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This paper addresses security challenges in multi-robot systems (MRS) where adversaries may compromise robot control, risking unauthorized access to forbidden areas. We propose a novel multi-robot optimal planning algorithm that integrates…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ziqi Yang , Roberto Tron

Robot motion planning involves computing a sequence of valid robot configurations that take the robot from its initial state to a goal state. Solving a motion planning problem optimally using analytical methods is proven to be PSPACE-Hard.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Naman Shah , Abhyudaya Srinet , Siddharth Srivastava

Designing multi-agent robotic systems requires reasoning across tightly coupled decisions spanning heterogeneous domains, including robot design, fleet composition, and planning. Much effort has been devoted to isolated improvements in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Maximilian Stralz , Meshal Alharbi , Yujun Huang , Gioele Zardini

Generalist robot manipulation policies (GMPs) have the potential to generalize across a wide range of tasks, devices, and environments. However, existing policies continue to struggle with out-of-distribution scenarios due to the inherent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Wenbo Zhang , Yang Li , Yanyuan Qiao , Siyuan Huang , Jiajun Liu , Feras Dayoub , Xiao Ma , Lingqiao Liu

Multi-Robot Task Planning (MR-TP) is the search for a discrete-action plan a team of robots should take to complete a task. The complexity of such problems scales exponentially with the number of robots and task complexity, making them…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Khen Elimelech , James Motes , Marco Morales , Nancy M. Amato , Moshe Y. Vardi , Lydia E. Kavraki

For decades, robotics researchers have pursued various tasks for multi-robot systems, from cooperative manipulation to search and rescue. These tasks are multi-robot extensions of classical robotic tasks and often optimized on dimensions…

Letting robots emulate human behavior has always posed a challenge, particularly in scenarios involving multiple robots. In this paper, we presented a framework aimed at achieving multi-agent reinforcement learning for robot control in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Kangkang Duan , Christine Wun Ki Suen , Zhengbo Zou

We present an integrated Task-Motion Planning (TMP) framework for navigation in large-scale environment. Autonomous robots operating in real world complex scenarios require planning in the discrete (task) space and the continuous (motion)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Antony Thomas , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni , Marco Baglietto

Multi-robot systems are becoming increasingly relevant within diverse application domains, such as healthcare, exploration, and rescue missions. However, building such systems is still a significant challenge, since it adds the complexities…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Giorgio Audrito , Andrea Basso , Daniele Bortoluzzi , Ferruccio Damiani , Giordano Scarso , Gianluca Torta

This paper presents a human-robot trust integrated task allocation and motion planning framework for multi-robot systems (MRS) in performing a set of tasks concurrently. A set of task specifications in parallel are conjuncted with MRS to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Huanfei Zheng , Zhanrui Liao , Yue Wang

We develop an algorithm for the motion and task planning of a system comprised of multiple robots and unactuated objects under tasks expressed as Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) constraints. The robots and objects evolve subject to uncertain…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Christos K. Verginis , Yiannis Kantaros , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a long-standing problem in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in which one needs to find a set of collision-free paths for a group of mobile agents (robots) operating in the shared workspace. Due to its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Zain Alabedeen Ali , Konstantin Yakovlev

Recent success of machine learning in many domains has been overwhelming, which often leads to false expectations regarding the capabilities of behavior learning in robotics. In this survey, we analyze the current state of machine learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Alexander Fabisch , Christoph Petzoldt , Marc Otto , Frank Kirchner

Multi-robot decision-making is the process where multiple robots coordinate actions. In this paper, we aim for efficient and effective multi-robot decision-making despite the robots' limited on-board resources and the often…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Zirui Xu , Vasileios Tzoumas

This paper presents a distributed scalable multi-robot planning algorithm for informed sampling of quasistatic spatial fields. We address the problem of efficient data collection using multiple autonomous vehicles and consider the effects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Sandeep Manjanna , M. Ani Hsieh , Gregory Dudek

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

Multi-robot systems are widely used for coverage tasks that require efficient coordination across large environments. In Multi-Robot Coverage Path Planning (MCPP), the objective is typically to minimize the makespan by generating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Kanghoon Lee , Hyeonjun Kim , Jiachen Li , Jinkyoo Park

With growing numbers of intelligent autonomous systems in human environments, the ability of such systems to perceive, understand and anticipate human behavior becomes increasingly important. Specifically, predicting future positions of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Andrey Rudenko , Luigi Palmieri , Michael Herman , Kris M. Kitani , Dariu M. Gavrila , Kai O. Arras

Industrial robots are widely used in various manufacturing environments due to their efficiency in doing repetitive tasks such as assembly or welding. A common problem for these applications is to reach a destination without colliding with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Teham Bhuiyan , Linh Kästner , Yifan Hu , Benno Kutschank , Jens Lambrecht

Autonomous exploration of unknown environments using a team of mobile robots demands distributed perception and planning strategies to enable efficient and scalable performance. Ideally, each robot should update its map and plan its motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Arash Asgharivaskasi , Fritz Girke , Nikolay Atanasov