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For widespread deployment in domains characterized by partial observability, non-deterministic actions and unforeseen changes, robots need to adapt sensing, processing and interaction with humans to the tasks at hand. While robots typically…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-08-05 Shiqi Zhang , Mohan Sridharan

Online planning for partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) provides efficient techniques for robot decision-making under uncertainty. However, existing methods fall short of preventing safety violations in dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Shili Sheng , Pian Yu , David Parker , Marta Kwiatkowska , Lu Feng

This paper is concerned with a two-person zero-sum indefinite stochastic linear-quadratic Stackelberg differential game with asymmetric informational uncertainties, where both the leader and follower face different and unknown disturbances.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Na Xiang , Jingtao Shi

Understanding the evolutionary dynamics of reinforcement learning under multi-agent settings has long remained an open problem. While previous works primarily focus on 2-player games, we consider population games, which model the strategic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Shuyue Hu , Chin-Wing Leung , Ho-fung Leung , Harold Soh

In head-to-head racing, an accurate model of interactive behavior of the opposing target vehicle (TV) is required to perform tightly constrained, but highly rewarding maneuvers such as overtaking. However, such information is not typically…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Edward L. Zhu , Finn Lukas Busch , Jake Johnson , Francesco Borrelli

Effective decision-making in autonomous driving relies on accurate inference of other traffic agents' future behaviors. To achieve this, we propose an online belief-update-based behavior prediction model and an efficient planner for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Zhiyu Huang , Chen Tang , Chen Lv , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Wei Zhan

Ensuring that AI systems make strategic decisions aligned with the specified preferences in adversarial sequential interactions is a critical challenge for developing trustworthy AI systems, especially when the environment is stochastic and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Abhishek Ninad Kulkarni , Jie Fu , Ufuk Topcu

Multi-agent planning and reinforcement learning can be challenging when agents cannot see the state of the world or communicate with each other due to communication costs, latency, or noise. Partially Observable Stochastic Games (POSGs)…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Rafael F. Cunha , Jacopo Castellini , Johan Peralez , Jilles S. Dibangoye

We study self-triggered two-player stochastic games on Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes (PDMPs) where each agent decides when to observe and which open-loop action to hold. Augmenting the state with clocks and committed controls…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Yunian Pan , Quanyan Zhu

Game dynamics, which describe how agents' strategies evolve over time based on past interactions, can exhibit a variety of undesirable behaviours including convergence to suboptimal equilibria, cycling, and chaos. While central planners can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Ilayda Canyakmaz , Iosif Sakos , Wayne Lin , Antonios Varvitsiotis , Georgios Piliouras

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…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Abhish Khanal , Gregory J. Stein

Many multi-agent systems (MASs) are situated in stochastic environments. Some such systems that are based on the partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) do not take the benevolence of other agents for granted. We propose a new…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Gavin Rens , Abhaya Nayak , Thomas Meyer

Human-involved interactive environments pose significant challenges for autonomous vehicle decision-making processes due to the complexity and uncertainty of human behavior. It is crucial to develop an explainable and trustworthy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Meiting Dang , Dezong Zhao , Yafei Wang , Chongfeng Wei

In mobile robotics and autonomous driving, it is natural to model agent interactions as the Nash equilibrium of a noncooperative, dynamic game. These methods inherently rely on observations from sensors such as lidars and cameras to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Tianyu Qiu , David Fridovich-Keil

We study learning dynamics induced by strategic agents who repeatedly play a game with an unknown payoff-relevant parameter. In this dynamics, a belief estimate of the parameter is repeatedly updated given players' strategies and realized…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Manxi Wu , Saurabh Amin , Asuman Ozdaglar

We address the problem of controlling a mobile robot to explore a partially known environment. The robot's objective is the maximization of the amount of information collected about the environment. We formulate the problem as a partially…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Mikko Lauri , Risto Ritala

The standard problem setting in Dec-POMDPs is self-play, where the goal is to find a set of policies that play optimally together. Policies learned through self-play may adopt arbitrary conventions and implicitly rely on multi-step…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Hengyuan Hu , Adam Lerer , Brandon Cui , David Wu , Luis Pineda , Noam Brown , Jakob Foerster

We consider the problem of finding the best memoryless stochastic policy for an infinite-horizon partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) with finite state and action spaces with respect to either the discounted or mean reward…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-02 Johannes Müller , Guido Montúfar

Partially-Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) are a well-known stochastic model for sequential decision making under limited information. We consider the EXPTIME-hard problem of synthesising policies that almost-surely reach some…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Sebastian Junges , Nils Jansen , Sanjit A. Seshia

We consider the problem of interactive partially observable Markov decision processes (I-POMDPs), where the agents are located at the nodes of a communication network. Specifically, we assume a certain message type for all messages.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Yitao Chen , Deepanshu Vasal