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Nathan L. Butler
dblp:416/6510
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0008-4249-7971ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 first-author · 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 |
Motion planning and robot control · 77% Multi-agent systems · 23% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Robotics › Motion planning and robot control › motion planning
multi-robot planning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Hybrid Decentralization for Multi-Robot Orienteering with Mothership-Passenger Systems · ICRA 2025 |
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Multi-agent systems
multi-robot systems |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Hybrid Decentralization for Multi-Robot Orienteering with Mothership-Passenger Systems · ICRA 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
hybrid centralized-decentralized planning · 0.9decentralized monte carlo tree search · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Hybrid Decentralization for Multi-Robot Orienteering with Mothership-Passenger SystemsabstractWe present a hybrid centralized-decentralized planning algorithm for a multi-robot system consisting of a Mothership robot and multiple Passenger robots. In this system, the Passenger robots execute tasks while the Mothership provides support. This paper addresses the challenge of planning Passenger robot movements, framing it as a Stochastic Multi-Agent Orienteering Problem (SMOP) complicated by factors like stochastic operational efforts and disruptive events. We optimize the task completion efficiency of the system by combining centralized solutions from the Mothership with local plans from Passengers to enhance system resilience. Our contributions include defining the SMOP, developing a solution using Decentralized Monte Carlo Tree Search, presenting a hybrid algorithm that integrates centralized plans into the distributed framework, and evaluating the algorithm's performance in a simulated environment. Our results show that our hybrid approaches outperform fully centralized and fully distributed algorithms in highly-dynamic scenarios with up to a 26.6 % increase in task completion efficiency over baseline methods. Nathan L. Butler, Geoffrey A. Hollinger |
ICRA | 1 |