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Autonomous navigation of Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV) in marine environments with current flows is challenging, and few prior works have addressed the sensorbased navigation problem in such environments under no prior knowledge of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Xi Lin , John McConnell , Brendan Englot

With the rapidly growing interest in autonomous navigation, the body of research on motion planning and collision avoidance techniques has enjoyed an accelerating rate of novel proposals and developments. However, the complexity of new…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Vahid Behzadan , Arslan Munir

In this paper we design and evaluate a Deep-Reinforcement Learning agent that optimizes routing. Our agent adapts automatically to current traffic conditions and proposes tailored configurations that attempt to minimize the network delay.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Giorgio Stampa , Marta Arias , David Sanchez-Charles , Victor Muntes-Mulero , Albert Cabellos

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

Maritime autonomous transportation has played a crucial role in the globalization of the world economy. Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has been applied to automatic path planning to simulate vessel collision avoidance situations in open…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Nader Zare , Bruno Brandoli , Mahtab Sarvmaili , Amilcar Soares , Stan Matwin

Safe navigation is essential for autonomous systems operating in hazardous environments. Traditional planning methods excel at long-horizon tasks but rely on a predefined graph with fixed distance metrics. In contrast, safe Reinforcement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Meng Feng , Viraj Parimi , Brian Williams

Moving in complex environments is an essential capability of intelligent mobile robots. Decades of research and engineering have been dedicated to developing sophisticated navigation systems to move mobile robots from one point to another.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Xuesu Xiao , Bo Liu , Garrett Warnell , Peter Stone

Robot navigation in dynamic environments shared with humans is an important but challenging task, which suffers from performance deterioration as the crowd grows. In this paper, multi-subgoal robot navigation approach based on deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Xinyi Yu , Jianan Hu , Yuehai Fan , Wancai Zheng , Linlin Ou

Robots are increasingly integrated across industries, particularly in healthcare. However, many valuable applications for quadrupedal robots remain overlooked. This research explores the effectiveness of three reinforcement learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Emma M. A. Harrison

Control theory provides engineers with a multitude of tools to design controllers that manipulate the closed-loop behavior and stability of dynamical systems. These methods rely heavily on insights about the mathematical model governing the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Simen Theie Havenstrøm , Adil Rasheed , Omer San

The challenge of mapping indoor environments is addressed. Typical heuristic algorithms for solving the motion planning problem are frontier-based methods, that are especially effective when the environment is completely unknown. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Elchanan Zwecher , Eran Iceland , Sean R. Levy , Shmuel Y. Hayoun , Oren Gal , Ariel Barel

Mobile robots are often tasked with repeatedly navigating through an environment whose traversability changes over time. These changes may exhibit some hidden structure, which can be learned. Many studies consider reactive algorithms for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Florence Tsang , Tristan Walker , Ryan A. MacDonald , Armin Sadeghi , Stephen L. Smith

Enabling robots to autonomously navigate complex environments is essential for real-world deployment. Prior methods approach this problem by having the robot maintain an internal map of the world, and then use a localization and planning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Gregory Kahn , Adam Villaflor , Bosen Ding , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

This paper highlights the significance of including memory structures in neural networks when the latter are used to learn perception-action loops for autonomous robot navigation. Traditional navigation approaches rely on global maps of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Steven W Chen , Nikolay Atanasov , Arbaaz Khan , Konstantinos Karydis , Daniel D. Lee , Vijay Kumar

Route planning is important in transportation. Existing works focus on finding the shortest path solution or using metrics such as safety and energy consumption to determine the planning. It is noted that most of these studies rely on prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Yuanzhe Geng , Erwu Liu , Rui Wang , Yiming Liu

Autonomous robot navigation systems often rely on hierarchical planning, where global planners compute collision-free paths without considering dynamics, and local planners enforce dynamics constraints to produce executable commands. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yuanjie Lu , Mingyang Mao , Tong Xu , Linji Wang , Xiaomin Lin , Xuesu Xiao

We propose a deep reinforcement learning approach for solving a mapless navigation problem in warehouse scenarios. In our approach, an automation guided vehicle is equipped with LiDAR and frontal RGB sensors and learns to perform a targeted…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Honghu Xue , Benedikt Hein , Mohamed Bakr , Georg Schildbach , Bengt Abel , Elmar Rueckert

In fast-paced, ever-changing environments, dynamic Motion Planning for Multi-Agent Systems in the presence of obstacles is a universal and unsolved problem. Be it from path planning around obstacles to the movement of robotic arms, or in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Brandon Ho , Batuhan Altundas , Matthew Gombolay

Planning coverage path for multiple robots in a decentralized way enhances robustness to coverage tasks handling uncertain malfunctions. To achieve high efficiency in a distributed manner for each single robot, a comprehensive understanding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Yongkai Liu , Jiawei Hu , Wei Dong

Solving robotic navigation tasks via reinforcement learning (RL) is challenging due to their sparse reward and long decision horizon nature. However, in many navigation tasks, high-level (HL) task representations, like a rough floor plan,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Jan Wöhlke , Felix Schmitt , Herke van Hoof