Jan Finke

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
—ORCID · none

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Robot navigation and mapping · 39% Motion planning and robot control · 30% Reinforcement learning · 30%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › deep reinforcement learning
deep reinforcement learning for navigation
0.812024
MuRoSim - A Fast and Efficient Multi-Robot Simulation for Learning-based Navigation · ICRA 2024
Robotics › Robot navigation and mapping
multi-robot navigation
0.812024
MuRoSim - A Fast and Efficient Multi-Robot Simulation for Learning-based Navigation · ICRA 2024
Robotics › Motion planning and robot control
robot learning
0.812024
MuRoSim - A Fast and Efficient Multi-Robot Simulation for Learning-based Navigation · ICRA 2024
Robotics › Robot navigation and mapping › obstacle avoidance
dynamic obstacle avoidance
0.212024
MuRoSim - A Fast and Efficient Multi-Robot Simulation for Learning-based Navigation · ICRA 2024

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

sim-to-real transfer · 0.8lidar sensing · 0.8deep reinforcement learning · 0.8
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2024 MuRoSim - A Fast and Efficient Multi-Robot Simulation for Learning-based Navigation
abstract
Multi-robot navigation and dynamic obstacle avoidance are challenging problems in robot learning. Recent advancements in Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) have demonstrated great potential in this area. Nonetheless, they often face challenges related to low sample efficiency. To overcome this challenge, some research proposes simulators that incorporate hardware acceleration. Although these simulators improve efficiency, they often lack the flexibility to generate diverse learning scenarios as often needed in multi-robot scenarios, where the different environments have varying numbers of agents.In this paper, we introduce MuRoSim, a multi-robot simulation for lidar-based navigation specifically designed for DRL applications. Due to its high level of abstraction, complete implementation in C++, and rigorous thread pool utilization, MuRoSim achieves high computational performance. We apply MuRoSim for training navigation policies for omnidirectional mobile robots equipped with lidar sensors using DRL. Finally, we conduct extensive Sim-to-Real experiments to confirm the realism of the simulator, by deploying the learned policy for dynamic navigation with up to six robots in numerous of real- world experiments.
Christian Jestel, Karol Rösner, Niklas Dietz, Nicolas Bach, Julian Eßer, Jan Finke, Oliver Urbann
ICRA6