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This paper studies a novel planning problem for multiple agents that cannot share holding resources, named OTIMAPP (Offline Time-Independent Multi-Agent Path Planning). Given a graph and a set of start-goal pairs, the problem consists in…

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Multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) is concerned with planning collision-free paths for a team of agents from their start to goal locations in an environment cluttered with obstacles. Typical approaches for MAPF consider the locations of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-22 David Vainshtein , Kiril Solovey , Oren Salzman

Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) attracts considerable attention in artificial intelligence community as well as in robotics, and other fields such as warehouse logistics. The task in the standard MAPF is to find paths through which agents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Pavel Surynek

This paper deals with solving distributed optimization problems with equality constraints by a class of uncertain nonlinear heterogeneous dynamic multi-agent systems. It is assumed that each agent with an uncertain dynamic model has limited…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Mohammad Saeed Sarafraz , Mohammad Saleh Tavazoei

In this paper a deep reinforcement based multi-agent path planning approach is introduced. The experiments are realized in a simulation environment and in this environment different multi-agent path planning problems are produced. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Mert Çetinkaya

Agents, as user-centric tools, are increasingly deployed for human task delegation, assisting with a broad spectrum of requests by generating thoughts, engaging with user proxies, and producing action plans. However, agents based on large…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Wenyue Hua , Mengting Wan , Shashank Vadrevu , Ryan Nadel , Yongfeng Zhang , Chi Wang

Combinatorial optimization problems involving multiple agents are notoriously challenging due to their NP-hard nature and the necessity for effective agent coordination. Despite advancements in learning-based methods, existing approaches…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Federico Berto , Chuanbo Hua , Laurin Luttmann , Jiwoo Son , Junyoung Park , Kyuree Ahn , Changhyun Kwon , Lin Xie , Jinkyoo Park

Decentralized planning is a key element of cooperative multi-agent systems for information gathering tasks. However, despite the high frequency of agent failures in realistic large deployment scenarios, current approaches perform poorly in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Nhat Nguyen , Duong Nguyen , Gianluca Rizzo , Hung Nguyen

In this paper, we investigate the distributed state estimation problem for a continuous-time linear multi-agent system (MAS) composed of $\mathit{m}$ agents and monitored by the agents themselves. To address this problem, we propose a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Shuaiting Huang , Haodong Jiang , Chengcheng Zhao , Peng Cheng , Junfeng Wu

This paper focuses on two commonly used path assignment policies for agents traversing a congested network: self-interested routing, and system-optimum routing. In the self-interested routing policy each agent selects a path that optimizes…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Guni Sharon , Michael Albert , Tarun Rambha , Stephen Boyles , Peter Stone

Avoiding collisions is the core problem in multi-agent navigation. In decentralized settings, when agents have limited communication and sensory capabilities, collisions are typically avoided in a reactive fashion, relying on local…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Stepan Dergachev , Konstantin Yakovlev

This paper considers a novel approach to scalable multiagent resource allocation in dynamic settings. We propose an approximate solution in which each resource consumer is represented by an independent MDP-based agent that models expected…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Hadi Hosseini , Jesse Hoey , Robin Cohen

Multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) has been widely used to solve large-scale real-world problems, e.g., automation warehouses. The learning-based, fully decentralized framework has been introduced to alleviate real-time problems and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Wenhao Li , Hongjun Chen , Bo Jin , Wenzhe Tan , Hongyuan Zha , Xiangfeng Wang

Multi-agent optimization problems with many objective functions have drawn much interest over the past two decades. Many works on the subject minimize the sum of objective functions, which implicitly carries a decision about the problem…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-05 Maude J. Blondin , Matthew Hale

We propose a mixed-integer linear program (MILP) for multi-agent motion planning that embeds Polytopic Action-based Motion Planning (PAAMP) into a sequence-then-solve pipeline. Region sequences confine each agent to adjacent convex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Akshay Jaitly , Jack Cline , Siavash Farzan

Many real-world multi-agent systems exhibit nonlinear dynamics and complex inter-agent interactions. As these systems increase in scale, the main challenges arise from achieving scalability and handling nonconvexity. To address these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Taehyun Yoon , Augustinos D. Saravanos , Evangelos A. Theodorou

Coordinating multi-agent systems over spatially distributed areas requires solving a complex hierarchical problem: first distributing areas among agents (allocation) and subsequently determining the optimal visitation order (routing).…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yazan Youssef , Aboelmagd Noureldin , Sidney Givigi

Adaptive Informative Path Planning (AIPP) problems model an agent tasked with obtaining information subject to resource constraints in unknown, partially observable environments. Existing work on AIPP has focused on representing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Shushman Choudhury , Nate Gruver , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Multi-agent motion planning (MAMP) is a critical challenge in applications such as connected autonomous vehicles and multi-robot systems. In this paper, we propose a space-time conflict resolution approach for MAMP. We formulate the problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Anirudh Chari , Rui Chen , Changliu Liu

We study the problem of plan synthesis for multi-agent systems, to achieve complex, high-level, long-term goals that are assigned to each agent individually. As the agents might not be capable of satisfying their respective goals by…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Jana Tumova , Dimos V. Dimarogonas