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Reinforcement learning continuously optimizes decision-making based on real-time feedback reward signals through continuous interaction with the environment, demonstrating strong adaptive and self-learning capabilities. In recent years, it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Zixiang Wang , Hao Yan , Yining Wang , Zhengjia Xu , Zhuoyue Wang , Zhizhong Wu

Robot navigation with deep reinforcement learning (RL) achieves higher performance and performs well under complex environment. Meanwhile, the interpretation of the decision-making of deep RL models becomes a critical problem for more…

Classical reinforcement learning (RL) methods often struggle in complex, high-dimensional environments because of their extensive parameter requirements and challenges posed by stochastic, non-deterministic settings. This study introduces…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Romerik Lokossou , Birhanu Shimelis Girma , Ozan K. Tonguz , Ahmed Biyabani

Unmanned Surface Vehicles technology (USVs) is an exciting topic that essentially deploys an algorithm to safely and efficiently performs a mission. Although reinforcement learning is a well-known approach to modeling such a task,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Mohammad Etemad , Nader Zare , Mahtab Sarvmaili , Amilcar Soares , Bruno Brandoli Machado , Stan Matwin

Jumping poses a significant challenge for quadruped robots, despite being crucial for many operational scenarios. While optimisation methods exist for controlling such motions, they are often time-consuming and demand extensive knowledge of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Riccardo Bussola , Michele Focchi , Giulio Turrisi , Claudio Semini , Luigi Palopoli

Multi-robot navigation is a challenging task in which multiple robots must be coordinated simultaneously within dynamic environments. We apply deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to learn a decentralized end-to-end policy which maps raw…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Christian Jestel , Hartmut Surmann , Jonas Stenzel , Oliver Urbann , Marius Brehler

Underwater target localization using range-only and single-beacon (ROSB) techniques with autonomous vehicles has been used recently to improve the limitations of more complex methods, such as long baseline and ultra-short baseline systems.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Ivan Masmitja , Mario Martin , Kakani Katija , Spartacus Gomariz , Joan Navarro

Since the application of Deep Q-Learning to the continuous action domain in Atari-like games, Deep Reinforcement Learning (Deep-RL) techniques for motion control have been qualitatively enhanced. Nowadays, modern Deep-RL can be successfully…

Autonomous navigation is challenging for mobile robots, especially in an unknown environment. Commonly, the robot requires multiple sensors to map the environment, locate itself, and make a plan to reach the target. However, reinforcement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Miguel Quinones-Ramirez , Jorge Rios-Martinez , Victor Uc-Cetina

Long-range indoor navigation requires guiding robots with noisy sensors and controls through cluttered environments along paths that span a variety of buildings. We achieve this with PRM-RL, a hierarchical robot navigation method in which…

We present a map-less path planning algorithm based on Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) for mobile robots navigating in unknown environment that only relies on 40-dimensional raw laser data and odometry information. The planner is trained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Nicolò Botteghi , Beril Sirmacek , Khaled A. A. Mustafa , Mannes Poel , Stefano Stramigioli

Magnetic micro-robots have demonstrated immense potential in biomedical applications, such as in vivo drug delivery, non-invasive diagnostics, and cell-based therapies, owing to their precise maneuverability and small size. However, current…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yudong Mao , Dandan Zhang

Radioguided surgery, such as sentinel lymph node biopsy, relies on the precise localization of radioactive targets by non-imaging gamma/beta detectors. Manual radioactive target detection based on visual display or audible indication of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Hanyi Zhang , Kaizhong Deng , Zhaoyang Jacopo Hu , Baoru Huang , Daniel S. Elson

In this paper, a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) method is proposed to address the problem of UAV navigation in an unknown environment. However, DRL algorithms are limited by the data efficiency problem as they typically require a huge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Lei He , Nabil Aouf , James F. Whidborne , Bifeng Song

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has presented an impressive performance in video games through raw pixel imaging and continuous control tasks. However, RL performs poorly with high-dimensional observations such as raw pixel images. It is…

Autonomous vehicles have the potential to revolutionize transportation, but they must be able to navigate safely in traffic before they can be deployed on public roads. The goal of this project is to train autonomous vehicles to make…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Ghadi Nehme , Tejas Y. Deo

In this paper, a novel deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based method is proposed to navigate the robot team through unknown complex environments, where the geometric centroid of the robot team aims to reach the goal position while avoiding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Juntong Lin , Xuyun Yang , Peiwei Zheng , Hui Cheng

Autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) plays an increasingly important role in ocean exploration. Existing AUVs are usually not fully autonomous and generally limited to pre-planning or pre-programming tasks. Reinforcement learning (RL) and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Qilei Zhang , Jinying Lin , Qixin Sha , Bo He , Guangliang Li

This paper investigates the application of reinforcement learning (RL) to multi-robot social formation navigation, a critical capability for enabling seamless human-robot coexistence. While RL offers a promising paradigm, the inherent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Hao Fu , Wei Liu , Shuai Zhou

Safe and real-time navigation is fundamental for humanoid robot applications. However, existing bipedal robot navigation frameworks often struggle to balance computational efficiency with the precision required for stable locomotion. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Chengyang Peng , Zhihao Zhang , Shiting Gong , Sankalp Agrawal , Keith A. Redmill , Ayonga Hereid