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Main Authors: Cheng, Jiyu, Fan, Junhui, Li, Xiaolei, Rosin, Paul L., Li, Yibin, Zhang, Wei
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18089
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author Cheng, Jiyu
Fan, Junhui
Li, Xiaolei
Rosin, Paul L.
Li, Yibin
Zhang, Wei
author_facet Cheng, Jiyu
Fan, Junhui
Li, Xiaolei
Rosin, Paul L.
Li, Yibin
Zhang, Wei
contents Despite the great development of multirobot technologies, efficiently and collaboratively exploring an unknown environment is still a big challenge. In this paper, we propose AIM-Mapping, a Asymmetric InforMation Enhanced Mapping framework. The framework fully utilizes the privilege information in the training process to help construct the environment representation as well as the supervised signal in an asymmetric actor-critic training framework. Specifically, privilege information is used to evaluate the exploration performance through an asymmetric feature representation module and a mutual information evaluation module. The decision-making network uses the trained feature encoder to extract structure information from the environment and combines it with a topological map constructed based on geometric distance. Utilizing this kind of topological map representation, we employ topological graph matching to assign corresponding boundary points to each robot as long-term goal points. We conduct experiments in real-world-like scenarios using the Gibson simulation environments. It validates that the proposed method, when compared to existing methods, achieves great performance improvement.
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spellingShingle Asymmetric Information Enhanced Mapping Framework for Multirobot Exploration based on Deep Reinforcement Learning
Cheng, Jiyu
Fan, Junhui
Li, Xiaolei
Rosin, Paul L.
Li, Yibin
Zhang, Wei
Multiagent Systems
Despite the great development of multirobot technologies, efficiently and collaboratively exploring an unknown environment is still a big challenge. In this paper, we propose AIM-Mapping, a Asymmetric InforMation Enhanced Mapping framework. The framework fully utilizes the privilege information in the training process to help construct the environment representation as well as the supervised signal in an asymmetric actor-critic training framework. Specifically, privilege information is used to evaluate the exploration performance through an asymmetric feature representation module and a mutual information evaluation module. The decision-making network uses the trained feature encoder to extract structure information from the environment and combines it with a topological map constructed based on geometric distance. Utilizing this kind of topological map representation, we employ topological graph matching to assign corresponding boundary points to each robot as long-term goal points. We conduct experiments in real-world-like scenarios using the Gibson simulation environments. It validates that the proposed method, when compared to existing methods, achieves great performance improvement.
title Asymmetric Information Enhanced Mapping Framework for Multirobot Exploration based on Deep Reinforcement Learning
topic Multiagent Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18089