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Mete, Atharva (University of Regina), Mouhoub, Malek (University of Regina), Moltajaei Farid, Ali (University of Regina)

Coordinated Multi-Robot Exploration Using Reinforcement Learning

Scheduled for presentation during the Regular Session "Path Planning II" (WeB3), Wednesday, June 7, 2023, 16:40−17:00, Room 464

2023 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), June 6-9, 2023, Lazarski University, Warsaw, Poland

This information is tentative and subject to change. Compiled on March 28, 2024

Keywords Path Planning, Aerial Robotic Manipulation, Swarms

Abstract

Exploring an unknown environment by multiple autonomous robots is a long-studied problem in robotics. The agents need to coordinate the exploration to minimize the overlapping region and avoid interference with each other. This is particularly challenging in decentralized execution, where no central system guides the exploration. In such scenarios, agents need to incorporate temporal planning and the intentions of other agents into the decision-making process. In this work, we focus on several challenges involved in multi-robot exploration in unseen, unstructured, and cluttered environments. Consequently, we propose a Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) based framework wherein agents learn the effective strategy to allocate and explore the environment. We evaluate the performance of our proposed framework in terms of average distance traveled, percentage of overlapping region, and the rate of exploration against a classical approach.

 

 

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