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In this paper, we address the problem of real-time motion planning for multiple robotic manipulators that operate in close proximity. We build upon the concept of dynamic fabrics and extend them to multi-robot systems, referred to as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Saray Bakker , Luzia Knoedler , Max Spahn , Wendelin Böhmer , Javier Alonso-Mora

This letter presents a novel multi-robot task allocation and path planning method that considers robots' maximum range constraints in large-sized workspaces, enabling robots to complete the assigned tasks within their range limits. Firstly,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Gang Xu , Yuchen Wu , Sheng Tao , Yifan Yang , Tao Liu , Tao Huang , Huifeng Wu , Yong Liu

Autonomous agents are limited in their ability to observe the world state. Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) formally model the problem of planning under world state uncertainty, but POMDPs with continuous actions and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Dicong Qiu , Yibiao Zhao , Chris L. Baker

We study a multi-robot assignment problem for multi-target tracking. The proposed problem can be viewed as the mixed packing and covering problem. To deal with a limitation on both sensing and communication ranges, a distributed approach is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Yoonchang Sung , Ashish Kumar Budhiraja , Ryan K. Williams , Pratap Tokekar

Planning problems are hard, motion planning, for example, isPSPACE-hard. Such problems are even more difficult in the presence of uncertainty. Although, Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) provide a formal framework for such problems, finding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Carlos E. Guestrin , Dirk Ormoneit

Efficient robotic extraterrestrial exploration requires robots with diverse capabilities, ranging from scientific measurement tools to advanced locomotion. A robotic team enables the distribution of tasks over multiple specialized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Matthias Rubio , Julia Richter , Hendrik Kolvenbach , Marco Hutter

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

Multi-agent Markov Decision Process (MMDP) has been an effective way of modelling sequential decision making algorithms for multi-agent cooperative environments. A number of algorithms based on centralized and decentralized planning have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Rafid Ameer Mahmud , Fahim Faisal , Saaduddin Mahmud , Md. Mosaddek Khan

Multi robot systems have the potential to be utilized in a variety of applications. In most of the previous works, the trajectory generation for multi robot systems is implemented in known environments. To overcome that we present an online…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Vijay Arvindh , Govind Aadithya R , Shravan Krishnan , Sivanathan K

We introduce a new graph neural operator-based approach for task allocation in a system of heterogeneous robots composed of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The proposed model, \texttt{\method}, or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Juntong Peng , Hrishikesh Viswanath , Aniket Bera

Distributed model predictive control (DMPC) is a flexible and scalable feedback control method applicable to a wide range of systems. While the stability analysis of DMPC is quite well understood, there exist only limited implementation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Gösta Stomberg , Henrik Ebel , Timm Faulwasser , Peter Eberhard

This paper presents a scalable and fault-tolerant framework for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) mission management in complex and uncertain environments. The proposed approach addresses the computational bottleneck inherent in solving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Md Muzakkir Quamar , Ali Nasir , Sami ELFerik

Efficient task scheduling in large-scale distributed systems presents significant challenges due to dynamic workloads, heterogeneous resources, and competing quality-of-service requirements. Traditional centralized approaches face…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Daniel Benniah John

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

To enable safe and efficient use of multi-robot systems in everyday life, a robust and fast method for coordinating their actions must be developed. In this paper, we present a distributed task allocation and scheduling algorithm for…

Many high-level multi-agent planning problems, including multi-robot navigation and path planning, can be effectively modeled using deterministic actions and observations. In this work, we focus on such domains and introduce the class of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Yang You , Alex Schutz , Zhikun Li , Bruno Lacerda , Robert Skilton , Nick Hawes

Multi-robot cooperative control has gained extensive research interest due to its wide applications in civil, security, and military domains. This paper proposes a cooperative control algorithm for multi-robot systems with general linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-06 Yi Dong , Zhongguo Li , Xingyu Zhao , Zhengtao Ding , Xiaowei Huang

Planning for multi-robot teams in complex environments is a challenging problem, especially when these teams must coordinate to accomplish a common objective. In general, optimal solutions to these planning problems are computationally…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Cora A. Dimmig , Kevin C. Wolfe , Joseph Moore

Multi-robot Coverage Path Planning (MCPP) addresses the problem of computing paths for multiple robots to effectively cover a large area of interest. Conventional approaches to MCPP typically assume that robots move at fixed velocities,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jun Chen , Mingjia Chen , Shinkyu Park

This paper presents a decentralized, online planning approach for scalable maneuver planning for large constellations. While decentralized, rule-based strategies have facilitated efficient scaling, optimal decision-making algorithms for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-07 William Kuhl , Jun Wang , Duncan Eddy , Mykel Kochenderfer