Decentralized Multi-Robot Exploration with Probabilistic Peer Intent and Multi-hop Plan Propagation

arXiv:2609.22726 · cs.RO, cs.MA · Submitted 2026-09-19 · Read on arXiv

cs.RO, cs.MA

Submitted: 2026-09-19

Updated: 2026-09-19

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Probabilistic Peer Intent — 9× in this paper
• Monte Carlo Tree Search — 4× in this paper
• Information Gain — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Active Perception — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation — 2× in this paper
• Reinforcement Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Action Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Active Vision — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Communication Overhead — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decentralized Monte Carlo Exploration — 1× in this paper

Sources

• Multi-Robot System for Cooperative Exploration in Unknown Environments: A Survey
• WiSER-X: Wireless Signals-based Efficient Decentralized Multi-Robot Exploration without Explicit Information Exchange

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