Recent trends in robotic patrolling

N Basilico - Current Robotics Reports, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Robotic patrolling aims at protecting a physical environment by
deploying a team of one or more autonomous mobile robots in it. A key problem in this …

A survey and critique of multiagent deep reinforcement learning

P Hernandez-Leal, B Kartal, ME Taylor - Autonomous Agents and Multi …, 2019 - Springer
Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved outstanding results in recent years. This has
led to a dramatic increase in the number of applications and methods. Recent works have …

Dec-MCTS: Decentralized planning for multi-robot active perception

G Best, OM Cliff, T Patten, RR Mettu… - … International Journal of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
We propose a decentralized variant of Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) that is suitable for a
variety of tasks in multi-robot active perception. Our algorithm allows each robot to optimize …

Deep reinforcement learning versus evolution strategies: A comparative survey

AY Majid, S Saaybi, V Francois-Lavet… - … on Neural Networks …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) and evolution strategies (ESs) have surpassed human-
level control in many sequential decision-making problems, yet many open challenges still …

[PDF][PDF] Is multiagent deep reinforcement learning the answer or the question? A brief survey

P Hernandez-Leal, B Kartal, ME Taylor - learning, 2018 - researchgate.net
Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved outstanding results in recent years. This has
led to a dramatic increase in the number of applications and methods. Recent works have …

Bayesian reinforcement learning for multi-robot decentralized patrolling in uncertain environments

X Zhou, W Wang, T Wang, Y Lei… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A team of autonomous decision-making robots can be employed for some critical tasks, such
as disaster detection, plant protection, and military reconnaissance. The use of such team of …

Rapidly exploring random cycles: Persistent estimation of spatiotemporal fields with multiple sensing robots

X Lan, M Schwager - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers the problem of planning trajectories for both single and multiple
sensing robots to best estimate a spatiotemporal field in a dynamic environment. The robots …

Multi-cleaning robots using cleaning distribution method based on map decomposition in large environments

X Miao, HS Lee, BY Kang - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Most cleaning robots have a good cleaning performance for small environments such as
houses but require a longer cleaning time due to problems such as slow cleaning progress …

Monte Carlo tree search for multi-robot task allocation

B Kartal, E Nunes, J Godoy, M Gini - … of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2016 - ojs.aaai.org
Multi-robot teams are useful in a variety of task allocation domains such as warehouse
automation and surveillance. Robots in such domains perform tasks at given locations and …

Action guidance with MCTS for deep reinforcement learning

B Kartal, P Hernandez-Leal, ME Taylor - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2019 - ojs.aaai.org
Deep reinforcement learning has achieved great successes in recent years, however, one
main challenge is the sample inefficiency. In this paper, we focus on how to use action …