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Information-seeking agents have emerged as a powerful paradigm for solving knowledge-intensive tasks. Existing information-seeking agents are typically specialized for open web, documents, or local knowledge bases, which constrains…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Guochen Yan , Jialong Wu , Zhengwei Tao , Bo Li , Qintong Zhang , Jiahao Xu , Haitao Mi , Yuejian Fang , Qingni Shen , Wentao Zhang , Zhonghai Wu

Catching high-speed targets in the flight is a complex and typical highly dynamic task. In this paper, we propose Catch Planner, a planning-with-decision scheme for catching. For sequential decision making, we propose a policy search method…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Huan Yu , Pengqin Wang , Jin Wang , Jialin Ji , Zhi Zheng , Jie Tu , Guodong Lu , Jun Meng , Meixin Zhu , Shaojie Shen , Fei Gao

This paper reports on an algorithm for planning trajectories that allow a multirotor micro aerial vehicle (MAV) to quickly identify a set of unknown parameters. In many problems like self calibration or model parameter identification some…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Rik Bähnemann , Michael Burri , Enric Galceran , Roland Siegwart , Juan Nieto

Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based motion planning has recently shown the potential to outperform traditional approaches from autonomous navigation to robot manipulation. In this work, we focus on a motion planning task for an evasive target…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Zixuan Wu , Sean Ye , Manisha Natarajan , Matthew C. Gombolay

One area of research in multi-agent path finding is to determine how replanning can be efficiently achieved in the case of agents being delayed during execution. One option is to reschedule the passing order of agents, i.e., the sequence in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Ying Feng , Adittyo Paul , Zhe Chen , Jiaoyang Li

This paper describes a number of distributed forward search algorithms for solving multi-agent planning problems. We introduce a distributed formulation of non-optimal forward search, as well as an optimal version, MAD-A*. Our algorithms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-06-26 Raz Nissim , Ronen Brafman

While evolutionary computation is well suited for automatic discovery in engineering, it can also be used to gain insight into how humans and organizations could perform more effectively. Using a real-world problem of innovation search in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Erkin Bahceci , Riitta Katila , Risto Miikkulainen

This work considers the problem of intercepting rogue drones targeting sensitive critical infrastructure facilities. While current interception technologies focus mainly on the jamming/spoofing tasks, the challenges of effectively locating…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Panayiota Valianti , Kleanthis Malialis , Panayiotis Kolios , Georgios Ellinas

Multi-Agent Motion Planning (MAMP) finds various applications in fields such as traffic management, airport operations, and warehouse automation. In many of these environments, differential drive robots are commonly used. These robots have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Jingtian Yan , Jiaoyang Li

Safe navigation is essential for autonomous systems operating in hazardous environments, especially when multiple agents must coordinate using only high-dimensional visual observations. While recent approaches successfully combine…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Viraj Parimi , Brian C. Williams

Automatic search for Multi-Agent Systems has recently emerged as a key focus in agentic AI research. Several prior approaches have relied on LLM-based free-form search over the code space. In this work, we propose a more structured…

Multi-agent systems (MAS) may encounter uncertainties in the form of unexpected environmental conditions, sub-optimal system configurations, and unplanned interactions between autonomous agents. The number of combinations of such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Abigail C. Diller , Erik M. Fredericks

Finding near-optimal solutions for dense multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) problems in real-time remains challenging even for state-of-the-art planners. To this end, we develop a hybrid framework that integrates a learned heuristic derived…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Rishabh Jain , Keisuke Okumura , Michael Amir , Amanda Prorok

This paper deals with solving distributed optimization problems with equality constraints by a class of uncertain nonlinear heterogeneous dynamic multi-agent systems. It is assumed that each agent with an uncertain dynamic model has limited…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Mohammad Saeed Sarafraz , Mohammad Saleh Tavazoei

Multi-agent large language model (LLM) systems often rely on a controller to coordinate a pool of heterogeneous models, yet existing controllers are typically limited to one-shot routing: they select a model once and return its output…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Wenzhi Fang , Liangqi Yuan , Guangchen Lan , Dong-Jun Han , Christopher G. Brinton

Techniques for coordination of multi-agent systems are vast and varied, often utilizing purpose-built solvers or controllers with tight coupling to the types of systems involved or the coordination goal. In this paper, we introduce a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Tyler Hanks , Hans Riess , Samuel Cohen , Trevor Gross , Matthew Hale , James Fairbanks

Active target sensing is the task of discovering and classifying an unknown number of targets in an environment and is critical in search-and-rescue missions. This paper develops a deep reinforcement learning approach to plan informative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Harsh Goel , Laura Jarin Lipschitz , Saurav Agarwal , Sandeep Manjanna , Vijay Kumar

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

Object rearrangement planning in complex, cluttered environments is a common challenge in warehouses, households, and rescue sites. Prior studies largely address monotone instances, whereas real-world tasks are often non-monotone-objects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Hanwen Ren , Junyong Kim , Aathman Tharmasanthiran , Ahmed H. Qureshi

In this work, we propose a learning based neural model that provides both the longitudinal and lateral control commands to simultaneously navigate multiple vehicles. The goal is to ensure that each vehicle reaches a desired target state…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yining Ma , Qadeer Khan , Daniel Cremers