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Multi-agent trajectory planning requires ensuring both safety and efficiency, yet deadlocks remain a significant challenge, especially in obstacle-dense environments. Such deadlocks frequently occur when multiple agents attempt to traverse…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Haoze Dong , Meng Guo , Chengyi He , Zhongkui Li

Multi-agent safe systems have become an increasingly important area of study as we can now easily have multiple AI-powered systems operating together. In such settings, we need to ensure the safety of not only each individual agent, but…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Zheqing Zhu , Erdem Bıyık , Dorsa Sadigh

This paper proposes a decentralized approach for solving the problem of moving a swarm of agents into a desired formation. We propose a decentralized assignment algorithm which prescribes goals to each agent using only local information.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-06 Logan Beaver , Andreas Malikopoulos

We consider a system consisting of multiple mobile robots in which the user can at any time issue relocation tasks ordering one of the robots to move from its current location to a given destination location. In this paper, we deal with the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-02-02 Michal Čáp , Jiří Vokřínek , Alexander Kleiner

Decentralized online planning can be an attractive paradigm for cooperative multi-agent systems, due to improved scalability and robustness. A key difficulty of such approach lies in making accurate predictions about the decisions of other…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Aleksander Czechowski , Frans A. Oliehoek

Trajectory planning for multiple robots in shared environments is a challenging problem especially when there is limited communication available or no central entity. In this article, we present Real-time planning using Linear Spatial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Baskın Şenbaşlar , Wolfgang Hönig , Nora Ayanian

This paper introduces an approach to address the target enclosing problem using non-holonomic multiagent systems, where agents self-organize on the enclosing shape around a fixed target. In our approach, agents independently move toward the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-19 Praveen Kumar Ranjan , Abhinav Sinha , Yongcan Cao

When deploying autonomous systems in unknown and changing environments, it is critical that their motion planning and control algorithms are computationally efficient and can be reapplied online in real time, whilst providing theoretical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-06 Seth Siriya , Mo Chen , Ye Pu

This paper introduces a novel algorithm for multiagent offline trajectory generation based on distributed model predictive control. Central to the algorithm's scalability and success is the development of an on-demand collision avoidance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Carlos E. Luis , Angela P. Schoellig

We consider the problem of decomposing a global task assigned to a multi-agent system, expressed as a formula within a fragment of Signal Temporal Logic (STL), under range-limited communication. Given a global task expressed as a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Gregorio Marchesini , Siyuan Liu , Lars Lindemann , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We consider the problem of estimating the states of a distributed network of nodes (targets) through a team of cooperating agents (sensors) persistently visiting the nodes so that an overall measure of estimation error covariance evaluated…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-14 Shirantha Welikala , Christos G. Cassandras

Avoiding collisions is the core problem in multi-agent navigation. In decentralized settings, when agents have limited communication and sensory capabilities, collisions are typically avoided in a reactive fashion, relying on local…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Stepan Dergachev , Konstantin Yakovlev

In this work, we focus on decomposing large multi-agent path planning problems with global temporal logic goals (common to all agents) into smaller sub-problems that can be solved and executed independently. Crucially, the sub-problems'…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Kevin Leahy , Austin Jones , Cristian-Ioan Vasile

Path planning for a robot is one of the major problems in the area of robotics. When a robot is given a task in the form of a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) specification such that the task needs to be carried out repetitively, we want the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Priya Purohit , Indranil Saha

We address the multi-agent persistent monitoring problem defined on a set of nodes (targets) interconnected over a network topology. A measure of mean overall node state uncertainty evaluated over a finite period is to be minimized by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Shirantha Welikala , Christos G. Cassandras

Finding feasible and collision-free paths for multiple nonlinear agents is challenging in the decentralized scenarios due to limited available information of other agents and complex dynamics constraints. In this paper, we propose a fast…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Hao Li , Bowen Weng , Abhishek Gupta , Jia Pan , Wei Zhang

For effective multi-agent trajectory planning, it is important to consider lightweight communication and its potential asynchrony. This paper presents a distributed trajectory planning algorithm for a quadrotor swarm that operates…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Yunwoo Lee , Jungwon Park

In this paper, we consider groups of agents in a network that select actions in order to satisfy a set of constraints that vary arbitrarily over time and minimize a time-varying function of which they have only local observations. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Santiago Paternain , Soomin Lee , Michael M. Zavlanos , Alejandro Ribeiro

Recently, centralized receding horizon online multi-robot coverage path planning algorithms have shown remarkable scalability in thoroughly exploring large, complex, unknown workspaces with many robots. In a horizon, the path planning and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Ratijit Mitra , Indranil Saha

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