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Autonomous navigation capabilities play a critical role in service robots operating in environments where human interactions are pivotal, due to the dynamic and unpredictable nature of these environments. However, the variability in human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Mannan Saeed Muhammad , Estrella Montero

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL), acting as a novel and powerful paradigm for quantum optimal control, offers transformative opportunities for advancing neutral-atom quantum computing. In this work, we theoretically demonstrate a DRL-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Yue Cai , Hanlin Zhang , Keye Zhang , Jing Qian

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has become a dominant deep-learning paradigm for tasks where complex policies are learned within reactive systems. Unfortunately, these policies are known to be susceptible to bugs. Despite significant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Guy Amir , Davide Corsi , Raz Yerushalmi , Luca Marzari , David Harel , Alessandro Farinelli , Guy Katz

We present a novel approach to perform probabilistic collision detection between a high-DOF robot and high-DOF obstacles in dynamic, uncertain environments. In dynamic environments with a high-DOF robot and moving obstacles, our approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Chonhyon Park , Jae Sung Park , Dinesh Manocha

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is an emerging methodology that is transforming the way many complicated transportation decision-making problems are tackled. Researchers have been increasingly turning to this powerful learning-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Nahid Parvez Farazi , Tanvir Ahamed , Limon Barua , Bo Zou

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been widely applied in autonomous exploration and mapping tasks, but often struggles with the challenges of sampling efficiency, poor adaptability to unknown map sizes, and slow simulation speed. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Zhi Li , Jinghao Xin , Ning Li

In this work, we propose a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based reactive planner to solve large-scale Lidar-based autonomous robot exploration problems in 2D action space. Our DRL-based planner allows the agent to reactively plan its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yuhong Cao , Rui Zhao , Yizhuo Wang , Bairan Xiang , Guillaume Sartoretti

We propose a novel benchmark environment for Safe Reinforcement Learning focusing on aquatic navigation. Aquatic navigation is an extremely challenging task due to the non-stationary environment and the uncertainties of the robotic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Enrico Marchesini , Davide Corsi , Alessandro Farinelli

In this article, we introduce a novel strategy for robotic exploration in unknown environments using a semantic topometric map. As it will be presented, the semantic topometric map is generated by segmenting the grid map of the currently…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Scott Fredriksson , Akshit Saradagi , George Nikolakopoulos

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) can significantly promote the advances in road transport mobility in terms of safety, reliability, and decarbonization. However, ensuring safety and efficiency in interactive during within dynamic and diverse…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Zhen Tian , Zhihao Lin , Dezong Zhao , Wenjing Zhao , David Flynn , Shuja Ansari , Chongfeng Wei

This paper addresses the problem of temporal logic motion planning for an autonomous robot operating in an unknown environment. The objective is to enable the robot to satisfy a syntactically co-safe Linear Temporal Logic (scLTL)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Azizollah Taheri , Derya Aksaray

In the face of growing urban populations and the escalating number of vehicles on the roads, managing transportation efficiently and ensuring safety have become critical challenges. To tackle these issues, the development of intelligent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Badr Ben Elallid , Amine Abouaomar , Nabil Benamar , Abdellatif Kobbane

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has achieved tremendous success in many complex decision-making tasks of autonomous systems with high-dimensional state and/or action spaces. However, the safety and stability still remain major concerns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Hongpeng Cao , Yanbing Mao , Lui Sha , Marco Caccamo

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) methods have demonstrated potential for autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) in crowded environments. Most existing approaches rely on single-frame observation and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Ruitong Li , Lin Zhang , Yuenan Zhao , Chengxin Liu , Ran Song , Wei Zhang

Accurate and robust trajectory prediction of neighboring agents is critical for autonomous vehicles traversing in complex scenes. Most methods proposed in recent years are deep learning-based due to their strength in encoding complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Yujun Jiao , Mingze Miao , Zhishuai Yin , Chunyuan Lei , Xu Zhu , Linzhen Nie , Bo Tao

Multi-robot navigation and path planning in continuous state and action spaces with uncertain environments remains an open challenge. Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) is one of the most popular paradigms for solving this task, but its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Jahid Chowdhury Choton , John Woods , William Hsu

Mobile robotic systems are becoming increasingly popular. These systems are used in various indoor applications, raging from warehousing and manufacturing to test benches for assessment of advanced control strategies, such as artificial…

Safe and efficient assistive planning for visually impaired scenarios remains challenging, since existing methods struggle with multi-objective optimization, generalization, and interpretability. In response, this paper proposes a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yuting Zeng , Zhiwen Zheng , Jingya Wang , You Zhou , JiaLing Xiao , Yongbin Yu , Manping Fan , Bo Gong , Liyong Ren

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

While deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has attracted a rapidly growing interest in solving the problem of navigation without global maps, DRL typically leads to a mediocre navigation performance in practice due to the gap between the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Shiwei Lian , Feitian Zhang