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In the Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem, the goal is to find non-colliding paths for agents in an environment, such that each agent reaches its goal from its initial location. In safety-critical applications, a human supervisor may…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Justin Kottinger , Shaull Almagor , Morteza Lahijanian

Existing multi-agent path finding (MAPF) solvers do not account for uncertain behavior of uncontrollable agents. We present a novel variant of Enhanced Conflict-Based Search (ECBS), for both one-shot and lifelong MAPF in dynamic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Kegan J. Strawn , Thomy Phan , Eric Wang , Nora Ayanian , Sven Koenig , Lars Lindemann

Multi-Agent Pathfinding (MAPF) is the problem of finding paths for multiple agents such that every agent reaches its goal and the agents do not collide. Most prior work on MAPF was on grids, assumed agents' actions have uniform duration,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Anton Andreychuk , Konstantin Yakovlev , Dor Atzmon , Roni Stern

Conflict-Based Search (CBS) is a popular framework for solving the Multi-Agent Path Finding problem. Some of the conflicts incur a foreseeable conflict in one or both of the children nodes when splitting on them. This paper introduces a new…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Lun Yang

The Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem entails finding collision-free paths for a set of agents, guiding them from their start to goal locations. However, MAPF does not account for several practical task-related constraints. For…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yu Quan Chong , Jiaoyang Li , Katia Sycara

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF), i.e., finding collision-free paths for multiple robots, is important for many applications where small runtimes are necessary, including the kind of automated warehouses operated by Amazon. CBS is a leading…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Jiaoyang Li , Wheeler Ruml , Sven Koenig

This study explores the problem of Multi-Agent Path Finding with continuous and stochastic travel times whose probability distribution is unknown. Our purpose is to manage a group of automated robots that provide package delivery services…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Atsuyoshi Kita , Nobuhiro Suenari , Masashi Okada , Tadahiro Taniguchi

Coordinating the movement of multiple autonomous agents over a shared network is a fundamental challenge in algorithmic robotics, intelligent transportation, and distributed systems. The dominant approach, Multi-Agent Path Finding, relies…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Tesshu Hanaka , Nikolaos Melissinos , Hirotaka Ono

We introduce the Cooperative Multi-Agent Path Finding (Co-MAPF) problem, an extension to the classical MAPF problem, where cooperative behavior is incorporated. In this setting, a group of autonomous agents operate in a shared environment…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Nir Greshler , Ofir Gordon , Oren Salzman , Nahum Shimkin

The fundamental goal assignment problem for a multi-robot application aims to assign a unique goal to each robot while ensuring collision-free paths, minimizing the total movement cost. A plausible algorithmic solution to this NP-hard…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Aakash , Indranil Saha

We address multi-robot motion planning under Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications with kinodynamic constraints. Exact approaches face scalability bottlenecks and limited adaptability, while conventional sampling-based methods require…

Multi-robot systems are integral to modern logistics, but their capabilities are often limited to tasks executable by individual agents. This paper addresses a critical gap in existing frameworks like Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Ning Zhou , Nikolai W. F. Bode , Edmund R. Hunt

The Multi-Objective Multi-Agent Path Finding (MO-MAPF) problem is the problem of finding the Pareto-optimal frontier of collision-free paths for a team of agents while minimizing multiple cost metrics. Examples of such cost metrics include…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Cheng Ge , Han Zhang , Jiaoyang Li , Sven Koenig

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is the problem of finding a set of collision-free paths, one for each agent in a shared environment. Its objective is to minimize the sum of path costs (SOC), where the path cost of each agent is defined as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Shao-Hung Chan , Thomy Phan , Jiaoyang Li , Sven Koenig

Multi-Agent Motion Planning (MAMP) is the problem of computing feasible paths for a set of agents given individual start and goal states. Given the hardness of MAMP, most of the research related to multi-agent systems has focused on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Irving Solis , Read Sandström , James Motes , Nancy M. Amato

In this work we study a well-known and challenging problem of Multi-agent Pathfinding, when a set of agents is confined to a graph, each agent is assigned a unique start and goal vertices and the task is to find a set of collision-free…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Yelisey Pitanov , Alexey Skrynnik , Anton Andreychuk , Konstantin Yakovlev , Aleksandr Panov

During Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problems, agents can be delayed by unexpected events. To address such situations recent work describes k-Robust Conflict-BasedSearch (k-CBS): an algorithm that produces coordinated and collision-free…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Zhe Chen , Daniel Harabor , Jiaoyang Li , Peter J. Stuckey

Multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) is the problem of finding a set of conflict-free paths for a set of agents. Typically, the agents' moves are limited to a pre-defined graph of possible locations and allowed transitions between them, e.g. a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Konstantin Yakovlev , Anton Andreychuk , Roni Stern

This paper addresses a generalization of the well known multi-agent path finding (MAPF) problem that optimizes multiple conflicting objectives simultaneously such as travel time and path risk. This generalization, referred to as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Zhongqiang Ren , Sivakumar Rathinam , Maxim Likhachev , Howie Choset

We address item relocation problems in graphs in this paper. We assume items placed in vertices of an undirected graph with at most one item per vertex. Items can be moved across edges while various constraints depending on the type of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Pavel Surynek