Voronoi-based multi-robot autonomous exploration in unknown environments via deep reinforcement learning

J Hu, H Niu, J Carrasco, B Lennox… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous exploration is an important application of multi-vehicle systems, where a team
of networked robots are coordinated to explore an unknown environment collaboratively …

Adaptive and intelligent robot task planning for home service: A review

H Li, X Ding - Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2023 - Elsevier
The uncertainty and dynamic of home environment present great challenges to the task
planning of service robots. The nature of the home environment is highly unstructured, with a …

Service planning oriented efficient object search: A knowledge-based framework for home service robot

S Liu, G Tian, Y Zhang, M Zhang, S Liu - Expert Systems with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
In the unstructured family environment, robots are expected to provide various services to
improve the quality of human life, based on the performance of specific action sequences …

Commonsense knowledge in cognitive robotics: a systematic literature review

JP Töberg, AC Ngonga Ngomo, M Beetz… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
One of the big challenges in robotics is the generalization necessary for performing
unknown tasks in unknown environments on unknown objects. For us humans, this …

Towards optimal correlational object search

K Zheng, R Chitnis, Y Sung… - … on Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In realistic applications of object search, robots will need to locate target objects in complex
environments while coping with unreliable sensors, especially for small or hard-to-detect …

Building metric-topological map to efficient object search for mobile robot

Y Zhang, G Tian, X Shao, S Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, an effective solution is presented for efficient robotic object search by
leveraging metric-topological map. Based on the reference of objects, we construct a novel …

Semantic grounding for long-term autonomy of mobile robots toward dynamic object search in home environments

Y Zhang, G Tian, X Shao, M Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we presents an effective semantic grounding scheme to long-term mobile
robots for dynamic object search in open/dynamic home environments. The challenge of this …

Zero-shot active visual search (zavis): Intelligent object search for robotic assistants

J Park, T Yoon, J Hong, Y Yu, M Pan… - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we focus on the problem of efficiently locating a target object described with
free-form text using a mobile robot equipped with vision sensors (eg, an RGBD camera) …

Service skill improvement for home robots: Autonomous generation of action sequence based on reinforcement learning

M Zhang, G Tian, Y Zhang, P Duan - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
It still remains a challenge for robots to obtain knowledge automatically for performing home
services. In the human learning process, natural languages act as an outline in guiding …

User preference-aware navigation for mobile robot in domestic via defined virtual area

Y Zhang, CH Zhang, X Shao - Journal of Network and Computer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Human-aware robot navigation is the key to facilitate the deployment of mobile robots into
human–robot shared environments. Although many efforts have been made in this regard …