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We study the problem of matching agents who arrive at a marketplace over time and leave after d time periods. Agents can only be matched while they are present in the marketplace. Each pair of agents can yield a different match value, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Itai Ashlagi , Maximilien Burq , Patrick Jaillet , Amin Saberi

Consider a team of agents in the plane searching for and visiting target points that appear in a bounded environment according to a stochastic renewal process with a known absolutely continuous spatial distribution. Agents must detect…

Robotics · Computer Science 2012-02-02 John J. Enright , Emilio Frazzoli

Here we consider the communications tactics appropriate for a group of agents that need to "swarm" together in a highly adversarial environment. Specfically, whilst they need to cooperate by exchanging information with each other about…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Paul Kinsler , Sean Holman , Andrew Elliott , Cathryn N. Mitchell , R. Eddie Wilson

We investigate the problem of monitoring multiple targets using a single mobile sensor, with the goal of minimizing the maximum estimation error among all the targets over long time horizons. The sensor can move in a network-constrained…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-25 Samuel C. Pinto , Sean B. Andersson , Julien M. Hendrickx , Christos G. Cassandras

We consider a stylized formal model of public transportation, where a set of agents need to travel along a given road, and there is a bus that runs the length of this road. Each agent has a left terminal and a right terminal between which…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Martin Bullinger , Edith Elkind , Mohamad Latifian

We consider the problem of exploring an unknown tree with a team of $k$ initially colocated mobile agents. Each agent has limited energy and cannot, as a result, traverse more than $B$ edges. The goal is to maximize the number of nodes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Evangelos Bampas , Jérémie Chalopin , Shantanu Das , Jan Hackfeld , Christina Karousatou

We are given an equal number of mobile robotic agents, and distinct target locations. Each agent has simple integrator dynamics, a limited communication range, and knowledge of the position of every target. We address the problem of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Stephen L. Smith , Francesco Bullo

The difference between the speed of the actions of different processes is typically considered as an obstacle that makes the achievement of cooperative goals more difficult. In this work, we aim to highlight potential benefits of such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Ofer Feinerman , Amos Korman , Shay Kutten , Yoav Rodeh

Object Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) task is to navigate an agent to an object category in unseen environments without a pre-built map. In this paper, we solve this task by predicting the distance to the target using semantically-related…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Minzhao Zhu , Binglei Zhao , Tao Kong

Traditional approaches to the design of multi-agent navigation algorithms consider the environment as a fixed constraint, despite the obvious influence of spatial constraints on agents' performance. Yet hand-designing improved environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Zhan Gao , Amanda Prorok

We study a search problem on capturing a moving target on an infinite real line. Two autonomous mobile robots (which can move with a maximum speed of 1) are initially placed at the origin, while an oblivious moving target is initially…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Khaled Jawhar , Evangelos Kranakis

We present a scalable and effective multi-agent safe motion planner that enables a group of agents to move to their desired locations while avoiding collisions with obstacles and other agents, with the presence of rich obstacles,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Jingkai Chen , Jiaoyang Li , Chuchu Fan , Brian Williams

The input to the \emph{Triangle Evacuation} problem is a triangle $ABC$. Given a starting point $S$ on the perimeter of the triangle, a feasible solution to the problem consists of two unit-speed trajectories of mobile agents that…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Konstantinos Georgiou , Woojin Jang

We study a variant of the searching problem where the environment consists of a known terrain and the goal is to obtain visibility of an unknown target point on the surface of the terrain. The searcher starts on the surface of the terrain…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Sarita de Berg , Nathan van Beusekom , Max van Mulken , Kevin Verbeek , Jules Wulms

This work considers multiple agents traversing a network from a source node to the goal node. The cost to an agent for traveling a link has a private as well as a congestion component. The agent's objective is to find a path to the goal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Prashant Trivedi , Nandyala Hemachandra

We introduce a problem in which a service vehicle seeks to guard a deadline (boundary) from dynamically arriving mobile targets. The environment is a rectangle and the deadline is one of its edges. Targets arrive continuously over time on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Stephen L. Smith , Shaunak D. Bopardikar , Francesco Bullo

In this study, we propose an algorithmic framework for solving a class of optimal control problems. This class is associated with the minimum-time interception of moving target problems, where a plant with a given state equation must…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Maksim Buzikov

The worthwhile-to-move incremental principle is a mechanism where, at each step, the agent, before moving and after exploration around the current state, compares intermediate advantages and costs to change to advantages and costs to stay.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-05-11 Hedy Attouch , Antoine Soubeyran

We introduce the concept of continuous transportation task to the context of multi-agent systems. A continuous transportation task is one in which a multi-agent team visits a number of fixed locations, picks up objects, and delivers them to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Chao Wang , Somchaya Liemhetcharat , Kian Hsiang Low

This paper addresses the problem of planning a safe (i.e., collision-free) trajectory from an initial state to a goal region when the obstacle space is a-priori unknown and is incrementally revealed online, e.g., through line-of-sight…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Lucas Janson , Tommy Hu , Marco Pavone