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Noncommunicating agents · Selecting avoidance actions with a value network

A learned value network estimates time to goal from neighboring positions and velocities to support decentralized avoidance. Simulations compare path efficiency with ORCA when other agents’ intentions are not communicated.

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Original title
Decentralized non-communicating multiagent collision avoidance with deep reinforcement learning
Publisher
IEEE
Authors
Yu Fan Chen, Miao Liu, Michael Everett, Jonathan P. How
DOI
10.1109/icra.2017.7989037
Publication date
2017-05
Source language
en
Edition
2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA); 2017-05; DOI 10.1109/icra.2017.7989037
Access
Publisher metadata and open author manuscript
Publication status
Published

Related resources and engineering notes

Source overview

A learned value network estimates time to goal from neighboring positions and velocities to support decentralized avoidance. Simulations compare path efficiency with ORCA when other agents’ intentions are not communicated.

Use and review

Author abstract and bibliography checked. Path-efficiency gains do not establish universal collision avoidance or hardware safety.

Sources & editions

Decentralized non-communicating multiagent collision avoidance with deep reinforcement learning ↗

IEEE · 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA); 2017-05; DOI 10.1109/icra.2017.7989037

ICRA2017 bibliography; author abstract https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.07845.