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Federated Learning (FL) is an upcoming technology that is increasingly applied in real-world applications. Early applications focused on cross-device scenarios, where many participants with limited resources train machine learning (ML)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-03 F. Stricker , J. A. Peregrina , D. Bermbach , C. Zirpins

In this paper, we present a solution to the problem of coordinating multiple robots across a communication channel that experiences delays. The proposed approach leverages control barrier functions in order to ensure that the multi-robot…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Gennaro Notomista , Xiaoyi Cai , Junya Yamauchi , Magnus Egerstedt

Modern robotics often involves multiple embodied agents operating within a shared environment. Path planning in these cases is considerably more challenging than in single-agent scenarios. Although standard Sampling-based Algorithms (SBAs)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Alessandro Zanardi , Pietro Zullo , Andrea Censi , Emilio Frazzoli

While the exploration for embodied AI has spanned multiple decades, it remains a persistent challenge to endow agents with human-level intelligence, including perception, learning, reasoning, decision-making, control, and generalization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Zhiyuan Xu , Kun Wu , Junjie Wen , Jinming Li , Ning Liu , Zhengping Che , Jian Tang

This paper addresses the limitations of a single agent in task decomposition and collaboration during complex task execution, and proposes a multi-agent architecture for modular task decomposition and dynamic collaboration based on large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Shuaidong Pan , Di Wu

Federated learning (FL) has recently gained considerable attention due to its ability to learn on decentralised data while preserving client privacy. However, it also poses additional challenges related to the heterogeneity of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Lukasz Dudziak , Stefanos Laskaridis , Javier Fernandez-Marques

This paper presents the framework for a novel Unified Socially-Aware Navigation (USAN) architecture and explains its need in Socially Assistive Robotics (SAR) applications. Our approach emphasizes interpersonal distance and how spatial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Santosh Balajee Banisetty , David Feil-Seifer

We propose a scalable cooperative control approach which coordinates a group of rigidly connected autonomous surface vessels to track desired trajectories in a planar water environment as a single floating modular structure. Our approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Wei Wang , Zijian Wang , Luis Mateos , Kuan Wei Huang , Mac Schwager , Carlo Ratti , Daniela Rus

Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) have been used to solve complex problems that demand intelligent agents working together to reach the desired goals. These Agents should effectively synchronize their individual behaviors so that they can act as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Marco A. C. Simões , Robson Marinho da Silva , Tatiane Nogueira

The goal of this paper is to provide a survey and application-focused atlas of collective behavior coordination algorithms for multi-agent systems. We survey the general family of collective behavior algorithms for multi-agent systems and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Federico Rossi , Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay , Michael T. Wolf , Marco Pavone

This work presents a use case of federated learning (FL) applied to discovering a maze with LiDAR sensors-equipped robots. Goal here is to train classification models to accurately identify the shapes of grid areas within two different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Kalpana Ranasinghe , H. P. Madushanka , Rafaela Scaciota , Sumudu Samarakoon , Mehdi Bennis

The distributed coordination of robot teams performing complex tasks is challenging to formulate. The different aspects of a complete task such as local planning for obstacle avoidance, global goal coordination and collaborative mapping are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Aalok Patwardhan , Andrew J. Davison

The human-robot interaction (HRI) is a growing area of research. In HRI, complex command (action) classification is still an open problem that usually prevents the real applicability of such a technique. The literature presents some works…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Lucas Nogueira Nobrega , Ewerton de Oliveira , Martin Saska , Tiago Nascimento

The multi-robot adaptive sampling problem aims at finding trajectories for a team of robots to efficiently sample the phenomenon of interest within a given endurance budget of the robots. In this paper, we propose a robust and scalable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Lishuo Pan , Sandeep Manjanna , M. Ani Hsieh

We present a fully integrated autonomous multi- robot aerial system for finding and collecting moving and static objects with unknown locations. This task addresses multiple relevant problems in search and rescue (SAR) robotics such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Rik Bähnemann , Dominik Schindler , Mina Kamel , Roland Siegwart , Juan Nieto

In multi-robot exploration, a team of mobile robot is tasked with efficiently mapping an unknown environments. While most exploration planners assume omnidirectional sensors like LiDAR, this is impractical for small robots such as drones,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Jimmy Chiun , Shizhe Zhang , Yizhuo Wang , Yuhong Cao , Guillaume Sartoretti

The usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in civil and military applications continues to increase due to the numerous advantages that they provide over conventional approaches. Despite the abundance of such advantages, it is imperative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Ilyes Mrad , Lutfi Samara , Alaa Awad Abdellatif , Abubakr Al-Abbasi , Ridha Hamila , Aiman Erbad

The acquisition of large-scale physical interaction data, a critical prerequisite for modern robot learning, is severely bottlenecked by the prohibitive cost and scalability limits of human-in-the-loop collection paradigms. To break this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yongzhong Wang , Keyu Zhu , Yong Zhong , Liqiong Wang , Jinyu Yang , Feng Zheng

Achieving robust cognitive autonomy in robots navigating complex, unpredictable environments remains a fundamental challenge in robotics. This paper presents Underwater Robot Self-Organizing Autonomy (UROSA), a groundbreaking architecture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Markus Buchholz , Ignacio Carlucho , Michele Grimaldi , Yvan R. Petillot

Multi-agent reinforcement learning has emerged as a powerful framework for enabling agents to learn complex, coordinated behaviors but faces persistent challenges regarding its generalization, scalability and sample efficiency. Recent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Nikolaos Bousias , Stefanos Pertigkiozoglou , Kostas Daniilidis , George Pappas