Primal: Pathfinding via reinforcement and imitation multi-agent learning

G Sartoretti, J Kerr, Y Shi, G Wagner… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is an essential component of many large-scale, real-world
robot deployments, from aerial swarms to warehouse automation. However, despite the …

Learning decentralized controllers for robot swarms with graph neural networks

E Tolstaya, F Gama, J Paulos… - … on robot learning, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
We consider the problem of finding distributed controllers for large networks of mobile robots
with interacting dynamics and sparsely available communications. Our approach is to learn …

Coordinated control of multi-robot systems: A survey

J Cortés, M Egerstedt - SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Recently, significant gains have been made in our understanding of multi-robot systems,
and such systems have been deployed in domains as diverse as precision agriculture …

A two-stage reinforcement learning approach for multi-UAV collision avoidance under imperfect sensing

D Wang, T Fan, T Han, J Pan - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unlike autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have a
higher dimensional configuration space, which makes the motion planning of multi-UAVs a …

Multi-robot coverage and exploration using spatial graph neural networks

E Tolstaya, J Paulos, V Kumar… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The multi-robot coverage problem is an essential building block for systems that perform
tasks like inspection, exploration, or search and rescue. We discretize the coverage problem …

Learning interaction-aware trajectory predictions for decentralized multi-robot motion planning in dynamic environments

H Zhu, FM Claramunt, B Brito… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents a data-driven decentralized trajectory optimization approach for multi-
robot motion planning in dynamic environments. When navigating in a shared space, each …

Forming circle formations of anonymous mobile agents with order preservation

C Wang, G **e, M Cao - IEEE Transactions on Automatic …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose distributed control laws for a group of anonymous mobile agents to form desired
circle formations when the agents move in the one-dimensional space of a circle. The …

Semi-supervised active learning for semantic segmentation in unknown environments using informative path planning

J Rückin, F Magistri, C Stachniss… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Semantic segmentation enables robots to perceive and reason about their environments
beyond geometry. Most of such systems build upon deep learning approaches. As …

Graph neural networks for decentralized multi-agent perimeter defense

ES Lee, L Zhou, A Ribeiro, V Kumar - Frontiers in Control Engineering, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In this work, we study the problem of decentralized multi-agent perimeter defense that asks
for computing actions for defenders with local perceptions and communications to maximize …

Formally correct composition of coordinated behaviors using control barrier certificates

A Li, L Wang, P Pierpaoli… - 2018 IEEE/RSJ …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In multi-robot systems, although the idea of behaviors allows for an efficient solution to low-
level tasks, high-level missions can rarely be achieved by the execution of a single behavior …