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Since more and more algorithms are proposed for multi-agent path finding (MAPF) and each of them has its strengths, choosing the correct one for a specific scenario that fulfills some specified requirements is an important task. Previous…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Weizhe Chen , Zhihan Wang , Jiaoyang Li , Sven Koenig , Bistra Dilkina

We study the iterative refinement of path planning for multiple robots, known as multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF). Given a graph, agents, their initial locations, and destinations, a solution of MAPF is a set of paths without collisions.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Keisuke Okumura , Yasumasa Tamura , Xavier Defago

The Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem involves planning collision-free paths for multiple agents in a shared environment. The majority of MAPF solvers rely on the assumption that an agent can arrive at a specific location at a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Yifan Su , Rishi Veerapaneni , Jiaoyang Li

In this work, we consider the Multi-Agent Pickup-and-Delivery (MAPD) problem, where agents constantly engage with new tasks and need to plan collision-free paths to execute them. To execute a task, an agent needs to visit a pair of goal…

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

The multi-agent path finding (MAPF) problem asks to find a set of paths on a graph such that when synchronously following these paths the agents never encounter a conflict. In the most widespread MAPF formulation, the so-called Classical…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Artem Agafonov , Konstantin Yakovlev

In multi-agent path finding (MAPF) the task is to find non-conflicting paths for multiple agents. In this paper we focus on finding suboptimal solutions for MAPF for the sum-of-costs variant. Recently, a SAT-based approached was developed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Pavel Surynek , Ariel Felner , Roni Stern , Eli Boyarski

Multi Agent Path Finding (MAPF) requires identification of conflict free paths for agents which could be point-sized or with dimensions. In this paper, we propose an approach for MAPF for spatially-extended agents. These find application in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Shyni Thomas , M. Narasimha Murty

Multi-agent Pickup and Delivery (MAPD) is a challenging industrial problem where a team of robots is tasked with transporting a set of tasks, each from an initial location and each to a specified target location. Appearing in the context of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Zhe Chen , Javier Alonso-Mora , Xiaoshan Bai , Daniel D. Harabor , Peter J. Stuckey

Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is well-studied in artificial intelligence, robotics, theoretical computer science and operations research. We discuss issues that arise when generalizing MAPF methods to real-world scenarios and four…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Hang Ma , Sven Koenig , Nora Ayanian , Liron Cohen , Wolfgang Hoenig , T. K. Satish Kumar , Tansel Uras , Hong Xu , Craig Tovey , Guni Sharon

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is the problem of finding collision-free paths for multiple agents from their start locations to end locations. We consider an extension to this problem, Precedence Constrained Multi-Agent Path Finding…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Kushal Kedia , Rajat Kumar Jenamani , Aritra Hazra , Partha Pratim Chakrabarti

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a problem of finding a sequence of movements for agents to reach their assigned location without collision. Centralized algorithms usually give optimal solutions, but have difficulties to scale without…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Poom Pianpak , Tran Cao Son

We consider a probabilistic model for large-scale task allocation problems for multi-agent systems, aiming to determine an optimal deployment strategy that minimizes the overall transport cost. Specifically, we assign transportation agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-13 Anqi Dong , Karl H. Johansson , Johan Karlsson

The Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem aims to find collision-free paths for multiple agents while optimizing objectives such as the sum of costs or makespan. MAPF has wide applications in domains like automated warehouses,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jingtian Yan , Shuai Zhou , Stephen F. Smith , Jiaoyang Li

Multi-agent Path Finding (MAPF) is the problem of planning collision-free movements of agents so that they get from where they are to where they need to be. Commonly, agents are located on a graph and can traverse edges. This problem has…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Alvin Combrink , Sabino Francesco Roselli , Martin Fabian

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is the problem of moving multiple agents from starts to goals without collisions. Lifelong MAPF (LMAPF) extends MAPF by continuously assigning new goals to agents. We present our winning approach to the 2023…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-02 He Jiang , Yulun Zhang , Rishi Veerapaneni , Jiaoyang Li

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a fundamental problem in artificial intelligence and robotics, requiring the computation of collision-free paths for multiple agents navigating from their start locations to designated goals. As autonomous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Shiyue Wang , Haozheng Xu , Yuhan Zhang , Jingran Lin , Changhong Lu , Xiangfeng Wang , Wenhao Li

Multi-agent path planning (MAPP) is the problem of planning collision-free trajectories from start to goal locations for a team of agents. This work explores a relatively unexplored setting of MAPP where streams of agents have to go through…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Kazumi Kasaura , Ryo Yonetani , Mai Nishimura

The problem of assigning agents to tasks is a central computational challenge in many multi-agent autonomous systems. However, in the real world, agents are not always perfect and may fail due to a number of reasons. A motivating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Russell Schwartz , Pratap Tokekar

In the Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem, the goal is to find non-colliding paths for agents in an environment, such that each agent reaches its goal from its initial location. In safety-critical applications, a human supervisor may…

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

Multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) is a challenging problem which is hard to solve optimally even when simplifying assumptions are adopted, e.g. planar graphs (typically -- grids), discretized time, uniform duration of move and wait actions…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Stepan Dergachev , Konstantin Yakovlev