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This paper addresses the challenge of decentralized task allocation within heterogeneous multi-agent systems operating under communication constraints. We introduce a novel framework that integrates graph neural networks (GNNs) with a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Lavanya Ratnabala , Aleksey Fedoseev , Robinroy Peter , Dzmitry Tsetserukou

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a fundamental problem in robotics and AI, with numerous applications in real-world scenarios. One such scenario is filming scenes with multiple actors, where the goal is to capture the scene from multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Aditya Rauniyar , Jiaoyang Li , Sebastian Scherer

This work presents a decentralized motion planning framework for addressing the task of multi-robot navigation using deep reinforcement learning. A custom simulator was developed in order to experimentally investigate the navigation problem…

Traditional approaches for active mapping focus on building geometric maps. For most real-world applications, however, actionable information is related to semantically meaningful objects in the environment. We propose an approach to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Xu Liu , Ankit Prabhu , Fernando Cladera , Ian D. Miller , Lifeng Zhou , Camillo J. Taylor , Vijay Kumar

The goal of Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is to find a set of paths for a fleet of agents moving in a shared environment such that the agents reach their goals without colliding with each other. In practice, some of the robots executing…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-15 David Zahrádka , Denisa Mužíková , David Woller , Miroslav Kulich , Jiří Švancara , Roman Barták

In this paper, we present a learning method to solve the unlabelled motion problem with motion constraints and space constraints in 2D space for a large number of robots. To solve the problem of arbitrary dynamics and constraints we propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Arbaaz Khan , Vijay Kumar , Alejandro Ribeiro

Multi-robot control in cluttered environments is a challenging problem that involves complex physical constraints, including robot-robot collisions, robot-obstacle collisions, and unreachable motions. Successful planning in such settings…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Jiabao Ji , Yongchao Chen , Yang Zhang , Ramana Rao Kompella , Chuchu Fan , Gaowen Liu , Shiyu Chang

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 systems of increasing size and complexity are used to solve large-scale problems, such as area exploration and search and rescue. A key decision in human-robot teaming is dividing a multi-robot system into teams to address…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Brian Reily , Christopher Reardon , Hao Zhang

Unlabeled motion planning involves assigning a set of robots to target locations while ensuring collision avoidance, aiming to minimize the total distance traveled. The problem forms an essential building block for multi-robot systems in…

This paper proposes an end-to-end deep reinforcement learning approach for mobile robot navigation with dynamic obstacles avoidance. Using experience collected in a simulation environment, a convolutional neural network (CNN) is trained to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Guangda Chen , Lifan Pan , Yu'an Chen , Pei Xu , Zhiqiang Wang , Peichen Wu , Jianmin Ji , Xiaoping Chen

Multi-robot path planning is a computational process involving finding paths for each robot from its start to the goal while ensuring collision-free operation. It is widely used in robots and autonomous driving. However, the computational…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Biru Zhang , Jiankun Wang , Max Q. -H. Meng

Increasing interest in integrating advanced robotics within manufacturing has spurred a renewed concentration in developing real-time scheduling solutions to coordinate human-robot collaboration in this environment. Traditionally, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Zheyuan Wang , Matthew Gombolay

This study follows many classical approaches to multi-object tracking (MOT) that model the problem using dynamic graphical data structures, and adapts this formulation to make it amenable to modern neural networks. Our main contributions in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Akshay Rangesh , Pranav Maheshwari , Mez Gebre , Siddhesh Mhatre , Vahid Ramezani , Mohan M. Trivedi

In this paper, we study the multi-robot task allocation problem where a group of robots needs to be allocated to a set of tasks so that the tasks can be finished optimally. One task may need more than one robot to finish it. Therefore the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Ayan Dutta , Vladimir Ufimtsev , Asai Asaithambi

In massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems, the main bottlenecks of location- and orientation-assisted beam alignment using deep neural networks (DNNs) are large training overhead and significant performance degradation. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Yuzhu Lei , Qiqi Xiao , Yinghui He , Guanding Yu

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

With the expansive aging of global population, service robot with living assistance applied in indoor scenes will serve as a crucial role in the field of elderly care and health in the future. Service robots need to detect multiple targets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Zongmin Liu , Jirui Wang , Jie Li , Pengda Liu , Kai Ren

The presence of task constraints imposes a significant challenge to motion planning. Despite all recent advancements, existing algorithms are still computationally expensive for most planning problems. In this paper, we present Constrained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Ahmed H. Qureshi , Jiangeng Dong , Austin Choe , Michael C. Yip

For massive large-scale tasks, a multi-robot system (MRS) can effectively improve efficiency by utilizing each robot's different capabilities, mobility, and functionality. In this paper, we focus on the multi-robot coverage path planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Jingtao Tang , Yuan Gao , Tin Lun Lam