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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

Finding feasible and collision-free paths for multiple nonlinear agents is challenging in the decentralized scenarios due to limited available information of other agents and complex dynamics constraints. In this paper, we propose a fast…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Hao Li , Bowen Weng , Abhishek Gupta , Jia Pan , Wei Zhang

Developing a safe and efficient collision avoidance policy for multiple robots is challenging in the decentralized scenarios where each robot generate its paths without observing other robots' states and intents. While other distributed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Pinxin Long , Tingxiang Fan , Xinyi Liao , Wenxi Liu , Hao Zhang , Jia Pan

Challenges persist in nonholonomic robot navigation in dynamic environments. This paper presents a framework for such navigation based on the model of generalized velocity obstacles (GVO). The idea of velocity obstacles has been well…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Yuying Chen , Ming Liu

This work presents a distributed algorithm for resolving cooperative multi-vehicle conflicts in highly constrained spaces. By formulating the conflict resolution problem as a Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (RL) problem, we can train a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Xu Shen , Francesco Borrelli

In recent years, the growing demand for more intelligent service robots is pushing the development of mobile robot navigation algorithms to allow safe and efficient operation in a dense crowd. Reinforcement learning (RL) approaches have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Keyu Li , Ye Lu , Max Q. -H. Meng

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

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

Robotic collaborative carrying could greatly benefit human activities like warehouse and construction site management. However, coordinating the simultaneous motion of multiple robots represents a significant challenge. Existing works…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Francesca Bray , Simone Tolomei , Andrei Cramariuc , Cesar Cadena , Marco Hutter

The capability of UAVs for efficient autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance in complex and unknown environments is critical for applications in agricultural irrigation, disaster relief and logistics. In this paper, we propose the DPRL…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Junqiao Wang , Zhongliang Yu , Dong Zhou , Jiaqi Shi , Runran Deng

Collaborative transportation, where multiple robots collaboratively transport a payload, has garnered significant attention in recent years. While ensuring safe and high-performance inter-robot collaboration is critical for effective task…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Zhezhi Lei , Zhihai Bi , Wenxin Wang , Jun Ma

This work presents a decentralized motion planning framework for addressing the task of multi-robot navigation using deep reinforcement learning. A custom simulator was developed in order to experimentally investigate the navigation problem…

Route planning is essential to mobile robot navigation problems. In recent years, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been applied to learning optimal planning policies in stochastic environments without prior knowledge. However, existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Xi Lin , Paul Szenher , John D. Martin , Brendan Englot

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has achieved remarkable progress in online path planning tasks for multi-UAV systems. However, existing DRL-based methods often suffer from performance degradation when tackling unseen scenarios, since the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jiafan Zhuang , Zihao Xia , Gaofei Han , Boxi Wang , Wenji Li , Dongliang Wang , Zhifeng Hao , Ruichu Cai , Zhun Fan

In unseen and complex outdoor environments, collision avoidance navigation for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms presents a challenging problem. It requires UAVs to navigate through various obstacles and complex backgrounds. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jiafan Zhuang , Gaofei Han , Zihao Xia , Boxi Wang , Wenji Li , Dongliang Wang , Zhifeng Hao , Ruichu Cai , Zhun Fan

Mobile robot navigation in complex and dynamic environments is a challenging but important problem. Reinforcement learning approaches fail to solve these tasks efficiently due to reward sparsities, temporal complexities and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Xi Chen , Ali Ghadirzadeh , John Folkesson , Patric Jensfelt

Lane change decision-making for autonomous vehicles is a complex but high-reward behavior. In this paper, we propose a hybrid input based deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm, which realizes abstract lane change decisions and lane…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ziteng Gao , Jiaqi Qu , Chaoyu Chen

Developing an autonomous vehicle control strategy for signalised intersections (SI) is one of the challenging tasks due to its inherently complex decision-making process. This study proposes a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Pankaj Kumar , Aditya Mishra , Pranamesh Chakraborty , Subrahmanya Swamy Peruru

Collision-free motion is essential for mobile robots. Most approaches to collision-free and efficient navigation with wheeled robots require parameter tuning by experts to obtain good navigation behavior. This study investigates the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Hamid Taheri , Seyed Rasoul Hosseini , Mohammad Ali Nekoui

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has emerged as a powerful model-free paradigm for learning optimal policies. However, in navigation tasks with cluttered environments, DRL methods often suffer from insufficient exploration, especially…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Licheng Luo , Mingyu Cai