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Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has exhibited considerable promise in the training of control agents for mapless robot navigation. However, DRL-trained agents are limited to the specific robot dimensions used during training, hindering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Wei Zhang , Yunfeng Zhang , Ning Liu , Kai Ren

Increasingly complex, non-linear World-Earth system models are used for describing the dynamics of the biophysical Earth system and the socio-economic and socio-cultural World of human societies and their interactions. Identifying pathways…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-09-16 Felix M. Strnad , Wolfram Barfuss , Jonathan F. Donges , Jobst Heitzig

Multi-robot navigation in unknown, structurally constrained, and GPS-denied environments presents a fundamental trade-off between global strategic foresight and local tactical agility, particularly under limited communication. Centralized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Zihao Mao , Yunheng Wang , Yunting Ji , Yi Yang , Wenjie Song

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has recently shown its success in tackling complex combinatorial optimization problems. When these problems are extended to multiobjective ones, it becomes difficult for the existing DRL approaches to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Zizhen Zhang , Zhiyuan Wu , Hang Zhang , Jiahai Wang

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

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

Connected and autonomous vehicles across land, water, and air must often operate in dynamic, unpredictable environments with limited communication, no centralized control, and partial observability. These real-world constraints pose…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Hung Du , Hy Nguyen , Srikanth Thudumu , Rajesh Vasa , Kon Mouzakis

We present a novel reinforcement learning (RL) based task allocation and decentralized navigation algorithm for mobile robots in warehouse environments. Our approach is designed for scenarios in which multiple robots are used to perform…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Aakriti Agrawal , Senthil Hariharan , Amrit Singh Bedi , Dinesh Manocha

Navigation of mobile robots within crowded environments is an essential task in various use cases, such as delivery, health care, or logistics. Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) emerged as an alternative method to replace overly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Linh Kästner , Xinlin Zhao , Zhengcheng Shen , Jens Lambrecht

This paper targets at the problem of radio resource management for expected long-term delay-power tradeoff in vehicular communications. At each decision epoch, the road side unit observes the global network state, allocates channels and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-04 Xianfu Chen , Celimuge Wu , Honggang Zhang , Yan Zhang , Mehdi Bennis , Heli Vuojala

Limited computing resources of internet-of-things (IoT) nodes incur prohibitive latency in processing input data. This triggers new research opportunities toward task offloading systems where edge servers handle intensive computations of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Sangwon Hwang , Hoon Lee , Juseong Park , Inkyu Lee

The digital transformation is pushing the existing network technologies towards new horizons, enabling new applications (e.g., vehicular networks). As a result, the networking community has seen a noticeable increase in the requirements of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Paul Almasan , José Suárez-Varela , Bo Wu , Shihan Xiao , Pere Barlet-Ros , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been increasingly employed to handle the dynamic and complex resource management in network slicing. The deployment of DRL policies in real networks, however, is complicated by heterogeneous cell…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Tianlun Hu , Qi Liao , Qiang Liu , Georg Carle

Many reinforcement learning (RL) tasks have specific properties that can be leveraged to modify existing RL algorithms to adapt to those tasks and further improve performance, and a general class of such properties is the multiple reward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Zichuan Lin , Li Zhao , Derek Yang , Tao Qin , Guangwen Yang , Tie-Yan Liu

One of the bottlenecks preventing Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms (DRL) from real-world applications is how to explore the environment and collect informative transitions efficiently. The present paper describes bounded exploration,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Ting Qiao , Henry Williams , David Valencia , Bruce MacDonald

Cellular vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication is crucial to support future diverse vehicular applications. However, for safety-critical applications, unstable vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) links and high signalling overhead of centralized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Xinran Zhang , Mugen Peng , Shi Yan , Yaohua Sun

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is a powerful framework for solving complex sequential decision-making problems, particularly in robotic control. However, its practical deployment is often hindered by the substantial amount of experience…

The advent of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has significantly advanced the field of robotics, particularly in the control and coordination of quadruped robots. However, the complexity of real-world tasks often necessitates the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Ziyan Xiong , Bo Chen , Shiyu Huang , Wei-Wei Tu , Zhaofeng He , Yang Gao

The collaboration and interaction of multiple robots have become integral aspects of smart manufacturing. Effective planning and management play a crucial role in achieving energy savings and minimising overall costs. This paper addresses…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Ziren Xiao , Ruxin Xiao , Chang Liu , Xinheng Wang

Safe and efficient navigation through human crowds is an essential capability for mobile robots. Previous work on robot crowd navigation assumes that the dynamics of all agents are known and well-defined. In addition, the performance of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Shuijing Liu , Peixin Chang , Weihang Liang , Neeloy Chakraborty , Katherine Driggs-Campbell