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Collisionless Pattern Discovery in Robot Swarms Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
We present a deep reinforcement learning-based framework for automatically
discovering patterns available in any given initial configuration of fat robot
swarms. In particular, we model the problem of collision-less gathering and
mutual visibility in fat robot swarms and discover patterns for solving them
using our framework. We show that by shaping reward signals based on certain
constraints like mutual visibility and safe proximity, the robots can discover
collision-less trajectories leading to well-formed gathering and visibility
patterns