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An unsupervised learning algorithm to cluster hyperspectral image (HSI) data is proposed that exploits spatially-regularized random walks. Markov diffusions are defined on the space of HSI spectra with transitions constrained to near…

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This paper presents a whole-body robot control method for exploring and probing a given region of interest. The ergodic control formalism behind such an exploration behavior consists of matching the time-averaged statistics of a robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Cem Bilaloglu , Tobias Löw , Sylvain Calinon

In this paper, we introduce a semi-decentralized control technique for a swarm of robots transporting a fragile object to a destination in an uncertain occluded environment.The proposed approach has been split into two parts. The initial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Dibyendu Roy , Sreejeet Maity , Madhubanti Maitra , Samar Bhattacharya

This paper introduces SoccerDiffusion, a transformer-based diffusion model designed to learn end-to-end control policies for humanoid robot soccer directly from real-world gameplay recordings. Using data collected from RoboCup competitions,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Florian Vahl , Jörn Griepenburg , Jan Gutsche , Jasper Güldenstein , Jianwei Zhang

This work studies how to estimate the mean-field density of large-scale systems in a distributed manner. Such problems are motivated by the recent swarm control technique that uses mean-field approximations to represent the collective…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 Tongjia Zheng , Qing Han , Hai Lin

We consider an aggregation model with nonlinear diffusion in domains with boundaries and investigate the zero diffusion limit of its solutions. We establish the convergence of weak solutions for fixed times, as well as the convergence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Razvan C. Fetecau , Mitchell Kovacic , Ihsan Topaloglu

We study the large time behavior of a system of interacting agents modeling the relaxation of a large swarm of robots, whose task is to uniformly cover a portion of the domain by communicating with each other in terms of their distance. To…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Ferdinando Auricchio , Massimo Carraturo , Giuseppe Toscani , Mattia Zanella

This paper is concerned with the deployment of multiple mobile robots in order to autonomously cover a region Q. The region to be covered is described using a density function which may not be apriori known. In this paper, we pose the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-06 Rihab Abdul Razak , Srikant Sukumar , Hoam Chung

Swarms of autonomous surface vehicles equipped with environmental sensors and decentralized communications bring a new wave of attractive possibilities for the monitoring of dynamic features in oceans and other waterbodies. However, a key…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Francesco Vallegra , David Mateo , Grgur Tokić , Roland Bouffanais , Dick K. P. Yue

Diffusion models have been verified to be effective in generating complex distributions from natural images to motion trajectories. Recent diffusion-based methods show impressive performance in 3D robotic manipulation tasks, whereas they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Guanxing Lu , Zifeng Gao , Tianxing Chen , Wenxun Dai , Ziwei Wang , Wenbo Ding , Yansong Tang

We introduce a new diffusion-based approach for shape completion on 3D range scans. Compared with prior deterministic and probabilistic methods, we strike a balance between realism, multi-modality, and high fidelity. We propose DiffComplete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Ruihang Chu , Enze Xie , Shentong Mo , Zhenguo Li , Matthias Nießner , Chi-Wing Fu , Jiaya Jia

Sequence modeling approaches have shown promising results in robot imitation learning. Recently, diffusion models have been adopted for behavioral cloning in a sequence modeling fashion, benefiting from their exceptional capabilities in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Xiang Li , Varun Belagali , Jinghuan Shang , Michael S. Ryoo

Representation and control of the dynamics of stigmergic substances used by bio-inspired approaches is a challenge when applied to robotics. In order to overcome this challenge, this work proposes a model to coordinate swarms of robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Claudiney R. Tinoco , Gina M. B. Oliveira

Domain randomization in reinforcement learning is an established technique for increasing the robustness of control policies trained in simulation. By randomizing environment properties during training, the learned policy can become robust…

In large-scale UAV swarms, dynamically executing machine learning tasks can pose significant challenges due to network volatility and the heterogeneous resource constraints of each UAV. Traditional approaches often rely on centralized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Talip Tolga Sarı , Gökhan Seçinti , Angelo Trotta

This paper presents coordination algorithms for groups of mobile agents performing deployment and coverage tasks. As an important modeling constraint, we assume that each mobile agent has a limited sensing/communication radius. Based on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jorge Cortes , Sonia Martinez , Francesco Bullo

Recent empirical observations of three-dimensional bird flocks and human crowds have challenged the long-prevailing assumption that a metric interaction distance rules swarming behaviors. In some cases, individual agents are found to be…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-09-29 Yilun Shang , Roland Bouffanais

In this article, we investigate symmetry properties of distributed systems of mobile robots. We consider a swarm of $n\in\mathbb{N}$ robots in the $\mathcal{OBLOT}$ model and analyze their collective $\mathcal{F}$sync dynamics using of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Raphael Gerlach , Sören von der Gracht

This paper addresses a task allocation problem for a large-scale robotic swarm, namely swarm distribution guidance problem. Unlike most of the existing frameworks handling this problem, the proposed framework suggests utilising local…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Inmo Jang , Hyo-Sang Shin , Antonios Tsourdos

This paper introduces Diffusion Policy, a new way of generating robot behavior by representing a robot's visuomotor policy as a conditional denoising diffusion process. We benchmark Diffusion Policy across 12 different tasks from 4…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Cheng Chi , Zhenjia Xu , Siyuan Feng , Eric Cousineau , Yilun Du , Benjamin Burchfiel , Russ Tedrake , Shuran Song