jev-drone
Camera-only autonomous drone in MuJoCo with a small judgment model (TypeSafe Jev) in the loop at 2.5Hz
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GITHUB · launched Sep 16, 2026 · 85 upvotes (top 10%) · 0 views
Niche: robotics software and platforms · 195 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▼ -36% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Hardware & robotics
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
- autonomous-agents
- drone
- mujoco
- robotics
- typesafe
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Could you build this?
Partial While wrapping the Jev API in a Python MuJoCo simulation loop is feasible, tuning closed-loop drone flight dynamics and visual-servoing stabilization solely through an external 2.5Hz decision model requires specialized robotics control engineering.
What it would actually take: The system combines MuJoCo physics simulation (via Python/C++ bindings) with a low-level PID/attitude controller running at high frequency (e.g., 50-100Hz) while querying the Jev model at 2.5Hz for high-level visual waypoints. The challenging aspect is developing robust state estimation and safety fail-safes so latency and probabilistic model outputs do not cause catastrophic instability in flight.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1520 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #173 of 1521 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 320 days after the earliest competitor.
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- jev-reflex-autonomy-lab · github · 2026-09-18 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.66
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- Maquoketa Research: Guidance systems for one-way attack drones · yc · 2026-06-01 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Introduction-to-Unmanned-Aircraft-Systems · github · 2026-09-13 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.60
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