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Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand (AMoD) systems are an evolving mode of transportation in which a centrally coordinated fleet of self-driving vehicles dynamically serves travel requests. The control of these systems is typically formulated as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-28 Carolin Schmidt , Daniele Gammelli , Francisco Camara Pereira , Filipe Rodrigues

Reinforcement learning (RL) has attracted increasing interest for adaptive traffic signal control due to its model-free ability to learn control policies directly from interaction with the traffic environment. However, several challenges…

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Meta-Reinforcement Learning addresses the critical limitations of conventional Reinforcement Learning in multi-task and non-stationary environments by enabling fast policy adaptation and improved generalization. We introduce a novel Meta-RL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Théo Zangato , Aomar Osmani , Pegah Alizadeh

Extensive research has been devoted to the field of multi-agent navigation. Recently, there has been remarkable progress attributed to the emergence of learning-based techniques with substantially elevated intelligence and realism.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Xuan Zhang , Xifeng Gao , Kui Wu , Zherong Pan

Developing decision-making algorithms for highly automated driving systems remains challenging, since these systems have to operate safely in an open and complex environments. Reinforcement Learning (RL) approaches can learn comprehensive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-01 M. Youssef Abdelhamid , Lennart Vater , Zlatan Ajanovic

Efficiently obtaining the up-to-date information in the disaster-stricken area is the key to successful disaster response. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), workers and cars can collaborate to accomplish sensing tasks, such as data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Lei Han , Chunyu Tu , Zhiwen Yu , Zhiyong Yu , Weihua Shan , Liang Wang , Bin Guo

In this work, we consider the problem of computing optimal actions for Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents in a co-operative setting, where the objective is to optimize a common goal. However, in many real-life applications, in addition to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-08 P. Parnika , Raghuram Bharadwaj Diddigi , Sai Koti Reddy Danda , Shalabh Bhatnagar

As intelligent transportation systems been implemented broadly and unmanned arial vehicles (UAVs) can assist terrestrial base stations acting as multi-access edge computing (MEC) to provide a better wireless network communication for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Xiaoyu Dai , Kaoru Ota , Mianxiong Dong

The development of urban-air-mobility (UAM) is rapidly progressing with spurs, and the demand for efficient transportation management systems is a rising need due to the multifaceted environmental uncertainties. Thus, this paper proposes a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Chanyoung Park , Gyu Seon Kim , Soohyun Park , Soyi Jung , Joongheon Kim

Air traffic control is a real-time safety-critical decision making process in highly dynamic and stochastic environments. In today's aviation practice, a human air traffic controller monitors and directs many aircraft flying through its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Marc Brittain , Peng Wei

To make efficient use of limited spectral resources, we in this work propose a deep actor-critic reinforcement learning based framework for dynamic multichannel access. We consider both a single-user case and a scenario in which multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Chen Zhong , Ziyang Lu , M. Cenk Gursoy , Senem Velipasalar

Reinforcement learning in multi-agent scenarios is important for real-world applications but presents challenges beyond those seen in single-agent settings. We present an actor-critic algorithm that trains decentralized policies in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Shariq Iqbal , Fei Sha

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

The deployment of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) poses considerable challenges and unique opportunities for the design and management of future urban road infrastructure. In light of this disruptive transformation, the Right-Of-Way (ROW)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Qiming Ye , Yuxiang Feng , Jose Javier Escribano Macias , Marc Stettler , Panagiotis Angeloudis

Effective patient monitoring is vital for timely interventions and improved healthcare outcomes. Traditional monitoring systems often struggle to handle complex, dynamic environments with fluctuating vital signs, leading to delays in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Thanveer Shaik , Xiaohui Tao , Lin Li , Haoran Xie , Hong-Ning Dai , Feng Zhao , Jianming Yong

In this paper, we consider unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with a visible light communication (VLC) access point and coordinated multipoint (CoMP) capability that allows users to connect to more than one UAV. UAVs can move in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-06 Mohammad Reza Maleki , Mohammad Robat Mili , Mohammad Reza Javan , Nader Mokari , Eduard A. Jorswieck

Recent successes of Reinforcement Learning (RL) allow an agent to learn policies that surpass human experts but suffers from being time-hungry and data-hungry. By contrast, human learning is significantly faster because prior and general…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Daoming Lyu , Fangkai Yang , Bo Liu , Steven Gustafson

The effectiveness of resource allocation under emergencies especially hurricane disasters is crucial. However, most researchers focus on emergency resource allocation in a ground transportation system. In this paper, we propose…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Kai Zhang , Yupeng Yang , Chengtao Xu , Dahai Liu , Houbing Song

For autonomous vehicles integrating onto roadways with human traffic participants, it requires understanding and adapting to the participants' intention and driving styles by responding in predictable ways without explicit communication.…

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