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With the growth of Renewable Energy (RE) generation, the operation of power grids has become increasingly complex. One solution could be automated grid operation, where Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has repeatedly shown significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Malte Lehna , Clara Holzhüter , Sven Tomforde , Christoph Scholz

Hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) is hypothesized to be able to leverage the inherent hierarchy in learning tasks where traditional reinforcement learning (RL) often fails. In this research, HRL is evaluated and contrasted with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Brendon Johnson , Alfredo Weitzenfeld

Path planning is an important problem with the the applications in many aspects, such as video games, robotics etc. This paper proposes a novel method to address the problem of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) based path planning for a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Hao Liu , Yi Shen , Shuangjiang Yu , Zijun Gao , Tong Wu

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has achieved great success in solving complicated decision-making problems. Despite the successes, DRL is frequently criticized for many reasons, e.g., data inefficient, inflexible and intractable reward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Weiqin Chen

Vessel navigation is difficult in restricted waterways and in the presence of static and dynamic obstacles. This difficulty can be attributed to the high-level decisions taken by humans during these maneuvers, which is evident from the fact…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Sanjeev Kumar Ramkumar Sudha , Md Shadab Alam , Bindusara Reddy , Abhilash Sharma Somayajula

We present a novel algorithm (DeepMNavigate) for global multi-agent navigation in dense scenarios using deep reinforcement learning (DRL). Our approach uses local and global information for each robot from motion information maps. We use a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Qingyang Tan , Tingxiang Fan , Jia Pan , Dinesh Manocha

Despite some successful applications of goal-driven navigation, existing deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based approaches notoriously suffers from poor data efficiency issue. One of the reasons is that the goal information is decoupled…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Wenhui Huang , Yanxin Zhou , Xiangkun He , Chen Lv

In this work we focus on improving the efficiency and generalisation of learned navigation strategies when transferred from its training environment to previously unseen ones. We present an extension of the residual reinforcement learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Krishan Rana , Ben Talbot , Vibhavari Dasagi , Michael Milford , Niko Sünderhauf

Robot navigation has transitioned from prioritizing obstacle avoidance to adopting socially aware navigation strategies that accommodate human presence. As a result, the recognition of socially aware navigation within dynamic human-centric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Jinyeob Kim , Sumin Kang , Sungwoo Yang , Beomjoon Kim , Jargalbaatar Yura , Donghan Kim

Crowd navigation has garnered considerable research interest in recent years, especially with the proliferating application of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) techniques. Many studies, however, do not sufficiently analyze the relative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xinyu Zhou , Songhao Piao , Chao Gao , Liguo Chen

Traffic scenarios in roundabouts pose substantial complexity for automated driving. Manually mapping all possible scenarios into a state space is labor-intensive and challenging. Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) with its ability to learn…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Henan Yuan , Penghui Li , Bart van Arem , Liujiang Kang , Yongqi Dong

We present a method for training reference-guided, perceptive reinforcement learning locomotion policies for humanoid robots in which reference trajectories are modulated in training to be consistent with terrain geometry. Aiming to deploy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 William D. Compton , Zachary Olkin , Aaron D. Ames

Although Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has been popular in many disciplines including robotics, state-of-the-art DRL algorithms still struggle to learn long-horizon, multi-step and sparse reward tasks, such as stacking several blocks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Xintong Yang , Ze Ji , Jing Wu , Yu-kun Lai

Visual navigation is essential for many applications in robotics, from manipulation, through mobile robotics to automated driving. Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) provides an elegant map-free approach integrating image processing,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Jonáš Kulhánek , Erik Derner , Robert Babuška

Imitation learning holds tremendous promise in learning policies efficiently for complex decision making problems. Current state-of-the-art algorithms often use inverse reinforcement learning (IRL), where given a set of expert…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Siddhant Haldar , Vaibhav Mathur , Denis Yarats , Lerrel Pinto

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has been successfully applied to a variety of game-like environments. However, the application of deep RL to visual navigation with realistic environments is a challenging task. We propose a novel learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Jonáš Kulhánek , Erik Derner , Tim de Bruin , Robert Babuška

Decision-making strategy for autonomous vehicles de-scribes a sequence of driving maneuvers to achieve a certain navigational mission. This paper utilizes the deep reinforcement learning (DRL) method to address the continuous-horizon…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Hao Chen , Xiaolin Tang , Teng Liu

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…

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (HRL) is a promising approach to solving long-horizon problems with sparse and delayed rewards. Many existing HRL algorithms either use pre-trained low-level skills that are unadaptable, or require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Siyuan Li , Rui Wang , Minxue Tang , Chongjie Zhang

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