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Many multi-agent systems in practice are decentralized and have dynamically varying dependencies. There has been a lack of attempts in the literature to analyze these systems theoretically. In this paper, we propose and theoretically…

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This paper addresses a safe planning and control problem for mobile robots operating in communication- and sensor-limited dynamic environments. In this case the robots cannot sense the objects around them and must instead rely on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Matthew Cleaveland , Esen Yel , Yiannis Kantaros , Insup Lee , Nicola Bezzo

Imitation learning addresses the challenge of learning by observing an expert's demonstrations without access to reward signals from environments. Most existing imitation learning methods that do not require interacting with environments…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Shang-Fu Chen , Hsiang-Chun Wang , Ming-Hao Hsu , Chun-Mao Lai , Shao-Hua Sun

Robot control policies for temporally extended and sequenced tasks are often characterized by discontinuous switches between different local dynamics. These change-points are often exploited in hierarchical motion planning to build…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Daniel Angelov , Yordan Hristov , Michael Burke , Subramanian Ramamoorthy

Hybrid action space, which combines discrete choices and continuous parameters, is prevalent in domains such as robot control and game AI. However, efficiently modeling and optimizing hybrid discrete-continuous action space remains a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Bingyi Liu , Jinbo He , Haiyong Shi , Enshu Wang , Weizhen Han , Jingxiang Hao , Peixi Wang , Zhuangzhuang Zhang

Acting in cluttered environments requires predicting and avoiding collisions while still achieving precise control. Conventional optimization-based controllers can enforce physical constraints, but they struggle to produce feasible…

Autonomous robots operating in complex, unstructured environments face significant challenges due to latent, unobserved factors that obscure their understanding of both their internal state and the external world. Addressing this challenge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Alejandro Murillo-Gonzalez , Lantao Liu

Recent advances in diffusion models have opened new avenues for research into embodied AI agents and robotics. Despite significant achievements in complex robotic locomotion and skills, mobile manipulation-a capability that requires the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Sixu Yan , Zeyu Zhang , Muzhi Han , Zaijin Wang , Qi Xie , Zhitian Li , Zhehan Li , Hangxin Liu , Xinggang Wang , Song-Chun Zhu

Local planning for a differential wheeled robot is designed to generate kinodynamic feasible actions that guide the robot to a goal position along the navigation path while avoiding obstacles. Reactive, predictive, and learning-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Zhiqiang Jian , Songyi Zhang , Lingfeng Sun , Wei Zhan , Nanning Zheng , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Autonomous mobile robots are increasingly used in pedestrian-rich environments where safe navigation and appropriate human interaction are crucial. While Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) enables socially integrated robot behavior,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Daniel Flögel , Marcos Gómez Villafañe , Joshua Ransiek , Sören Hohmann

In this paper, we study the application of DRL algorithms in the context of local navigation problems, in which a robot moves towards a goal location in unknown and cluttered workspaces equipped only with limited-range exteroceptive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Victor R. F. Miranda , Armando A. Neto , Gustavo M. Freitas , Leonardo A. Mozelli

The Object Navigation (ObjectNav) task aims to guide an agent to locate target objects in unseen environments using partial observations. Prior approaches have employed location prediction paradigms to achieve long-term goal reasoning, yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yiming Ji , Kaijie Yun , Yang Liu , Zhengpu Wang , Boyu Ma , Zongwu Xie , Hong Liu

Imitation Learning offers a promising approach to learn directly from data without requiring explicit models, simulations, or detailed task definitions. During inference, actions are sampled from the learned distribution and executed on the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Amirreza Razmjoo , Sylvain Calinon , Michael Gienger , Fan Zhang

The objective of this study is to enable fast and safe manipulation tasks in home environments. Specifically, we aim to develop a system that can recognize its surroundings and identify target objects while in motion, enabling it to plan…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Keisuke Takeshita , Takahiro Yamazaki , Tomohiro Ono , Takashi Yamamoto

Conditional diffusion models have made impressive progress in the field of image processing, but the characteristics of constructing data distribution pathways make it difficult to exploit the intrinsic correlation between tasks in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Chengjie Huang , Jiafeng Yan , Jing Li , Lu Bai

Diffusion Policy (DP) has attracted significant attention as an effective method for policy representation due to its capacity to model multi-distribution dynamics. However, current DPs are often based on a single visual modality (e.g., RGB…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jiahang Cao , Qiang Zhang , Hanzhong Guo , Jiaxu Wang , Hao Cheng , Renjing Xu

Learning from demonstrations faces challenges in generalizing beyond the training data and often lacks collision awareness. This paper introduces Lan-o3dp, a language-guided object-centric diffusion policy framework that can adapt to unseen…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Hang Li , Qian Feng , Zhi Zheng , Jianxiang Feng , Zhaopeng Chen , Alois Knoll

This study develops a robot mobility policy based on deep reinforcement learning. Since traditional methods of conventional robotic navigation depend on accurate map reproduction as well as require high-end sensors, learning-based methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Minh Q. Tran , Ngoc Q. Ly

Diffusion planning is a promising method for learning high-performance policies from offline data. To avoid the impact of discrepancies between planning and reality on performance, previous works generate new plans at each time step.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Jiaming Guo , Rui Zhang , Zerun Li , Yunkai Gao , Shaohui Peng , Siming Lan , Xing Hu , Zidong Du , Xishan Zhang , Ling Li

Many real-world decision-making problems face the off-dynamics challenge: the agent learns a policy in a source domain and deploys it in a target domain with different state transitions. The distributionally robust Markov decision process…

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