Challenges and solutions for autonomous ground robot scene understanding and navigation in unstructured outdoor environments: A review

L Wijayathunga, A Rassau, D Chai - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
The capabilities of autonomous mobile robotic systems have been steadily improving due to
recent advancements in computer science, engineering, and related disciplines such as …

Skill fusion in hybrid robotic framework for visual object goal navigation

A Staroverov, K Muravyev, K Yakovlev, AI Panov - Robotics, 2023 - mdpi.com
In recent years, Embodied AI has become one of the main topics in robotics. For the agent to
operate in human-centric environments, it needs the ability to explore previously unseen …

Vision-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning of UAV-UGV Collaborative Landing Policy Using Automatic Curriculum

C Wang, J Wang, C Wei, Y Zhu, D Yin, J Li - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
Collaborative autonomous landing of a quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) on a
moving Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) presents challenges due to the need for accurate …

Reinforcement and curriculum learning for off-road navigation of an UGV with a 3D LiDAR

M Sánchez, J Morales, JL Martínez - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper presents the use of deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) for autonomous
navigation of an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) with an onboard three-dimensional (3D) …

Comparison of deep reinforcement learning methods for safe and efficient autonomous vehicles at pedestrian crossings

A Brunoud, A Lombard, M Zhang… - 2022 IEEE 25th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
These past years, the domain of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) has been
extremely flourishing, with fully autonomous self-driving cars being an active research area …

[HTML][HTML] FGRL: Federated growing reinforcement learning for resilient mapless navigation in unfamiliar environments

S Tian, C Wei, Y Li, Z Ji - Applied Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Featured Application This work is motivated by practical applications, such as smart factories
and warehouses, where unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) are required to efficiently …

Autonomous load carrier approaching based on deep reinforcement learning with compressed visual information

S Hadwiger, T Meisen - 2022 5th International Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In intralogistics, a large number of tasks are already fully automated. This holds true
especially for tasks where strictly predefined positions and paths are specified and …

Learning to Utilize Curiosity: A New Approach of Automatic Curriculum Learning for Deep RL

Z Lin, J Lai, X Chen, L Cao, J Wang - Mathematics, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, reinforcement learning algorithms based on automatic curriculum learning
have been increasingly applied to multi-agent system problems. However, in the sparse …

Feedback-Based Curriculum Learning for Collision Avoidance

J Choi, G Hwang, G Eoh - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a novel curriculum learning approach for collision avoidance using
feedback from the deep reinforcement learning (DRL) training process. Previous research …

End-to-end deep reinforcement learning for first-person pedestrian visual navigation in urban environments

H Xue, R Song, J Petzold, B Hein… - 2022 IEEE-RAS 21st …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We solve a pedestrian visual navigation problem with a first-person view in an urban setting
via deep reinforcement learning in an end-to-end manner. The major challenges lie in …