3 papers
cs.RO2024
IR2: Implicit Rendezvous for Robotic Exploration Teams under Sparse Intermittent Connectivity
Derek Ming Siang Tan, Yixiao Ma, Jingsong Liang +3
Information sharing is critical in time-sensitive and realistic multi-robot exploration, especially for smaller robotic teams in large-scale environments where connectivity may be…
cs.RO2024
HDPlanner: Advancing Autonomous Deployments in Unknown Environments through Hierarchical Decision Networks
Jingsong Liang, Yuhong Cao, Yixiao Ma +2
In this paper, we introduce HDPlanner, a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based framework designed to tackle two core and challenging tasks for mobile robots: autonomous explorati…
cs.RO2024
Privileged Reinforcement and Communication Learning for Distributed, Bandwidth-limited Multi-robot Exploration
Yixiao Ma, Jingsong Liang, Yuhong Cao +2
Communication bandwidth is an important consideration in multi-robot exploration, where information exchange among robots is critical. While existing methods typically aim to reduc…