Escaping Local Minima: Hybrid Artificial Potential Field with Wall-Follower for Decentralized Multi-Robot Navigation

Published in Proc. of Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025, 2025

We introduce a hybrid navigation algorithm that switches between Artificial Potential Field (APF) and Wall-Following (WF) to overcome local minima in decentralized multi-robot systems.

Highlights

  • Fully decentralized, mapless, and communication-free
  • Adaptive switching based on 2D LiDAR perception
  • Learning-based switching model trained from human demonstration

Media

🎥 Demo Video
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