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There are many challenges for robot navigation in densely populated dynamic environments. This paper presents a survey of the path planning methods for robot navigation in dense environments. Particularly, the path planning in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Kuanqi Cai , Chaoqun Wang , Jiyu Cheng , Clarence W De Silva , Max Q. -H. Meng

Motion planning is a critical component of intelligent unmanned systems, enabling their complex autonomous operations. However, current planning algorithms still face limitations in planning efficiency due to inflexible strategies and weak…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yinghao Zhao , Chenguang Dai , Liang Lyu , Zhenchao Zhang , Chaozhen Lan , Hong Xie

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) seeks collision-free paths for multiple agents from their respective starting locations to their respective goal locations while minimizing path costs. Although many MAPF algorithms were developed and can…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Shuai Zhou , Shizhe Zhao , Zhongqiang Ren

We consider the problem of multi-robot path planning in a complex, cluttered environment with the aim of reducing overall congestion in the environment, while avoiding any inter-robot communication or coordination. Such limitations may…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Xiaolong Wang , Alp Sahin , Subhrajit Bhattacharya

Planning the motion for humanoid robots is a computationally-complex task due to the high dimensionality of the system. Thus, a common approach is to first plan in the low-dimensional space induced by the robot's feet---a task referred to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Vinitha Ranganeni , Sahit Chintalapudi , Oren Salzman , Maxim Likhachev

Autonomous mobile robots (e.g., warehouse logistics robots) often need to traverse complex, obstacle-rich, and changing environments to reach multiple fixed goals (e.g., warehouse shelves). Traditional motion planners need to calculate the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yuanjie Lu , Dibyendu Das , Erion Plaku , Xuesu Xiao

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

We present a novel algorithm for large-scale Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) that enables fast, scalable planning in dynamic environments such as automated warehouses. Our approach introduces finite-horizon hierarchical factorization, a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jiarui Li , Alessandro Zanardi , Gioele Zardini

This work deals with the problem of planning conflict-free paths for mobile robots in cluttered environments. Since centralized, coupled planning algorithms are computationally intractable for large numbers of robots, we consider decoupled…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Wenying Wu , Subhrajit Bhattacharya , Amanda Prorok

The multi-agent path finding (MAPF) problem is a combinatorial search problem that aims at finding paths for multiple agents (e.g., robots) in an environment (e.g., an autonomous warehouse) such that no two agents collide with each other,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Aysu Bogatarkan

Multi-robot systems offer enhanced capability over their monolithic counterparts, but they come at a cost of increased complexity in coordination. To reduce complexity and to make the problem tractable, multi-robot motion planning (MRMP)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Changrak Choi , Muhammad Adil , Amir Rahmani , Ramtin Madani

Path planning is an important component in any highly automated vehicle system. In this report, the general problem of path planning is considered first in partially known static environments where only static obstacles are present but the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Asem Khattab

This paper addresses motion replanning in human-robot collaborative scenarios, emphasizing reactivity and safety-compliant efficiency. While existing human-aware motion planners are effective in structured environments, they often struggle…

This paper studies a class of multi-robot coordination problems where a team of robots aim to reach their goal regions with minimum time and avoid collisions with obstacles and other robots. A novel numerical algorithm is proposed to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-02 Guoxiang Zhao , Minghui Zhu

Ground robots navigating in complex, dynamic environments must compute collision-free trajectories to avoid obstacles safely and efficiently. Nonconvex optimization is a popular method to compute a trajectory in real-time. However, these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Oscar de Groot , Laura Ferranti , Dariu M. Gavrila , Javier Alonso-Mora

In this paper, we propose a path re-planning algorithm that makes robots able to work in scenarios with moving obstacles. The algorithm switches between a set of pre-computed paths to avoid collisions with moving obstacles. It also improves…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Cesare Tonola , Marco Faroni , Nicola Pedrocchi , Manuel Beschi

A core challenge of multi-robot interactions is collision avoidance among robots with potentially conflicting objectives. We propose a game-theoretic method for collision avoidance based on rotating hyperplane constraints. These constraints…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Fernando Palafox , Yue Yu , David Fridovich-Keil

The Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem aims at finding non-conflicting paths for multiple agents from their respective sources to destinations. This problem arises in multiple real-life situations, including robot motion planning and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Aditi Anand , Dildar Ali , Suman Banerjee

We introduce and empirically evaluate two techniques aimed at enhancing the performance of multi-robot prioritized path planning. The first technique is the deterministic procedure for re-scheduling (as opposed to well-known approach based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Anton Andreychuk , Konstantin Yakovlev

We present a novel framework for addressing the challenges of multi-Agent planning and formation control within intricate and dynamic environments. This framework transforms the Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem into a Multi-Agent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Zong Chen , Songyuan Fa , Yiqun Li