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Active Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (Active SLAM) involves the strategic planning and precise control of a robotic system's movement in order to construct a highly accurate and comprehensive representation of its surrounding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Yizhen Yin , Yuhua Qi , Dapeng Feng , Hongbo Chen , Hongjun Ma , Jin Wu , Yi Jiang

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is emerging as a promising approach to generate adaptive behaviors for robotic platforms. However, a major drawback of using DRL is the data-hungry training regime that requires millions of trial and error…

In many real-world multi-robot tasks, high-quality solutions often require a team of robots to perform asynchronous actions under decentralized control. Decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning methods have difficulty learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Yuchen Xiao , Joshua Hoffman , Tian Xia , Christopher Amato

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

This paper explores the feasibility of leveraging concepts from deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to enable dynamic resource management in Wi-Fi networks implementing distributed multi-user MIMO (D-MIMO). D-MIMO is a technique by which a…

Autonomous robots are widely utilized for mapping and exploration tasks due to their cost-effectiveness. Multi-robot systems offer scalability and efficiency, especially in terms of the number of robots deployed in more complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Apoorva Vashisth , Manav Kulshrestha , Damon Conover , Aniket Bera

Modern communication networks have become very complicated and highly dynamic, which makes them hard to model, predict and control. In this paper, we develop a novel experience-driven approach that can learn to well control a communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Zhiyuan Xu , Jian Tang , Jingsong Meng , Weiyi Zhang , Yanzhi Wang , Chi Harold Liu , Dejun Yang

The goal of coordinated multi-robot exploration tasks is to employ a team of autonomous robots to explore an unknown environment as quickly as possible. Compared with human-designed methods, which began with heuristic and rule-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Shuqi Liu , Zhaoxia Wu

This paper presents a novel decentralized control strategy for a multi-robot system that enables parallel multi-target exploration while ensuring a time-varying connected topology in cluttered 3D environments. Flexible continuous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Thomas Nestmeyer , Paolo Robuffo Giordano , Heinrich H. Bülthoff , Antonio Franchi

Mobile robots are being used on a large scale in various crowded situations and become part of our society. The socially acceptable navigation behavior of a mobile robot with individual human consideration is an essential requirement for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Daniel Flögel , Lars Fischer , Thomas Rudolf , Tobias Schürmann , Sören Hohmann

Efficient task scheduling in large-scale distributed systems presents significant challenges due to dynamic workloads, heterogeneous resources, and competing quality-of-service requirements. Traditional centralized approaches face…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Daniel Benniah John

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) sometimes needs a large amount of data to converge in the training procedure and in some cases, each action of the agent may produce regret. This barrier naturally motivates different data sets or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Yimin Shi

Autonomous mobile robots operating in complex, dynamic environments face the dual challenge of navigating large-scale, structurally diverse spaces with static obstacles while safely interacting with various moving agents. Traditional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yury Kolomeytsev , Dmitry Golembiovsky

This paper introduces a novel enhancement to the Decentralized Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (D-MARL) exploration by proposing communication-induced action space to improve the mapping efficiency of unknown environments using…

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

Navigating and understanding complex and unknown environments autonomously demands more than just basic perception and movement from embodied agents. Truly effective exploration requires agents to possess higher-level cognitive abilities,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Abdel Hakim Drid , Vincenzo Suriani , Daniele Nardi , Abderrezzak Debilou

Autonomous navigation is an essential capability of smart mobility for mobile robots. Traditional methods must have the environment map to plan a collision-free path in workspace. Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is a promising technique…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Liulong Ma , Yanjie Liu , Jiao Chen , Dong Jin

Embodied agents, such as robots and virtual characters, must continuously select actions to execute tasks effectively, solving complex sequential decision-making problems. Given the difficulty of designing such controllers manually,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Pedro Santana

In this paper, we introduce HDPlanner, a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based framework designed to tackle two core and challenging tasks for mobile robots: autonomous exploration and navigation, where the robot must optimize its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Jingsong Liang , Yuhong Cao , Yixiao Ma , Hanqi Zhao , Guillaume Sartoretti

Reinforcement learning (RL), particularly its combination with deep neural networks referred to as deep RL (DRL), has shown tremendous promise across a wide range of applications, suggesting its potential for enabling the development of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Chen Tang , Ben Abbatematteo , Jiaheng Hu , Rohan Chandra , Roberto Martín-Martín , Peter Stone

This paper introduces a full solution for decentralized routing in Low Earth Orbit satellite constellations based on continual Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL). This requires addressing multiple challenges, including the partial knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Federico Lozano-Cuadra , Beatriz Soret , Israel Leyva-Mayorga , Petar Popovski