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High-speed trajectory planning through unknown environments requires algorithmic techniques that enable fast reaction times while maintaining safety as new information about the operating environment is obtained. The requirement of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Jesus Tordesillas , Brett T. Lopez , Jonathan P. How

Path planning for multiple non-holonomic robots in continuous domains constitutes a difficult robotics challenge with many applications. Despite significant recent progress on the topic, computationally efficient and high-quality solutions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Teng Guo , Jingjin Yu

Motion planning in the presence of multiple dynamic obstacles is an important research problem from the perspective of autonomous vehicles as well as space-constrained multi-robot work environment. In this paper, we address the motion…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Trishant Roy , Anindya Harchowdhury , Leena Vachhani

Safe and efficient co-planning of multiple robots in pedestrian participation environments is promising for applications. In this work, a novel multi-robot social-aware efficient cooperative planner that on the basis of off-policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Zichen He , Chunwei Song , Lu Dong

In this paper we present a framework of key algorithms and data-structures for efficiently generating timetables for any number of AGVs from any given positioning on any given graph to accomplish any given demands as long as a few easily…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-10-19 James Forster

Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) is fundamentally a missing label problem, in which the label Missing Not At Random (MNAR) problem is more realistic and challenging, compared to the widely-adopted yet naive Missing Completely At Random…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Xinting Hu , Yulei Niu , Chunyan Miao , Xian-Sheng Hua , Hanwang Zhang

We consider the motion-planning problem of planning a collision-free path of a robot in the presence of risk zones. The robot is allowed to travel in these zones but is penalized in a super-linear fashion for consecutive accumulative time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Oren Salzman , Brian Hou , Siddhartha Srinivasa

We study the problem of optimal multi-robot path planning on graphs MPP over four distinct minimization objectives: the makespan (last arrival time), the maximum (single-robot traveled) distance, the total arrival time, and the total…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Jingjin Yu , Steven M. LaValle

Practical global path planning is critical for commercializing cleaning robots working in semi-structured environments. In the literature, global path planning methods for free space usually focus on path length and neglect the traffic rule…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yong Li , Hui Cheng

In this paper, we propose a distributed version of the Hungarian Method to solve the well known assignment problem. In the context of multi-robot applications, all robots cooperatively compute a common assignment that optimizes a given…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Smriti Chopra , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Matthew Rice , Magnus Egerstedt

Purpose of Review Planning collision-free paths for multiple robots is important for real-world multi-robot systems and has been studied as an optimization problem on graphs, called Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF). This review surveys…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Hang Ma

Cooperative driving at signal-free intersections, which aims to improve driving safety and efficiency for connected and automated vehicles, has attracted increasing interest in recent years. However, existing cooperative driving strategies…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-29 Huaxin Pei , Yuxiao Zhang , Yi Zhang , Shuo Feng

Efficient utilization of cooperating robots in the assembly of aircraft structures relies on balancing the workload of the robots and ensuring collision-free scheduling. We cast this problem as that of allocating a large number of…

Constrained submodular set function maximization problems often appear in multi-agent decision-making problems with a discrete feasible set. A prominent example is the problem of multi-agent mobile sensor placement over a discrete domain.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Navid Rezazadeh , Solmaz S. Kia

Planning problems are hard, motion planning, for example, isPSPACE-hard. Such problems are even more difficult in the presence of uncertainty. Although, Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) provide a formal framework for such problems, finding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Carlos E. Guestrin , Dirk Ormoneit

We consider a large-scale multi-robot path planning problem in a cluttered environment. Our approach achieves real-time replanning by dividing the workspace into cells and utilizing a hierarchical planner. Specifically, we propose novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Lishuo Pan , Kevin Hsu , Nora Ayanian

Collision-free navigation in cluttered environments with static and dynamic obstacles is essential for many multi-robot tasks. Dynamic obstacles may also be interactive, i.e., their behavior varies based on the behavior of other entities.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Baskın Şenbaşlar , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

Modern robotics often involves multiple embodied agents operating within a shared environment. Path planning in these cases is considerably more challenging than in single-agent scenarios. Although standard Sampling-based Algorithms (SBAs)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Alessandro Zanardi , Pietro Zullo , Andrea Censi , Emilio Frazzoli

We study the problem of motion planning for a collection of $n$ labeled unit disc robots in a polygonal environment. We assume that the robots have revolving areas around their start and final positions: that each start and each final is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Pankaj K. Agarwal , Tzvika Geft , Dan Halperin , Erin Taylor

The class $(r,2)$-CSP, or simply Max 2-CSP, consists of constraint satisfaction problems with at most two $r$-valued variables per clause. For instances with $n$ variables and $m$ binary clauses, we present an $O(n r^{5+19m/100})$-time…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-03-26 Alexander D. Scott , Gregory B. Sorkin