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Real-world robots will require adaptation to a wide variety of underlying dynamics functions. For example, an autonomous delivery drone would need to fly with different payloads or environmental conditions that modify the physics of flight, and a land robot might encounter varying terrains during its runtime. This paper focuses on developing a single sample-efficient policy that adapts to time-varying dynamics, applied to a quadcopter in simulation that carries a payload of varying weight and a real mini-quadcopter carrying a variable string length hanging payload. From the sample-efficient PETS policy, our approach learns a dynamics model from data and learns a context variable to represent a range of dynamics. At test time, we infer the context that best explains recent data. We evaluate this method both on a simulated quadcopter and a real quadcopter, the Ryze Tello. For both scenarios, we illustrate the performance improvements of our method in adapting to different dynamics compared to traditional model-based techniques. Supplemental materials and videos can be found at our website: https://sites.google.com/view/meta-rl-for-flight.

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