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We present a centralized algorithmic framework for solving multi-robot path planning problems in general, two-dimensional, continuous environments while minimizing globally the task completion time. The framework obtains high levels of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Jingjin Yu , Daniela Rus

Real-world robots often operate in settings where objective priorities depend on the underlying context of operation. When the underlying context is unknown apriori, multiple robots may have to coordinate to gather informative observations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Pulkit Rustagi , Kyle Hollins Wray , Sandhya Saisubramanian

We propose an approach to solve multi-agent path planning (MPP) problems for complex environments. Our method first designs a special pebble graph with a set of feasibility constraints, under which MPP problems have feasibility guarantee.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Xifeng Gao , Zherong Pan , Ruiqi Ni

We study the problem of optimal multi-robot path planning on graphs MPP over four distinct minimization objectives: the makespan (last arrival time), the maximum (single-robot traveled) distance, the total arrival time, and the total…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Jingjin Yu , Steven M. LaValle

Multi-vehicle trajectory planning (MVTP) is one of the key challenges in multi-robot systems (MRSs) and has broad applications across various fields. This paper presents ESCoT, an enhanced step-based coordinate trajectory planning method…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Junkai Jiang , Yihe Chen , Yibin Yang , Ruochen Li , Shaobing Xu , Jianqiang Wang

Multi-robot navigation and path planning in continuous state and action spaces with uncertain environments remains an open challenge. Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) is one of the most popular paradigms for solving this task, but its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Jahid Chowdhury Choton , John Woods , William Hsu

Effective path planning is a pivotal challenge across various domains, from robotics to logistics and beyond. This research is centred on the development and evaluation of the Dynamic Curvature-Constrained Path Planning Algorithm (DCCPPA)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Nishkal Gupta Myadam

This paper presents a Genetic Programming (GP) approach to solving multi-robot path planning (MRPP) problems in single-lane workspaces, specifically those easily mapped to graph representations. GP's versatility enables this approach to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Alexandre Trudeau , Christopher M. Clark

Recent advances in diffusion models hold significant potential in robotics, enabling the generation of diverse and smooth trajectories directly from raw representations of the environment. Despite this promise, applying diffusion models to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jinhao Liang , Jacob K Christopher , Sven Koenig , Ferdinando Fioretto

We propose a novel centralized and decoupled algorithm, DDM, for solving multi-robot path planning problems in grid graphs, targeting on-demand and automated warehouse-like settings. Two settings are studied: a traditional one whose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Shuai D. Han , Jingjin Yu

The main aim of this paper is to solve a path planning problem for an autonomous mobile robot in static and dynamic environments. The problem is solved by determining the collision-free path that satisfies the chosen criteria for shortest…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Fatin H. Ajeil , Ibraheem Kasim Ibraheem , Mouayad A. Sahib , Amjad J. Humaidi

Trajectory planning for multiple robots in shared environments is a challenging problem especially when there is limited communication available or no central entity. In this article, we present Real-time planning using Linear Spatial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Baskın Şenbaşlar , Wolfgang Hönig , Nora Ayanian

For large-scale tasks, coverage path planning (CPP) can benefit greatly from multiple robots. In this paper, we present an efficient algorithm MSTC* for multi-robot coverage path planning (mCPP) based on spiral spanning tree coverage…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Jingtao Tang , Chun Sun , Xinyu Zhang

We study Multi-Robot Coverage Path Planning (MCPP) on a 4-neighbor 2D grid G, which aims to compute paths for multiple robots to cover all cells of G. Traditional approaches are limited as they first compute coverage trees on a quadrant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Jingtao Tang , Zining Mao , Hang Ma

Planning collision-free paths for multi-robot systems (MRS) is a challenging problem because of the safety and efficiency constraints required for real-world solutions. Even though coupled path planning approaches provide optimal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Aditya Rathi , Rohith G , Madhu Vadali

Finding asymptotically-optimal paths in multi-robot motion planning problems could be achieved, in principle, using sampling-based planners in the composite configuration space of all of the robots in the space. The dimensionality of this…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Andrew Dobson , Kiril Solovey , Rahul Shome , Dan Halperin , Kostas E. Bekris

Autonomous robots are widely utilized for mapping and exploration tasks due to their cost-effectiveness. Multi-robot systems offer scalability and efficiency, especially in terms of the number of robots deployed in more complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Apoorva Vashisth , Manav Kulshrestha , Damon Conover , Aniket Bera

We study graph-based Multi-Robot Coverage Path Planning (MCPP) that aims to compute coverage paths for multiple robots to cover all vertices of a given 2D grid terrain graph $G$. Existing graph-based MCPP algorithms first compute a tree…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Jingtao Tang , Hang Ma

We introduce the Multi-Robot Connected Fermat Spiral (MCFS), a novel algorithmic framework for Multi-Robot Coverage Path Planning (MCPP) that adapts Connected Fermat Spiral (CFS) from the computer graphics community to multi-robot…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Jingtao Tang , Hang Ma

This paper addresses the problem of coordination of a fleet of mobile robots - the problem of finding an optimal set of collision-free trajectories for individual robots in the fleet. Many approaches have been introduced during the last…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Jakub Hvězda , Miroslav Kulich , Libor Přeučil