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We address multi-robot geometric task-and-motion planning (MR-GTAMP) problems in synchronous, monotone setups. The goal of the MR-GTAMP problem is to move objects with multiple robots to goal regions in the presence of other movable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Hejia Zhang , Shao-Hung Chan , Jie Zhong , Jiaoyang Li , Sven Koenig , Stefanos Nikolaidis

Autonomous exploration of unknown environments using a team of mobile robots demands distributed perception and planning strategies to enable efficient and scalable performance. Ideally, each robot should update its map and plan its motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Arash Asgharivaskasi , Fritz Girke , Nikolay Atanasov

In this paper, we develop a fast mixed-integer convex programming (MICP) framework for multi-robot navigation by combining graph attention networks and distributed optimization. We formulate a mixed-integer optimization problem for receding…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-28 Viet-Anh Le , Panagiotis Kounatidis , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

The autonomous exploration of environments by multi-robot systems is a critical task with broad applications in rescue missions, exploration endeavors, and beyond. Current approaches often rely on either greedy frontier selection or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Gengyuan Cai , Luosong Guo , Xiangmao Chang

We present a centralized algorithmic framework for solving multi-robot path planning problems in general, two-dimensional, continuous environments while minimizing globally the task completion time. The framework obtains high levels of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Jingjin Yu , Daniela Rus

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

Multi-robot systems such as swarms of aerial robots are naturally suited to offer additional flexibility, resilience, and robustness in several tasks compared to a single robot by enabling cooperation among the agents. To enhance the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Yang Zhou , Jiuhong Xiao , Yue Zhou , Giuseppe Loianno

The problem of decentralized multi-robot target tracking asks for jointly selecting actions, e.g., motion primitives, for the robots to maximize target tracking performance with local communications. One major challenge for practical…

This paper addresses the complete area coverage problem of a known environment by multiple-robots. Complete area coverage is the problem of moving an end-effector over all available space while avoiding existing obstacles. In such tasks,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Nare Karapetyan , Kelly Benson , Chris McKinney , Perouz Taslakian , Ioannis Rekleitis

Determining multi-robot motion policies for persistently monitoring a region with limited sensing, communication, and localization constraints in non-GPS environments is a challenging problem. To take the localization constraints into…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Manav Mishra , Prithvi Poddar , Rajat Agarwal , Jingxi Chen , Pratap Tokekar , P. B. Sujit

In multi-robot collaborative area search, a key challenge is to dynamically balance the two objectives of exploring unknown areas and covering specific targets to be rescued. Existing methods are often constrained by homogeneous graph…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Lina Zhu , Jiyu Cheng , Yuehu Liu , Wei Zhang

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

Data association across frames is at the core of Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) task. This problem is usually solved by a traditional graph-based optimization or directly learned via deep learning. Despite their popularity, we find some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Jiawei He , Zehao Huang , Naiyan Wang , Zhaoxiang Zhang

In this paper we tackle the problem of routing multiple agents in a coordinated manner. This is a complex problem that has a wide range of applications in fleet management to achieve a common goal, such as mapping from a swarm of robots and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Quinlan Sykora , Mengye Ren , Raquel Urtasun

Getting robots to navigate to multiple objects autonomously is essential yet difficult in robot applications. One of the key challenges is how to explore environments efficiently with camera sensors only. Existing navigation methods mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Peihao Chen , Dongyu Ji , Kunyang Lin , Weiwen Hu , Wenbing Huang , Thomas H. Li , Mingkui Tan , Chuang Gan

Safe and efficient co-planning of multiple robots in pedestrian participation environments is promising for applications. In this work, a novel multi-robot social-aware efficient cooperative planner that on the basis of off-policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Zichen He , Chunwei Song , Lu Dong

Indoor motion planning focuses on solving the problem of navigating an agent through a cluttered environment. To date, quite a lot of work has been done in this field, but these methods often fail to find the optimal balance between…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Shivam Sood , Jaskaran Singh Sodhi , Parv Maheshwari , Karan Uppal , Debashish Chakravarty

Nowadays, several real-world tasks require adequate environment coverage for maintaining communication between multiple robots, for example, target search tasks, environmental monitoring, and post-disaster rescues. In this study, we look…

Quadruped robots have the distinct ability to adapt their body and step height to navigate through cluttered environments. Nonetheless, for these robots to utilize their full potential in real-world scenarios, they require awareness of…

In many robotics applications, multiple robots are working in a shared workspace to complete a set of tasks as fast as possible. Such settings can be treated as multi-modal multi-robot multi-goal path planning problems, where each robot has…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Valentin N. Hartmann , Tirza Heinle , Yijiang Huang , Stelian Coros