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Multi-agent path planning (MAPP) is the problem of planning collision-free trajectories from start to goal locations for a team of agents. This work explores a relatively unexplored setting of MAPP where streams of agents have to go through…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Kazumi Kasaura , Ryo Yonetani , Mai Nishimura

Task and motion planning represents a powerful set of hybrid planning methods that combine reasoning over discrete task domains and continuous motion generation. Traditional reasoning necessitates task domain models and enough information…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Tianyang Pan , Rahul Shome , Lydia E. Kavraki

Constrained motion planning is a challenging field of research, aiming for computationally efficient methods that can find a collision-free path on the constraint manifolds between a given start and goal configuration. These planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Ahmed H. Qureshi , Jiangeng Dong , Asfiya Baig , Michael C. Yip

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a long-standing problem in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in which one needs to find a set of collision-free paths for a group of mobile agents (robots) operating in the shared workspace. Due to its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Zain Alabedeen Ali , Konstantin Yakovlev

We address the Multi-Robot Motion Planning (MRMP) problem of computing collision-free trajectories for multiple robots in shared continuous environments. While existing frameworks effectively decompose MRMP into single-robot subproblems,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jingtao Tang , Zining Mao , Lufan Yang , Hang Ma

Sampling-based motion planners (SBMPs) are widely used to compute dynamically feasible robot paths. However, their reliance on uniform sampling often leads to poor efficiency and slow planning in complex environments. We introduce a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Shubham Natraj , Bruno Sinopoli , Yiannis Kantaros

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

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…

In this letter, an integrated task planning and reactive motion planning framework termed Multi-FLEX is presented that targets real-world, industrial multi-robot applications. Reactive motion planning has been attractive for the purposes of…

Multi-robot systems offer enhanced capability over their monolithic counterparts, but they come at a cost of increased complexity in coordination. To reduce complexity and to make the problem tractable, multi-robot motion planning (MRMP)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Changrak Choi , Muhammad Adil , Amir Rahmani , Ramtin Madani

Multi-mobile robot systems show great advantages over one single robot in many applications. However, the robots are required to form desired task-specified formations, making feasible motions decrease significantly. Thus, it is challenging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Wenhang Liu , Jiawei Hu , Heng Zhang , Michael Yu Wang , Zhenhua Xiong

Motion planning for multi-jointed robots is challenging. Due to the inherent complexity of the problem, most existing works decompose motion planning as easier subproblems. However, because of the inconsistent performance metrics, only…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Yu Zhao , Hsien-Chung Lin , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Recent advances in diffusion models hold significant potential in robotics, enabling the generation of diverse and smooth trajectories directly from raw representations of the environment. Despite this promise, applying diffusion models to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jinhao Liang , Jacob K Christopher , Sven Koenig , Ferdinando Fioretto

Collision-tolerant trajectory planning is the consideration that collisions, if they are planned appropriately, enable more effective path planning for robots capable of handling them. A mixed integer programming (MIP) optimization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Mark L. Mote , Juan-Pablo Afman , Eric Feron

We consider the problem of multi-robot path planning in a complex, cluttered environment with the aim of reducing overall congestion in the environment, while avoiding any inter-robot communication or coordination. Such limitations may…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Xiaolong Wang , Alp Sahin , Subhrajit Bhattacharya

Motion planning is a crucial component of autonomous robot driving. While various trajectory datasets exist, effectively utilizing them for a target domain remains challenging due to differences in agent interactions and environmental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Giwon Lee , Wooseong Jeong , Daehee Park , Jaewoo Jeong , Kuk-Jin Yoon

A fundamental challenge in multi-robot motion planning is achieving sufficient coordination to avoid inter-robot conflicts without incurring the large computational expense of searching the joint configuration space of the robot group. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Isaac Ngui , Courtney McBeth , James D. Motes , Marco Morales , Nancy M. Amato

In multi-robot multi-target tracking, robots coordinate to monitor groups of targets moving about an environment. We approach planning for such scenarios by formulating a receding-horizon, multi-robot sensing problem with a mutual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Micah Corah , Nathan Michael

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

While motion planning approaches for automated driving often focus on safety and mathematical optimality with respect to technical parameters, they barely consider convenience, perceived safety for the passenger and comprehensibility for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Maximilian Naumann , Martin Lauer , Christoph Stiller