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A key challenge in multi-robot and multi-agent systems is generating solutions that are robust to other self-interested or even adversarial parties who actively try to prevent the agents from achieving their goals. The practicality of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Trong Nghia Hoang , Yuchen Xiao , Kavinayan Sivakumar , Christopher Amato , Jonathan How

We consider the problem of using multiple agents to harvest data from a collection of sensor nodes (targets) scattered across a two-dimensional environment. These targets transmit their data to the agents that move in the space above them,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-25 Shili Wu , Yancheng Zhu , Aniruddha Datta , Sean B. Andersson

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

Autonomous exploration is an application of growing importance in robotics. A promising strategy is ergodic trajectory planning, whereby an agent spends in each area a fraction of time which is proportional to its probability information…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Dimitris Gkouletsos , Andrea Iannelli , Mathias Hudoba de Badyn , John Lygeros

Target localization is a critical task in sensitive applications, where multiple sensing agents communicate and collaborate to identify the target location based on sensor readings. Existing approaches investigated the use of Multi-Agent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Ahmed Alagha , Rabeb Mizouni , Shakti Singh , Jamal Bentahar , Hadi Otrok

Spatial multi-agency has been receiving growing attention from researchers exploring many of the aspects and modalities of this phenomenon. The aim is to develop the theoretical background needed for a multitude of applications involving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Ahmad A. Masoud

Decentralized multi-agent navigation under uncertainty is a complex task that arises in numerous robotic applications. It requires collision avoidance strategies that account for both kinematic constraints, sensing and action execution…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Stepan Dergachev , Konstantin Yakovlev

A crucial challenge in decentralized systems is state estimation in the presence of unknown inputs, particularly within heterogeneous sensor networks with dynamic topologies. While numerous consensus algorithms have been introduced, they…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-13 Zida Wu , Ankur Mehta

Modern multitarget-multisensor tracking systems involve the development of reliable methods for the data association and the fusion of multiple sensor information, and more specifically the partioning of observations into tracks. This paper…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jean Dezert , Florentin Smarandache , Albena Tchamova

Multi-agent Pathfinding (MAPF) problem generally asks to find a set of conflict-free paths for a set of agents confined to a graph and is typically solved in a centralized fashion. Conversely, in this work, we investigate the decentralized…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Alexey Skrynnik , Anton Andreychuk , Maria Nesterova , Konstantin Yakovlev , Aleksandr Panov

Many robotic applications, such as search-and-rescue, require multiple agents to search for and perform actions on targets. However, such missions present several challenges, including cooperative exploration, task selection and allocation,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Takahiro Miki , Marija Popovic , Abel Gawel , Gregory Hitz , Roland Siegwart

The objective of meta-learning is to exploit the knowledge obtained from observed tasks to improve adaptation to unseen tasks. As such, meta-learners are able to generalize better when they are trained with a larger number of observed tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Mert Kayaalp , Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

Many real-world multi-agent systems exhibit nonlinear dynamics and complex inter-agent interactions. As these systems increase in scale, the main challenges arise from achieving scalability and handling nonconvexity. To address these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Taehyun Yoon , Augustinos D. Saravanos , Evangelos A. Theodorou

High-speed, low-latency obstacle avoidance that is insensitive to sensor noise is essential for enabling multiple decentralized robots to function reliably in cluttered and dynamic environments. While other distributed multi-agent collision…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Pinxin Long , Wenxi Liu , Jia Pan

Finding feasible, collision-free paths for multiagent systems can be challenging, particularly in non-communicating scenarios where each agent's intent (e.g. goal) is unobservable to the others. In particular, finding time efficient paths…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-09-29 Yu Fan Chen , Miao Liu , Michael Everett , Jonathan P. How

Multi-agent pursuit-evasion tasks involving intelligent targets are notoriously challenging coordination problems. In this paper, we investigate new ways to learn such coordinated behaviors of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) aimed at…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Maryam Kouzeghar , Youngbin Song , Malika Meghjani , Roland Bouffanais

Making Smart Cities more sustainable, resilient and democratic is emerging as an endeavor of satisfying hard constraints, for instance meeting net-zero targets. Decentralized multi-agent methods for socio-technical optimization of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Srijoni Majumdar , Chuhao Qin , Evangelos Pournaras

Multi-agent decision-making under uncertainty is fundamental for effective and safe autonomous operation. In many real-world scenarios, each agent maintains its own belief over the environment and must plan actions accordingly. However,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Moshe Rafaeli Shimron , Vadim Indelman

We propose a method for analyzing the distributed random coordinate descent algorithm for solving separable resource allocation problems in the context of an open multiagent system, where agents can be replaced during the process. In…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Charles Monnoyer de Galland , Renato Vizuete , Julien M. Hendrickx , Elena Panteley , Paolo Frasca

An Optimal Transport (OT)-based decentralized collaborative multi-robot exploration strategy is proposed in this paper. This method is to achieve an efficient exploration with a predefined priority in the given domain. In this context, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Rabiul Hasan Kabir , Kooktae Lee