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Multi Agent Path Finding (MAPF) seeks the optimal set of paths for multiple agents from respective start to goal locations such that no paths conflict. We address the MAPF problem for a fleet of hybrid-fuel unmanned aerial vehicles which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Drew Scott , Satyanarayana G. Manyam , David W. Casbeer , Manish Kumar , Isaac E. Weintraub

The Multi-Agent Pathfinding (MAPF) problem involves finding a set of conflict-free paths for a group of agents confined to a graph. In typical MAPF scenarios, the graph and the agents' starting and ending vertices are known beforehand,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Alexey Skrynnik , Anton Andreychuk , Konstantin Yakovlev , Aleksandr Panov

Many real-world scenarios require multiple agents to coordinate in shared environments, while balancing trade-offs between multiple, potentially competing objectives. Current multi-objective multi-agent path finding (MO-MAPF) algorithms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Pulkit Rustagi , Kyle Hollins Wray , Sandhya Saisubramanian

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

The fundamental goal assignment problem for a multi-robot application aims to assign a unique goal to each robot while ensuring collision-free paths, minimizing the total movement cost. A plausible algorithmic solution to this NP-hard…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Aakash , Indranil Saha

To realize effective heterogeneous multi-robot teams, researchers must leverage individual robots' relative strengths and coordinate their individual behaviors. Specifically, heterogeneous multi-robot systems must answer three important…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Glen Neville , Andrew Messing , Harish Ravichandar , Seth Hutchinson , Sonia Chernova

We consider an Anonymous Multi-Agent Path-Finding (AMAPF) problem where the set of agents is confined to a graph, a set of goal vertices is given and each of these vertices has to be reached by some agent. The problem is to find an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Zain Alabedeen Ali , Konstantin Yakovlev

The multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) problem seeks collision-free paths for a team of agents from their current positions to their pre-set goals in a known environment, and is an essential problem found at the core of many logistics,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Chengyang He , Tianze Yang , Tanishq Duhan , Yutong Wang , Guillaume Sartoretti

The multi-agent path-finding (MAPF) problem has recently received a lot of attention. However, it does not capture important characteristics of many real-world domains, such as automated warehouses, where agents are constantly engaged with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Hang Ma , Jiaoyang Li , T. K. Satish Kumar , Sven Koenig

Several recently developed Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) solvers scale to large MAPF instances by searching for MAPF plans on 2 levels: The high-level search resolves collisions between agents, and the low-level search plans paths for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Hang Ma , T. K. Satish Kumar , Sven Koenig

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is an important optimization problem underlying the deployment of robots in automated warehouses and factories. Despite the large body of work on this topic, most approaches make heavy simplifications, both…

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

In recent years, Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) has attracted attention from the fields of both Operations Research (OR) and Reinforcement Learning (RL). However, in the 2021 Flatland3 Challenge, a competition on MAPF, the best RL method…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Yuhao Jiang , Kunjie Zhang , Qimai Li , Jiaxin Chen , Xiaolong Zhu

Interactive graph search leverages human intelligence to categorize target labels in a hierarchy, which are useful for image classification, product categorization, and database search. However, many existing studies of interactive graph…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Xuliang Zhu , Xin Huang , Byron Choi , Jiaxin Jiang , Zhaonian Zou , Jianliang Xu

Multi-robot motion planning (MRMP) is the fundamental problem of finding non-colliding trajectories for multiple robots acting in an environment, under kinodynamic constraints. Due to its complexity, existing algorithms either utilize…

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

Scaling laws for inference compute in multi-agent systems remain under-explored compared to single-agent scenarios. This work aims to bridge this gap by investigating the problem of data synthesis through multi-agent sampling, where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Hai Ye , Mingbao Lin , Hwee Tou Ng , Shuicheng Yan

In multi-agent applications such as surveillance and logistics, fleets of mobile agents are often expected to coordinate and safely visit a large number of goal locations as efficiently as possible. The multi-agent planning problem in these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Zhongqiang Ren , Sivakumar Rathinam , Howie Choset

Traditional multi-agent path finding (MAPF) methods try to compute entire start-goal paths which are collision free. However, computing an entire path can take too long for MAPF systems where agents need to replan fast. Methods that address…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Rishi Veerapaneni , Muhammad Suhail Saleem , Jiaoyang Li , Maxim Likhachev

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is the problem of finding a set of collision-free paths for a team of agents. Although several MAPF methods which solve full-horizon MAPF have completeness guarantees, very few MAPF methods that plan partial…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Tiannan Zhang , Rishi Veerapaneni , Shao-Hung Chan , Jiaoyang Li , Maxim Likhachev

In the Multiagent Path Finding problem (MAPF for short), we focus on efficiently finding non-colliding paths for a set of $k$ agents on a given graph $G$, where each agent seeks a path from its source vertex to a target. An important…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Foivos Fioravantes , Dušan Knop , Jan Matyáš Křišťan , Nikolaos Melissinos , Michal Opler