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Multi-Agent Corridor Generating Algorithm

Multiagent Systems 2025-05-23 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we propose the Multi-Agent Corridor Generating Algorithm (MACGA) for solving the Multi-agent Pathfinding (MAPF) problem, where a group of agents need to find non-colliding paths to their target locations. Existing approaches struggle to solve dense MAPF instances. In MACGA, the agents build \emph{corridors}, which are sequences of connected vertices, from current locations towards agents' goals, and evacuate other agents out of the corridors to avoid collisions and deadlocks. We also present the MACGA+PIBT algorithm, which integrates the well-known rule-based PIBT algorithm into MACGA to improve runtime and solution quality. The proposed algorithms run in polynomial time and have a reachability property, i.e., every agent is guaranteed to reach its goal location at some point. We demonstrate experimentally that MACGA and MACGA+PIBT outperform baseline algorithms in terms of success rate, runtime, and makespan across diverse MAPF benchmark grids.

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@article{arxiv.2410.12397,
  title  = {Multi-Agent Corridor Generating Algorithm},
  author = {Arseniy Pertzovsky and Roni Stern and Roie Zivan and Ariel Felner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.12397},
  year   = {2025}
}