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In this paper, we propose a novel reinforcement learning (RL) based path generation (RL-PG) approach for mobile robot navigation without a prior exploration of an unknown environment. Multiple predictive path points are dynamically…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Longyuan Zhang , Ziyue Hou , Ji Wang , Ziang Liu , Wei Li

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) allows a system to interact with its environment and take actions by training an efficient policy that maximizes self-defined rewards. In autonomous driving, it can be used as a strategy for high-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Xibo Li , Shruti Patel , Christof Büskens

Reinforcement learning (RL) is crucial for data science decision-making but suffers from sample inefficiency, particularly in real-world scenarios with costly physical interactions. This paper introduces a novel human-inspired framework to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Ali Beikmohammadi , Sindri Magnússon

Training robots to navigate diverse environments is a challenging problem as it involves the confluence of several different perception tasks such as mapping and localization, followed by optimal path-planning and control. Recently released…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Kaushik Balakrishnan , Punarjay Chakravarty , Shubham Shrivastava

Reinforcement learning has demonstrated significant potential in the field of autonomous driving. However, it suffers from defects such as training instability and unsafe action outputs when faced with autonomous racing environments…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Bo Leng , Weiqi Zhang , Zhuoren Li , Lu Xiong , Guizhe Jin , Ran Yu , Chen Lv

Autonomous robot exploration (ARE) is the process of a robot autonomously navigating and mapping an unknown environment. Recent Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based approaches typically formulate ARE as a sequential decision-making problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Haozhan Ni , Jingsong Liang , Chenyu He , Yuhong Cao , Guillaume Sartoretti

This paper proposes an end-to-end deep reinforcement learning approach for mobile robot navigation with dynamic obstacles avoidance. Using experience collected in a simulation environment, a convolutional neural network (CNN) is trained to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Guangda Chen , Lifan Pan , Yu'an Chen , Pei Xu , Zhiqiang Wang , Peichen Wu , Jianmin Ji , Xiaoping Chen

The market for domestic robots made to perform household chores is growing as these robots relieve people of everyday responsibilities. Domestic robots are generally welcomed for their role in easing human labor, in contrast to industrial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Arpita Soni , Sujatha Alla , Suresh Dodda , Hemanth Volikatla

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising approach for robotic navigation, allowing robots to learn through trial and error. However, real-world robotic tasks often suffer from sparse rewards, leading to inefficient exploration and…

Reinforcement Learning (RL) offers a promising framework for autonomous driving by enabling agents to learn control policies through interaction with environments. However, large and high-dimensional action spaces often used to support…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Elahe Delavari , Feeza Khan Khanzada , Jaerock Kwon

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful approach for robot learning. However, model-free RL (MFRL) requires a large number of environment interactions to learn successful control policies. This is due to the noisy RL training updates and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Maria Krinner , Elie Aljalbout , Angel Romero , Davide Scaramuzza

While reinforcement learning (RL) has the potential to enable robots to autonomously acquire a wide range of skills, in practice, RL usually requires manual, per-task engineering of reward functions, especially in real world settings where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Tianhe Yu , Gleb Shevchuk , Dorsa Sadigh , Chelsea Finn

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

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a general framework concerned with an agent that seeks to maximize rewards in an environment. The learning typically happens through trial and error using explorative methods, such as epsilon-greedy. There are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Per-Arne Andersen , Morten Goodwin , Ole-Christoffer Granmo

We present PRM-RL, a hierarchical method for long-range navigation task completion that combines sampling based path planning with reinforcement learning (RL). The RL agents learn short-range, point-to-point navigation policies that capture…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Aleksandra Faust , Oscar Ramirez , Marek Fiser , Kenneth Oslund , Anthony Francis , James Davidson , Lydia Tapia

Navigating robots safely and efficiently in crowded and complex environments remains a significant challenge. However, due to the dynamic and intricate nature of these settings, planning efficient and collision-free paths for robots to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Zhuanglei Wen , Mingze Dong , Xiai Chen

Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms find applications in inventory control, recommender systems, vehicular traffic management, cloud computing and robotics. The real-world complications of many tasks arising in these domains makes them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Sindhu Padakandla

Current state-of-the-art crowd navigation approaches are mainly deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based. However, DRL-based methods suffer from the issues of generalization and scalability. To overcome these challenges, we propose a method…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Hafiq Anas , Ong Wee Hong , Owais Ahmed Malik

Model-free reinforcement learning (RL) is inherently a reactive method, operating under the assumption that it starts with no prior knowledge of the system and entirely depends on trial-and-error for learning. This approach faces several…

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