English
Related papers

Related papers: Embodied Escaping: End-to-End Reinforcement Learni…

200 papers

This study presents a new methodology for learning-based motion planning for autonomous exploration using aerial robots. Through the reinforcement learning method of learning through trial and error, the action policy is derived that can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Sunggoo Jung , David Hyunchul Shim

In this paper, a novel deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based method is proposed to navigate the robot team through unknown complex environments, where the geometric centroid of the robot team aims to reach the goal position while avoiding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Juntong Lin , Xuyun Yang , Peiwei Zheng , Hui Cheng

Autonomous navigation is challenging for mobile robots, especially in an unknown environment. Commonly, the robot requires multiple sensors to map the environment, locate itself, and make a plan to reach the target. However, reinforcement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Miguel Quinones-Ramirez , Jorge Rios-Martinez , Victor Uc-Cetina

Embodied learning for object-centric robotic manipulation is a rapidly developing and challenging area in embodied AI. It is crucial for advancing next-generation intelligent robots and has garnered significant interest recently. Unlike…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Ying Zheng , Lei Yao , Yuejiao Su , Yi Zhang , Yi Wang , Sicheng Zhao , Yiyi Zhang , Lap-Pui Chau

The combination of deep neural network models and reinforcement learning algorithms can make it possible to learn policies for robotic behaviors that directly read in raw sensory inputs, such as camera images, effectively subsuming both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Avi Singh , Larry Yang , Kristian Hartikainen , Chelsea Finn , Sergey Levine

In recent times, an increasing number of researchers have been devoted to utilizing deep neural networks for end-to-end flight navigation. This approach has gained traction due to its ability to bridge the gap between perception and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Zhichao Han , Long Xu , Liuao Pei , Fei Gao

Mobile robot navigation in complex and dynamic environments is a challenging but important problem. Reinforcement learning approaches fail to solve these tasks efficiently due to reward sparsities, temporal complexities and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Xi Chen , Ali Ghadirzadeh , John Folkesson , Patric Jensfelt

Autonomous navigation in dynamic environments is a complex but essential task for autonomous robots, with recent deep reinforcement learning approaches showing promising results. However, the complexity of the real world makes it infeasible…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Diego Martinez-Baselga , Luis Riazuelo , Luis Montano

Embodied navigation presents a core challenge for intelligent robots, requiring the comprehension of visual environments, natural language instructions, and autonomous exploration. Existing models often fall short in offering a unified…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xinda Xue , Junjun Hu , Minghua Luo , Shichao Xie , Jintao Chen , Zixun Xie , Kuichen Quan , Wei Guo , Mu Xu , Zedong Chu

We consider the problem of mass transport cloaking using mobile robots. The robots move along a predefined curve that encloses a safe zone and carry sources that collectively counteract a chemical agent released in the environment. The goal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Reza Khodayi-mehr , Michael M. Zavlanos

Reinforcement Learning (RL) offers a promising framework for autonomous driving by enabling agents to learn control policies through interaction with environments. However, large and high-dimensional action spaces often used to support…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Elahe Delavari , Feeza Khan Khanzada , Jaerock Kwon

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

Embodied visual tracking is to follow a target object in dynamic 3D environments using an agent's egocentric vision. This is a vital and challenging skill for embodied agents. However, existing methods suffer from inefficient training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Fangwei Zhong , Kui Wu , Hai Ci , Churan Wang , Hao Chen

This paper focuses on transferring control policies between robot manipulators with different morphology. While reinforcement learning (RL) methods have shown successful results in robot manipulation tasks, transferring a trained policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Tianyu Wang , Dwait Bhatt , Xiaolong Wang , Nikolay Atanasov

Exploration in an unknown environment is the core functionality for mobile robots. Learning-based exploration methods, including convolutional neural networks, provide excellent strategies without human-designed logic for the feature…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Lei Tai , Ming Liu

Planning coverage path for multiple robots in a decentralized way enhances robustness to coverage tasks handling uncertain malfunctions. To achieve high efficiency in a distributed manner for each single robot, a comprehensive understanding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Yongkai Liu , Jiawei Hu , Wei Dong

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

Enabling autonomous robots to interact in unstructured environments with dynamic objects requires manipulation capabilities that can deal with clutter, changes, and objects' variability. This paper presents a comparison of different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Michel Breyer , Fadri Furrer , Tonci Novkovic , Roland Siegwart , Juan Nieto

Efficient point-to-point navigation in the presence of a background flow field is important for robotic applications such as ocean surveying. In such applications, robots may only have knowledge of their immediate surroundings or be faced…

Collision-free, goal-directed navigation in environments containing unknown static and dynamic obstacles is still a great challenge, especially when manual tuning of navigation policies or costly motion prediction needs to be avoided. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Jorge de Heuvel , Weixian Shi , Xiangyu Zeng , Maren Bennewitz