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In the case of the two-person zero-sum stochastic game with a central controller, this paper proposes a best collaborative behavior search and selection algorithm based on reinforcement learning, in response to how to choose the best…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Yunkai Wang , Shenhan Jia , Zexi Chen , Zheyuan Huang , Rong Xiong

Existing navigation policies for autonomous robots tend to focus on collision avoidance while ignoring human-robot interactions in social life. For instance, robots can pass along the corridor safer and easier if pedestrians notice them.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Quecheng Qiu , Shunyi Yao , Jing Wang , Jun Ma , Guangda Chen , Jianmin Ji

This paper presents a reinforcement learning-based quadrotor navigation method that leverages efficient differentiable simulation, novel loss functions, and privileged information to navigate around large obstacles. Prior learning-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jonathan Lee , Abhishek Rathod , Kshitij Goel , John Stecklein , Wennie Tabib

Inverted landing in a rapid and robust manner is a challenging feat for aerial robots, especially while depending entirely on onboard sensing and computation. In spite of this, this feat is routinely performed by biological fliers such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Bryan Habas , Jack W. Langelaan , Bo Cheng

Collision avoidance is a crucial task in vision-guided autonomous navigation. Solutions based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has become increasingly popular. In this work, we proposed several novel agent state and reward function…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Sirui Song , Kirk Saunders , Ye Yue , Jundong Liu

Navigation in complex and noisy environments is a key issue in diverse fields from biology to engineering. Despite extensive progress in numerical optimization methods for computing navigation policies, insights into how disorder reshapes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-06 Kévin Bilaï Biloa , Olivier Pierre-Louis

Active inference is a theory that underpins the way biological agent's perceive and act in the real world. At its core, active inference is based on the principle that the brain is an approximate Bayesian inference engine, building an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Ozan Çatal , Samuel Wauthier , Tim Verbelen , Cedric De Boom , Bart Dhoedt

Powered by acoustics, existing therapeutic and diagnostic procedures will become less invasive and new methods will become available that have never been available before. Acoustically driven microrobot navigation based on microbubbles is a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Matthijs Schrage , Mahmoud Medany , Daniel Ahmed

Identifying optimal strategies for efficient spatial exploration is crucial, both for animals seeking food and for robotic search processes, where maximizing the covered area is a fundamental requirement. Here, we propose position resetting…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-02 Kristian Stølevik Olsen , Hartmut Löwen , Lorenzo Caprini

Learning a policy capable of moving an agent between any two states in the environment is important for many robotics problems involving navigation and manipulation. Due to the sparsity of rewards in such tasks, applying reinforcement…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Artem Molchanov , Karol Hausman , Stan Birchfield , Gaurav Sukhatme

We study the navigation of a self-propelled inertial particle in two-dimensional Rayleigh--B\'enard convection at Prandtl number $Pr = 0.71$ and cell aspect ratio $\Gamma = 4$ for Rayleigh numbers $Ra$ ranging from $10^{7}$ to $10^{11}$. A…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-17 Ao Xu , Hua-Lin Wu , Ben-Rui Xu , Heng-Dong Xi

We present a map-less path planning algorithm based on Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) for mobile robots navigating in unknown environment that only relies on 40-dimensional raw laser data and odometry information. The planner is trained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Nicolò Botteghi , Beril Sirmacek , Khaled A. A. Mustafa , Mannes Poel , Stefano Stramigioli

We present theoretical and numerical results concerning the problem to find the path that minimizes the time to navigate between two given points in a complex fluid under realistic navigation constraints. We contrast deterministic Optimal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-02 Michele Buzzicotti , Luca Biferale , Fabio Bonaccorso , Patricio Clark di Leoni , Kristian Gustavsson

We first define appropriate state representation and action space, and then design an adjustment mechanism based on the actions selected by the intelligent agent. The adjustment mechanism outputs the next state and reward value of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Longcheng Guo

Extensive research has been devoted to the field of multi-agent navigation. Recently, there has been remarkable progress attributed to the emergence of learning-based techniques with substantially elevated intelligence and realism.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Xuan Zhang , Xifeng Gao , Kui Wu , Zherong Pan

Mobile robots are often tasked with repeatedly navigating through an environment whose traversability changes over time. These changes may exhibit some hidden structure, which can be learned. Many studies consider reactive algorithms for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Florence Tsang , Tristan Walker , Ryan A. MacDonald , Armin Sadeghi , Stephen L. Smith

Vision guided navigation requires processing complex visual information to inform task-orientated decisions. Applications include autonomous robots, self-driving cars, and assistive vision for humans. A key element is the extraction and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Jaime Ruiz-Serra , Jack White , Stephen Petrie , Tatiana Kameneva , Chris McCarthy

The diffusion of micro- and nanoswimmers in a fluid, confined within irregular structures that impose entropic barriers, is often modeled using overdamped active Brownian dynamics, where viscous effects are paramount and inertia is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-03 Narender Khatri , Vikas Sharma , Anton F. Burnet , Suneet Kumar Awasthi

Coordinating micro-robotic swarms in physiologically realistic, time-dependent fluid environments remains an unsolved challenge for biomedical and environmental applications. We present a hybrid Computational Fluid Dynamics -…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Josef Berman , Oren Gal

This paper introduces a novel semantics-aware inspection planning policy derived through deep reinforcement learning. Reflecting the fact that within autonomous informative path planning missions in unknown environments, it is often only a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Grzegorz Malczyk , Mihir Kulkarni , Kostas Alexis