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Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a fundamental coordination problem in large-scale robotic and cyber-physical systems, where multiple agents must compute conflict-free trajectories with limited computational and communication resources.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Kevin Riehl , Julius Schlapbach , Anastasios Kouvelas , Michail A. Makridis

Multi-Agent Path-Finding (MAPF) focuses on the collaborative planning of paths for multiple agents within shared spaces, aiming for collision-free navigation. Conventional planning methods often overlook the presence of other agents, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 S Nordström , Y Bai , B Lindqvist , G Nikolakopoulos

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

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) focuses on determining conflict-free paths for multiple agents navigating through a shared space to reach specified goal locations. This problem becomes computationally challenging, particularly when handling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Thore Gerlach , Loong Kuan Lee , Frédéric Barbaresco , Nico Piatkowski

Conflict-Based Search (CBS) is a powerful algorithmic framework for optimally solving classical multi-agent path finding (MAPF) problems, where time is discretized into the time steps. Continuous-time CBS (CCBS) is a recently proposed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Anton Andreychuk , Konstantin Yakovlev , Eli Boyarski , Roni Stern

We study the planning and acting phase for the problem of multi-agent path finding (MAPF) in this paper. MAPF is a problem of navigating agents from their start positions to specified individual goal positions so that agents do not collide…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Matouš Kulhan , Pavel Surynek

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a fundamental problem in robotics that asks us to compute collision-free paths for a team of agents, all moving across a shared map. Although many works appear on this topic, all current algorithms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Zhe Chen , Daniel Harabor , Jiaoyang Li , Peter J. Stuckey

Conflict-Based Search (CBS) is a widely used algorithm for solving multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) problems optimally. The core idea of CBS is to run hierarchical search, when, on the high level the tree of solutions candidates is explored,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Ilya Ivanashev , Anton Andreychuk , Konstantin Yakovlev

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) involves determining paths for multiple agents to travel simultaneously and collision-free through a shared area toward given goal locations. This problem is computationally complex, especially when dealing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Paul Friedrich , Yulun Zhang , Michael Curry , Ludwig Dierks , Stephen McAleer , Jiaoyang Li , Tuomas Sandholm , Sven Seuken

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a fundamental problem in robotics and AI, with numerous applications in real-world scenarios. One such scenario is filming scenes with multiple actors, where the goal is to capture the scene from multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Aditya Rauniyar , Jiaoyang Li , Sebastian Scherer

Multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) is a problem that generally requires finding collision-free paths for multiple agents in a shared environment. Solving MAPF optimally, even under restrictive assumptions, is NP-hard, yet efficient solutions…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Anton Andreychuk , Konstantin Yakovlev , Aleksandr Panov , Alexey Skrynnik

Multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) remains a critical problem in robotics and autonomous systems, where agents must navigate shared spaces efficiently while avoiding conflicts. Traditional centralized algorithms with global information provide…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Bharath Muppasani , Ritirupa Dey , Biplav Srivastava , Vignesh Narayanan

This paper investigates Multi-Agent Path Finding Among Movable Obstacles (M-PAMO), which seeks collision-free paths for multiple agents from their start to goal locations among static and movable obstacles. M-PAMO arises in logistics and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Shaoli Hu , Shizhe Zhao , Zhongqiang Ren

The multi-agent path finding (MAPF) problem is a combinatorial search problem that aims at finding paths for multiple agents (e.g., robots) in an environment (e.g., an autonomous warehouse) such that no two agents collide with each other,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Aysu Bogatarkan , Esra Erdem

The Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem aims at finding non-conflicting paths for multiple agents from their respective sources to destinations. This problem arises in multiple real-life situations, including robot motion planning and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Aditi Anand , Dildar Ali , Suman Banerjee

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a problem of finding a sequence of movements for agents to reach their assigned location without collision. Centralized algorithms usually give optimal solutions, but have difficulties to scale without…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Poom Pianpak , Tran Cao Son

Cooperative pathfinding is a problem of finding a set of non-conflicting trajectories for a number of mobile agents. Its applications include planning for teams of mobile robots, such as autonomous aircrafts, cars, or underwater vehicles.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-02-13 Michal Čáp , Peter Novák , Jiří Vokřínek , Michal Pěchouček

Many real-world scenarios require multiple agents to coordinate in shared environments, while balancing trade-offs between multiple, potentially competing objectives. Current multi-objective multi-agent path finding (MO-MAPF) algorithms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Pulkit Rustagi , Kyle Hollins Wray , Sandhya Saisubramanian

Combined Target-Assignment and Path-Finding problem (TAPF) requires simultaneously assigning targets to agents and planning collision-free paths for agents from their start locations to their assigned targets. As a leading approach to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Yimin Tang , Zhongqiang Ren , Jiaoyang Li , Katia Sycara

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