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The Vehicle Routing Problem with pickups, deliveries and spatiotemporal service constraints ($VRPPDSTC$) is a quite challenging algorithmic problem that can be dealt with in either an offline or an online fashion. In this work, we focus on…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Spyros Kontogiannis , Andreas Paraskevopoulos , Christos Zaroliagis

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is an important core problem for many new and emerging industrial applications. Many works appear on this topic each year, and a large number of substantial advancements and performance improvements have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Bojie Shen , Zhe Chen , Muhammad Aamir Cheema , Daniel D. Harabor , Peter J. Stuckey

The primary objective of Multi-Agent Pathfinding (MAPF) is to plan efficient and conflict-free paths for all agents. Traditional multi-agent path planning algorithms struggle to achieve efficient distributed path planning for multiple…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Zhenyu Song , Ronghao Zheng , Senlin Zhang , Meiqin Liu

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 trajectory planning for a fleet of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) on a roadmap is commonly referred to as the Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem, the solution to which dictates each AGV's spatial and temporal location until it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Alexander Berndt , Niels van Duijkeren , Luigi Palmieri , Alexander Kleiner , Tamás Keviczky

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

Task Assignment and Path Finding (TAPF) concerns computing collision-free motions for multiple robots while jointly selecting goal locations. In this paper, safety is enforced by requiring unit-capacity traversal between successive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ioana Hustiu , Roozbeh Abolpour , Marius Kloetzer , Cristian Mahulea

Multi-Robot Task Allocation (MRTA) is a problem that arises in many application domains including package delivery, warehouse robotics, and healthcare. In this work, we consider the problem of MRTA for a dynamic stream of tasks with task…

We propose a new formulation for the multi-robot task planning and allocation problem that incorporates (a) precedence relationships between tasks; (b) coordination for tasks allowing multiple robots to achieve increased efficiency; and (c)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Walker Gosrich , Siddharth Mayya , Saaketh Narayan , Matthew Malencia , Saurav Agarwal , Vijay Kumar

Executing time-sensitive multi-robot missions involves two distinct problems: Multi-Robot Task Assignment (MRTA) and Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF). Computing safe paths that complete every task and minimize the time to mission completion,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-11 David Thorne , Brett T. Lopez

Multi Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is critical for coordinating multiple robots in shared environments, yet robust execution of generated plans remains challenging due to operational uncertainties. The Action Dependency Graph (ADG) framework…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Joachim Dunkel

We present a novel reinforcement learning based algorithm for multi-robot task allocation problem in warehouse environments. We formulate it as a Markov Decision Process and solve via a novel deep multi-agent reinforcement learning method…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Aakriti Agrawal , Amrit Singh Bedi , Dinesh Manocha

Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is the problem of planning conflict-free paths from the designated start locations to goal positions for multiple agents. It underlies a variety of real-world tasks, including multi-robot coordination,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zhanjiang Yang , Yang Shen , Yueming Li , Meng Li , Lijun Sun

We study prioritized planning for Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF). Existing prioritized MAPF algorithms depend on rule-of-thumb heuristics and random assignment to determine a fixed total priority ordering of all agents a priori. We instead…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Hang Ma , Daniel Harabor , Peter J. Stuckey , Jiaoyang Li , Sven Koenig

In this work we consider the multi-agent motion planning (MAMP) problem with the constraint that agents arrive at their respective goals at the same time. For the special case where all agents are initially at rest we propose a two-step…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Anja Hellander , Daniel Axehill

Object rearrangement is a fundamental problem in robotics with various practical applications ranging from managing warehouses to cleaning and organizing home kitchens. While existing research has primarily focused on single-agent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Vivek Gupta , Praphpreet Dhir , Jeegn Dani , Ahmed H. Qureshi

Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) operate on battery power, making energy efficiency a critical consideration, particularly in outdoor environments where terrain variations affect energy consumption. While prior research has primarily focused…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Faiza Babakano , Ahmed Fahmin , Bojie Shen , Muhammad Aamir Cheema , Isma Farah Siddiqui

Traditional multi-robot motion planning (MMP) focuses on computing trajectories for multiple robots acting in an environment, such that the robots do not collide when the trajectories are taken simultaneously. In safety-critical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Justin Kottinger , Shaull Almagor , Morteza Lahijanian

Multi-robot cooperative transport is crucial in logistics, housekeeping, and disaster response. However, it poses significant challenges in environments where objects of various weights are mixed and the number of robots and objects varies.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Yusei Naito , Tomohiko Jimbo , Tadashi Odashima , Takamitsu Matsubara

We present Scalable Multi-Agent Realistic Testbed (SMART), a realistic and efficient software tool for evaluating Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) algorithms. MAPF focuses on planning collision-free paths for a group of robots. While…