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Learning Augmented, Multi-Robot Long-Horizon Navigation in Partially Mapped Environments

Robotics 2023-03-30 v1

Abstract

We present a novel approach for efficient and reliable goal-directed long-horizon navigation for a multi-robot team in a structured, unknown environment by predicting statistics of unknown space. Building on recent work in learning-augmented model based planning under uncertainty, we introduce a high-level state and action abstraction that lets us approximate the challenging Dec-POMDP into a tractable stochastic MDP. Our Multi-Robot Learning over Subgoals Planner (MR-LSP) guides agents towards coordinated exploration of regions more likely to reach the unseen goal. We demonstrate improvement in cost against other multi-robot strategies; in simulated office-like environments, we show that our approach saves 13.29% (2 robot) and 4.6% (3 robot) average cost versus standard non-learned optimistic planning and a learning-informed baseline.

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@article{arxiv.2303.16654,
  title  = {Learning Augmented, Multi-Robot Long-Horizon Navigation in Partially Mapped Environments},
  author = {Abhish Khanal and Gregory J. Stein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.16654},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

7 pages, 7 figures, ICRA2023

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