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It is expected that autonomous vehicles(AVs) and heterogeneous human-driven vehicles(HVs) will coexist on the same road. The safety and reliability of AVs will depend on their social awareness and their ability to engage in complex social…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Rodolfo Valiente , Behrad Toghi , Mahdi Razzaghpour , Ramtin Pedarsani , Yaser P. Fallah

Many recent successful off-policy multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms for cooperative partially observable environments focus on finding factorized value functions, leading to convoluted network structures. Building on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Raphaël Avalos , Mathieu Reymond , Ann Nowé , Diederik M. Roijers

In real-world environments, autonomous agents rely on their egocentric observations. They must learn adaptive strategies to interact with others who possess mixed motivations, discernible only through visible cues. Several Multi-Agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Violet Xiang , Logan Cross , Jan-Philipp Fränken , Nick Haber

The inability to communicate poses a major challenge to coordination in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Prior work has explored correlating local policies via shared randomness, sometimes in the form of a correlation device, as a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-12 John Gardiner , Orlando Romero , Brendan Tivnan , Nicolò Dal Fabbro , George J. Pappas

We address the problem of coordination and control of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) in the presence of imperfect observations in mixed traffic environment. A commonly used approach is learning-based decision-making, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Zhili Zhang , H M Sabbir Ahmad , Ehsan Sabouni , Yanchao Sun , Furong Huang , Wenchao Li , Fei Miao

Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) enables vehicle platooning through inter-vehicle communication, improving traffic efficiency and safety. Conventional CACC relies on feedback linearization, assuming exact vehicle parameters;…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Mischa Huisman , Thomas Arnold , Erjen Lefeber , Nathan van de Wouw , Carlos Murguia

Being one of the most promising applications enabled by connected and automated vehicles (CAV) technology, Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) is expected to be deployed in the near term on public roads.} Thus far, the majority of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Zijia Zhong , Earl E. Lee , Mark Nejad , Joyoung Lee

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) has gained significant interest in recent years, enabling sequential decision-making across multiple agents in various domains. However, most existing explanation methods focus on centralized MARL,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Kayla Boggess , Sarit Kraus , Lu Feng

Resource balancing within complex transportation networks is one of the most important problems in real logistics domain. Traditional solutions on these problems leverage combinatorial optimization with demand and supply forecasting.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Xihan Li , Jia Zhang , Jiang Bian , Yunhai Tong , Tie-Yan Liu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used to support time-critical medical supply delivery, providing rapid and flexible logistics during emergencies and resource shortages. However, effective deployment of UAV fleets requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Islam Guven , Mehmet Parlak

We discuss the problem of decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) in this work. In our setting, the global state, action, and reward are assumed to be fully observable, while the local policy is protected as privacy by each…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Kuo Li , Qing-Shan Jia

The cooperative driving technology of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) is crucial for improving the efficiency and safety of transportation systems. Learning-based methods, such as Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL), have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jiaqi Liu , Chengkai Xu , Peng Hang , Jian Sun , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Mingyu Ding

The next-generation wireless technologies, including beyond 5G and 6G networks, are paving the way for transformative applications such as vehicle platooning, smart cities, and remote surgery. These innovations are driven by a vast array of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Eslam Eldeeb , Hirley Alves

The multi-robot adaptive sampling problem aims at finding trajectories for a team of robots to efficiently sample the phenomenon of interest within a given endurance budget of the robots. In this paper, we propose a robust and scalable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Lishuo Pan , Sandeep Manjanna , M. Ani Hsieh

Cooperative driving, enabled by Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication, is expected to significantly contribute to the transportation system's safety and efficiency. Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC), a major cooperative driving…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-30 Mahdi Razzaghpour , Sahand Mosharafian , Arash Raftari , Javad Mohammadpour Velni , Yaser P. Fallah

Search and Rescue (SAR) missions in remote environments often employ autonomous multi-robot systems that learn, plan, and execute a combination of local single-robot control actions, group primitives, and global mission-oriented…

Autonomous intersection management (AIM) poses significant challenges due to the intricate nature of real-world traffic scenarios and the need for a highly expensive centralised server in charge of simultaneously controlling all the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Matteo Cederle , Marco Fabris , Gian Antonio Susto

Adaptive traffic signal control (ATSC) is crucial in alleviating congestion, maximizing throughput and promoting sustainable mobility in ever-expanding cities. Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) has recently shown significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yifeng Zhang , Harsh Goel , Peizhuo Li , Mehul Damani , Sandeep Chinchali , Guillaume Sartoretti

Connected Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) Network can be defined as a collection of CAVs operating at different locations on a multilane corridor, which provides a platform to facilitate the dissemination of operational information as well as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Jiqian Dong , Sikai Chen , Paul Young Joun Ha , Yujie Li , Samuel Labi

This work explores the large-scale multi-agent communication mechanism under a multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) setting. We summarize the general categories of topology for communication structures in MARL literature, which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Junjie Sheng , Xiangfeng Wang , Bo Jin , Junchi Yan , Wenhao Li , Tsung-Hui Chang , Jun Wang , Hongyuan Zha