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Safe and efficient navigation in dynamic environments shared with humans remains an open and challenging task for mobile robots. Previous works have shown the efficacy of using reinforcement learning frameworks to train policies for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Yanying Zhou , Jochen Garcke

Autonomous navigation is a key skill for assistive and service robots. To be successful, robots have to minimise the disruption caused to humans while moving. This implies predicting how people will move and complying with social…

Navigation in human-robot shared crowded environments remains challenging, as robots are expected to move efficiently while respecting human motion conventions. However, many existing approaches emphasize safety or efficiency while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Zhirui Sun , Xingrong Diao , Yao Wang , Bi-Ke Zhu , Jiankun Wang

Deploying a team of robots that can carefully coordinate their actions can make the entire system robust to individual failures. In this report, we review recent algorithmic development in making multi-robot systems robust to environmental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Lifeng Zhou , Pratap Tokekar

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

We present a novel trajectory traversability estimation and planning algorithm for robot navigation in complex outdoor environments. We incorporate multimodal sensory inputs from an RGB camera, 3D LiDAR, and the robot's odometry sensor to…

We study the problem of safe and intention-aware robot navigation in dense and interactive crowds. Most previous reinforcement learning (RL) based methods fail to consider different types of interactions among all agents or ignore the…

Safe and efficient crowd navigation for mobile robot is a crucial yet challenging task. Previous work has shown the power of deep reinforcement learning frameworks to train efficient policies. However, their performance deteriorates when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Yuying Chen , Congcong Liu , Ming Liu , Bertram E. Shi

Increasing interest in integrating advanced robotics within manufacturing has spurred a renewed concentration in developing real-time scheduling solutions to coordinate human-robot collaboration in this environment. Traditionally, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Zheyuan Wang , Matthew Gombolay

Packet routing is a fundamental problem in communication networks that decides how the packets are directed from their source nodes to their destination nodes through some intermediate nodes. With the increasing complexity of network…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Xuan Mai , Quanzhi Fu , Yi Chen

Predicting future trajectories of surrounding obstacles is a crucial task for autonomous driving cars to achieve a high degree of road safety. There are several challenges in trajectory prediction in real-world traffic scenarios, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Bo Dong , Hao Liu , Yu Bai , Jinbiao Lin , Zhuoran Xu , Xinyu Xu , Qi Kong

Deep reinforcement learning has great potential to acquire complex, adaptive behaviors for autonomous agents automatically. However, the underlying neural network polices have not been widely deployed in real-world applications, especially…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Tingxiang Fan , Pinxin Long , Wenxi Liu , Jia Pan , Ruigang Yang , Dinesh Manocha

For tasks conducted in unknown environments with efficiency requirements, real-time navigation of multi-robot systems remains challenging due to unfamiliarity with surroundings.In this paper, we propose a novel multi-robot collaborative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Qingquan Lin , Weining Lu , Litong Meng , Chenxi Li , Bin Liang

Efficient networking of many-robot systems is considered one of the grand challenges of robotics. In this article, we address the problem of achieving resilient, dynamic interconnection topologies in multi-robot systems. In scenarios in…

Social robot navigation can be helpful in various contexts of daily life but requires safe human-robot interactions and efficient trajectory planning. While modeling pairwise relations has been widely studied in multi-agent interacting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Jiachen Li , Chuanbo Hua , Jianpeng Yao , Hengbo Ma , Jinkyoo Park , Victoria Dax , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Multi-robot systems such as swarms of aerial robots are naturally suited to offer additional flexibility, resilience, and robustness in several tasks compared to a single robot by enabling cooperation among the agents. To enhance the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Yang Zhou , Jiuhong Xiao , Yue Zhou , Giuseppe Loianno

We study the problem of multi-robot active mapping, which aims for complete scene map construction in minimum time steps. The key to this problem lies in the goal position estimation to enable more efficient robot movements. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Kai Ye , Siyan Dong , Qingnan Fan , He Wang , Li Yi , Fei Xia , Jue Wang , Baoquan Chen

This paper presents a novel approach to multi-robot collision avoidance that integrates global path planning with local navigation strategies, utilizing attentive graph neural networks to manage dynamic interactions among agents. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jonas le Fevre Sejersen , Toyotaro Suzumura , Erdal Kayacan

This work proposes a novel hybrid approach for vision-only navigation of mobile robots, which combines advances of both deep learning approaches and classical model-based planning algorithms. Today, purely data-driven end-to-end models are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Sergey Bakulin , Timur Akhtyamov , Denis Fatykhov , German Devchich , Gonzalo Ferrer

Aerial operation in turbulent environments is a challenging problem due to the chaotic behavior of the flow. This problem is made even more complex when a team of aerial robots is trying to achieve coordinated motion in turbulent wind…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Diego Patiño , Siddharth Mayya , Juan Calderon , Kostas Daniilidis , David Saldaña