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Understanding and predicting human actions has been a long-standing challenge and is a crucial measure of perception in robotics AI. While significant progress has been made in anticipating the future actions of individual agents, prior…

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Agentic AI systems, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), offer transformative potential for value co-creation in technical services. However, persistent challenges like hallucinations and operational brittleness limit their autonomous…

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We present a novel mission-planning strategy for heterogeneous multi-robot teams, taking into account the specific constraints and capabilities of each robot. Our approach employs hierarchical trees to systematically break down complex…

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Social norms serve as an important mechanism to regulate the behaviors of agents and to facilitate coordination among them in multiagent systems. One important research question is how a norm can rapidly emerge through repeated local…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Tianpei Yang , Jianye Hao , Zhaopeng Meng , Sandip Sen , Sheng Jin

Heterogeneous multi-robot systems (HMRS) have emerged as a powerful approach for tackling complex tasks that single robots cannot manage alone. Current large-language-model-based multi-agent systems (LLM-based MAS) have shown success in…

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Exploring sparse reward multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) environments with traps in a collaborative manner is a complex task. Agents typically fail to reach the goal state and fall into traps, which affects the overall performance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Xuechen Mu , Hankz Hankui Zhuo , Chen Chen , Kai Zhang , Chao Yu , Jianye Hao

The consensus strategies used in collaborative multi-agent systems (MAS) face notable challenges related to adaptability, scalability, and convergence certainties. These approaches, including structured workflows, debate models, and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Rathin Chandra Shit , Sharmila Subudhi

Recent studies have delved into constructing generalist agents for open-world environments like Minecraft. Despite the encouraging results, existing efforts mainly focus on solving basic programmatic tasks, e.g., material collection and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Shunyu Liu , Yaoru Li , Kongcheng Zhang , Zhenyu Cui , Wenkai Fang , Yuxuan Zheng , Tongya Zheng , Mingli Song

Complex scheduling problems require a large amount computation power and innovative solution methods. The objective of this paper is the conception and implementation of a multi-agent system that is applicable in various problem domains.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Peter Hillmann , Tobias Uhlig , Gabi Dreo Rodosek , Oliver Rose

Traditional Data+AI systems utilize data-driven techniques to optimize performance, but they rely heavily on human experts to orchestrate system pipelines, enabling them to adapt to changes in data, queries, tasks, and environments. For…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Zhaoyan Sun , Jiayi Wang , Xinyang Zhao , Jiachi Wang , Guoliang Li

Open-ended AI agents need to be able to learn efficiently goals of increasing complexity, abstraction and heterogeneity over their lifetime. Beyond sampling efficiently their own goals, autotelic agents specifically need to be able to keep…

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We propose a technology-agnostic, collaboration-ready stance for Human-AI Agents Collaboration Systems (HAACS) that closes long-standing gaps in prior stages (automation; flexible autonomy; agentic multi-agent collectives). Reading…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Ju Wu , Calvin K. L. Or

Recent advances in robotics and large language models (LLMs) have sparked growing interest in human-robot collaboration and embodied intelligence. To enable the broader deployment of robots in human-populated environments, socially-aware…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Weizheng Wang , Ike Obi , Byung-Cheol Min

Despite decades of efforts, robot navigation in a real scenario with volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA for short), remains a challenging topic. Inspired by the central nervous system (CNS), we propose a hierarchical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Wenqi Zhang , Kai Zhao , Peng Li , Xiao Zhu , Faping Ye , Weijie Jiang , Huiqiao Fu , Tao Wang

In healthcare, multi-organ system diseases pose unique and significant challenges as they impact multiple physiological systems concurrently, demanding complex and coordinated treatment strategies. Despite recent advancements in the AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Daniel J. Tan , Qianyi Xu , Kay Choong See , Dilruk Perera , Mengling Feng

Decentralized combinatorial optimization in evolving multi-agent systems poses significant challenges, requiring agents to balance long-term decision-making, short-term optimized collective outcomes, while preserving autonomy of interactive…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Chuhao Qin , Evangelos Pournaras

As AI agents evolve, the community is rapidly shifting from single Large Language Models (LLMs) to Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) to overcome cognitive bottlenecks in automated research. However, the optimal multi-agent coordination framework…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yang Shen , Zhenyi Yi , Ziyi Zhao , Lijun Sun , Dongyang Li , Chin-Teng Lin , Yuhui Shi

Multi-agent hierarchical reinforcement learning (MAHRL) has been studied as an effective means to solve intelligent decision problems in complex and large-scale environments. However, most current MAHRL algorithms follow the traditional way…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Chanjuan Liu , Jinmiao Cong , Bingcai Chen , Yaochu Jin , Enqiang Zhu

Despite their powerful semantic understanding and code generation capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs) still face challenges when dealing with complex tasks. Multi agent strategy generation and motion control are highly complex…

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The needs describe the necessities for a system to survive and evolve, which arouses an agent to action toward a goal, giving purpose and direction to behavior. Based on Maslow hierarchy of needs, an agent needs to satisfy a certain amount…

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