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In the evolving landscape of urban mobility, the prospective integration of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) with Human-Driven Vehicles (HDVs) presents a complex array of challenges and opportunities for autonomous driving systems.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Han Zheng , Zhongxia Yan , Cathy Wu

Multi-agent neural implicit mapping allows robots to collaboratively capture and reconstruct complex environments with high fidelity. However, existing approaches often rely on synchronous communication, which is impractical in real-world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Hongrui Zhao , Boris Ivanovic , Negar Mehr

We explore deep reinforcement learning methods for multi-agent domains. We begin by analyzing the difficulty of traditional algorithms in the multi-agent case: Q-learning is challenged by an inherent non-stationarity of the environment,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Ryan Lowe , Yi Wu , Aviv Tamar , Jean Harb , Pieter Abbeel , Igor Mordatch

Communication could potentially be an effective way for multi-agent cooperation. However, information sharing among all agents or in predefined communication architectures that existing methods adopt can be problematic. When there is a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Jiechuan Jiang , Zongqing Lu

Occluded traffic agents pose a significant challenge for autonomous vehicles, as hidden pedestrians or vehicles can appear unexpectedly, yet this problem remains understudied. Existing learning-based methods, while capable of inferring the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Anna Rothenhäusler , Markus Mazzola , Andreas Look , Raghu Rajan , Joschka Bödecker

The problem of Multi-agent Path Finding (MAPF) consists in providing agents with efficient paths while preventing collisions. Numerous solvers have been developed so far since MAPF is critical for practical applications such as automated…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Keisuke Okumura , Yasumasa Tamura , Xavier Défago

The Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem aims to find collision-free paths for multiple agents while optimizing objectives such as the sum of costs or makespan. MAPF has wide applications in domains like automated warehouses,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jingtian Yan , Shuai Zhou , Stephen F. Smith , Jiaoyang Li

In this paper, we introduce an alternative approach to enhancing Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) through the integration of domain knowledge and attention-based policy mechanisms. Our methodology focuses on the incorporation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Andre R Kuroswiski , Annie S Wu , Angelo Passaro

Multi-Agent Path Finding has been widely studied in the past few years due to its broad application in the field of robotics and AI. However, previous solvers rely on several simplifying assumptions. They limit their applicability in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Licheng Wen , Zhen Zhang , Zhe Chen , Xiangrui Zhao , Yong Liu

The recent advancements in wireless technology enable connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) to gather information about their environment by vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication. In this work, we design an information-sharing-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Songyang Han , Shanglin Zhou , Jiangwei Wang , Lynn Pepin , Caiwen Ding , Jie Fu , Fei Miao

Predicting the trajectories of surrounding agents is an essential ability for autonomous vehicles navigating through complex traffic scenes. The future trajectories of agents can be inferred using two important cues: the locations and past…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Kaouther Messaoud , Nachiket Deo , Mohan M. Trivedi , Fawzi Nashashibi

Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is an active area in artificial intelligence, which has many real-world applications such as warehouse management, traffic control, robotics, etc. Recently, M* and its variants have greatly improved the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Qingzhou Liu , Feng Wu

In this paper, we consider the problem of building learning agents that can efficiently learn to navigate in constrained environments. The main goal is to design agents that can efficiently learn to understand and generalize to different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Kei Ota , Yoko Sasaki , Devesh K. Jha , Yusuke Yoshiyasu , Asako Kanezaki

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

Multi-agent path planning (MAPP) in continuous spaces is a challenging problem with significant practical importance. One promising approach is to first construct graphs approximating the spaces, called roadmaps, and then apply multi-agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Keisuke Okumura , Ryo Yonetani , Mai Nishimura , Asako Kanezaki

Addressing complex cooperative tasks in safety-critical environments poses significant challenges for multi-agent systems, especially under conditions of partial observability. We focus on a dynamic network bridging task, where agents must…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Raffaele Galliera , Konstantinos Mitsopoulos , Niranjan Suri , Raffaele Romagnoli

Robotics can help address the growing worker shortage challenge of the manufacturing industry. As such, machine tending is a task collaborative robots can tackle that can also highly boost productivity. Nevertheless, existing robotics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Abdalwhab Abdalwhab , Giovanni Beltrame , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou , David St-Onge

LLM-based multi-agent systems have demonstrated significant capabilities across diverse domains. However, the task performance and efficiency are fundamentally constrained by their collaboration strategies. Prevailing approaches rely on…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Qingwen Yang , Feiyu Qu , Tiezheng Guo , Yanyi Liu , Yingyou Wen

An increasing number of emerging applications, e.g., internet of things, vehicular communications, augmented reality, and the growing complexity due to the interoperability requirements of these systems, lead to the need to change the tools…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Merim Dzaferagic , M. Majid Butt , Maria Murphy , Nicholas Kaminski , Nicola Marchetti

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