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Cooperative intelligent freeway traffic control is an important application in intelligent transportation systems, which is expected to improve the mobility of freeway networks. In this paper, we propose a deep neuroevolution model, called…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Yuankai Wu , Huachun Tan , Zhuxi Jiang , Bin Ran

Traffic congestion, primarily driven by intersection queuing, significantly impacts urban living standards, safety, environmental quality, and economic efficiency. While Traffic Signal Control (TSC) systems hold potential for congestion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Qiang Li , Jin Niu , Lina Yu

Signal control in urban corridors faces the dual challenge of maintaining arterial traffic progression while adapting to demand variations at local intersections. We propose a hierarchical traffic signal coordination and control scheme that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Xianyue Peng , Shenyang Chen , H. Michael Zhang

Safe and effective motion planning is crucial for autonomous robots. Diffusion models excel at capturing complex agent interactions, a fundamental aspect of decision-making in dynamic environments. Recent studies have successfully applied…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Giwon Lee , Daehee Park , Jaewoo Jeong , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Graph-based environments pose unique challenges to multi-agent reinforcement learning. In decentralized approaches, agents operate within a given graph and make decisions based on partial or outdated observations. The size of the observed…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jannis Weil , Zhenghua Bao , Osama Abboud , Tobias Meuser

Visual navigation for autonomous agents is a core task in the fields of computer vision and robotics. Learning-based methods, such as deep reinforcement learning, have the potential to outperform the classical solutions developed for this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Zachary Seymour , Kowshik Thopalli , Niluthpol Mithun , Han-Pang Chiu , Supun Samarasekera , Rakesh Kumar

Expert human drivers perform actions relying on traffic laws and their previous experience. While traffic laws are easily embedded into an artificial brain, modeling human complex behaviors which come from past experience is a more…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Giulio Bacchiani , Daniele Molinari , Marco Patander

Traffic signal control is important in intelligent transportation system, of which cooperative control is difficult to realize but yet vital. Many methods model multi-intersection traffic networks as grids and address the problem using…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Zhiyue Luo , Jun Xu , Fanglin Chen

This paper presents a novel control strategy for the coordination of a multi-agent system subject to high-level goals expressed as linear temporal logic formulas. In particular, each agent, which is modeled as a sphere with 2nd order…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Christos K. Verginis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms often suffer from an exponential sample complexity dependence on the number of agents, a phenomenon known as \emph{the curse of multiagents}. In this paper, we address this challenge by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Weichao Mao , Lin F. Yang , Kaiqing Zhang , Tamer Başar

We study multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) in a stochastic network of agents. The objective is to find localized policies that maximize the (discounted) global reward. In general, scalability is a challenge in this setting because…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Yiheng Lin , Guannan Qu , Longbo Huang , Adam Wierman

Adaptive traffic signal control, which adjusts traffic signal timing according to real-time traffic, has been shown to be an effective method to reduce traffic congestion. Available works on adaptive traffic signal control make responsive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Juntao Gao , Yulong Shen , Jia Liu , Minoru Ito , Norio Shiratori

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a fundamental coordination problem in large-scale robotic and cyber-physical systems, where multiple agents must compute conflict-free trajectories with limited computational and communication resources.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Kevin Riehl , Julius Schlapbach , Anastasios Kouvelas , Michail A. Makridis

Collaborative multi-agent exploration of unknown environments is crucial for search and rescue operations. Effective real-world deployment must address challenges such as limited inter-agent communication and static and dynamic obstacles.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Gabriele Calzolari , Vidya Sumathy , Christoforos Kanellakis , George Nikolakopoulos

Lane change decision-making is a complex task due to intricate vehicle-vehicle and vehicle-infrastructure interactions. Existing algorithms for lane-change control often depend on vehicles with a certain level of autonomy (e.g., autonomous…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Ke Sun , Huan Yu

This paper studies cooperative control of noncooperative double-integrator multi-agent systems (MASs) with input delay on connected directed graphs in the context of a differential graphical game (DGG). In the distributed DGG, each agent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-04 Hossein B. Jond

Many potential applications of reinforcement learning in the real world involve interacting with other agents whose numbers vary over time. We propose new neural policy architectures for these multi-agent problems. In contrast to other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Matthew A. Wright , Roberto Horowitz

Existing multi-agent coordination techniques are often fragile and vulnerable to anomalies such as agent attrition and communication disturbances, which are quite common in the real-world deployment of systems like field robotics. To better…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-27 Anthony Goeckner , Yueyuan Sui , Nicolas Martinet , Xinliang Li , Qi Zhu

To plan the trajectories of a large-scale heterogeneous swarm, sequentially or synchronously distributed methods usually become intractable due to the lack of global clock synchronization. To this end, we provide a novel asynchronous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Yuda Chen , Haoze Dong , Zhongkui Li

Effective multi-robot teams require the ability to move to goals in complex environments in order to address real-world applications such as search and rescue. Multi-robot teams should be able to operate in a completely decentralized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Brian Reily , Terran Mott , Hao Zhang