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Recent advances in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) are enabling impressive coordination in heterogeneous multi-robot teams. However, existing approaches often overlook the challenge of generalizing learned policies to teams of new…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Pierce Howell , Max Rudolph , Reza Torbati , Kevin Fu , Harish Ravichandar

Reinforcement learning (RL) in partially observable, fully cooperative multi-agent settings (Dec-POMDPs) can in principle be used to address many real-world challenges such as controlling a swarm of rescue robots or a team of quadcopters.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Qizhen Zhang , Chris Lu , Animesh Garg , Jakob Foerster

Generative models such as diffusion models, excel at capturing high-dimensional distributions with diverse input modalities, e.g. robot trajectories, but are less effective at multi-step constraint reasoning. Task and Motion Planning (TAMP)…

We propose a distributed planning method with asynchronous execution for multi-agent pickup and delivery (MAPD) problems for environments with occasional delays in agents' activities and flexible endpoints. MAPD is a crucial problem…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Yuki Miyashita , Tomoki Yamauchi , Toshiharu Sugawara

Multitask learning poses significant challenges due to the highly multimodal and diverse nature of robot action distributions. However, effectively fitting policies to these complex task distributions is often difficult, and existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Chaoqi Liu , Haonan Chen , Sigmund H. Høeg , Shaoxiong Yao , Yunzhu Li , Kris Hauser , Yilun Du

Achieving scalable coordination in large robotic swarms is often constrained by reliance on inter-agent communication, which introduces latency, bandwidth limitations, and vulnerability to failure. To address this gap, a decentralized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Mohini Priya Kolluri , Ammar Waheed , Zohaib Hasnain

Despite the fact that visuomotor-based policies obtained via imitation learning demonstrate good performances in complex manipulation tasks, they usually struggle to achieve the same accuracy and speed as traditional control based methods.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Jonne Van Haastregt , Bastian Orthmann , Michael C. Welle , Yuchong Zhang , Danica Kragic

Robotic manipulation requires understanding both the 3D spatial structure of the environment and its temporal evolution, yet most existing policies overlook one or both. They typically rely on 2D visual observations and backbones pretrained…

In this paper, we address the multi-robot collaborative perception problem, specifically in the context of multi-view infilling for distributed semantic segmentation. This setting entails several real-world challenges, especially those…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Nathaniel Glaser , Yen-Cheng Liu , Junjiao Tian , Zsolt Kira

Collaborative underwater target hunting, facilitated by multiple autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), plays a significant role in various domains, especially military missions. Existing research predominantly focuses on designing…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Xu Guo , Xiangwang Hou , Minrui Xu , Jianrui Chen , Jingjing Wang , Jun Du , Yong Ren

In this paper, a novel approach is proposed for learning robot control in contact-rich tasks such as wiping, by developing Diffusion Contact Model (DCM). Previous methods of learning such tasks relied on impedance control with time-varying…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Masashi Okada , Mayumi Komatsu , Tadahiro Taniguchi

Goal-conditioned dynamic manipulation is inherently challenging due to complex system dynamics and stringent task constraints, particularly in deformable object scenarios characterized by high degrees of freedom and underactuation. Prior…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Guanzhou Lan , Yuqi Yang , Anup Teejo Mathew , Feiping Nie , Rong Wang , Xuelong Li , Federico Renda , Bin Zhao

In this paper, we investigate how heterogeneous multi-robot systems with different sensing capabilities can observe a domain with an apriori unknown density function. Common coverage control techniques are targeted towards homogeneous teams…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Max Rudolph , Sean Wilson , Magnus Egerstedt

Diffusion models have become popular for policy learning in robotics due to their ability to capture high-dimensional and multimodal distributions. However, diffusion policies are stochastic and typically trained offline, limiting their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Ralf Römer , Alexander von Rohr , Angela P. Schoellig

An unmanned surface vehicle (USV) can perform complex missions by continuously observing the state of its surroundings and taking action toward a goal. A SWARM of USVs working together can complete missions faster, and more effectively than…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Shrudhi R S , Sreyash Mohanty , Susan Elias

The interest in combining model-based control approaches with diffusion models has been growing. Although we have seen many impressive robotic control results in difficult tasks, the performance of diffusion models is highly sensitive to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yutaka Shimizu , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Recent advances in diffusion models have demonstrated their strong capabilities in generating high-fidelity samples from complex distributions through an iterative refinement process. Despite the empirical success of diffusion models in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Chaoyi Pan , Zeji Yi , Guanya Shi , Guannan Qu

End-to-end learning of robot control policies, structured as neural networks, has emerged as a promising approach to robotic manipulation. To complete many common tasks, relevant objects are required to pass in and out of a robot's field of…

Multi-agent robotic manipulation remains challenging due to the combined demands of coordination, grasp stability, and collision avoidance in shared workspaces. To address these challenges, we propose the Adaptive Dynamic Modality Diffusion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Enyi Wang , Wen Fan , Dandan Zhang

It is always a challenging task to service sudden events in non-convex and uncertain environments, and multi-agent coverage control provides a powerful theoretical framework to investigate the deployment problem of mobile robotic networks…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Chao Zhai , Pengyang Fan