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This study is aimed at addressing the problem of fault tolerance of quadruped robots to actuator failure, which is critical for robots operating in remote or extreme environments. In particular, an adaptive curriculum reinforcement learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Wataru Okamoto , Hiroshi Kera , Kazuhiko Kawamoto

In recent years, Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has emerged as a promising method for robot collision avoidance. However, such DRL models often come with limitations, such as adapting effectively to structured environments containing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Max Asselmeier , Zhaoyi Li , Kelin Yu , Danfei Xu

Constrained Reinforcement Learning (CRL) aims to optimize decision-making policies under constraint conditions, making it highly applicable to safety-critical domains such as autonomous driving, robotics, and power grid management. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Wentao Xu , Zhongming Yao , Weihao Li , Zhenghang Song , Yumeng Song , Tianyi Li , Yushuai Li

Traditional unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm missions rely heavily on expensive custom-made drones with onboard perception or external positioning systems, limiting their widespread adoption in research and education. To address this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xiaowei Li , Kuan Xu , Fen Liu , Ruofei Bai , Shenghai Yuan , Lihua Xie

Navigating and understanding complex and unknown environments autonomously demands more than just basic perception and movement from embodied agents. Truly effective exploration requires agents to possess higher-level cognitive abilities,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Abdel Hakim Drid , Vincenzo Suriani , Daniele Nardi , Abderrezzak Debilou

Curriculum learning has emerged as a promising approach for training complex robotics tasks, yet current applications predominantly rely on manually designed curricula, which demand significant engineering effort and can suffer from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Linji Wang , Zifan Xu , Peter Stone , Xuesu Xiao

The major challenges of collision avoidance for robot navigation in crowded scenes lie in accurate environment modeling, fast perceptions, and trustworthy motion planning policies. This paper presents a novel adaptive environment model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Shuaijun Wang , Rui Gao , Ruihua Han , Shengduo Chen , Chengyang Li , Qi Hao

Increasing traffic demands, higher levels of automation, and communication enhancements provide novel design opportunities for future air traffic controllers (ATCs). This article presents a novel deep reinforcement learning (DRL) controller…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Lei Wang , Hongyu Yang , Yi Lin , Suwan Yin , Yuankai Wu

Over the past few years, the use of swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in monitoring and remote area surveillance applications has become widespread thanks to the price reduction and the increased capabilities of drones. The drones…

The electric vehicle routing problem with time windows (EVRPTW) is a complex optimization problem in sustainable logistics, where routing decisions must minimize total travel distance, fleet size, and battery usage while satisfying strict…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Mertcan Daysalilar , Fuat Uyguroglu , Gabriel Nicolosi , Adam Meyers

Multiple quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems have garnered widespread research interest and fostered tremendous interesting applications, especially in multi-constrained pursuit-evasion games (MC-PEG). The Cooperative Evasion…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Xiang Yuming , Li Sizhao , Li Rongpeng , Zhao Zhifeng , Zhang Honggang

Recent self-supervised learning approaches focus on using a few thousand data points to learn policies for high-level, low-dimensional action spaces. However, scaling this framework for high-dimensional control require either scaling up the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Adithyavairavan Murali , Lerrel Pinto , Dhiraj Gandhi , Abhinav Gupta

This study addresses the challenge of resource scheduling optimization in edge-cloud collaborative computing using deep reinforcement learning (DRL). The proposed DRL-based approach improves task processing efficiency, reduces overall…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Yuqing Wang , Xiao Yang

In this paper, a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) method is proposed to address the problem of UAV navigation in an unknown environment. However, DRL algorithms are limited by the data efficiency problem as they typically require a huge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Lei He , Nabil Aouf , James F. Whidborne , Bifeng Song

The rapid growth of the low-altitude economy has driven the widespread adoption of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This growing deployment presents new challenges for UAV trajectory planning in complex urban environments. However, existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yanwei Gong , Junchao Fan , Ruichen Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Yingying Yao , Xiaolin Chang

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) finds extensive application in autonomous drone navigation within complex, high-risk environments. However, its practical deployment faces a safety-exploration dilemma: soft penalty mechanisms encourage…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Wentao Chen , Jingtang Chen , Mingjian Fu , Tiantian Li , Youfeng Su , Wenxi Liu , Yuanlong Yu

Autonomous modeling of artificial swarms is necessary because manual creation is a time intensive and complicated procedure which makes it impractical. An autonomous approach employing deep reinforcement learning is presented in this study…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Suleman Qamar , Saddam Hussain Khan , Muhammad Arif Arshad , Maryam Qamar , Asifullah Khan

3D referring expression comprehension (3DREC) and segmentation (3DRES) have overlapping objectives, indicating their potential for collaboration. However, existing collaborative approaches predominantly depend on the results of one task to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Zhipeng Qian , Yiwei Ma , Zhekai Lin , Jiayi Ji , Xiawu Zheng , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

With the growing popularity of deep reinforcement learning (DRL), human-in-the-loop (HITL) approach has the potential to revolutionize the way we approach decision-making problems and create new opportunities for human-AI collaboration. In…

The safe operation of drone swarms beyond visual line of sight requires multiple safeguards to mitigate the risk of collision between drones flying in close-proximity scenarios. Cooperative navigation and flight coordination strategies that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Manduhu Manduhu , Alexander Dow , Petar Trslic , Gerard Dooly , Benjamin Blanck , James Riordan