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Cooperative path planning is gaining its importance due to the increasing demand on using multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for complex missions. This work addresses the problem by introducing a new algorithm named MultiRRT that…

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This paper proposes a bidirectional rapidly-exploring random trees (RRT) algorithm to solve the motion planning problem for hybrid systems. The proposed algorithm, called HyRRT-Connect, propagates in both forward and backward directions in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Nan Wang , Ricardo G. Sanfelice

Trajectory planning for quadrotors in cluttered environments has been challenging in recent years. While many trajectory planning frameworks have been successful, there still exists potential for improvements, particularly in enhancing the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Pengyu Wang , Jiawei Tang , Hin Wang Lin , Fan Zhang , Chaoqun Wang , Jiankun Wang , Ling Shi , Max Q. -H. Meng

The increasing demand for autonomous systems in complex and dynamic environments has driven significant research into intelligent path planning methodologies. For decades, graph-based search algorithms, linear programming techniques, and…

Informed sampling techniques accelerate the convergence of sampling-based motion planners by biasing sampling toward regions of the state space that are most likely to yield better solutions. However, when the current solution path contains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Phone Thiha Kyaw , Anh Vu Le , Rajesh Elara Mohan , Jonathan Kelly

We consider the optimization of distributed resource scheduling to minimize the sum of task latency and energy consumption for all the Internet of things devices (IoTDs) in a large-scale mobile edge computing (MEC) system. To address this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Feibo Jiang , Li Dong , Kezhi Wang , Kun Yang , Cunhua Pan

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) faces significant challenges in addressing the hard-exploration problems in tasks with sparse or deceptive rewards and large state spaces. These challenges severely limit the practical application of DRL.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Guojian Wang , Faguo Wu , Xiao Zhang , Ning Guo , Zhiming Zheng

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have enabled understanding webpage contexts, product details, and human instructions. Utilizing LLMs as the foundational architecture for either reward models or policies in reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Shuang Feng , Grace Feng

Existing methods for avoiding dynamic engagement zones (EZs) and minimizing risk leverage the calculus of variations to obtain optimal paths. While such methods are deterministic, they scale poorly as the number of engagement zones…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Artur Wolek , Isaac E. Weintraub , Alexander Von Moll , David Casbeer , Satyanarayana G. Manyam

Recent deep reinforcement learning (DRL) successes rely on end-to-end learning from fixed-size observational inputs (e.g. image, state-variables). However, many challenging and interesting problems in decision making involve observations or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Vince Jankovics , Michael Garcia Ortiz , Eduardo Alonso

Modern day computer games have extremely large state and action spaces. To detect bugs in these games' models, human testers play the games repeatedly to explore the game and find errors in the games. Such gameplay is exhaustive and time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Max Zuo , Logan Schick , Matthew Gombolay , Nakul Gopalan

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been used to learn effective heuristics for solving complex combinatorial optimisation problem via policy networks and have demonstrated promising performance. Existing works have focused on solving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Nasrin Sultana , Jeffrey Chan , A. K. Qin , Tabinda Sarwar

Route planning is important in transportation. Existing works focus on finding the shortest path solution or using metrics such as safety and energy consumption to determine the planning. It is noted that most of these studies rely on prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Yuanzhe Geng , Erwu Liu , Rui Wang , Yiming Liu

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms frequently require prohibitive interaction experience to ensure the quality of learned policies. The limitation is partly because the agent cannot learn much from the many low-quality trials in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Keting Lu , Shiqi Zhang , Xiaoping Chen

Path planning in robotics often involves solving continuously valued, high-dimensional problems. Popular informed approaches include graph-based searches, such as A*, and sampling-based methods, such as Informed RRT*, which utilize informed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Liding Zhang , Kuanqi Cai , Yu Zhang , Zhenshan Bing , Chaoqun Wang , Fan Wu , Sami Haddadin , Alois Knoll

Sampling-based path planning algorithms suffer from heavy reliance on uniform sampling, which accounts for unreliable and time-consuming performance, especially in complex environments. Recently, neural-network-driven methods predict…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Yuan Huang , Cheng-Tien Tsao , Tianyu Shen , Hee-Hyol Lee

This study investigates the application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in public management, focusing on optimizing path planning to address challenges such as energy consumption, obstacle avoidance, and airspace constraints. As UAVs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Zhanxi Xie , Baili Lu , Yanzhao Gu , Zikun Li , Junhao Wei , Ngai Cheong

Autonomous robot exploration (ARE) is the process of a robot autonomously navigating and mapping an unknown environment. Recent Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based approaches typically formulate ARE as a sequential decision-making problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Haozhan Ni , Jingsong Liang , Chenyu He , Yuhong Cao , Guillaume Sartoretti

Motion Planning is necessary for robots to complete different tasks. Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT) and its variants have been widely used in robot motion planning due to their fast search in state space. However, they perform not well…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Zhirui Sun , Jiankun Wang , Max Q. -H. Meng

This document is a thesis on the subject of single-agent on-line path planning in continuous,unpredictable and highly dynamic environments. The problem is finding and traversing a collision-free path for a holonomic robot, without…

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