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Visual navigation is a task of training an embodied agent by intelligently navigating to a target object (e.g., television) using only visual observations. A key challenge for current deep reinforcement learning models lies in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Juncheng Li , Xin Wang , Siliang Tang , Haizhou Shi , Fei Wu , Yueting Zhuang , William Yang Wang

In recent years, learning-based approaches have demonstrated significant promise in addressing intricate navigation tasks. Traditional methods for training deep neural network navigation policies rely on meticulously designed reward…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Wenzhe Cai , Teng Wang , Guangran Cheng , Lele Xu , Changyin Sun

Obstacle avoidance for unmanned aerial vehicles like quadrotors is a popular research topic. Most existing research focuses only on static environments, and obstacle avoidance in environments with multiple dynamic obstacles remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Xiyu Fan , Minghao Lu , Bowen Xu , Peng Lu

This paper presents a sensor-level mapless collision avoidance algorithm for use in mobile robots that map raw sensor data to linear and angular velocities and navigate in an unknown environment without a map. An efficient training strategy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Hanlin Niu , Ze Ji , Farshad Arvin , Barry Lennox , Hujun Yin , Joaquin Carrasco

Multi-robot navigation is a challenging task in which multiple robots must be coordinated simultaneously within dynamic environments. We apply deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to learn a decentralized end-to-end policy which maps raw…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Christian Jestel , Hartmut Surmann , Jonas Stenzel , Oliver Urbann , Marius Brehler

We embark on a hitherto unreported problem of an autonomous robot (self-driving car) navigating in dynamic scenes in a manner that reduces its localization error and eventual cumulative drift or Absolute Trajectory Error, which is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Mohd Omama , Sundar Sripada V. S. , Sandeep Chinchali , K. Madhava Krishna

Robots are increasingly integrated across industries, particularly in healthcare. However, many valuable applications for quadrupedal robots remain overlooked. This research explores the effectiveness of three reinforcement learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Emma M. A. Harrison

Two less addressed issues of deep reinforcement learning are (1) lack of generalization capability to new target goals, and (2) data inefficiency i.e., the model requires several (and often costly) episodes of trial and error to converge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-19 Yuke Zhu , Roozbeh Mottaghi , Eric Kolve , Joseph J. Lim , Abhinav Gupta , Li Fei-Fei , Ali Farhadi

This paper proposes an integrated approach for the safe and efficient control of mobile robots in dynamic and uncertain environments. The approach consists of two key steps: one-shot multimodal motion prediction to anticipate motions of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Ze Zhang , Georg Hess , Junjie Hu , Emmanuel Dean , Lennart Svensson , Knut Åkesson

Mobile robotics is a research area that has witnessed incredible advances for the last decades. Robot navigation is an essential task for mobile robots. Many methods are proposed for allowing robots to navigate within different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Omar Mohamed , Zeyad Mohsen , Mohamed Wageeh , Mohamed Hegazy

The capability of UAVs for efficient autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance in complex and unknown environments is critical for applications in agricultural irrigation, disaster relief and logistics. In this paper, we propose the DPRL…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Junqiao Wang , Zhongliang Yu , Dong Zhou , Jiaqi Shi , Runran Deng

This paper presents a Pre-Training Deep Reinforcement Learning(DRL) for avoidance navigation without map for mobile robots which map raw sensor data to control variable and navigate in an unknown environment. The efficient offline training…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Yang Wenkai Ji Ruihang Zhang Yuxiang Lei Hao , Zhao Zijie

In this paper, we propose a novel Deep Reinforcement Learning approach to address the mapless navigation problem, in which the locomotion actions of a humanoid robot are taken online based on the knowledge encoded in learned models.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Andre Brandenburger , Diego Rodriguez , Sven Behnke

Safe navigation is essential for autonomous systems operating in hazardous environments. Traditional planning methods excel at long-horizon tasks but rely on a predefined graph with fixed distance metrics. In contrast, safe Reinforcement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Meng Feng , Viraj Parimi , Brian Williams

Intelligent navigation among social crowds is an essential aspect of mobile robotics for applications such as delivery, health care, or assistance. Deep Reinforcement Learning emerged as an alternative planning method to conservative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Linh Kästner , Junhui Li , Zhengcheng Shen , Jens Lambrecht

In the rapidly evolving landscape of autonomous mobile robots, the emphasis on seamless human-robot interactions has shifted towards autonomous decision-making. This paper delves into the intricate challenges associated with robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Davide Plozza , Steven Marty , Cyril Scherrer , Simon Schwartz , Stefan Zihlmann , Michele Magno

Autonomous navigation in offroad environments has been extensively studied in the robotics field. However, navigation in covert situations where an autonomous vehicle needs to remain hidden from outside observers remains an underexplored…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Jumman Hossain , Abu-Zaher Faridee , Nirmalya Roy , Anjan Basak , Derrik E. Asher

The common approach for local navigation on challenging environments with legged robots requires path planning, path following and locomotion, which usually requires a locomotion control policy that accurately tracks a commanded velocity.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Nikita Rudin , David Hoeller , Marko Bjelonic , Marco Hutter

We propose a robotic learning system for autonomous exploration and navigation in unexplored environments. We are motivated by the idea that even an unseen environment may be familiar from previous experiences in similar environments. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Huangying Zhan , Hamid Rezatofighi , Ian Reid

Safe and efficient navigation in dynamic environments shared with humans remains an open and challenging task for mobile robots. Previous works have shown the efficacy of using reinforcement learning frameworks to train policies for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Yanying Zhou , Jochen Garcke