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Mobile robots are often tasked with repeatedly navigating through an environment whose traversability changes over time. These changes may exhibit some hidden structure, which can be learned. Many studies consider reactive algorithms for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Florence Tsang , Tristan Walker , Ryan A. MacDonald , Armin Sadeghi , Stephen L. Smith

We introduce a new graph neural operator-based approach for task allocation in a system of heterogeneous robots composed of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The proposed model, \texttt{\method}, or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Juntong Peng , Hrishikesh Viswanath , Aniket Bera

Efficient motion planning for high-dimensional robotic systems, such as manipulators and mobile manipulators, is critical for real-time operation and reliable deployment. Although advances in planning algorithms have enhanced scalability to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Itamar Mishani , Maxim Likhachev

In this paper, we address the multi-robot collaborative perception problem, specifically in the context of multi-view infilling for distributed semantic segmentation. This setting entails several real-world challenges, especially those…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Nathaniel Glaser , Yen-Cheng Liu , Junjiao Tian , Zsolt Kira

Object rearranging is one of the most common deformable manipulation tasks, where the robot needs to rearrange a deformable object into a goal configuration. Previous studies focus on designing an expert system for each specific task by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Yuhong Deng , Chongkun Xia , Xueqian Wang , Lipeng Chen

We introduce a novel strategy for multi-robot sorting of waste objects using Reinforcement Learning. Our focus lies on finding optimal picking strategies that facilitate an effective coordination of a multi-robot system, subject to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Tizian Jermann , Hendrik Kolvenbach , Fidel Esquivel Estay , Koen Kramer , Marco Hutter

Multi-agent path finding in dynamic crowded environments is of great academic and practical value for multi-robot systems in the real world. To improve the effectiveness and efficiency of communication and learning process during path…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Huifeng Guan , Yuan Gao , Min Zhao , Yong Yang , Fuqin Deng , Tin Lun Lam

The Visibility-based Persistent Monitoring (VPM) problem seeks to find a set of trajectories (or controllers) for robots to persistently monitor a changing environment. Each robot has a sensor, such as a camera, with a limited field-of-view…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Jingxi Chen , Amrish Baskaran , Zhongshun Zhang , Pratap Tokekar

Multigrid modeling algorithms are a technique used to accelerate relaxation models running on a hierarchy of similar graphlike structures. We introduce and demonstrate a new method for training neural networks which uses multilevel methods.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-22 C. B. Scott , Eric Mjolsness

Coordinating the motion of multiple agents in constrained environments is a fundamental challenge in robotics, motion planning, and scheduling. A motivating example involves $n$ robotic arms, each represented as a line segment. The…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Nicolas Bousquet , Remy El Sabeh , Amer E. Mouawad , Naomi Nishimura

Pre-trained generalist policies are rapidly gaining relevance in robot learning due to their promise of fast adaptation to novel, in-domain tasks. This adaptation often relies on collecting new demonstrations for a specific task of interest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Marco Bagatella , Jonas Hübotter , Georg Martius , Andreas Krause

Developing a safe, stable, and efficient obstacle avoidance policy in crowded and narrow scenarios for multiple robots is challenging. Most existing studies either use centralized control or need communication with other robots. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Jiafeng Ma , Guangda chen , Yingfeng Chen , Yujing Hu , Changjie Fan , Jianming Zhang

This work addresses the coordination problem of multiple robots with the goal of finding specific hazardous targets in an unknown area and dealing with them cooperatively. The desired behaviour for the robotic system entails multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Nunzia Palmieri , Xin-She Yang , Floriano De Rango , Amilcare Francesco Santamaria

In order for robots to perform mission-critical tasks, it is essential that they are able to quickly adapt to changes in their environment as well as to injuries and or other bodily changes. Deep reinforcement learning has been shown to be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Ayaka Kume , Eiichi Matsumoto , Kuniyuki Takahashi , Wilson Ko , Jethro Tan

In this paper, we present a novel approach to efficiently generate collision-free optimal trajectories for multiple non-holonomic mobile robots in obstacle-rich environments. Our approach first employs a graph-based multi-agent path planner…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Juncheng Li , Maopeng Ran , Lihua Xie

Learning the embeddings for urban regions from human mobility data can reveal the functionality of regions, and then enables the correlated but distinct tasks such as crime prediction. Human mobility data contains rich but abundant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Shangbin Wu , Xu Yan , Xiaoliang Fan , Shirui Pan , Shichao Zhu , Chuanpan Zheng , Ming Cheng , Cheng Wang

Letting robots emulate human behavior has always posed a challenge, particularly in scenarios involving multiple robots. In this paper, we presented a framework aimed at achieving multi-agent reinforcement learning for robot control in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Kangkang Duan , Christine Wun Ki Suen , Zhengbo Zou

A key problem of robotic environmental sensing and monitoring is that of active sensing: How can a team of robots plan the most informative observation paths to minimize the uncertainty in modeling and predicting an environmental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-02-06 Nannan Cao , Kian Hsiang Low , John M. Dolan

In the coordinated motion planning problem, we are given a graph together with the starting and destination vertices of $k$ robots. At each time step, any subset of robots may move, each traversing an edge of the graph, provided that no two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Argyrios Deligkas , Eduard Eiben , Robert Ganian , Iyad Kanj

This paper considers three related mobile robot multi-target sensory coverage and inspection planning problems in 2-D environments. In the first problem, a mobile robot must find the shortest path to observe multiple targets with a limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-27 E. Fourney , J. W. Burdick , E. D. Rimon