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Safe-interval path planning (SIPP) is a powerful algorithm for finding a path in the presence of dynamic obstacles. SIPP returns provably optimal solutions. However, in many practical applications of SIPP such as path planning for robots,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Konstantin Yakovlev , Anton Andreychuk , Roni Stern

Finding near-optimal solutions for dense multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) problems in real-time remains challenging even for state-of-the-art planners. To this end, we develop a hybrid framework that integrates a learned heuristic derived…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Rishabh Jain , Keisuke Okumura , Michael Amir , Amanda Prorok

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) aims to compute collision-free paths for multiple agents and has a wide range of practical applications. LaCAM*, an anytime configuration-based solver, currently represents the state of the art. Recent work…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Bojie Shen , Yue Zhang , Zhe Chen , Daniel Harabor

Multi-agent path planning is a challenging problem with numerous real-life applications. Running a centralized search such as A* in the combined state space of all units is complete and cost-optimal, but scales poorly, as the state space…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Ko-Hsin Cindy Wang , Adi Botea

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is the problem of moving a team of agents to their goal locations without collisions. In this paper, we study the lifelong variant of MAPF, where agents are constantly engaged with new goal locations, such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Jiaoyang Li , Andrew Tinka , Scott Kiesel , Joseph W. Durham , T. K. Satish Kumar , Sven Koenig

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

In this paper we study a challenging variant of the multi-agent pathfinding problem (MAPF), when a set of agents must reach a set of goal locations, but it does not matter which agent reaches a specific goal - Anonymous MAPF (AMAPF).…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Stepan Dergachev , Konstantin Yakovlev

The increasing use of autonomous robot systems in hazardous environments underscores the need for efficient search and rescue operations. Despite significant advancements, existing literature on object search often falls short in overcoming…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Matthew Collins , Jared J. Beard , Nicholas Ohi , Yu Gu

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) has been widely studied in recent years. However, most existing MAPF algorithms assume that an agent occupies only a single grid in a grid-based map. This assumption limits their applicability in many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Zhuo Yao

While the study of unit-cost Multi-Agent Pathfinding (MAPF) problems has been popular, many real-world problems require continuous time and costs due to various movement models. In this context, this paper studies symmetry-breaking…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Thayne T. Walker , Nathan R. Sturtevant , Ariel Felner

We study online Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF), where new agents are constantly revealed over time and all agents must find collision-free paths to their given goal locations. We generalize existing complexity results of (offline) MAPF to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Hang Ma

We study a graph pathfinding problem Distance-$r$ Independent Unlabeled Multi-Agent Pathfinding, finding a set of collision-free paths between two sets where agents must stay at pairwise distance at least $r+1$ at all times. This additional…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Takahiro Suzuki , Yuma Tamura , Keisuke Okumura

The 2D Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem aims at finding collision-free paths for a number of agents, from a set of start locations to a set of goal positions in a known 2D environment. MAPF has been studied in theoretical computer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Gleb Belov , Liron Cohen , Maria Garcia de la Banda , Daniel Harabor , Sven Koenig , Xinrui Wei

In environments where many automated guided vehicles (AGVs) operate, planning efficient, collision-free paths is essential. Related research has mainly focused on environments with pre-defined passages, resulting in space inefficiency. We…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Hiroya Makino , Yoshihiro Ohama , Seigo Ito

Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is a well-studied problem in artificial intelligence, where one needs to find collision-free paths for agents with given start and goal locations. In video games, agents of different types often form teams.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-05 Hang Ma , Jingxing Yang , Liron Cohen , T. K. Satish Kumar , Sven Koenig

The bi-objective shortest-path (BOSP) problem seeks to find paths between start and target vertices of a graph while optimizing two conflicting objective functions. We consider the BOSP problem in the presence of correlated objectives. Such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yaron Halle , Ariel Felner , Sven Koenig , Oren Salzman

Multi-Agent Motion Planning (MAMP) finds various applications in fields such as traffic management, airport operations, and warehouse automation. In many of these environments, differential drive robots are commonly used. These robots have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Jingtian Yan , Jiaoyang Li

Continuous-time Conflict Based-Search (CCBS) has long been viewed as the standard optimal baseline for multi-agent path finding in continuous time (MAPFR), yet recent critiques show that the theoretically described CCBS can fail to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Alvin Combrink , Sabino Francesco Roselli , Martin Fabian

The competition focuses on Multiparty Multiobjective Optimization Problems (MPMOPs), where multiple decision makers have conflicting objectives, as seen in applications like UAV path planning. Despite their importance, MPMOPs remain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Wenjian Luo , Peilan Xu , Shengxiang Yang , Yuhui Shi

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
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