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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

We address the problem of planning robot motions in constrained configuration spaces where the constraints change throughout the motion. The problem is formulated as a fixed sequence of intersecting manifolds, which the robot needs to…

The problem of multi-robot coverage control has been widely studied to efficiently coordinate a team of robots to cover a desired area of interest. However, this problem faces significant challenges when some robots are lost or deviate from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Kartik A. Pant , Vishnu Vijay , Minhyun Cho , Inseok Hwang

This paper investigates the task coordination of multi-robot where each robot has a private individual temporal logic task specification; and also has to jointly satisfy a globally given collaborative temporal logic task specification. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Ruofei Bai , Ronghao Zheng , Meiqin Liu , Senlin Zhang

In this paper we describe a machine learning based framework for spacecraft swarm trajectory planning. In particular, we focus on coordinating motions of multi-spacecraft in formation flying through passive relative orbit(PRO) transfers.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Alex Sabol , Kyongsik Yun , Muhammad Adil , Changrak Choi , Ramtin Madani

This paper presents a novel decentralized control strategy for a multi-robot system that enables parallel multi-target exploration while ensuring a time-varying connected topology in cluttered 3D environments. Flexible continuous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Thomas Nestmeyer , Paolo Robuffo Giordano , Heinrich H. Bülthoff , Antonio Franchi

We consider the problem of optimizing the distribution operations at a drone hub that dispatches drones to different geographic locations generating stochastic demands for medical supplies. Drone delivery is an innovative method that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Amin Asadi , Sarah Nurre Pinkley , Martijn Mes

Multi-robot motion planning (MRMP) is the problem of finding collision-free paths for a set of robots in a continuous state space. The difficulty of MRMP increases with the number of robots and is exacerbated in environments with narrow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Courtney McBeth , James Motes , Diane Uwacu , Marco Morales , Nancy M. Amato

Task allocation plays a vital role in multi-robot autonomous cleaning systems, where multiple robots work together to clean a large area. However, most current studies mainly focus on deterministic, single-task allocation for cleaning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Yabin Wang , Xiaopeng Hong , Zhiheng Ma , Tiedong Ma , Baoxing Qin , Zhou Su

Multi-robot systems are essential for environmental monitoring, particularly for tracking spatial phenomena like pollution, soil minerals, and water salinity, and more. This study addresses the challenge of deploying a multi-robot team for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Federico Pratissoli , Mattia Mantovani , Amanda Prorok , Lorenzo Sabattini

This paper presents a novel multi-robot coverage path planning (CPP) algorithm - aka SCoPP - that provides a time-efficient solution, with workload balanced plans for each robot in a multi-robot system, based on their initial states. This…

Assignment problems are a classic combinatorial optimization problem in which a group of agents must be assigned to a group of tasks such that maximum utility is achieved while satisfying assignment constraints. Given the utility of each…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Joshua Holder , Natasha Jaques , Mehran Mesbahi

In large unknown environments, search operations can be much more time-efficient with the use of multi-robot fleets by parallelizing efforts. This means robots must efficiently perform collaborative mapping (exploration) while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Indraneel Patil , Rachel Zheng , Charvi Gupta , Jaekyung Song , Narendar Sriram , Katia Sycara

Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) are increasingly used to automate operations in intralogistics. One crucial feature of AMRs is their availability, allowing them to operate 24/7. This work addresses the multibay unit load pre-marshalling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Jakob Pfrommer , Thomas Bömer , Daniyar Akizhanov , Anne Meyer

With the advancements achieved in drones' flexibility, low cost, and high efficiency, they obtain huge application opportunities in various industries, such as aerial delivery and future communication networks. However, the increasing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Yujie Qin , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Multi-object transport using multi-robot systems has the potential for diverse practical applications such as delivery services owing to its efficient individual and scalable cooperative transport. However, allocating transportation tasks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Yuma Shida , Tomohiko Jimbo , Tadashi Odashima , Takamitsu Matsubara

One of the major challenges in the coordination of large, open, collaborative, and commercial vehicle fleets is dynamic task allocation. Self-concerned individually rational vehicle drivers have both local and global objectives, which…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Marin Lujak , Stefano Giordani , Andrea Omicini , Sascha Ossowski

We propose a decentralized algorithm to collaboratively transport arbitrarily shaped objects using a swarm of robots. Our approach starts with a task allocation phase that sequentially distributes locations around the object to be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Vivek Shankar Vardharajan , Karthik Soma , Giovanni Beltrame

This study explores the problem of Multi-Agent Path Finding with continuous and stochastic travel times whose probability distribution is unknown. Our purpose is to manage a group of automated robots that provide package delivery services…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Atsuyoshi Kita , Nobuhiro Suenari , Masashi Okada , Tadahiro Taniguchi

Task and motion planning (TAMP) for multi-robot systems, which integrates discrete task planning with continuous motion planning, remains a challenging problem in robotics. Existing TAMP approaches often struggle to scale effectively for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Zhongqi Wei , Xusheng Luo , Changliu Liu