VORL-EXPLORE：面向动态环境多机器人探索的混合学习规划方法

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Abstract:Hierarchical multi-robot exploration decouples frontier allocation from local navigation, making systems brittle in dynamic environments. Without awareness of execution difficulty, allocators may send robots toward frontiers whose routes are congested or unsafe, causing bottlenecks, oscillatory replanning, and redundant coverage. We propose VORL-EXPLORE, a hybrid learning and planning framework that makes exploration execution-aware through execution fidelity, an estimate of local navigability and execution reliability. This fidelity score is used to penalize risky or crowded frontiers in a fidelity-coupled Voronoi allocation objective with inter-robot repulsion, and to arbitrate between global $A^*$ guidance and a reactive reinforcement learning policy during navigation. As a result, robots follow efficient global plans in reliable regions and rely more on safer local reactions in crowded or changing areas. The fidelity model is recalibrated using self-supervised pseudo-labels derived from recent progress and safety outcomes. Quantitative experiments on randomized dynamic grids and an ablation under severe traffic show higher success rates, shorter exploration lengths, and lower inter-robot coverage overlap. A Gazebo factory scenario is included as a deployment illustration. The source code is available at this https URL.

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From: Ning Liu [view email]
[v1] Mon, 9 Mar 2026 05:20:33 UTC (2,066 KB)
[v2] Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:52:37 UTC (2,129 KB)