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The charging scheduling problem of Electric Buses (EBs) is investigated based on Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL). A Markov Decision Process (MDP) is conceived, where the time horizon includes multiple charging and operating periods in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Jiaju Qi , Lei Lei , Thorsteinn Jonsson , Lajos Hanzo

The dynamic vehicle dispatching problem corresponds to deciding which vehicles to assign to requests that arise stochastically over time and space. It emerges in diverse areas, such as in the assignment of trucks to loads to be transported;…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Edyvalberty Alenquer Cordeiro , Anselmo Ramalho Pitombeira-Neto

Solving traffic assignment problem for large networks is computationally challenging when conventional optimization-based methods are used. In our research, we develop an innovative surrogate model for a traffic assignment when multi-class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Tong Liu , Hadi Meidani

We study a Federated Reinforcement Learning (FedRL) problem with constraint heterogeneity. In our setting, we aim to solve a reinforcement learning problem with multiple constraints while $N$ training agents are located in $N$ different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Hao Jin , Liangyu Zhang , Zhihua Zhang

Bike sharing provides an environment-friendly way for traveling and is booming all over the world. Yet, due to the high similarity of user travel patterns, the bike imbalance problem constantly occurs, especially for dockless bike sharing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Ling Pan , Qingpeng Cai , Zhixuan Fang , Pingzhong Tang , Longbo Huang

Multi-vehicle pursuit (MVP) such as autonomous police vehicles pursuing suspects is important but very challenging due to its mission and safety critical nature. While multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms have been proposed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Xinhang Li , Yiying Yang , Zheng Yuan , Zhe Wang , Qinwen Wang , Chen Xu , Lei Li , Jianhua He , Lin Zhang

Priority dispatching rule (PDR) is widely used for solving real-world Job-shop scheduling problem (JSSP). However, the design of effective PDRs is a tedious task, requiring a myriad of specialized knowledge and often delivering limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Cong Zhang , Wen Song , Zhiguang Cao , Jie Zhang , Puay Siew Tan , Chi Xu

The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a fundamental NP-hard task in intelligent transportation systems with broad applications in logistics and distribution. Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) with Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) has shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Le Tung Giang , Vu Hoang Viet , Nguyen Xuan Tung , Trinh Van Chien , Won-Joo Hwang

Multi-robot cooperative transport is crucial in logistics, housekeeping, and disaster response. However, it poses significant challenges in environments where objects of various weights are mixed and the number of robots and objects varies.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Yusei Naito , Tomohiko Jimbo , Tadashi Odashima , Takamitsu Matsubara

The traditional Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) minimizes the total distance of the routes under the capacity constraints of the vehicles. But more often, the objective involves multiple criteria including not only the total…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Jayanta Mandi , Rocsildes Canoy , Víctor Bucarey , Tias Guns

Packet routing is one of the fundamental problems in computer networks in which a router determines the next-hop of each packet in the queue to get it as quickly as possible to its destination. Reinforcement learning (RL) has been…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Xinyu You , Xuanjie Li , Yuedong Xu , Hui Feng , Jin Zhao , Huaicheng Yan

For robotic vehicles to navigate robustly and safely in unseen environments, it is crucial to decide the most suitable navigation policy. However, most existing deep reinforcement learning based navigation policies are trained with a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Kyowoon Lee , Seongun Kim , Jaesik Choi

We consider vehicular networking scenarios where existing vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) links can be leveraged for an effective uploading of large-size data to the network. In particular, we consider a group of vehicles where one vehicle can be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Talha Akyildiz , Hessam Mahdavifar

This paper is a study of an application-based model in profit-maximizing multi-vehicle pickup and delivery selection problem (PPDSP). The graph-theoretic model proposed by existing studies of PPDSP is based on transport requests to define…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Aolong Zha , Qiong Chang , Naoto Imura , Katsuhiro Nishinari

Providing an efficient strategy to navigate safely through unsignaled intersections is a difficult task that requires determining the intent of other drivers. We explore the effectiveness of Deep Reinforcement Learning to handle…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-28 David Isele , Reza Rahimi , Akansel Cosgun , Kaushik Subramanian , Kikuo Fujimura

In Reinforcement Learning (RL), an agent explores the environment and collects trajectories into the memory buffer for later learning. However, the collected trajectories can easily be imbalanced with respect to the achieved goal states.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Rui Zhao , Volker Tresp

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

Due to the rapid growth of heterogeneous wireless networks (HWNs), where devices with diverse communication technologies coexist, there is increasing demand for efficient and adaptive multi-hop routing with multiple data flows. Traditional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Brian Kim , Justin H. Kong , Terrence J. Moore , Fikadu T. Dagefu

In today's era, autonomous vehicles demand a safety level on par with aircraft. Taking a cue from the aerospace industry, which relies on redundancy to achieve high reliability, the automotive sector can also leverage this concept by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Fouzi Boukhalfa , Reda Alami , Mastane Achab , Eric Moulines , Mehdi Bennis

Machine learning has been adapted to help solve NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems. One prevalent way is learning to construct solutions by deep neural networks, which has been receiving more and more attention due to the high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Chengrui Gao , Haopu Shang , Ke Xue , Dong Li , Chao Qian