Multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for multi-robot applications: A survey

J Orr, A Dutta - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Deep reinforcement learning has produced many success stories in recent years. Some
example fields in which these successes have taken place include mathematics, games …

Deep learning technology for construction machinery and robotics

K You, C Zhou, L Ding - Automation in construction, 2023 - Elsevier
Construction machinery and robots are essential equipment for major infrastructure. The
application of deep learning technology can improve the construction quality and alleviate …

A* guiding DQN algorithm for automated guided vehicle pathfinding problem of robotic mobile fulfillment systems

L Luo, N Zhao, Y Zhu, Y Sun - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper proposes an A* guiding deep Q-network (AG-DQN) algorithm for solving the
pathfinding problem of an automated guided vehicle (AGV) in a robotic mobile fulfillment …

[HTML][HTML] Priority inheritance with backtracking for iterative multi-agent path finding

K Okumura, M Machida, X Défago, Y Tamura - Artificial Intelligence, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem, a set of agents moving on a graph
must reach their own respective destinations without inter-agent collisions. In practical MAPF …

Arbitrarily scalable environment generators via neural cellular automata

Y Zhang, M Fontaine, V Bhatt… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We study the problem of generating arbitrarily large environments to improve the throughput
of multi-robot systems. Prior work proposes Quality Diversity (QD) algorithms as an effective …

Learning selective communication for multi-agent path finding

Z Ma, Y Luo, J Pan - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Learning communication via deep reinforcement learning (RL) or imitation learning (IL) has
recently been shown to be an effective way to solve Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) …

Multi-robot coordination and layout design for automated warehousing

Y Zhang, MC Fontaine, V Bhatt, S Nikolaidis… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
With the rapid progress in Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF), researchers have studied how
MAPF algorithms can be deployed to coordinate hundreds of robots in large automated …

A review of the applications of multi-agent reinforcement learning in smart factories

F Bahrpeyma, D Reichelt - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The smart factory is at the heart of Industry 4.0 and is the new paradigm for establishing
advanced manufacturing systems and realizing modern manufacturing objectives such as …

A review of graph-based multi-agent pathfinding solvers: From classical to beyond classical

J Gao, Y Li, X Li, K Yan, K Lin, X Wu - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
Multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) is a well-studied abstract model for navigation in a multi-
robot system, where every robot finds the path to its goal position without any collision. Due …

Intelligent amphibious ground-aerial vehicles: State of the art technology for future transportation

X Zhang, J Huang, Y Huang, K Huang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Amphibious ground-aerial vehicles fuse flying and driving modes to enable more flexible air-
land mobility and have received growing attention recently. By analyzing the existing …