Adaptive Online Distributed Optimal Control of Very-Large-Scale Robotic Systems
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This paper presents an adaptive online distributed optimal control approach that is applicable to optimal planning for very-large-scale robotics systems in highly uncertain environments. This approach is developed based on the optimal mass transport theory and is also viewed as an online reinforcement learning and approximate dynamic programming approach in the Wasserstein-GMM space, where a novel value functional is defined based on the probability density functions of robots and the time-varying map functions describing the changing environmental information. The proposed approach is demonstrated on the path planning problem of very-large-scale robotic systems where the approximated layout of obstacles in the workspace is incrementally updated by the observations of robots, and compared with some existing state-of-the-art approaches. The numerical simulation results show that the proposed approach outperforms these approaches in aspects of average traveling distance and energy cost.
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