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We study the TAPF (combined target-assignment and path-finding) problem for teams of agents in known terrain, which generalizes both the anonymous and non-anonymous multi-agent path-finding problems. Each of the teams is given the same…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Hang Ma , Sven Koenig

An exciting frontier in robotic manipulation is the use of multiple arms at once. However, planning concurrent motions is a challenging task using current methods. The high-dimensional composite state space renders many well-known motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yorai Shaoul , Itamar Mishani , Maxim Likhachev , Jiaoyang Li

We address a variant of multi-agent path finding in continuous environment (CE-MAPF), where agents move along sets of smooth curves. Collisions between agents are resolved via avoidance in the space domain. A new Continuous Environment…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Kristýna Janovská , Pavel Surynek

We study two state-of-the-art solutions to the multi-agent pickup and delivery (MAPD) problem based on different principles -- multi-agent path-finding (MAPF) and multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Specifically, a recent MAPF…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Tim Tsz-Kit Lau , Biswa Sengupta

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

We formalize Multi-Agent Path Finding with Deadlines (MAPF-DL). The objective is to maximize the number of agents that can reach their given goal vertices from their given start vertices within the deadline, without colliding with each…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Hang Ma , Glenn Wagner , Ariel Felner , Jiaoyang Li , T. K. Satish Kumar , Sven Koenig

The task of the multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) problem is to navigate a team of agents from their start point to the goal points. However, this setup is unsuitable in the assembly line scenario, which is periodic with a long working hour.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Mingkai Tang , Lu Gan , Kaichen Zhang

We propose an extension to the MAPF formulation, called SocialMAPF, to account for private incentives of agents in constrained environments such as doorways, narrow hallways, and corridor intersections. SocialMAPF is able to, for instance,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Rohan Chandra , Rahul Maligi , Arya Anantula , Joydeep Biswas

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) in crowded environments presents a challenging problem in motion planning, aiming to find collision-free paths for all agents in the system. MAPF finds a wide range of applications in various domains,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Phu Pham , Aniket Bera

With the explosive influence caused by the success of large language models (LLM) like ChatGPT and GPT-4, there has been an extensive amount of recent work showing that foundation models can be used to solve a large variety of tasks.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Weizhe Chen , Sven Koenig , Bistra Dilkina

We formalize and study the multi-goal task assignment and path finding (MG-TAPF) problem from theoretical and algorithmic perspectives. The MG-TAPF problem is to compute an assignment of tasks to agents, where each task consists of a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Xinyi Zhong , Jiaoyang Li , Sven Koenig , Hang Ma

Cooperative path-finding in multi-agent systems demands scalable solutions to navigate agents from their origins to destinations without conflict. Despite the breadth of research, scalability remains hampered by increased computational…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Jinmingwu Jiang , Kaigui Wu , Haiyang Liu , Ren Zhang , Jingxin Liu , Yong He , Xipeng Kou

In a multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) problem, agents need to navigate from their start to their goal locations without colliding into each other. There are various MAPF algorithms, including Windowed Hierarchical Cooperative A*, Flow…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Devon Sigurdson , Vadim Bulitko , Sven Koenig , Carlos Hernandez , William Yeoh

Solving the Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem optimally is known to be NP-Hard for both make-span and total arrival time minimization. While many algorithms have been developed to solve MAPF problems, there is no dominating optimal…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Jingyao Ren , Vikraman Sathiyanarayanan , Eric Ewing , Baskin Senbaslar , Nora Ayanian

Accurate prediction of others' trajectories is essential for autonomous driving. Trajectory prediction is challenging because it requires reasoning about agents' past movements, social interactions among varying numbers and kinds of agents,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Tianyang Zhao , Yifei Xu , Mathew Monfort , Wongun Choi , Chris Baker , Yibiao Zhao , Yizhou Wang , Ying Nian Wu

The Multi-agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem involves finding collision-free paths for a team of agents in a known, static environment, with important applications in warehouse automation, logistics, or last-mile delivery. To meet the needs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Chengyang He , Tanishq Duhan , Parth Tulsyan , Patrick Kim , Guillaume Sartoretti

Real-time planning for a combined problem of target assignment and path planning for multiple agents, also known as the unlabeled version of Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF), is crucial for high-level coordination in multi-agent systems,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Keisuke Okumura , Xavier Défago

The Multi-Agent Pathfinding (MAPF) problem involves finding a set of conflict-free paths for a group of agents confined to a graph. In typical MAPF scenarios, the graph and the agents' starting and ending vertices are known beforehand,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Alexey Skrynnik , Anton Andreychuk , Konstantin Yakovlev , Aleksandr Panov

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is an NP-hard problem well studied in artificial intelligence and robotics. It has many real-world applications for which existing MAPF solvers use various heuristics. However, these solvers are deterministic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Liron Cohen , Glenn Wagner , T. K. Satish Kumar , Howie Choset , Sven Koenig

In this paper, we propose the Multi-Agent Corridor Generating Algorithm (MACGA) for solving the Multi-agent Pathfinding (MAPF) problem, where a group of agents need to find non-colliding paths to their target locations. Existing approaches…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Arseniy Pertzovsky , Roni Stern , Roie Zivan , Ariel Felner