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Multi-agent coordination is crucial for reliable multi-robot navigation in shared spaces such as automated warehouses. In regions of dense robot traffic, local coordination methods may fail to find a deadlock-free solution. In these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yue Meng , Nathalie Majcherczyk , Wenliang Liu , Scott Kiesel , Chuchu Fan , Federico Pecora

Applying reinforcement learning to autonomous driving entails particular challenges, primarily due to dynamically changing traffic flows. To address such challenges, it is necessary to quickly determine response strategies to the changing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Se-Wook Yoo , Chan Kim , Jin-Woo Choi , Seong-Woo Kim , Seung-Woo Seo

This work presents a novel communication framework for decentralized multi-agent systems operating in dynamic network environments. Integrated into a multi-agent reinforcement learning system, the framework is designed to enhance…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Ben McClusky

In this work, we present a memory-augmented approach for image-goal navigation. Earlier attempts, including RL-based and SLAM-based approaches have either shown poor generalization performance, or are heavily-reliant on pose/depth sensors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Lina Mezghani , Sainbayar Sukhbaatar , Thibaut Lavril , Oleksandr Maksymets , Dhruv Batra , Piotr Bojanowski , Karteek Alahari

Simultaneous trajectory prediction for multiple heterogeneous traffic participants is essential for the safe and efficient operation of connected automated vehicles under complex driving situations in the real world. The multi-agent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Xiaoyu Mo , Yang Xing , Chen Lv

Using real road testing to optimize autonomous driving algorithms is time-consuming and capital-intensive. To solve this problem, we propose a GAN-based model that is capable of generating high-quality images across different domains. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Hanzhen Zhang , Liguo Zhou , Ruining Wang , Alois Knoll

Vision guided navigation requires processing complex visual information to inform task-orientated decisions. Applications include autonomous robots, self-driving cars, and assistive vision for humans. A key element is the extraction and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Jaime Ruiz-Serra , Jack White , Stephen Petrie , Tatiana Kameneva , Chris McCarthy

In this paper, we present a learning-based tracking controller based on Gaussian processes (GP) for collision avoidance of multi-agent systems where the agents evolve in the special Euclidean group in the space SE(3). In particular, we use…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Omayra Yago Nieto , Alexandre Anahory Simoes , Juan I. Giribet , Leonardo J. Colombo

The aim of path planning is to reach the goal from starting point by searching for the route of an agent. In the path planning, the routes may vary depending on the number of variables such that it is important for the agent to reach…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-23 GyeongTaek Lee

We present a novel approach for image-goal navigation, where an agent navigates with a goal image rather than accurate target information, which is more challenging. Our goal is to decouple the learning of navigation goal planning,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Qiaoyun Wu , Jun Wang , Jing Liang , Xiaoxi Gong , Dinesh Manocha

Uncertainty in control and perception poses challenges for autonomous vehicle navigation in unstructured environments, leading to navigation failures and potential vehicle damage. This paper introduces a framework that minimizes control and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Junwon Seo , Jungwi Mun , Taekyung Kim

In this work, we aim to achieve efficient end-to-end learning of driving policies in dynamic multi-agent environments. Predicting and anticipating future events at the object level are critical for making informed driving decisions. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Jinkun Cao , Xin Wang , Trevor Darrell , Fisher Yu

Driving in the dynamic, multi-agent, and complex urban environment is a difficult task requiring a complex decision policy. The learning of such a policy requires a state representation that can encode the entire environment. Mid-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Eshagh Kargar , Ville Kyrki

Deep neural networks can be powerful tools, but require careful application-specific design to ensure that the most informative relationships in the data are learnable. In this paper, we apply deep neural networks to the nonlinear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Matthew A. Wright , Simon F. G. Ehlers , Roberto Horowitz

In this work, we aim to predict the future motion of vehicles in a traffic scene by explicitly modeling their pairwise interactions. Specifically, we propose a graph neural network that jointly predicts the discrete interaction modes and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-18 Donsuk Lee , Yiming Gu , Jerrick Hoang , Micol Marchetti-Bowick

This work presents a distributed method for multi-vehicle coordination based on nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) and dual decomposition. Our approach allows the vehicles to coordinate in tight spaces (e.g., busy highway lanes or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Roya Firoozi , Laura Ferranti , Xiaojing Zhang , Sebastian Nejadnik , Francesco Borrelli

This paper investigates the multi-agent navigation problem, which requires multiple agents to reach the target goals in a limited time. Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has shown promising results for solving this issue. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Xinyi Yang , Shiyu Huang , Yiwen Sun , Yuxiang Yang , Chao Yu , Wei-Wei Tu , Huazhong Yang , Yu Wang

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

In this paper, we present a decentralized sensor-level collision avoidance policy for multi-robot systems, which shows promising results in practical applications. In particular, our policy directly maps raw sensor measurements to an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Tingxiang Fan , Pinxin Long , Wenxi Liu , Jia Pan

In recent years, great efforts have been devoted to deep imitation learning for autonomous driving control, where raw sensory inputs are directly mapped to control actions. However, navigating through densely populated intersections remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Zeyu Zhu , Huijing Zhao