Multi-Vehicle Collaboration for Object Transportation

Problem Description

Multiple robots (as a team) jointly transport a large object to a targeted destination.

Features and Methods

  • No communication among robots.​
  • No dynamics model nor path planning.​
  • Decentralized and reinforcement learning based control.
Diagram of a robot
Flow chart on how the robot functions

Result

  • Object delivered by collaboration of two robots with over 96% success rate.​
  • Robots learned how to evaluate individual’s states and actions.
Graph depicting the end result