Multi Robot Navigation
Multi-robot navigation focuses on coordinating multiple robots to achieve a common goal, such as exploration or delivery, while avoiding collisions and optimizing efficiency. Current research emphasizes decentralized approaches, often employing reinforcement learning (particularly distributional RL), artificial potential fields, and graph neural networks to enable robots to navigate dynamically without relying on centralized control or extensive communication. These advancements are crucial for applications ranging from disaster response and warehouse automation to autonomous driving in unstructured environments, improving efficiency and robustness in complex scenarios.
Papers
Escaping Local Minima: Hybrid Artificial Potential Field with Wall-Follower for Decentralized Multi-Robot Navigation
Joonkyung Kim, Sangjin Park, Wonjong Lee, Woojun Kim, Nakju Doh, Changjoo Nam
Constrained Bandwidth Observation Sharing for Multi-Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments via Intelligent Knapsack
Anirudh Chari, Rui Chen, Changliu Liu
D2M2N: Decentralized Differentiable Memory-Enabled Mapping and Navigation for Multiple Robots
Md Ishat-E-Rabban, Pratap Tokekar
Multi-Robot Cooperative Navigation in Crowds: A Game-Theoretic Learning-Based Model Predictive Control Approach
Viet-Anh Le, Vaishnav Tadiparthi, Behdad Chalaki, Hossein Nourkhiz Mahjoub, Jovin D'sa, Ehsan Moradi-Pari, Andreas A. Malikopoulos