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ArticleApplied intelligence (Dordrecht, Netherlands)2023

A multi-robot deep Q-learning framework for priority-based sanitization of railway stations.

Riccardo Caccavale, Mirko Ermini, Eugenio Fedeli, Alberto Finzi, Vincenzo Lippiello, Fabrizio Tavano

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Article in Applied intelligence (Dordrecht, Netherlands), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Riccardo Caccavale *Department DIETI, Università degli Study di Napoli "Federico II", via Claudio 21, Naples, 80125 Italy.
Mirko Ermini *Department Research and Development, Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, Via Curzio Malaparte 8, Firenze Osmannoro, 50145 Italy.
Eugenio Fedeli *Department Research and Development, Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, Piazza della Croce Rossa 1, Roma, 00161 Italy.
Alberto Finzi *Department DIETI, Università degli Study di Napoli "Federico II", via Claudio 21, Naples, 80125 Italy.
Vincenzo Lippiello *Department DIETI, Università degli Study di Napoli "Federico II", via Claudio 21, Naples, 80125 Italy.
Fabrizio Tavano *Department DIETI, Università degli Study di Napoli "Federico II", via Claudio 21, Naples, 80125 Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9218-194X

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Abstract

Sanitizing railway stations is a relevant issue, primarily due to the recent evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic. In this work, we propose a multi-robot approach to sanitize railway stations based on a distributed Deep Q-Learning technique. The proposed framework relies on anonymous data from existing WiFi networks to dynamically estimate crowded areas within the station and to develop a heatmap of prioritized areas to be sanitized. Such heatmap is then provided to a team of cleaning robots - each endowed with a robot-specific convolutional neural network - that learn how to effectively cooperate and sanitize the station's areas according to the associated priorities. The proposed approach is evaluated in a realistic simulation scenario provided by the Italian largest railways station: Roma Termini. In this setting, we consider different case studies to assess how the approach scales with the number of robots and how the trained system performs with a real dataset retrieved from a one-day data recording of the station's WiFi network.

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Convolutional neural networkDecentralizedDeep Q-networkHeatmapMulti-agentSanitization

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