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Legged locomotion is widespread in nature and has inspired the design of current robots. The controller of these legged robots is often realized as one centralized instance. However, in nature, control of movement happens in a hierarchical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-18 W. Zai El Amri , L. Hermes , M. Schilling

Recently, some challenging tasks in multi-agent systems have been solved by some hierarchical reinforcement learning methods. Inspired by the intra-level and inter-level coordination in the human nervous system, we propose a novel value…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Zhiwei Xu , Yunpeng Bai , Bin Zhang , Dapeng Li , Guoliang Fan

Decision makers often aim to learn a treatment assignment policy under a capacity constraint on the number of agents that they can treat. When agents can respond strategically to such policies, competition arises, complicating estimation of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-31 Roshni Sahoo , Stefan Wager

We investigate the problem of autonomous racing among teams of cooperative agents that are subject to realistic racing rules. Our work extends previous research on hierarchical control in head-to-head autonomous racing by considering a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Rishabh Saumil Thakkar , Aryaman Singh Samyal , David Fridovich-Keil , Zhe Xu , Ufuk Topcu

Tactical decision making is a critical feature for advanced driving systems, that incorporates several challenges such as complexity of the uncertain environment and reliability of the autonomous system. In this work, we develop a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Majid Moghadam , Gabriel Hugh Elkaim

This paper addresses the problem of navigation control of a general class of 2nd order uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems in a bounded workspace, which is a subset of $R^3$ , with static obstacles. In particular, we propose a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Alexandros Filotheou , Alexandros Nikou , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper introduces a reinforcement learning framework that enables controllable and diverse player behaviors without relying on human gameplay data. Existing approaches often require large-scale player trajectories, train separate models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Atahan Cilan , Atay Özgövde

Many real-world multi-agent systems exhibit nonlinear dynamics and complex inter-agent interactions. As these systems increase in scale, the main challenges arise from achieving scalability and handling nonconvexity. To address these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Taehyun Yoon , Augustinos D. Saravanos , Evangelos A. Theodorou

In this work, we propose a novel shared autonomy framework to operate articulated robots. We provide strategies to design both the task-oriented hierarchical planning and policy shaping algorithms for efficient human-robot interactions in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Ehsan Yousefi , Mo Chen , Inna Sharf

Modeling agent behavior is central to understanding the emergence of complex phenomena in multiagent systems. Prior work in agent modeling has largely been task-specific and driven by hand-engineering domain-specific prior knowledge. We…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Aditya Grover , Maruan Al-Shedivat , Jayesh K. Gupta , Yura Burda , Harrison Edwards

This letter presents a new predictive control architecture for high-dimensional robotic systems. As opposed to a conventional Model Predictive Control (MPC) approach to locomotion that formulates a hierarchical sequence of optimization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-13 He Li , Robert J. Frei , Patrick M. Wensing

Intelligent agents need to select long sequences of actions to solve complex tasks. While humans easily break down tasks into subgoals and reach them through millions of muscle commands, current artificial intelligence is limited to tasks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Danijar Hafner , Kuang-Huei Lee , Ian Fischer , Pieter Abbeel

Learning long-range behaviors on complex high-dimensional agents is a fundamental problem in robot learning. For such tasks, we argue that transferring learned information from a morphologically simpler agent can massively improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Donald J. Hejna , Pieter Abbeel , Lerrel Pinto

Driving vehicles in complex scenarios under harsh conditions is the biggest challenge for autonomous vehicles (AVs). To address this issue, we propose hierarchical motion planning and robust control strategy using the front-active steering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Hung Duy Nguyen , Minh Nhat Vu , Nguyen Ngoc Nam , Kyoungseok Han

Effective governance and steering of behavior in complex multi-agent systems (MAS) are essential for managing system-wide outcomes, particularly in environments where interactions are structured by dynamic networks. In many applications,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Qiliang Chen , Babak Heydari

Mammals can generate autonomous behaviors in various complex environments through the coordination and interaction of activities at different levels of their central nervous system. In this paper, we propose a novel hierarchical learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Pei Zhang , Zhaobo Hua , Jinliang Ding

Decision-making in complex, continuous multi-task environments is often hindered by the difficulty of obtaining accurate models for planning and the inefficiency of learning purely from trial and error. While precise environment dynamics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Jeff Jewett , Sandhya Saisubramanian

In this paper we tackle the problem of routing multiple agents in a coordinated manner. This is a complex problem that has a wide range of applications in fleet management to achieve a common goal, such as mapping from a swarm of robots and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Quinlan Sykora , Mengye Ren , Raquel Urtasun

Many multiagent systems in the real world include multiple types of agents with different abilities and functionality. Such heterogeneous multiagent systems have significant practical advantages. However, they also come with challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Qingxu Fu , Xiaolin Ai , Jianqiang Yi , Tenghai Qiu , Wanmai Yuan , Zhiqiang Pu

This paper proposes a novel control method for an autonomous wheel loader, enabling time-efficient navigation to an arbitrary goal pose. Unlike prior works which combine high-level trajectory planners with Model Predictive Control (MPC), we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Aleksi Mäki-Penttilä , Naeim Ebrahimi Toulkani , Reza Ghabcheloo