no code implementations • 11 Mar 2024 • Steve Paul, Nathan Maurer, Souma Chowdhury
Most real-world Multi-Robot Task Allocation (MRTA) problems require fast and efficient decision-making, which is often achieved using heuristics-aided methods such as genetic algorithms, auction-based methods, and bipartite graph matching methods.
no code implementations • 9 Jan 2024 • Steve Paul, Jhoel Witter, Souma Chowdhury
This paper develops a graph reinforcement learning approach to online planning of the schedule and destinations of electric aircraft that comprise an urban air mobility (UAM) fleet operating across multiple vertiports.
no code implementations • 17 Aug 2023 • Prajit KrisshnaKumar, Jhoel Witter, Steve Paul, Hanvit Cho, Karthik Dantu, Souma Chowdhury
This paper provides a novel approach to this problem of Urban Air Mobility - Vertiport Schedule Management (UAM-VSM), which leverages graph reinforcement learning to generate decision-support policies.
no code implementations • 1 Jan 2021 • Steve Paul, Payam Ghassemi, Souma Chowdhury
This paper presents a novel graph (reinforcement) learning method to solve an important class of multi-robot task allocation (MRTA) problems that involve tasks with deadlines, and robots with ferry range and payload constraints (thus requiring multiple tours per robot).