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Collision avoidance is a crucial task in vision-guided autonomous navigation. Solutions based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has become increasingly popular. In this work, we proposed several novel agent state and reward function…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Sirui Song , Kirk Saunders , Ye Yue , Jundong Liu

Multiagent systems aim to accomplish highly complex learning tasks through decentralised consensus seeking dynamics and their use has garnered a great deal of attention in the signal processing and computational intelligence societies. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-20 Sayed Pouria Talebi , Danilo Mandic

Moving in dynamic pedestrian environments is one of the important requirements for autonomous mobile robots. We present a model-based reinforcement learning approach for robots to navigate through crowded environments. The navigation policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Yuxiang Cui , Haodong Zhang , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

We consider the problem of safe multi-agent motion planning for drones in uncertain, cluttered workspaces. For this problem, we present a tractable motion planner that builds upon the strengths of reinforcement learning and…

Multi-agent collision-free trajectory planning and control subject to different goal requirements and system dynamics has been extensively studied, and is gaining recent attention in the realm of machine and reinforcement learning. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Salar Asayesh , Mo Chen , Mehran Mehrandezh , Kamal Gupta

Active traffic management with autonomous vehicles offers the potential for reduced congestion and improved traffic flow. However, developing effective algorithms for real-world scenarios requires overcoming challenges related to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Shengchao Yan , Lukas König , Wolfram Burgard

The imminent integration of autonomous vehicles and mobile robots in urban settings presents a critical safety challenge for future intelligent transportation systems. This paper addresses the complex problem of coordinating heterogeneous…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Wenzhe Song , Hao Zhang

Multi-agent Pathfinding (MAPF) problem generally asks to find a set of conflict-free paths for a set of agents confined to a graph and is typically solved in a centralized fashion. Conversely, in this work, we investigate the decentralized…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Alexey Skrynnik , Anton Andreychuk , Maria Nesterova , Konstantin Yakovlev , Aleksandr Panov

Humans can routinely follow a trajectory defined by a list of images/landmarks. However, traditional robot navigation methods require accurate mapping of the environment, localization, and planning. Moreover, these methods are sensitive to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Noriaki Hirose , Fei Xia , Roberto Martin-Martin , Amir Sadeghian , Silvio Savarese

We present a novel Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) based policy to compute dynamically feasible and spatially aware velocities for a robot navigating among mobile obstacles. Our approach combines the benefits of the Dynamic Window…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Utsav Patel , Nithish Kumar , Adarsh Jagan Sathyamoorthy , Dinesh Manocha

Autonomous navigation in crowded, complex urban environments requires interacting with other agents on the road. A common solution to this problem is to use a prediction model to guess the likely future actions of other agents. While this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Xiaoyi Chen , Pratik Chaudhari

Modern navigation algorithms based on deep reinforcement learning (RL) show promising efficiency and robustness. However, most deep RL algorithms operate in a risk-neutral manner, making no special attempt to shield users from relatively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Jinyoung Choi , Christopher R. Dance , Jung-eun Kim , Seulbin Hwang , Kyung-sik Park

Safe and efficient multi-agent navigation in dynamic environments remains inherently challenging, particularly when real-time decision-making is required on resource-constrained platforms. Ensuring collision-free trajectories while adapting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Xingrong Diao , Zhirui Sun , Jianwei Peng , Jiankun Wang

In this work we consider a generalization of the well-known multivehicle routing problem: given a network, a set of agents occupying a subset of its nodes, and a set of tasks, we seek a minimum cost sequence of movements subject to the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Jamison W. Weber , Dhanush R. Giriyan , Devendra R. Parkar , Dimitri P. Bertsekas , Andréa W. Richa

In this paper, we present an advanced strategy for the coordinated control of a multi-agent aerospace system, utilizing Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) within a reinforcement learning framework. Our approach centers on optimizing autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Ye Zhang , Linyue Chu , Letian Xu , Kangtong Mo , Zhengjian Kang , Xingyu Zhang

Multi-robot systems have begun to permeate into a variety of different fields, but collision-free navigation in a decentralized manner is still an arduous task. Typically, the navigation of high speed multi-robot systems demands replanning…

Navigation in cluttered underwater environments is challenging, especially when there are constraints on communication and self-localisation. Part of the fully distributed underwater navigation problem has been resolved by introducing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Kanzhong Yao , Ognjen Marjanovic , Simon Watson

We present a distributed model predictive control (DMPC) algorithm to generate trajectories in real-time for multiple robots. We adopted the \textit{on-demand collision avoidance} method presented in previous work to efficiently compute…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Carlos E. Luis , Marijan Vukosavljev , Angela P. Schoellig

For safe navigation in dynamic uncertain environments, robotic systems rely on the perception and prediction of other agents. Particularly, in occluded areas where cameras and LiDAR give no data, the robot must be able to reason about…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Roya Firoozi , Alexandre Mir , Gadi Sznaier Camps , Mac Schwager

Accurate and robust trajectory prediction of neighboring agents is critical for autonomous vehicles traversing in complex scenes. Most methods proposed in recent years are deep learning-based due to their strength in encoding complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Yujun Jiao , Mingze Miao , Zhishuai Yin , Chunyuan Lei , Xu Zhu , Linzhen Nie , Bo Tao