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This paper proposes a cooperative environmental learning algorithm working in a fully distributed manner. A multi-robot system is more effective for exploration tasks than a single robot, but it involves the following challenges: 1) online…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Dohyun Jang , Jaehyun Yoo , Clark Youngdong Son , H. Jin Kim

Robots rely on motion planning to navigate safely and efficiently while performing various tasks. In this paper, we investigate motion planning through Bayesian inference, where motion plans are inferred based on planning objectives and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Ali Vaziri , Iman Askari , Huazhen Fang

Images are the standard input for most computer vision algorithms. However, their processing often reduces to parallelizable operations applied locally and independently to individual pixels. Yet, many of these low-level raw pixel readings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Ignacio Alzugaray , Riku Murai , Andrew Davison

Recent years have seen a growing interest in the use of belief propagation - an algorithm originally introduced for performing statistical inference on graphical models - for approximate, but highly efficient, tensor network contraction.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Joseph Tindall , Grace M. Sommers , Hilbert Kappen

To control how a robot moves, motion planning algorithms must compute paths in high-dimensional state spaces while accounting for physical constraints related to motors and joints, generating smooth and stable motions, avoiding obstacles,…

This paper presents a novel planning method that achieves navigation of multi-robot formations in cluttered environments, while maintaining the formation throughout the robots motion. The method utilises a decentralised approach to find…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Jeppe Heini Mikkelsen , Matteo Fumagalli

To enable safe and efficient use of multi-robot systems in everyday life, a robust and fast method for coordinating their actions must be developed. In this paper, we present a distributed task allocation and scheduling algorithm for…

We cast motion planning under uncertainty as a stochastic optimal control problem, where the optimal posterior distribution has an explicit form. To approximate this posterior, this work frames an optimization problem in the space of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zinuo Chang , Hongzhe Yu , Patricio Vela , Yongxin Chen

This paper presents a new multi-query motion planning algorithm for linear Gaussian systems with the goal of reaching a Euclidean ball with high probability. We develop a new formulation for ball-shaped ambiguity sets of Gaussian…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Alex Rose , Naman Aggarwal , Christopher Jewison , Jonathan P. How

We consider a chance-constrained multi-robot motion planning problem in the presence of Gaussian motion and sensor noise. Our proposed algorithm, CC-K-CBS, leverages the scalability of kinodynamic conflict-based search (K-CBS) in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Anne Theurkauf , Justin Kottinger , Nisar Ahmed , Morteza Lahijanian

This paper presents a distributed method for robots moving in rigid formations while ensuring probabilistic collision avoidance between the robots. The formation is parametrised through the transformation of a base configuration. The robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Jeppe Heini Mikkelsen , Vit Kratky , Roberto Galeazzi , Martin Saska , Matteo Fumagalli

This paper considers the problem of online multi-robot motion planning with general nonlinear dynamics subject to unknown external disturbances. We propose dSLAP, a distributed safe learning and planning framework that allows the robots to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Zhenyuan Yuan , Minghui Zhu

Coverage control is essential for the optimal deployment of agents to monitor or cover areas with sensory demands. While traditional coverage involves single-task robots, increasing autonomy now enables multitask operations. This paper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Lai Wei , Andrew McDonald , Vaibhav Srivastava

Multi-robot cooperative control has gained extensive research interest due to its wide applications in civil, security, and military domains. This paper proposes a cooperative control algorithm for multi-robot systems with general linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-06 Yi Dong , Zhongguo Li , Xingyu Zhao , Zhengtao Ding , Xiaowei Huang

Multiple mobile robots play a significant role in various spatially distributed tasks.In unfamiliar and non-repetitive scenarios, reconstructing the global map is time-inefficient and sometimes unrealistic. Hence, research has focused on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Weining Lu , Qingquan Lin , Litong Meng , Chenxi Li , Bin Liang

This paper introduces an innovative approach to enhance distributed cooperative learning using Gaussian process (GP) regression in multi-agent systems (MASs). The key contribution of this work is the development of an elective learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Zewen Yang , Xiaobing Dai , Akshat Dubey , Sandra Hirche , Georges Hattab

Cooperative driving relies on communication among vehicles to create situational awareness. One application of cooperative driving is Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) that aims at enhancing highway transportation safety and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Sahand Mosharafian , Mahdi Razzaghpour , Yaser P. Fallah , Javad Mohammadpour Velni

Deploying multiple robots for target search and tracking has many practical applications, yet the challenge of planning over unknown or partially known targets remains difficult to address. With recent advances in deep learning, intelligent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Jigang Kim , Dohyun Jang , H. Jin Kim

Generalising robotic grasping to previously unseen objects is a key task in general robotic manipulation. The current method for training many antipodal generative grasping models rely on a binary ground truth grasp map generated from the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-02 William Prew , Toby P. Breckon , Magnus Bordewich , Ulrik Beierholm

Current research on robust trajectory planning for autonomous agents aims to mitigate uncertainties arising from disturbances and modeling errors while ensuring guaranteed safety. Existing methods primarily utilize stochastic optimal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-13 Christian Vitale , Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios , Georgios Ellinas