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Multiple mobile robots play a significant role in various spatially distributed tasks.In unfamiliar and non-repetitive scenarios, reconstructing the global map is time-inefficient and sometimes unrealistic. Hence, research has focused on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Weining Lu , Qingquan Lin , Litong Meng , Chenxi Li , Bin Liang

Path planning for multiple robots (MRPP) represents a task of finding non-colliding paths for robots through which they can navigate from their initial positions to specified goal positions. The problem is usually modeled using undirected…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Pavel Surynek

We propose an approach to solve multi-agent path planning (MPP) problems for complex environments. Our method first designs a special pebble graph with a set of feasibility constraints, under which MPP problems have feasibility guarantee.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Xifeng Gao , Zherong Pan , Ruiqi Ni

Multi-robot motion planning (MRMP) is the problem of finding collision-free paths for a set of robots in a continuous state space. The difficulty of MRMP increases with the number of robots and is exacerbated in environments with narrow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Courtney McBeth , James Motes , Diane Uwacu , Marco Morales , Nancy M. Amato

The labeled MRPP (Multi-Robot Path Planning) problem involves routing robots from start to goal configurations efficiently while avoiding collisions. Despite progress in solution quality and runtime, its complexity and industrial relevance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Teng Guo

Existing genetic programming (GP) methods are typically designed based on a certain representation, such as tree-based or linear representations. These representations show various pros and cons in different domains. However, due to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Zhixing Huang , Yi Mei , Fangfang Zhang , Mengjie Zhang , Wolfgang Banzhaf

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

In this paper, we study the problem of optimal multi-robot path planning (MPP) on graphs. We propose two multiflow based integer linear programming (ILP) models that computes minimum last arrival time and minimum total distance solutions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Jingjin Yu , Steven M. LaValle

We study optimal Multi-robot Path Planning (MPP) on graphs, in order to improve the efficiency of multi-robot system (MRS) in the warehouse-like environment. We propose a novel algorithm, OMRPP (One-way Multi-robot Path Planning) based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Jiaxi Huo , Ronghao Zheng , Meiqin Liu , Senlin Zhang

We study the computational complexity of optimally solving multi-robot path planning problems on planar graphs. For four common time- and distance-based objectives, we show that the associated path optimization problems for multiple robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Jingjin Yu

In many robotics applications, multiple robots are working in a shared workspace to complete a set of tasks as fast as possible. Such settings can be treated as multi-modal multi-robot multi-goal path planning problems, where each robot has…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Valentin N. Hartmann , Tirza Heinle , Yijiang Huang , Stelian Coros

In this paper, a novel knowledge-based genetic algorithm for path planning of a mobile robot in unstructured complex environments is proposed, where five problem-specific operators are developed for efficient robot path planning. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Yanrong Hu , Simon X. Yang

Genetic programming (GP) is an evolutionary computation technique to solve problems in an automated, domain-independent way. Rather than identifying the optimum of a function as in more traditional evolutionary optimization, the aim of GP…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Andrei Lissovoi , Pietro S. Oliveto

Agricultural environments present high proportions of spatially dense navigation bottlenecks for long-term navigation and operational planning of agricultural mobile robots. The existing agent-centric multi-robot path planning (MRPP)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-16 James R. Heselden , Gautham P. Das

Path Planning methods for autonomously controlling swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are gaining momentum due to their operational advantages. An increasing number of scenarios now require autonomous control of multiple UAVs, as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Alejandro Puente-Castro , Enrique Fernandez-Blanco , Daniel Rivero

Optimal path planning involves finding a feasible state sequence between a start and a goal that optimizes an objective. This process relies on heuristic functions to guide the search direction. While a robust function can improve search…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Liding Zhang , Kuanqi Cai , Zhenshan Bing , Chaoqun Wang , Alois Knoll

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

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

We address multi-robot geometric task-and-motion planning (MR-GTAMP) problems in synchronous, monotone setups. The goal of the MR-GTAMP problem is to move objects with multiple robots to goal regions in the presence of other movable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Hejia Zhang , Shao-Hung Chan , Jie Zhong , Jiaoyang Li , Sven Koenig , Stefanos Nikolaidis

Graph-based multi-robot path planning (MRPP) is NP-hard to optimally solve. In this work, we propose the first low polynomial-time algorithm for MRPP achieving 1--1.5 asymptotic optimality guarantees on makespan for random instances under…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Teng Guo , Jingjin Yu

The dynamic multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problem (DMRCPSP) is of practical importance, as it requires making real-time decisions under changing project states and resource availability. Genetic Programming (GP) has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yuan Tian , Yi Mei , Mengjie Zhang
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