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Multi Agent Path Finding (MAPF) seeks the optimal set of paths for multiple agents from respective start to goal locations such that no paths conflict. We address the MAPF problem for a fleet of hybrid-fuel unmanned aerial vehicles which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Drew Scott , Satyanarayana G. Manyam , David W. Casbeer , Manish Kumar , Isaac E. Weintraub

Recent breakthroughs in generative artificial intelligence have triggered a surge in demand for machine learning training, which poses significant cost burdens and environmental challenges due to its substantial energy consumption.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Siyue Zhang , Minrui Xu , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Dusit Niyato

In the Multiagent Path Finding problem (MAPF for short), we focus on efficiently finding non-colliding paths for a set of $k$ agents on a given graph $G$, where each agent seeks a path from its source vertex to a target. An important…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Foivos Fioravantes , Dušan Knop , Jan Matyáš Křišťan , Nikolaos Melissinos , Michal Opler

Offloading time-sensitive, computationally intensive tasks-such as advanced learning algorithms for autonomous driving-from vehicles to nearby edge servers, vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) systems, or other collaborating vehicles via…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Nazish Tahir , Ramviyas Parasuraman , Haijian Sun

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is essential to large-scale robotic systems. Recent methods have applied reinforcement learning (RL) to learn decentralized polices in partially observable environments. A fundamental challenge of obtaining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Ziyuan Ma , Yudong Luo , Hang Ma

Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) is one of the primary drivers behind increasing levels of autonomy, driving comfort in this age of connected mobility. However, the performance of such systems is a function of execution rate which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Anirban Ghose , Srijeeta Maity , Arijit Kar , Kaustubh Maloo , Soumyajit Dey

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer significant promise for intelligent traffic management; however, current chain-based systems like TrafficGPT are hindered by sequential task execution, high token usage, and poor scalability, making them…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Nabil Abdelaziz Ferhat Taleb , Abdolazim Rezaei , Raj Atulkumar Patel , Mehdi Sookhak

Real-time planning for a combined problem of target assignment and path planning for multiple agents, also known as the unlabeled version of Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF), is crucial for high-level coordination in multi-agent systems,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Keisuke Okumura , Xavier Défago

The multi-agent pickup and delivery (MAPD) problem, in which multiple agents iteratively carry materials without collisions, has received significant attention. However, many conventional MAPD algorithms assume a specifically designed…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Tomoki Yamauchi , Yuki Miyashita , Toshiharu Sugawara

This paper considers the scheduling of parallel real-time tasks with arbitrary-deadlines. Each job of a parallel task is described as a directed acyclic graph (DAG). In contrast to prior work in this area, where decomposition-based…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Niklas Ueter , Georg von der Brüggen , Jian-Jia Chen , Jing Li , Kunal Agrawal

The last decade has witnessed growth in the computational requirements for training deep neural networks. Current approaches (e.g., data/model parallelism, pipeline parallelism) parallelize training tasks onto multiple devices. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Siyu Wang , Yi Rong , Shiqing Fan , Zhen Zheng , LanSong Diao , Guoping Long , Jun Yang , Xiaoyong Liu , Wei Lin

Urban intersections are prone to delays and inefficiencies due to static precedence rules and occlusions limiting the view on prioritized traffic. Existing approaches to improve traffic flow, widely known as automatic intersection…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Marvin Klimke , Benjamin Völz , Michael Buchholz

As intelligent transportation systems been implemented broadly and unmanned arial vehicles (UAVs) can assist terrestrial base stations acting as multi-access edge computing (MEC) to provide a better wireless network communication for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Xiaoyu Dai , Kaoru Ota , Mianxiong Dong

To plan the trajectories of a large-scale heterogeneous swarm, sequentially or synchronously distributed methods usually become intractable due to the lack of global clock synchronization. To this end, we provide a novel asynchronous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Yuda Chen , Haoze Dong , Zhongkui Li

We study a variant of the multi-agent path finding problem (MAPF) in which agents are required to remain connected to each other and to a designated base. This problem has applications in search and rescue missions where the entire…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Arthur Queffelec , Ocan Sankur , François Schwarzentruber

Different retail and e-commerce companies are facing the challenge of assembling large numbers of time-critical picking orders that include both small-line and multi-line orders. To reduce unproductive picker working time as in traditional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-14 Lin Xie , Hanyi Li , Laurin Luttmann

Automated vehicles (AVs) are expected to be beneficial for Mobility-on-Demand (MoD), thanks to their ability of being globally coordinated. To facilitate the steady transition towards full autonomy, we consider the transition period of AV…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-20 Kaidi Yang , Matthew W. Tsao , Xin Xu , Marco Pavone

Multi-agent coordination in automated warehouses and logistics is commonly modeled as the Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem. Closed-loop MAPF algorithms improve scalability by planning only the next movement and replanning online, but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jiarui Li , Runyu Zhang , Gioele Zardini

Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is an abstract model for the navigation of multiple robots in warehouse automation, where multiple robots plan collision-free paths from the start to goal positions. Reinforcement learning (RL) has been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Jianqi Gao , Yanjie Li , Xiaoqing Yang , Mingshan Tan

The Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem aims to determine the shortest and collision-free paths for multiple agents in a known, potentially obstacle-ridden environment. It is the core challenge for robotic deployments in large-scale…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Shuhao Liao , Weihang Xia , Yuhong Cao , Weiheng Dai , Chengyang He , Wenjun Wu , Guillaume Sartoretti