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Visual navigation is essential for many applications in robotics, from manipulation, through mobile robotics to automated driving. Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) provides an elegant map-free approach integrating image processing,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Jonáš Kulhánek , Erik Derner , Robert Babuška

In this work, motivated by recent manufacturing trends, we investigate autonomous robotic assembly. Industrial assembly tasks require contact-rich manipulation skills, which are challenging to acquire using classical control and motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Garrett Thomas , Melissa Chien , Aviv Tamar , Juan Aparicio Ojea , Pieter Abbeel

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a class of artificial intelligence algorithms being used to design adaptive optimal controllers through online learning. This paper presents a model-free, real-time, data-efficient Q-learning-based algorithm…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Ali Aalipour , Alireza Khani

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

Learning-based adaptive control methods hold the premise of enabling autonomous agents to reduce the effect of process variations with minimal human intervention. However, its application to autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) has so far…

Autonomous robots must navigate and operate in diverse environments, from terrestrial and aquatic settings to aerial and space domains. While Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown promise in training policies for specific autonomous robots,…

Autonomous drifting is a complex and crucial maneuver for safety-critical scenarios like slippery roads and emergency collision avoidance, requiring precise motion planning and control. Traditional motion planning methods often struggle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Bei Zhou , Baha Zarrouki , Mattia Piccinini , Cheng Hu , Lei Xie , Johannes Betz

With the growing demands for Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASVs) in recent years, the number of ASVs being deployed for various maritime missions is expected to increase rapidly in the near future. However, it is still challenging for ASVs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Xi Lin , Paul Szenher , Yewei Huang , Brendan Englot

We learn end-to-end point-to-point and path-following navigation behaviors that avoid moving obstacles. These policies receive noisy lidar observations and output robot linear and angular velocities. The policies are trained in small,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Hao-Tien Lewis Chiang , Aleksandra Faust , Marek Fiser , Anthony Francis

UAV control system is a huge and complex system, and to design and test a UAV control system is time-cost and money-cost. This paper considered the simulation of identification of a nonlinear system dynamics using artificial neural networks…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Bhaskar Prasad Rimal , Idris E. Putro , Agus Budiyono , Dugki Min , Eunmi Choi

Safe navigation of drones in the presence of adversarial physical attacks from multiple pursuers is a challenging task. This paper proposes a novel approach, asynchronous multi-stage deep reinforcement learning (AMS-DRL), to train…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Jiaping Xiao , Mir Feroskhan

Data packet routing in aeronautical ad-hoc networks (AANETs) is challenging due to their high-dynamic topology. In this paper, we invoke deep learning (DL) to assist routing in AANETs. We set out from the single objective of minimizing the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Dong Liu , Jiankang Zhang , Jingjing Cui , Soon-Xin Ng , Robert G. Maunder , Lajos Hanzo

Safe flight in dynamic environments requires unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to make effective decisions when navigating cluttered spaces with moving obstacles. Traditional approaches often decompose decision-making into hierarchical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Zhefan Xu , Xinming Han , Haoyu Shen , Hanyu Jin , Kenji Shimada

A reinforcement learning (RL) based methodology is proposed and implemented for online fine-tuning of PID controller gains, thus, improving quadrotor effective and accurate trajectory tracking. The RL agent is first trained offline on a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-10 Serhat Sönmez , Luca Montecchio , Simone Martini , Matthew J. Rutherford , Alessandro Rizzo , Margareta Stefanovic , Kimon P. Valavanis

Unmanned Surface Vehicles technology (USVs) is an exciting topic that essentially deploys an algorithm to safely and efficiently performs a mission. Although reinforcement learning is a well-known approach to modeling such a task,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Mohammad Etemad , Nader Zare , Mahtab Sarvmaili , Amilcar Soares , Bruno Brandoli Machado , Stan Matwin

The dangers of adversarial attacks on Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) agents operating in public are increasing. Adopting AI-based techniques and, more specifically, Deep Learning (DL) approaches to control and guide these UAVs can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Thomas Hickling , Nabil Aouf , Phillippa Spencer

In this paper, we present an advanced strategy for the coordinated control of a multi-agent aerospace system, utilizing Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) within a reinforcement learning framework. Our approach centers on optimizing autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Ye Zhang , Linyue Chu , Letian Xu , Kangtong Mo , Zhengjian Kang , Xingyu Zhang

Autonomous racing presents unique challenges due to its non-linear dynamics, the high speed involved, and the critical need for real-time decision-making under dynamic and unpredictable conditions. Most traditional Reinforcement Learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Benedict Hildisch , Edoardo Ghignone , Nicolas Baumann , Cheng Hu , Andrea Carron , Michele Magno

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) demonstrates its potential in learning a model-free navigation policy for robot visual navigation. However, the data-demanding algorithm relies on a large number of navigation trajectories in training.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Kaichun Mo , Haoxiang Li , Zhe Lin , Joon-Young Lee

Training deep reinforcement learning (RL) agents necessitates overcoming the highly unstable nonconvex stochastic optimization inherent in the trial-and-error mechanism. To tackle this challenge, we propose a physics-inspired optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yao Lyu , Xiangteng Zhang , Shengbo Eben Li , Jingliang Duan , Letian Tao , Qing Xu , Lei He , Keqiang Li