotics & Embodied AI · Computer Vision1 source · Oct 21, 2026

AirPlayground: Benchmarking Aerial Navigation across Diverse Reconstructed Environments

To address these limitations, we introduce AirPlayground, a unified benchmark for training and evaluating aerial navigation policies across diverse environments.

Key points

  • Large-scale aerial resources provide a foundation for learning navigation across diverse environments.
  • We first construct 94 photorealistic 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) environments spanning indoor, urban outdoor, and vegetation settings, with aligned collision geometry.
  • Building on these environments, we develop a scene-adaptive pipeline for automated expert flight collection, yielding 94K demonstrations and 46.5M synchronized observation-state-action samples at 50 Hz.
  • We benchmark seven baselines spanning four policy paradigms across three navigation settings in seen and unseen environments, and further examine scaling behavior with ACT.

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