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 …

Formation control and coordination of multiple unmanned ground vehicles in normal and faulty situations: A review

MA Kamel, X Yu, Y Zhang - Annual reviews in control, 2020 - Elsevier
Recently, multiple unmanned vehicles have attracted a great deal of attention as viable
solutions to a wide variety of civilian and military applications. Among many topics in the …

Review of methodologies and tasks in swarm robotics towards standardization

N Nedjah, LS Junior - Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2019 - Elsevier
Swarm Robotics (SR) is an extension of the study of Multi-Robot Systems that exploits
concepts of communication, coordination and collaboration among a large number of robots …

A centralized strategy for multi-agent exploration

F Gul, A Mir, I Mir, S Mir, TU Islaam, L Abualigah… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces recently developed Aquila Optimization Algorithm specifically
configured for Multi-Robot space exploration. The proposed hybrid framework “Coordinated …

[PDF][PDF] TARE: A Hierarchical Framework for Efficiently Exploring Complex 3D Environments.

C Cao, H Zhu, H Choset, J Zhang - Robotics: Science and Systems, 2021 - hongbiaoz.com
We present a method for autonomous exploration in complex three-dimensional (3D)
environments. Our method demonstrates exploration faster than the current state-of-the-art …

Multi-robot coordination through dynamic Voronoi partitioning for informative adaptive sampling in communication-constrained environments

S Kemna, JG Rogers, C Nieto-Granda… - … on Robotics and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are cost-and time-efficient systems for
environmental sampling. Informative adaptive sampling has been shown to be an effective …

iTD3-CLN: Learn to navigate in dynamic scene through Deep Reinforcement Learning

H Jiang, MA Esfahani, K Wu, K Wan, K Heng, H Wang… - Neurocomputing, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper proposes iTD3-CLN, a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) based low-level
motion controller, to achieve map-less autonomous navigation in dynamic scene. We …

Multi-robot active mapping via neural bipartite graph matching

K Ye, S Dong, Q Fan, H Wang, L Yi… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We study the problem of multi-robot active mapping, which aims for complete scene map
construction in minimum time steps. The key to this problem lies in the goal position …

Bio-inspired on-line path planner for cooperative exploration of unknown environment by a Multi-Robot System

JPLS de Almeida, RT Nakashima, F Neves-Jr… - Robotics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper aims to present a cooperative and distributed navigation strategy, that is an on-
line path planner, for an autonomous multi-robot system. The robots are intended to …

Exploring large and complex environments fast and efficiently

C Cao, H Zhu, H Choset, J Zhang - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes a novel framework for autonomous exploration in large and complex
environments. We show that the framework is efficient as a result of its hierarchical structure …