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Multi-agent teaming achieves better performance when there is communication among participating agents allowing them to coordinate their actions for maximizing shared utility. However, when collaborating a team of agents with different…

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We address the challenge of reliable and efficient interaction in autonomous multi-agent systems, where agents must balance long-term strategic objectives with short-term dynamic adaptation. We propose context-triggered contingency games, a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Kilian Schweppe , Anne-Kathrin Schmuck

Traditional approaches to the design of multi-agent navigation algorithms consider the environment as a fixed constraint, despite the obvious influence of spatial constraints on agents' performance. Yet hand-designing improved environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Zhan Gao , Amanda Prorok

The success of smart environments largely depends on their smartness of understanding the environments' ongoing situations. Accordingly, this task is an essence to smart environment central processors. Obtaining knowledge from the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Hossein Rajaby Faghihi , Mohammad Amin Fazli , Jafar Habibi

Multi-robot planning and coordination in uncertain environments is a fundamental computational challenge, since the belief space increases exponentially with the number of robots. In this paper, we address the problem of planning in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Cora A. Duggan , Kevin C. Wolfe , Bradley Woosley , Marin Kobilarov , Joseph Moore

This paper presents a fully automated procedure for controller synthesis for multi-agent systems under coupled constraints. Each agent has dynamics consisting of two terms: the first one models the coupled constraints and the other one is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Alexandros Nikou , Dimitris Boskos , Jana Tumova , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the global supply chain is disrupted at an unprecedented scale under uncertain and unknown trends of labor shortage, high material prices, and changing travel or trade regulations. To stay competitive,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Mingjie Bi , Gongyu Chen , Dawn M. Tilbury , Siqian Shen , Kira Barton

Human-robot interaction is increasingly moving toward multi-robot, socially grounded environments. Existing systems struggle to integrate multimodal perception, embodied expression, and coordinated decision-making in a unified framework.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Shaid Hasan , Breenice Lee , Sujan Sarker , Tariq Iqbal

Understanding mobility, movement, and interaction in archaeological landscapes is essential for interpreting past human behavior, transport strategies, and spatial organization, yet such processes are difficult to reconstruct from static…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Chairi Kiourt , Vassilis Evangelidis , Dimitris Grigoropoulos

Many real-world scenarios involve teams of agents that have to coordinate their actions to reach a shared goal. We focus on the setting in which a team of agents faces an opponent in a zero-sum, imperfect-information game. Team members can…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Federico Cacciamani , Andrea Celli , Marco Ciccone , Nicola Gatti

Multi-robot target tracking finds extensive applications in different scenarios, such as environmental surveillance and wildfire management, which require the robustness of the practical deployment of multi-robot systems in uncertain and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Jiazhen Liu , Peihan Li , Yuwei Wu , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Vijay Kumar , Lifeng Zhou

Deep reinforcement learning has been applied successfully to solve various real-world problems and the number of its applications in the multi-agent settings has been increasing. Multi-agent learning distinctly poses significant challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Ngoc Duy Nguyen , Thanh Thi Nguyen , Doug Creighton , Saeid Nahavandi

In cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning, a team of agents works together to achieve a common goal. Different environments or tasks may require varying degrees of coordination among agents in order to achieve the goal in an optimal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Dianbo Liu , Vedant Shah , Oussama Boussif , Cristian Meo , Anirudh Goyal , Tianmin Shu , Michael Mozer , Nicolas Heess , Yoshua Bengio

This paper introduces a multi-agent application system designed to enhance office collaboration efficiency and work quality. The system integrates artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing technologies,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Songtao Sun , Jingyi Li , Yuanfei Dong , Haoguang Liu , Chenxin Xu , Fuyang Li , Qiang Liu

The real world is awash with multi-agent problems that require collective action by self-interested agents, from the routing of packets across a computer network to the management of irrigation systems. Such systems have local incentives…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Michiel A. Bakker , Richard Everett , Laura Weidinger , Iason Gabriel , William S. Isaac , Joel Z. Leibo , Edward Hughes

Tight coordination is required for effective human-robot teams in domains involving fast dynamics and tactical decisions, such as multi-car racing. In such settings, robot teammates must react to cues of a human teammate's tactical…

Achieving mission objectives in a realistic simulation of aerial combat is highly challenging due to imperfect situational awareness and nonlinear flight dynamics. In this work, we introduce a novel 3D multi-agent air combat environment and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Ardian Selmonaj , Giacomo Del Rio , Adrian Schneider , Alessandro Antonucci

We are interested in the problem of multiagent systems development for risk detecting and emergency response in an uncertain and partially perceived environment. The evaluation of the current situation passes by three stages inside the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Fahem Kebair , Frédéric Serin , Cyrille Bertelle

Problem solving (e.g., drug design, traffic engineering, software development) by task forces represents a substantial portion of the economy of developed countries. Here we use an agent-based model of cooperative problem solving systems to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-02-23 José F. Fontanari

Autonomous systems have achieved superhuman performance in isolation or simulation, yet they remain brittle in shared, dynamic real-world spaces. This failure stems from the dominant single-agent paradigm for physical applications, where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ismail Geles , Leonard Bauersfeld , Markus Wulfmeier , Davide Scaramuzza