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Autores principales: Zhang, Heng, Zhao, Guoxiang, Ren, Xiaoqiang
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Publicado: 2025
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.12395
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author Zhang, Heng
Zhao, Guoxiang
Ren, Xiaoqiang
author_facet Zhang, Heng
Zhao, Guoxiang
Ren, Xiaoqiang
contents Pursuit-evasion (PE) problem is a critical challenge in multi-robot systems (MRS). While reinforcement learning (RL) has shown its promise in addressing PE tasks, research has primarily focused on single-target pursuit, with limited exploration of multi-target encirclement, particularly in large-scale settings. This paper proposes a Transformer-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning (TERL) framework for large-scale multi-target encirclement. By integrating a transformer-based policy network with target selection, TERL enables robots to adaptively prioritize targets and safely coordinate robots. Results show that TERL outperforms existing RL-based methods in terms of encirclement success rate and task completion time, while maintaining good performance in large-scale scenarios. Notably, TERL, trained on small-scale scenarios (15 pursuers, 4 targets), generalizes effectively to large-scale settings (80 pursuers, 20 targets) without retraining, achieving a 100% success rate. The code and demonstration video are available at https://github.com/ApricityZ/TERL.
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spellingShingle TERL: Large-Scale Multi-Target Encirclement Using Transformer-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning
Zhang, Heng
Zhao, Guoxiang
Ren, Xiaoqiang
Robotics
Machine Learning
Pursuit-evasion (PE) problem is a critical challenge in multi-robot systems (MRS). While reinforcement learning (RL) has shown its promise in addressing PE tasks, research has primarily focused on single-target pursuit, with limited exploration of multi-target encirclement, particularly in large-scale settings. This paper proposes a Transformer-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning (TERL) framework for large-scale multi-target encirclement. By integrating a transformer-based policy network with target selection, TERL enables robots to adaptively prioritize targets and safely coordinate robots. Results show that TERL outperforms existing RL-based methods in terms of encirclement success rate and task completion time, while maintaining good performance in large-scale scenarios. Notably, TERL, trained on small-scale scenarios (15 pursuers, 4 targets), generalizes effectively to large-scale settings (80 pursuers, 20 targets) without retraining, achieving a 100% success rate. The code and demonstration video are available at https://github.com/ApricityZ/TERL.
title TERL: Large-Scale Multi-Target Encirclement Using Transformer-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning
topic Robotics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.12395