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Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technique to improve the computational capacity of smart devices (SDs) in Internet of Things (IoT). However, the performance of MEC is restricted due to its fixed location and limited service…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Saichao Liu , Geng Sun , Chuang Zhang , Xuejie Liu , Jiacheng Wang , Changyuan Zhao , Dusit Niyato

The Orienteering Problem (OP) is a well-studied routing problem that has been extended to incorporate uncertainties, reflecting stochastic or dynamic travel costs, prize-collection costs, and prizes. Existing approaches may, however, be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-10 Qiuchen Qian , Yanran Wang , David Boyle

This study proposes an end-to-end framework for solving multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs) using Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL), that we call DRL-MOA. The idea of decomposition is adopted to decompose the MOP into a set of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Kaiwen Li , Tao Zhang , Rui Wang

We introduce a mission planning concept for routing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) through a set of sampling locations in the immediate aftermath of an incident such as a fire or chemical accident. Using interpolation methods that account…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Katharina Glock , Anne Meyer

We present a new practical framework based on deep reinforcement learning and decision-time planning for real-world vehicle repositioning on ride-hailing (a type of mobility-on-demand, MoD) platforms. Our approach learns the spatiotemporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Yan Jiao , Xiaocheng Tang , Zhiwei Qin , Shuaiji Li , Fan Zhang , Hongtu Zhu , Jieping Ye

Multi-human multi-robot teams have great potential for complex and large-scale tasks through the collaboration of humans and robots with diverse capabilities and expertise. To efficiently operate such highly heterogeneous teams and maximize…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Ruiqi Wang , Dezhong Zhao , Byung-Cheol Min

The solution of the Multi-Depot Vehicle Scheduling Problem (MDVSP) can often be improved substantially by incorporating Trip Shifting (TS) as a model feature. By allowing departure times to deviate a few minutes from the original timetable,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-13 Rolf van Lieshout , Thomas van der Schaft

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), autonomously-guided aircraft, are widely used for tasks involving surveillance and reconnaissance. A version of the pursuit-evasion problems centered around UAVs and its variants has been extensively studied…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Loren Anderson , Sahitya Senapathy

Traditional methods plan feasible paths for multiple agents in the stochastic environment. However, the methods' iterations with the changes in the environment result in computation complexities, especially for the decentralized agents…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Qizhen Wu , Kexin Liu , Lei Chen , Jinhu Lü

In this paper we propose a Deep Reinforcement Learning approach to solve a multimodal transportation planning problem, in which containers must be assigned to a truck or to trains that will transport them to their destination. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Amirreza Farahani , Laura Genga , Remco Dijkman

Rocket recycling is a crucial pursuit in aerospace technology, aimed at reducing costs and environmental impact in space exploration. The primary focus centers on rocket landing control, involving the guidance of a nonlinear underactuated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yuxuan Jiang , Yujie Yang , Zhiqian Lan , Guojian Zhan , Shengbo Eben Li , Qi Sun , Jian Ma , Tianwen Yu , Changwu Zhang

We study the problem that requires a team of robots to perform joint localization and target tracking task while ensuring team connectivity and collision avoidance. The problem can be formalized as a nonlinear, non-convex optimization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Rahul Zahroof , Jiazhen Liu , Lifeng Zhou , Vijay Kumar

Many real-world tasks, from house-cleaning to cooking, can be formulated as multi-object rearrangement problems -- where an agent needs to get specific objects into appropriate goal states. For such problems, we focus on the setting that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Engin Tekin , Elaheh Barati , Nitin Kamra , Ruta Desai

Vehicular edge computing has recently been proposed to support computation-intensive applications in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) such as self-driving cars and augmented reality. Despite progress in this area, significant…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 Bach Long Nguyen , Duong D. Nguyen , Hung X. Nguyen , Duy T. Ngo , Markus Wagner

Learning-based heuristics for solving combinatorial optimization problems has recently attracted much academic attention. While most of the existing works only consider the single objective problem with simple constraints, many real-world…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Yongxin Zhang , Jiahai Wang , Zizhen Zhang , Yalan Zhou

This paper presents a learning-augmented trajectory planning framework for cooperative unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) handover missions. While centralized trajectory optimization ensures dynamic feasibility…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jingshan Chen , Bochen Yu , Henrik Ebel , Peter Eberhard

The low-altitude economy (LAE), driven by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and other aircraft, has revolutionized fields such as transportation, agriculture, and environmental monitoring. In the upcoming six-generation (6G) era, UAV-assisted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Geng Sun , Weilong Ma , Jiahui Li , Zemin Sun , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato , Shiwen Mao

In this paper, a joint task, spectrum, and transmit power allocation problem is investigated for a wireless network in which the base stations (BSs) are equipped with mobile edge computing (MEC) servers to jointly provide computational and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Sihua Wang , Mingzhe Chen , Xuanlin Liu , Changchuan Yin , Shuguang Cui , H. Vincent Poor

Multi-task reinforcement learning endeavors to accomplish a set of different tasks with a single policy. To enhance data efficiency by sharing parameters across multiple tasks, a common practice segments the network into distinct modules…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Jinmin He , Kai Li , Yifan Zang , Haobo Fu , Qiang Fu , Junliang Xing , Jian Cheng

The Steiner Team Orienteering Problem (STOP) is defined on a digraph in which arcs are associated with traverse times, and whose vertices are labeled as either mandatory or profitable, being the latter provided with rewards (profits). Given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-06 Lucas Assunção , Geraldo Robson Mateus