Graph neural networks for decentralized multi-robot path planning

Q Li, F Gama, A Ribeiro, A Prorok - 2020 IEEE/RSJ international …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Effective communication is key to successful, decentralized, multi-robot path planning. Yet, it
is far from obvious what information is crucial to the task at hand, and how and when it must …

Message-aware graph attention networks for large-scale multi-robot path planning

Q Li, W Lin, Z Liu, A Prorok - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The domains of transport and logistics are increasingly relying on autonomous mobile
robots for the handling and distribution of passengers or resources. At large system scales …

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 …

Graph-based multi-robot path finding and planning

H Ma - Current Robotics Reports, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Planning collision-free paths for multiple robots is important for
real-world multi-robot systems and has been studied as an optimization problem on graphs …

Transformer-based imitative reinforcement learning for multirobot path planning

L Chen, Y Wang, Z Miao, Y Mo, M Feng… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multirobot path planning leads multiple robots from start positions to designated goal
positions by generating efficient and collision-free paths. Multirobot systems realize …

Distributed heuristic multi-agent path finding with communication

Z Ma, Y Luo, H Ma - 2021 IEEE International Conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is essential to large-scale robotic systems. Recent
methods have applied reinforcement learning (RL) to learn decentralized polices in partially …

Mobile robot path planning in dynamic environments through globally guided reinforcement learning

B Wang, Z Liu, Q Li, A Prorok - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Path planning for mobile robots in large dynamic environments is a challenging problem, as
the robots are required to efficiently reach their given goals while simultaneously avoiding …

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 …

A framework for real-world multi-robot systems running decentralized GNN-based policies

J Blumenkamp, S Morad, J Gielis, Q Li… - … on Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a paradigm-shifting neural architecture to facilitate the
learning of complex multi-agent behaviors. Recent work has demonstrated remarkable …

Mapper: Multi-agent path planning with evolutionary reinforcement learning in mixed dynamic environments

Z Liu, B Chen, H Zhou, G Koushik… - 2020 IEEE/RSJ …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-agent navigation in dynamic environments is of great industrial value when deploying
a large scale fleet of robot to real-world applications. This paper proposes a decentralized …