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Among sub-optimal Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) solvers, rule-based algorithms are particularly appealing since they are complete. Even in crowded scenarios, they allow finding a feasible solution that brings each agent to its target,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Irene Saccani , Stefano Ardizzoni , Luca Consolini , Marco Locatelli

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) requires collision-free trajectories for multiple agents on a shared graph, often with the objective of minimizing the sum-of-costs (SOC). Many optimal and bounded-suboptimal solvers rely on time-expanded…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Fernando Salanova , Eduardo Montijano , Cristian Mahulea

State-of-the-art multi-robot kinodynamic motion planners struggle to handle more than a few robots due to high computational burden, which limits their scalability and results in slow planning time. In this work, we combine the scalability…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Akmaral Moldagalieva , Keisuke Okumura , Amanda Prorok , Wolfgang Hönig

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

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

Multi-Agent Path-Finding (MAPF) focuses on the collaborative planning of paths for multiple agents within shared spaces, aiming for collision-free navigation. Conventional planning methods often overlook the presence of other agents, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 S Nordström , Y Bai , B Lindqvist , G Nikolakopoulos

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a fundamental motion coordination problem arising in multi-agent systems with a wide range of applications. The problem's intractability has led to extensive research on improving the scalability of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Tzvika Geft

Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding (LMAPF) repeatedly finds collision-free paths for multiple agents that are continually assigned new goals when they reach current ones. Recently, this field has embraced learning-based methods, which…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-20 He Jiang , Yutong Wang , Rishi Veerapaneni , Tanishq Duhan , Guillaume Sartoretti , Jiaoyang Li

In the multi-agent path finding (MAPF) problem, a group of agents search in a graph for a path for each agent where no two paths collide. While in all applications of MAPF the agents must not collide with each other, in some of them the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Rotem Lev Lehman , Roni Stern , Guy Shani

We present a multi-scale forward search algorithm for distributed agents to solve single-query shortest path planning problems. Each agent first builds a representation of its own search space of the common environment as a multi-resolution…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Jaein Lim , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a fundamental problem in robotics, requiring the computation of collision-free paths for multiple agents moving from their respective start to goal positions. Coordinating multiple agents in a shared…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Jinhao Liang , Jacob K. Christopher , Sven Koenig , Ferdinando Fioretto

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) 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 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

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

Among sub-optimal MAPF solvers, rule-based algorithms are particularly appealing since they are complete. Even in crowded scenarios, they allow finding a feasible solution that brings each agent to its target, preventing deadlock…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-10 S. Ardizzoni , I. Saccani , L. Consolini , M. Locatelli

In the Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem, a set of agents moving on a graph must reach their own respective destinations without inter-agent collisions. In practical MAPF applications such as navigation in automated warehouses, where…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Keisuke Okumura , Manao Machida , Xavier Défago , Yasumasa Tamura

Intelligent interaction with the real world requires robotic agents to jointly reason over high-level plans and low-level controls. Task and motion planning (TAMP) addresses this by combining symbolic planning and continuous trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Denis Shcherba , Eckart Cobo-Briesewitz , Cornelius V. Braun , Marc Toussaint

Multi-agent motion planning (MAMP) is an important problem for autonomous systems with multiple agents. In this work we propose a two-step method for finding optimized and kinematically feasible solutions to MAMP problems. The first step…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Anja Hellander , Kristoffer Bergman , Daniel Axehill

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is NP-hard to solve optimally, even on graphs, suggesting no polynomial-time algorithms can compute exact optimal solutions for them. This raises a natural question: How optimal can polynomial-time algorithms…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Teng Guo , Jingjin Yu