Reinforcement Learning
This research area investigates Reinforcement Learning techniques for developing autonomous agents capable of making decisions in complex, dynamic, and partially known environments. The work focuses primarily on navigation, coverage planning, and multi-agent coordination problems.
The following articles, published in journals or conference proceedings, are outputs of this research area:
- CADORNIGA, João Lucas; PERTUSI, Pedro; BARTH, Fabrício J.. Reinforcement Learning and Loss of Plasticity Phenomenon in Coverage Path Planning Environments: An Exploratory Study. In: NATIONAL MEETING ON ARTIFICIAL AND COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE (ENIAC), 22. , 2025, Fortaleza/CE. Anais [...]. Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, 2025 . p. 1962-1971. ISSN 2763-9061. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/eniac.2025.14347.
- ABREU, L.; CARRETE, L.; CASTANARES, M.; DAMIANI, E.; BRANCALION, J. F.; BARTH, F.. Exploration and Rescue of Shipwreck Survivors using Reinforcement Learning-Empowered Drone Swarms. Spectrum (Brasília. 2000). v.26, p.14 - 20, 2025.
- Andrade, P.; Rodrigues, R.; Falcão, R.; Oliveira, J.; Brancalion, J.; Barth, F.; Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Coordinate Autonomous Maritime Search and Rescue Drones. The Latin American Workshop on Information Fusion. 2024.
- DE OLIVEIRA, JORÁS CUSTÓDIO CAMPOS ; ANDRADE, PEDRO HENRIQUE BRITTO ARAGÃO ; FALCÃO, RENATO LAFFRANCHI ; RODRIGUES, RICARDO RIBEIRO ; BRANCALION, J. F. ; BARTH, FABRÍCIO . Reinforcement Learning Applied to Train Autonomous Maritime Search and Rescue Drones. In: 21st National Meeting on Artificial and Computational Intelligence, 2024, Belém, PA. 21st National Meeting on Artificial and Computational Intelligence, 2024. p. 328-339. https://sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/eniac/article/view/33805
- Falcão, R.; Oliveira, J.; Andrade, P.; Rodrigues, R.; Barth, F.; Brancalion, J.; DSSE: An environment for simulation of reinforcement learning-empowered drone swarm maritime search and rescue missions. Journal of Open Source Software. 2024, 9(99), 6746, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.06746
- ABREU, L.; CARRETE, L.; CASTANARES, M.; DAMIANI, E.; BRANCALION, J. F.; BARTH, F. J. Exploration and Rescue of Shipwreck Survivors using Reinforcement Learning-Empowered Drone Swarms In: XXV Simpósio de Aplicações Operacionais em Áreas de Defesa, 2023, São José dos Campos. XXV Simpósio de Aplicações Operacionais em Áreas de Defesa. São José dos Campos: ITA, 2023. p.1 - 6
- Castanares, M., Carrete, L. F. S., Damiani, E. F., de Abreu, L. D. M., Brancalion, J. F. B., and Barth, F. J., “DSSE: a drone swarm search environment”, arXiv e-prints, 2023. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2307.06240.