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The problem of Multi-agent Path Finding (MAPF) consists in providing agents with efficient paths while preventing collisions. Numerous solvers have been developed so far since MAPF is critical for practical applications such as automated…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Keisuke Okumura , Yasumasa Tamura , Xavier Défago

Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is an active area in artificial intelligence, which has many real-world applications such as warehouse management, traffic control, robotics, etc. Recently, M* and its variants have greatly improved the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Qingzhou Liu , Feng Wu

Trajectory planning for quadrotors in cluttered environments has been challenging in recent years. While many trajectory planning frameworks have been successful, there still exists potential for improvements, particularly in enhancing the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Pengyu Wang , Jiawei Tang , Hin Wang Lin , Fan Zhang , Chaoqun Wang , Jiankun Wang , Ling Shi , Max Q. -H. Meng

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

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a representative multi-agent coordination problem, where multiple agents are required to navigate to their respective goals without collisions. Solving MAPF optimally is known to be NP-hard, leading to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Rishabh Jain , Keisuke Okumura , Michael Amir , Pietro Lio , Amanda Prorok

Motivated by what is required for real-time path planning, the paper starts out by presenting sRMPD, a new recursive "local" planner founded on the key notion that, unless made necessary by an obstacle, there must be no deviation from the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Fangda Li , Ankit V. Manerikar , Avinash C. Kak

Object rearrangement planning in complex, cluttered environments is a common challenge in warehouses, households, and rescue sites. Prior studies largely address monotone instances, whereas real-world tasks are often non-monotone-objects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Hanwen Ren , Junyong Kim , Aathman Tharmasanthiran , Ahmed H. Qureshi

In the Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem, a set of agents moving on a graph must reach their own respective destinations without inter-agent collisions. In practical MAPF applications such as navigation in automated warehouses, where…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Keisuke Okumura , Manao Machida , Xavier Défago , Yasumasa Tamura

Efficient multi-robot task allocation (MRTA) is fundamental to various time-sensitive applications such as disaster response, warehouse operations, and construction. This paper tackles a particular class of these problems that we call…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Steve Paul , Wenyuan Li , Brian Smyth , Yuzhou Chen , Yulia Gel , Souma Chowdhury

Conventional multi-agent path planners typically determine a path that optimizes a single objective, such as path length. Many applications, however, may require multiple objectives, say time-to-completion and fuel use, to be simultaneously…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Zhongqiang Ren , Sivakumar Rathinam , Howie Choset

Travel sharing, i.e., the problem of finding parts of routes which can be shared by several travellers with different points of departure and destinations, is a complex multiagent problem that requires taking into account individual agents'…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-03 Jan Hrnčíř , Michael Rovatsos

We study online Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF), where new agents are constantly revealed over time and all agents must find collision-free paths to their given goal locations. We generalize existing complexity results of (offline) MAPF to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Hang Ma

The multi-agent path finding (MAPF) problem asks to find a set of paths on a graph such that when synchronously following these paths the agents never encounter a conflict. In the most widespread MAPF formulation, the so-called Classical…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Artem Agafonov , Konstantin Yakovlev

We study a dynamic version of multi-agent path finding problem (called D-MAPF) where existing agents may leave and new agents may join the team at different times. We introduce a new method to solve D-MAPF based on conflict-resolution. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Basem Atiq , Volkan Patoglu , Esra Erdem

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) aims to compute collision-free paths for multiple agents and has a wide range of practical applications. LaCAM*, an anytime configuration-based solver, currently represents the state of the art. Recent work…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Bojie Shen , Yue Zhang , Zhe Chen , Daniel Harabor

An exciting frontier in robotic manipulation is the use of multiple arms at once. However, planning concurrent motions is a challenging task using current methods. The high-dimensional composite state space renders many well-known motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yorai Shaoul , Itamar Mishani , Maxim Likhachev , Jiaoyang Li

We propose a novel complete algorithm for multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) called lazy constraints addition search for MAPF (LaCAM). MAPF is a problem of finding collision-free paths for multiple agents on graphs and is the foundation of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Keisuke Okumura

This paper presents a parallelizable variant of the well-known Hierarchical Cooperative A* algorithm (HCA*) for the multi-agent path finding (MAPF) problem. In this variant, all agents initially find their shortest paths disregarding the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-03 Sreenivasan Ganti , Visnu Srinivasan , Pallavi Ramicetty , Shravan Mohan , Milind Savagaonkar , Shubhashis Sengupta

Multi-agent navigation in dynamic environments is of great industrial value when deploying a large scale fleet of robot to real-world applications. This paper proposes a decentralized partially observable multi-agent path planning with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Zuxin Liu , Baiming Chen , Hongyi Zhou , Guru Koushik , Martial Hebert , Ding Zhao

In this paper, we consider the problem of Multi-Robot Path Planning (MRPP) in continuous space. The difficulty of the problem arises from the extremely large search space caused by the combinatorial nature of the problem and the continuous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Joonyeol Sim , Joonkyung Kim , Changjoo Nam